{"id":510991,"date":"2026-01-12T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510991\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T14:18:16","slug":"thursday-deadline-looms-for-phoenix-stores-over-efforts-to-keep-shopping-carts-on-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/510991\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday deadline looms for Phoenix stores over efforts to keep shopping carts on site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retail shops in Phoenix face a deadline this week to confirm efforts to keep shopping carts on site and avoid a $500 minimum fine.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s deadline stems from a new Phoenix ordinance tied to the city\u2019s shopping cart retrieval program that lets residents report abandoned carts.<\/p>\n<p>The city already charges a per-cart fee for returns.<\/p>\n<p>And now stores with carts have to share detailed information with city officials as part of a yearly certification.<\/p>\n<p>Stores must either use locking wheel systems, or have launched a management plan to keep carts from leaving their property and ensure quick retrieval if they do.<\/p>\n<p>Homeless people often use shopping carts to carry their possessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retail shops in Phoenix face a deadline this week to confirm efforts to keep shopping carts on site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":510992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-510991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115882564222930553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}