That s the sentiment of some local businesses.
Studies have shown that pilfering those wheeled carts and purposefully pushing a shopping cart off the premises of a business technically constitutes a theft costs businesses across the country millions of dollars each year.
In Fall River there’s even a local ordinance that exclusively pertains to the taking and abandonment of shopping carts.
Environment Article III of Chapter 26 which is intended to eliminate a public nuisance and potential health and safety hazards makes the shopping cart owner liable to a possible fine and forfeiture of the cart, in the event of it having been abandoned on a city street or sidewalk.