Who Is Responsible?
Who Should Pay?
We had a glass door panel smashed and goods stolen at our Robert St store last Saturday morning, when someone used a shopping trolley from the nearby supermarket to break the glass. The trolley had been left overnight on the footpath at the front of our store.
Who is responsible for subsequent damage caused by the uncollected trolley? Is it the supermarket whose staff failed to collect all the trolleys and left this potential tool in a public area or the council who failed to impound the unattended trolley on a public footpath?
The cost in time, money and the worry of such situations is unnecessary and could easily be avoided. The additional police time and work, the clean-up and the inconvenience would probably have not been necessary if the trolley had not been left on the footpath in the first place.
It it time for those responsible to pick up the monetary costs of their negligence?
Maxine and Peter
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posted by Dunn's Newsagency | 9:42 pm
1 Comments:
How irritating, I would invoice the supermarket with a copy of the police statement. Depends how far you want to take it and the consequences involved for eg: bad blood, escalating to a civil action to recoup all expenses occured.
I suspect you wrote this still angry over the incident, it helps to let of steam. When you work hard and lose money and time by negligence it is very frustrating.
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