See subject. Radio frequency ID tag.
I’d settle for a big one I could drop like electronic bread. I’m so tired of putting down my shopping basket and spending 1/2 hour finding it.
I don’t need an incredibly near-field or micro size, nor a brick or something to place on a bad-guy’s car.
Just a little piece of cardboard size, or something. iPhone 6 has set-up already for near field for Apple Pay, but that’s different. Somebody must have this for consumers for glasses or keys, right? (Wouldn’t mind having those too, actually.)
I can’t envision any kind of RFID that would work from more than a few feet and with a more or less direct scan, which I assume would not be useful to you. You’re looking for a much more precise, longer-range tracking beacon of some kind.
How about an old-style janitor’s key ring chain, on a belt retractor? You could set your basket down and have some reasonable freedom of movement, but not wander off from it.
2 burner phones, or a walkie talkie set. Put one in the basket and keep one on your person. Call the other one and it will make noise, allowing you to track it down by sound.
What works for us is me being the patient husband driving the basket while the wife does the shopping.
Sometimes I stop & sit down. She calls my cell phone and tells me where to deliver the cart/basket. And she already has me so new funds do not need to be used.
All I can think of, honestly, is Alzheimer’s or some kind of brain damage causing short-term memory loss. Who even puts a shopping basket down, anyway? I might if I’m at a long checkout line and the basket is full and heavy, but that’s pretty much it. Otherwise it just sits in the crook of my arm for the duration.
I understand the OP’s problem perfectly. I don’t like to push the trolley up and down every aisle, for reasons including maneuverability and speed. So I tend to migrate it across the back of the store, two aisles at a time. In between, I walk the two aisles, out and back, picking up what I want.
The problem comes in a store, usually a discount store, with a particularly fiendish arrangement of short cross-aisles or angled sections. Or sometimes it’s because I suddenly remember something I wanted from an area I’ve already visited. Then I’m distracted by some other display. And now, where did I leave my trolley? Sometimes I discover that my merchandise has been removed and piled atop a display as someone else claimed my trolley, apparently believing it abandoned.
I do notice that women never, ever, leave their trolleys, not even to look at something on the nondriving side of the aisle or to negotiate at the deli counter. This may be because they once transported small children in them, or because they carry purses in them.
I kind of get what you’re saying, Mr Downtown, but the OP is pretty clear he’s losing a basket, that he sets down. You don’t leave baskets on the floor, in my experience. I’ve seen people do the cart thing at the end of the aisle, but with just a basket that can be easily maneuvered and carried (and tripped over by unsuspecting fellow shoppers)? Nope.
The problem with this is when there are several people doing this it blocks the back aisle and then I have to move your carts out of the way so I can get through and then your carts are no longer in the spot you left it and then I get yelled at because people don’t like it when they can not be discourteous.
You’d think so, but the fact is, I don’t drink because I have to, I drink to make the voices in my head stay quiet. And if you knew what they were saying, you wouldn’t want me to listen to them, so the drinking is kind of a win-win.
Excellent. Just bought it. Polite curious question. Third-person, but directed at me and objectifying the problem. Perhaps the answers might lead to other suggestions for OP. (The goofy ones are funny as well.)
Other ideas are nice. The “take picture” is what I try to do, mentally, in stores I know, before launching off into a different aisle. Sometimes.
I’m still here, you know.
Guinistasia started and SeaFragon continued, quite early, discussing the reasons for my post and answering them. And that’s it. Maybe a mod can come up with a word for that; I call it thread farting.
Usually it’s considered impolite to talk about a person who’s still in the room, and in GQSD the OP is considered always to be in the room, unless certified as a moldering zombie. I don’t believe I’m Junior Modding by stating this. If I am, I await correction.
