Tucker in Moscow
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It’s always something.
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@jon-nyc that’s nothing. I can get 100 pennies for one right here!
But this subway topic brings up a question Renauda can probably answer. Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
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@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
That's exactly the kind of law that people like Putin find very useful.
Proud supporter of Plan 2525. Everything you think, do and say will be in the pill you took today.
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@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
I’ve always rather admired their charge of hooliganism. It may be difficult to define legally, but I know it when I see it.
That's exactly the kind of law that people like Putin find very useful.
I don't think Navalny was in for hooliganism.
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@Jolly said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
Do you have Aldi? They do it. Bigg's used to but they left the US. It's actually a good system.
"My pronouns are FA/FO." - Mik, 2024
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@Mik said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Jolly said in Tucker in Moscow:
@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
One thing I don’t understand is the big deal about the shopping carts. FuCa must not get out much. They are pretty much ubiquitous here in all grocery and most low end department stores. Has been that way for over 30 years.
And before anyone asks or says it is so…. No, the practice is not mandated or legislated by any level of government. It is purely a corporate retail business decision. And if I recall correctly, it was first introduced by the then US based grocery giant, Safeway, back in the early 1980s.
Tucker lives in Maine, I believe. If semi-rural Maine is anything like down here, I've never seen chained shopping carts.
Do you have Aldi? They do it. Bigg's used to but they left the US. It's actually a good system.
There's a couple around Lafayette and a couple around Covington, and that's about it.
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Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?
Neither. They just have a different collective attitude towards public works, monuments and edifices that reflect cultural or national pride or solemnity. The Moscow subway is such.
“Little by little I am learning the art of being quite content by doing very little slowly” ~ Lionel Hardcastle
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@Renauda said in Tucker in Moscow:
Are the Russian people naturally more law abiding, or is the system simply a lot stricter? Maybe a combination of both?
Neither. They just have a different collective attitude towards public works, monuments and edifices that reflect cultural or national pride or solemnity. The Moscow subway is such.
Nice trait to have.
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@jon-nyc said in Tucker in Moscow:
I’ve never seen chained shopping carts. How do customers use them?
They are chained together with coin operated locks. You piut your quarter in the slot and it releases your cart. When you return the cart, you stick the lock in it and it gives you your quarter back. I really hated them at first but came to appreciate them.
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Who carries change with them?
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I really hated them at first but came to appreciate them.
My cousin’s husband was in the grocery store business for over 40 years. A butcher by trade, he worked his way into management and worked all over British Columbia over those years. He told me that the chain and coin locks were not so much to deter theft but to provide customers an incentive to keep the parking lots tidy and free of carts in the way of traffic. Shopping centre property management companies and grocery store head offices were fed up with all the complaints and petty claims they were receiving for vehicle damage caused by loose carts in parking stalls and scattered all over the lots and public areas adjacent to the parking lot.
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In the other hand, in my youth I would have considered the exchange of a quarter for an entire shopping cart to be a great deal! I never would have stolen one, but buy it for a quarter? You bet!
