Shoppers have pointed out a glaring design fail in the car park of a newly opened shopping centre.
Sutherland Shire locals who have visited Bay Central, in Sydney’s south, over the last few weeks have been frustrated by the poorly positioned trolley bay.
A photo shared on social media shows a line of ALDI shopping trolleys chained together at an allocated bay, however, the queue is so long it spills out and blocks half of the road.
A resident posted the photo on Facebook and complained about the people responsible.
‘As a species, there really is no future for us. These are returned Aldi trolleys blocking the road. Apparently longer on weekends,’ he said.
A photo shared on social media shows a line of ALDI shopping trolleys chained together at an allocated bay, however, the queue is so long it spills out and blocks half of the road inside the car park
While the comment appeared to blame shoppers for continuing to add trolleys to the already overly long queue of them ‘just to get their $1 back’, a debate quickly erupted over who was really to blame with many suggesting it’s not the shoppers.
‘Stupid just stupid’, one person agreed.
However, others argued that the car park design is to blame, and not the shoppers who are merely doing what’s expected by returning their trolleys.
‘Not sure who came up with this one,’ one person said of the layout.
‘On the upside it means there have been a lot of lovely considerate people that have returned their trolleys to the correct area,’ another wrote.
Others thought the fault lies with the Aldi staff who are employed to clear the trolleys and return them to the supermarket.
‘What surprises me is the amount of people in the comments shaming the shoppers who do this when it is clearly either a flaw in the design of the car,’ one said.
‘Aldi’s fault for not returning their trolleys frequently enough,’ another commented.
‘This image perfectly draws attention to the issue that it is Aldi’s responsibility to sort out. Hope it was shared with their store manager as well as posted here,’ a third person said.
A spokesperson for the shopping centre told Yahoo News Australia that Aldi, Dan Murphy’s, and Woolworths ‘are all responsible for the management of their own trolleys’
A spokesperson for the shopping centre told Yahoo News Australia that Aldi, Dan Murphy’s and Woolworths ‘are all responsible for the management of their own trolleys’.
‘This includes the collection of them from the car park trolley bays for return to store,’ they said.
Aldi has five separate trolley bays on the ground floor of the car park, with each able to take between 10-20 correctly stowed trolleys.
‘We have brought this to the attention of our major retailers and raised a need to perhaps increase their operations regarding collection,’ the spokesperson said.
‘We also encourage customers to look for another bay nearby should the closest to them be full.’
The trolley bays typically take up 6 metres in length and have been designed in specification with industry standards.
Aldi had no comment to make when contacted by Daily Mail Australia.
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