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Saturday, August 13, 2005

Shopping Cart Anti-Theft Technology

9:59 PM | by Steve Johnson | 13 Comments

GS2 Cart Containment SystemNext time you find yourself pushing a shopping cart through a grocery store, you may not realize you're pushing the latest in shopping cart technology. That is until, you try to push it off the parking lot.

The secret behind the GS2 Comprehensive Cart Containment System is its new-fangled wheels. These wheels are designed to automatically lock when someone tries to push it beyond the perimeter of the store parking lot.

Buried underneath the parking lot pavement is a "perimeter antenna" that carries a locking signal. When a shopping cart wheel passes over the antenna, the locking signal prevents the wheel from rolling. The signal reaches up to about 5 feet above ground-level.

Store employees are equipped with remote controlled "Cartkeys", that sends a wireless signal to the wheels causing them to unlock.

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Next time I steal a shopping cart I'll just pick it up instead fo rolling it, or put it in the back of my truck. Maybe i can chuck it 5 feet in the air over the sensors also.

8/16/2005 07:54:00 PM
stopthatcart said...

I've tried this out at our Food for Less in Highland park, CA the thing is great. Even if you pick the cart up and walk with it in the air for 20 yards it still locks up. I think it works on RFID or GPS.

12/10/2005 01:12:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Next time I steal a shopping cart I'll just pick it up instead fo rolling it, or put it in the back of my truck. Maybe i can chuck it 5 feet in the air over the sensors also.

4/05/2006 01:44:00 PM
Anonymous said...

And what do you use the stolen shopping carts for? Don't you have a job?

4/27/2006 11:24:00 PM
Anonymous said...

my friends and I actually went out to our local walgreens and tested this. It works when it passes over the antenna but the store owners were too cheap to install the antenna around the entire parking lot and so if you just take the time to lift it over the curb you're home free

4/26/2007 12:24:00 AM
Anonymous said...

I was injured quite badly by one of these new locking wheel carts in a Walgreen's Parking Lot. The antenna magnetic strip was installed in a part of the parking lot you have to roll the cart over to reach your car. I broke a toe, tore ligaments and tendons and may need surgery on my foot. They value their carts more than their customers. Anyone else?

1/29/2008 08:59:00 PM
Anonymous said...

I would really like to use this on wheelchairs that keep disappearing out of our hospital. Does anyone know if this will work for our problem?

1/30/2008 08:04:00 PM
jw said...

A nice article that explains the technology of those wheel locks is at: http://71.6.196.237/fravia/nola_wheel.htm

About locking wheelchairs, after reading the above technology article I would think that it could probably be applied to wheelchairs.

1/13/2009 06:23:00 PM
Gordon Levinson said...

If you have been injured due to one of these locking-wheel carts, call me at 760.692.2261 to discuss. My name is Gordon Levinson. I am an attorney and my client alleges that she was seriously injured by one of these, and I am reaching out to others to learn more about this product. Thank you.

11/16/2009 01:12:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Next time I steal a shopping cart I'll just pick it up instead fo rolling it, or put it in the back of my truck. Maybe i can chuck it 5 feet in the air over the sensors also.

3/29/2010 12:20:00 PM
Anonymous said...

The fact that you hurt yourself with a shopping cart is pathetic. The fact that your telling people about it is down right ridiculous. Hopefully the next time your at Walgreens that magnet can keep you in that lot forever. Get real. I’m glad at least one company is trying to keep their carts out of the streets- though I’m sure half ass people like you will ruin it for everyone. You should sue them- this way they can pay for your stupidity, and we can have carts litter our neighborhoods!

4/20/2010 09:09:00 PM
Anonymous said...

Here in San Bernardino, some Calif Stater Bros and Target stores have converted to the new shopping carts with magnetic wheels for theft protection. I'm glad to see it. Previously I was constantly notifying them daily that a number of their carts were being stolen from their store areas and winding up in dirty vacant lots or drainage ditches many blocks away. This was not only costly for the stores to retrieve them but a health hazard as well when the dirty carts wound up back in the stores the next day. My compliments to these stores. I'm sure the conversion is expensive so small stores probably won't make the conversion. Nevertheless, I hope more stores start converting their shopping carts too.

10/06/2010 09:18:00 AM
Anonymous said...

"I'm glad to see it. Previously I was constantly notifying them daily"

You sound like a shill

2/09/2011 10:00:00 PM

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