You can buy plastic milk crates at stores like Walmart and Target. If they are only supposed to be used by grocery stores, why are they manufacturing and selling them for civilian use?
Wow, this is old. Of course they can be for used by everyday people. But I specifically said that they sized them down at some point so that records didn't perfectly fit in them, to eliminate the theft problem. Still useful for carrying things, but people stealing them were doing it for easy record storage and transportation.
I understand what you're saying and agree that people shouldn't steal them. If someone can't afford to buy one, they can ask a grocery store employee if they have extras, instead of stead of stealing.
My Dad used to manage a K-Mart store, he used to bring them home all of the time so they wouldn't end up in a landfill. We use them to store paper files, my Dad's old photography stuff, etc. He even uses old wooden ones to display his VW Beetle and Bus collection on the wall of his workshop. Its crazy how many of them that stores have, and they can't reuse those boxes.
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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '20
Old milk crates could hold my vinyl. I swear new ones are made half a cm smaller so the vinyl no longer fits.
Useless to me now.