Personally, I can see a lot of uses for the FairPrice shopping basket:
- You can use it to wash vegetables.
- You can use it to drain your noodles after blanching.
- Or you can even attach four wheels to the bottom and skate in the comforts of your own home.
But I wouldn’t do that.
You know why?
Because that’s stealing.
Unfortunately, not everybody thinks the same way.
FairPrice Shares Chronic Thefts Of Shopping Baskets
If you were to go to FairPrice’s Facebook page right now, you’ll be greeted with their latest mascot crying with the heartbreaking caption:
“Please don’t take me home. I’ll miss my Fairmily…”
No, it’s not a roll of toilet paper.
They reveal that every month, a typical FairPrice outlet loses 50 or more shopping baskets.
Some are taken home by customers and put to other uses while others were abandoned.
They urge members of the public to return the baskets if they spotted any of them outside their stores.
You can view their full post below:
Previously, It Was Trolleys
This isn’t the first time that something belonging to FairPrice was abused.
Previously, the FairPrice outlet at Holland Drive had to put up a notice to tell customers that all of their trolleys have been stolen.
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A particularly luxurious condominium in the east was revealed to have shoppers who engage in a not so luxurious activity: stealing and hoarding NTUC trolleys.
A group of youths were also filmed setting a trolley from NTUC FairPrice on fire because it’s somebody’s birthday.
As for why trolleys are no longer in the spotlight, it could be due to #CB.
After all, if you think about it, pushing a trolley along the roadside is eye-catching as hell since people are now on the lookout for rulebreakers.
And eye-catching is the last thing you want to be when you’re trying to steal something, no?
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