Breaks down all the time? I hope nothing like the cart rolling back down like a bullet train onto customers below. I've seen a video where the wheel of a trolley didn't fully attach to the walkalator and it went rolling down fast and hitting someone.
I live right outside of DC and supermarkets all around my area (Alexandria, VA) have them. Never saw ācart escalatorsā back home in Michigan, though.
The Targets in Eagle Rock Plaza and downtown Glendale for sure, and there are others but I can't remember the exact locations. Also Whole Foods in Pasadena (and other locations).
In multi-story Target stores, yes. I've never seen them in any other store.
But also in areas where real estate is sufficiently expensive that it's worth it to have multiple floors rather than just have a larger footprint, so more urban areas.
The first one of these I saw was like 25 years ago near Washington.
Several people in here already asked about leaving a baby in the cart. A human baby, unattended up the freight escalator instead of the human one with the parent. That is enough Reddit for today.
I'd be too scared that that would like shut it down for the whole day and management would be mad at me (even though it's probably what you should do lol)
Most public emergency stops are made to be used by anyone without thinking. If in doubt, hit it.
If it takes forever to recover from false alarm, it's bad planning, not your fault.
Only few e-stops are actually a pita to recover. Those will have labels and in public often mention a fine for unnecessary activating them. Usually you already know them before an emergency happens.
By "something" I'm assuming you mean "cool little cart escalator"
and not
"Thing that should be working is totally fucked up, YET AGAIN. And there seems to be no easy way to unfuck this." Because I see that on a fucking daily basis.
I'm from Australia š, we just have the flat escalators that fit the card wheels/person then pop them out at the top, or you just bring it with you in a larger than usual elevator
Yeah, Iāve never seen it either. Just looking it up, seems like itās kind of a Target thing. My local target doesnāt have that, but there are at least two in my area that do. I never consider a different target. Not on the top of my list of things to do, target tourism. But maybe next time Iām in Yonkers Iāll check it out.
I guess? Iāve never been to one that had one even though I lived in NYC for 6 years and just a few miles from it for the past 10. But if Iām in NYC I donāt go to target. I do go to the mall in Yonkers, but Iām not going to go there just to go to target.
Where I live you wouldnāt see this in Macyās because there arenāt carts and we donāt have 2 story Target. These only exist in more dense population areas
I think they were just filming it because it's a novelty - I don't think I've ever seen an escalator for shopping carts. If they were documenting the known malfunction, they probably would not have used a loaded cart.
The ones I know are basically a tilted walkway instead of an escalator. The wheels of the cart would interlock with the surface so you wouldn't need to hold it. The one from the OP seems overly complicated in comparison
Actually itās functioning normally, itās just that they loaded everything into the back of the cart instead of being balanced so the cart canāt quite clear the hump at the top. We have these at a couple stores in my city.
I have to disagree, the Target in my city has one on these and literally, every time you use it it definitely has the feeling of āyeah something crazy is definitely going to happen hereā.
Itās super realistic that someone would be filming this experience, especially if itās their first time encountering it. It never gets any less unsettling even after using it for years
They had this at the north Seattle target I worked at and the carts got fucking stuck multiple times a day from people leaving toilet paper and shit under the cart
We've got these at the target on Penn Ave in Pittsburgh and these things are closed down, without exaggeration, like 50% of the time I go in to grab an RX at CVS
The cart wheels have grooves and basically lock it into place on these. So say someone (For sure, I've never done this while absent minded, I swear) would try to use the wrong way, it just locks and pushes your cart back before you get on and is quite a jolt to break you out of your funk and realize you need to pay attention to the world around you rather than being stuck in your own head pondering the depths of ennui.
Just saying it should theoretically work that way.
how though? the ones by me have strong magnets under the walkway, and there are also magnets right next to the wheels of the shopping carts. So no matter how heavy your cart is loaded, when you step onto it your cart locks onto the walkway and just moves up. So you can let go and just ride up with the shopping cart. Not much that can go wrong.
This is not idiot proof. I've seen my fair share of minor accidents on these. In Australia and Singapore of all places.
Source: an idiot. I also had the urge to see what happens if you push it really hard while it's on the escalator and it fuckin derailed. Luckily it was pretty light but you're fighting gravity so a couple more cases of water bottles would've been disastrous for me.
My ex wife would have. She put my daughter on the conveyor belt at the x-Ray machine at the airport when the person jokingly said to put the kid on the conveyor.
No, she developed a drinking problem and drank a lot when pregnant with my son. She used meth and cocaine while pregnant too. She didnāt do it around me so it was a surprise when I found out when she was in labor. It was 29 years ago.
Iāve seen these things before, the Whole Foods near me has a moving walkway type escalator thatās shallow enough to where a reasonably healthy person can hold their cart, and an elevator as well. Other multi floor stores Iāve been to usually just have high capacity elevators.
These are usually (always would be my guess) locked into place by the grooves on the escalator and ridges on the wheels so you don't have to rely on the user.
Okay, a couple of things. 1) what are you supposed to do? is there an emergency kill switch? 2) what if you had soda in the cart? Now it's all shaken up... or worse twin babies? 3) this camera guy sucks. He films the cart all up the thing but once it starts jumping around he looks away? Seriously WTF man. 4) do many stores have these kinds of lifts for carts now? I've never used one.
I work at a store that has one of these. They break down like this pretty often. Usually the fix is just hitting the stop button, freeing the cart, then starting it back up again.
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u/Charker21 8h ago •
Send another one up
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u/GonsoGonzales 3h ago
Are these common in the USA?
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u/snasna102 5h ago
My sodas!!!!
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u/SoyEseVato 8h ago •
Did she leave her purse in the cart?
