Discarded shopping carts create discord in the community

I have heard that the new 99 Cents Only Store had to order many more

shopping carts because so many had disappeared since they opened.

They are quite expensive -- at least $99 a piece. Yes it’s a problem

in Costa Mesa. A huge problem, especially in Costa Mesa.

LINDA FEFFER

Costa Mesa

Shopping carts are always left beside the two apartment

developments that are on each side of Golf Course Drive, which runs

from Mesa Verde Drive into the entrance of the Costa Mesa Golf

Course. That street on both sides always has at least two to a half a

dozen carts.

JOHN CALLAHAN

Costa Mesa

Store carts are a nuisance and I think the city should have done

something other than their latest move to fine stores, or force them

to participate in a citywide cart removal program. It’s not a

deterrent. People still take carts.

They leave them on the streets, they leave them behind stores,

they leave them just wherever. It’s not only the grocery store carts.

I am amazed at the distance that some of these carts have

traveled. I live on the Eastside and some of these carts say Smart &

Final. I have seen those in my neighborhood.

Ralph’s market is notorious for having its carts left behind

Dietrich’s coffee store on East 17th St. The city should have done

something other than what they did.

Carts are a nuisance. I don’t believe that we should use city

money to retrieve these carts when the markets the stores themselves

could do something to restrain the users from taking them home and

then leaving them where ever.

JUNE MCKINZIE

Newport Beach