That was a fascinating read and made me think, the likes of Tescos give you an option of either using a small trolley or a big one as you do get a lot of small shop owners using the big trolleys for bulk buying for their shops where the likes of me would prefer a small trolley.
Yet our local Farmfoods store and Iceland only have big trolleys, I take it that this makes you buy more as you have a lot more space to put your goods in, I hate when there are only big trolleys left as all the small ones are being used, weird, but there you go, these small shop owners will more than likely use s big store that has big trolleys and avoids a store that only has small trolleys or baskets only.
Our local £1 shop only has these below ** which are awkward to use you can either carry them or wheel around, Lidles have these too but with an option of a big trolly or a small one, Lidles and the £1 shop stopped using wire hand baskets ages ago which now makes you buy more without knowing it.
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