a bill in the Oregon Legislature designed to rid stray shopping carts from the landscape sponsored by state Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson, D-Gresham, and proposed by the Northwest Grocery Association would require grocers to post a sign on each shopping cart identifying the store, its address and a toll-free number that it belongs to so that the public could report the abandoned carts, and to participate along with municipalities to collectively fund retrieval services.
Grocers who have chosen to off out of the plan would be fined $50 for carts that are called in and not picked up.
Joe Gilliam, president of the Northwest Grocery Association, says the legislation would save grocers money by getting stray carts back which ranges from $100 -- $300.
Advocates for the homeless caution that the bill should not be used to commandeer shopping carts away from homeless people.
"A shopping cart to a homeless person is like a Cadillac," said Michael Stoops, executive director of the National Coalition for Homeless. "It's really helpful to you when you are on the street."
2 comments:
Aren't there more important things for our legislators to worry about?
I'm glad somebody is doing something serious about this.
It's about time grocers were mandated to take a common sense action that should have been apparent to each individual grocer.
Marking carts with the owner's name and phone number.
Man, I woulda never thoughta that.
And until the rogue grocers are brought into line, no shopping carts will be safe.
Thank God for Senator Laurie Anderson, D-Gresham, for pointing out the obvious.
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