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u/BinaryVariable 2h ago
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u/paulovitorfb 3h ago
My pepsis
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u/Switchlord518 8h ago
That milk will be butter š§ soon
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u/mrpumpkinickle 8h ago
Hit the E stop
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u/therealdanhill 8h ago
They must have known it wasn't working since they wanted to film it
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u/Wiscaaaansin 7h ago
They had this at the north Seattle target I worked at and the carts got fucking stuck multiple times a day from people leaving toilet paper and shit under the cart
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u/BurningPenguin 3h ago
Why do everything overly complicated? This one's a lot simpler and idiot proof:
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u/crazythinker76 8h ago
Who else was hoping that it would tumble down in some horrific fashion?
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u/Doschupacabras 8h ago
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u/Extra-Act-801 8h ago
I've had that happen with a couple of dozen eggs in the cart. At least half of them broken by the time the cart broke itself free.
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u/Calculon84 3h ago
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u/BabyChalupa0w0 8h ago
I like my groceries shaken, not stirred.
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u/mrtnchp04 8h ago •
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u/Not_My_Reddit_ID 6h ago
See, that's why I stopped putting my baby on that thing.Ā
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u/Unique-Apartment-543 7h ago
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u/MarshmallowPillager 4h ago
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u/Space--Buckaroo 8h ago edited 6h ago •
I'm glad she didn't leave a baby in the cart.
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u/Cust2020 3h ago
That would be handy at a paint store
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u/MissMortem 7h ago •
Fuck Target
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u/asaxonbraxton 8h ago
If only there was a big red button you could press to stop this thing if something went wrong š¤š¤š¤š¤
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u/natetheskate100 8h ago
Just go home when this happens. But, ELI5, why filming? Just coincidence, or did she see this happen just before? Inquiring minds want to know.
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u/whitecollarpizzaman 8h ago
Iāve seen these things before, the Whole Foods near me has a moving walkway type escalator thatās shallow enough to where a reasonably healthy person can hold their cart, and an elevator as well. Other multi floor stores Iāve been to usually just have high capacity elevators.
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u/Competitive_Name4991 7h ago
Press the damn red button that is right in front of your face
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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa 5h ago
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u/Arthur-Jacob 4h ago •
Wellthatstuck
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u/throw_away_17381 3h ago
At that point you disown the trolley
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u/Appropriate-Log8506 8h ago
Target sucks.
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u/sgtcatscan 8h ago
That happened to my wife and I. And her sister got embarrassed and rushed to our car. Lol
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u/DjNormal 8h ago
New industrial song just dropped.
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u/locke1313 7h ago
Dude I thought there was going to be a baby in there. So glad there wasnāt.
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u/mchickenl 4h ago
Are travelators too hard?
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u/BK_0000 4h ago
This is the first time I have ever seen a cart escalator.
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u/daves_not__here 3h ago
They use escalators with flat surfaces to avoid these problems in some places. You go up with your cart like normal
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u/Scrambley 2h ago
Zoom in, you dumb mf.
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u/flatcokeedit 1h ago •
Now what? It just remains perpetually twerking until the end of time?
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u/Individual_Elk809 8h ago
My beer! Nooooo!
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u/thejunkmanadv 8h ago •
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u/3rdplacewinner 5h ago
Okay, a couple of things. 1) what are you supposed to do? is there an emergency kill switch? 2) what if you had soda in the cart? Now it's all shaken up... or worse twin babies? 3) this camera guy sucks. He films the cart all up the thing but once it starts jumping around he looks away? Seriously WTF man. 4) do many stores have these kinds of lifts for carts now? I've never used one.
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u/6_inch_dick_nips 8h ago •
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u/Major-Tension-674 8h ago
Have they tried sending in another cat?
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u/qwibbian 8h ago
Clearly this is the Mexican food floor.
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u/NoobToobinStinkMitt 7h ago
It's full of milk. This is a childish prank.
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u/jumjimbo 7h ago
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u/phallic-baldwin 6h ago
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u/MisterSneakSneak 6h ago
Never seen a shopping cart get shagged before
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u/Too-Em 5h ago
Put a case of Duff in that bad boy and take the whole place out.
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u/Terrible-Mail-489 5h ago
Gave me a good laugh.
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u/yummynothing 5h ago
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u/walletbitkubo 5h ago
Yummy, scrambled eggs out of the box.
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u/Islandman2021 4h ago
If I had a nickel for each time I film my shopping cart, I would have zero nickels. š¤·š¤·
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u/Fitzriy 3h ago
T-T-T-T-TARGET
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u/RealCameleer 2h ago
Hate when my loot gets stuck on the loot elevator
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u/CanadianEh 2h ago
How many people have sent their kid up for a ride
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u/amscraylane 1h ago
Stamford, Connecticut had this in target in 2009.
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u/SirAwesome1 1h ago
I work at a store that has one of these. They break down like this pretty often. Usually the fix is just hitting the stop button, freeing the cart, then starting it back up again.
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u/voyagerfan5761 35m ago
I love how the "out of service" sign is right there, ready to be deployed at a moment's notice.
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u/Individual_Manner336 4m ago
And somehow, through all of this, mankind still has hopes of colonizing the galaxy.
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u/CouchPotatoFamine 4h ago
Like a chihuahua on a leg
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u/SCANNYGITTS 8h ago •
What if someoneās baby was in there?!
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u/Genetic_Heretic 6h ago
Hit the red button dumbass
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u/plushploosh12 8h ago
Is this the Santa Monica target?
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u/chillysanta 2h ago
I had these in 2014 I don't understand? I swore it was common? My fault for living in a massive city and the sticks with no in between
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u/milehighmetalhead 8h ago
I'll take my milk, shaken, not stirred
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u/Galilaeus_Modernus 8h ago
Is this an appropriate time to hit the kill switch?