A reader was shopping at a Crystal grocery store on a windy day several months ago and came out to find a shopping cart had run into the side of his car, causing $1,600 in damage.
He tried to get the store to pay for the damage but was told the business is self-insured and would not admit liability.
The reader enlisted the help of the Minnesota attorney general's office but got the same response.
The man said that a different grocery store, Aldi, requires a 25 cent deposit to unlock a cart from a corral and that this gives shoppers incentive to keep the parking lot free of rogue carts. Because the store he shopped at lacks a similar system, he feels the store was negligent.
Should the store pay up? Comment at www.startribune.com/whistleblower.
JANE FRIEDMANN
