SAN JOSE WANTS to “piggyback” off a partnership with Milpitas and a private company to tackle thousands of abandoned shopping carts.
The San Jose City Council earlier this month voted 10-1, with Councilmember Pamela Campos voting no, to find an abandoned shopping cart retrieval service to recover about 2,000 carts citywide per year. Not only would a private company potentially help reunite retailers with their lost carts, it could also be integrated into the city’s 311 app to allow residents to report abandoned shopping carts. Campos, who opposed the idea, questioned if city workers would need to postpone their existing priorities in order to work on new efforts to address abandoned shopping carts.
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