Residents driven off their trolley

BEDMINSTER residents are being driven mad by the dumping ofsupermarket trolleys near their homes.

More than a dozen have been dumped in the river Avon nearBedminster Bridge by vandals in recent weeks.

And one residents of nearby Stackpool Road says his street hasbeen turned into a "trolley park".

Bryan Float says people in the street are fed up with trolleysfrom the nearby Asda and Kwik Save stores being dumped.

They are usually taken away by the stores after a phone call butfurther problems have been caused when trolleys belonging to the twodifferent stores are stuck together.

Mr Float said: "Normally it is up to us the residents to contactAsda and Kwik Save to fetch their trolleys back before we end up withmore than one.

"The nightmare scenario is if two get attached together. Then youstart to get a trolley park building up.

"Some bright spark managed to get his pound back by attaching aKwik Save trolley to an Asda trolley.

"What happened next was that when I contacted the respectivestores they said that this was a major problem.

"An Asda representative came round to see me and said that he wasunable to remove the Asda trolley that by this time was attached toTwo Kwik Save trolleys.

"He said he was not allowed to touch Kwik Save property. I guess asimilar thing has happened with Kwik Save since they promised me theywere coming round last Friday and they have yet to take away theirtrolleys.We now have a trolley park consisting of five trolleys hereon Stackpool Road."

Asda customer services manager, Lin Colly, said: "We try tocollect all the trolleys which have been taken from our store anddumped around the area.

"We always pick them up, even if they are attached to trolleysfrom other stores.

"It is a great cost to is to lose trolleys, and it is dangerous ifthey are left in the road, so we always try and retrieve them and itis not a policy to leave them if they are attached to othertrolleys."

A spokesman for Kwik Save also said the firm would pick up theirtrolleys when they are called, even if they are attached to Asdatrolleys.