[LINK] Supermarkets of the future: This is what they'll look like | The New Daily

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Thanks Tony,

As a Councillor in the Inner West of Sydney, we are grappling with this 
issue and what to specify in our planning instruments.

The biggest impact, I believe on supermarkets will be the demise of the 
private motor vehicle. We are already seeing a decline in drivers 
licenses and motor vehicle ownership.

We recently had a debate in the council chamber about shopping trolleys 
on our streets. In the course of the debate another councillor confirmed 
my anecdotal evidence that more people are walking to the shops. The 
shopping mall had told this long time councillor, some time ago that 50% 
of their customers were arriving and leaving on foot. We adopted an 
impounding policy. This policy is not to discourage shoppers from 
wheeling their purchases home but to encourage the supermarkets to do 
the right thing by their customers and collect the trolleys or provide 
other means for their customers to get their purchases home.

To put this in context, a sign at the exit of shopping mall to a bus 
stop states that the shopping trolley wheels lock at that point. That is 
particularly rude of the supermarket in the context that they have 
encouraged the shopper to fill their trolley, collected the money as the 
shopper filled their trolley with the purchases and then left the 
shopper stranded.

One perspective that was presented was that the pedestrians should bring 
their own trolleys - I would put to drivers - how many manage to bring 
their own bags?

The interesting news here for Link is the potential role here for 
automated vehicles.

More at https://perambuler.ramin.com.au/2019/05/shopping-trolleys_23.html

Linkers may also be interested in AURIN maps on Access to shopping in 
the Inner West. AURIN lets you plot any area) more at 
https://perambuler.ramin.com.au/2019/06/alga-nga-2019-aurin-data.html

Marghanita

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