Trolley theft in Singapore
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The recent spate of trolley theft has raised our concern. Thus, we are first year junior college students embarking on a project that aims to curb trolley theft. Please do look at this video and give us comments on how we can improve our proposal. Thanks :)
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This is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zxLYAVhzg8&feature=plcp
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1. go to Mustafa Shopping Centre...shoppers are allowed to push their trolleys to their nearby homes/ HDB blocks/ hotels within a permitted radius around the shopping centre...
Mustafa create jobs by employing a few part-timers to push back the trolleys...
2. go to Changi Airport...
travellers are allowed to push their trolleys to the carparks...
Changi Airport create jobs by employing senior citizens to push back the trolleys...
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Originally posted by Rednano:
1. go to Mustafa Shopping Centre...shoppers are allowed to push their trolleys to their nearby homes/ HDB blocks/ hotels within a permitted radius around the shopping centre...
Mustafa create jobs by employing a few part-timers to push back the trolleys...
2. go to Changi Airport...
travellers are allowed to push their trolleys to the carparks...
Changi Airport create jobs by employing senior citizens to push back the trolleys...
Ok thanks for your comments. :) -
www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120424-341770.html
The New Paper
Thursday, Apr 26, 2012Go to the blocks at Klang Lane in Little India and you may find something odd among the normal shoe racks and clothes lines.
You are likely to see trolleys from the nearby Mustafa Centre.
And the fact that some of their neighbours in Blocks 671A, 671B, 672A, and 672B are taking the trolleys home and parking them indiscriminately in the corridors are annoying some residents there.
Mrs Ashley Lim, 37, who lives in Block 672B, said that her neighbour has been taking shopping trolleys to their home upstairs.
"I'll see a trolley from Mustafa once every two or three months. When they leave it on the corridor alongside their laundry and baby strollers, it creates a fire hazard," she said.
When The New Paper visited the blocks on Wednesday, we found eight trolleys, all dumped along the common corridors.
One, found on the 10th floor of a block, was secured to a pipe with a bicycle lock.
It had a blue handle and no coin-operated trolley lock, similar to the trolleys from Mustafa.
Residents of units that had trolleys outside were not in when TNP visited, or declined to comment.
A maid working at Block 672B said she first observed trolleys being left at the common corridors a year ago.
The 27-year-old said: "I notice one family brings a trolley home and leaves it outside their flat. It usually happens once a week."
Mr Ken Cheong, 43, another Klang Lane resident, said a Mustafa Centre salesman had encouraged him to use the trolley to carry his purchases home when he bought a television from the store.
Mr Cheong, who lives at Block 671A, added: "The salesman said to take the trolley to move my things back to my flat.
"He said to leave it near the nearby hotel (the Hotel Grand Chancellor) after we were done, and that people would come by to collect it.
"(The trolleys) would always disappear a few days later."
Mrs Cheong added: "You will see more and more trolleys appearing, but they will be gone every few days."
Mustafa Centre's general manager Alan Loo said that users do not need to put in a deposit to use one of its trolleys.
He explained: "Tourists shopping in Mustafa usually don't have one-dollar coins with them, so we do not want to inconvenience them.
"Foreign workers also may not have coins, so it's the same for them."
The store does not mind if shoppers take the trolley with them.
Mr Loo told TNP: "The trolleys can be freely used by whichever customers that come in. They are free to bring their trolleys out to carry their things. It's part of our service to our customers."
He said that Mustafa Centre employs a team to collect trolleys from the vicinity.
"We have a group of eight staff members who operate daily to collect our trolleys in a 2km radius around the centre, going as far as Bendemeer Road, Balestier and along Serangoon Road.
Responsible customers"However, most customers leave their trolleys at trolley bays near our entrances. Mustafa customers are quite responsible.
"We have hundreds of trolleys, but lose only a few, less than 10, per quarter," he said. Each trolley costs around $400, he said.
What about the reports of stray trolleys from Klang Lane residents?
Said Mr Loo: "This may be an isolated case. It's not possible for our staff to check every floor of every block.
"The responsibility must be on customers to return the trolley, even if it is during their next visit to Mustafa."
He added that customers sometimes give staff tip-offs on the whereabouts of trolleys.
"Long-time customers sometimes inform our security guards about where they have spotted our trolleys.
"They are also welcome to call our office."
Both Giant and Sheng Siong supermarkets said that customers would be reminded by staff to return trolleys, but they faced no penalties for failing to do so.
This article was first published in The New Paper.
