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At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts at the store. Had never seen that before.

Reminds me of summers spent working for the school district, replacing the glides on the feet of the metal tubed classroom chairs so the broken ones wouldn’t wobble or tear up the linoleum tiles. https://www.allglides.com/metalbase.html

All part of the hidden world of keeping shit working I guess

[DwnVoteHoneyPot]

I know a business that fix shopping carts. They don't repair at the store, they load up the broken ones onto a truck and take it to the repair shop. The repair shop is a part of large industrial parts store. It's very expensive for the shopping store to repair because it's typically a repair man who has some welding skills that fixes these things. Not sure why other people in this thread would think there is a specific person at each store who is going to fix these things.

[az09mugen]

You described a more professional version of what Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys does to earn his money.

[rstuart4133]

The fan thing also fooled me, but I came here expecting the story to be about web shopping carts. In recent year's I've been prevented from ordering something by a broken web site far more than I've been frustrated by physical shopping cart. The real thing is far more reliable in my experience, and finding another physical cart is so much easier than invoking the web debugger to get past a broken site.

The real story was well worth the read, but I only read it once I twigged what the fan had to do with the story.

[jtbayly]

I was trying to figure out what the box fan filled with parts was going to be for. Took way too long. Not enough caffeine yet today.

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I reread it 3 times and still left a typo in there, guess it’s good I didn’t become an editor :facepalm: