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City: Banish Stray Shopping Carts With Your iPhone

Monrovia is advocating the use of an iPhone app that lets you snap a picture of abandoned shopping carts and report them.

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See a beat up, rusty old shopping cart collecting dust on your street? Well grab your iPhone and take a picture of it.

CartSnap, a new iPhone app, lets residents report stray shopping carts directly to the California Shopping Cart Retrieval Service, according to the Monrovia city website. The app records the GPS location of the cart and lets users participate in contests to earn incentives, according to CartSnap.

In addition to using CartSnap, Monrovia residents can also report abandoned carts directly to the the CSRS online.

Monrovia that restricts where shopping carts can be taken in the city.

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Craig Covell August 22, 2012 at 01:31 pm
Finally, after years of negelect, the city has done something about this problem. Why did it take so long. This was discussed when Mary Wilcox was on the council and she was appointed to study and bring solutions to fix this problem. Not much makes a city look "third world" like abandoned shopping carts. Let's now have an app to report abandoned furniture and other items unssightly and dumped upon our sidewalks and streets.
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Heather S. August 22, 2012 at 01:35 pm
What we really need is an app to share the location of JUNK... laying on the side of the road, in peoples yards, etc.
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Heather S. August 22, 2012 at 01:36 pm
Great minds think alike = )
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Craig Covell August 22, 2012 at 02:09 pm
Heather, you should attend our next meeting of concerned residents. We have identified the issues that effect the looks of our city. We are looking for a strategy to approach the council and city staff to clean up our city and to make this a priority. There were several of us that met at Rudy's a couple of weeks ago. We welcome your imput and help. If interested I will give you my email and we can discuss.
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bart August 22, 2012 at 02:14 pm
You can also just call the retrieval service hotline and leave a short message with location and the will add it to the list 800 252 2613 hit 1 then 2 and describe location. I have been doing this for 3 year in MOnrovie
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bart August 22, 2012 at 02:15 pm
wow sorry about the typos
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Karen Lujan August 22, 2012 at 02:21 pm
Love this idea. Will there be an Android app coming out soon for those that don't have iphones?
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B Ulm August 22, 2012 at 08:42 pm
Great idea and I second the Android app request!
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SYLVIA WILLIAMS August 26, 2012 at 10:58 am
Finally a solution to a growing problem! I've been calling on shopping carts in the city for three years now. Why cant the markets put those little alert buttons that go off when someone takes the carts out of the parking lot,,,such as the ones at Pavilion and Trader Joes! Guess we have to start somewhere...the app is a good idea.
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