Grocery cart accident **final update 3/18/07
#21
#22
Originally Posted by mitchelltc1
So to answer your question...
Being an employee of the store you will most likely be told thier is nothing they can do for you. You could move up the chain of command but I think you will recieve the same respone every time. To make matters worse it doesn't seem you have a very strong case, at this point we all, including yourself, are starting to question if it really was a cart. Bottom line, anything is possible, but the store paying for your damage seems unlikely.
#25
Re: Grocery cart accident **updated with pics.
Originally Posted by Thermos2003
I work at a grocery store. Today when I got out of work there was a dent in my driver's side quarter panel the size of a german shepherd. Does anyone have any idea if I can get the store to be held legally responsible for the damage. I am almost positive that it was a grocery cart.
Update: Estimate between $1200 and $1500
Picture of the crater.
Update: Estimate between $1200 and $1500
Picture of the crater.
#26
40+ mph winds + shopping cart + 1000 feet to get going = ^^^
scratches line up where the cart would be. It is too high and square to be a car. It made contact in 4 or five places up and down the panel.
scratches line up where the cart would be. It is too high and square to be a car. It made contact in 4 or five places up and down the panel.
#29
if you look close you can see a series of scratches. There are four or five. That is from the rails on the cart.... the one's the go around the basket portion in the front. I'm thinking it came from behind my car and to the driver's side. The front right corner must have hit the car.
#30
no way a cart did that unless someone hit the cart w/ their car and pushed it into your car. shopping carts just dont have the weight to dent it that deep no matter how fast it was going.
#35
i don't think you guys realize how windy it was last night when it happened. The carts we have at the store are heavy. If this thing got a good gust behind it for a hundred feet or so, BAM, thats what you get. Too bad it didn't hit the plastic bumper or something. Then there would probably be no damage.
I'm going to the appraiser in a bit. I'll know better how much its gonna cost. On the good side, if it wasn't a car it is covered under my "comprehensive" insurance. Only a $300 deductible instead of $500.
I'm going to the appraiser in a bit. I'll know better how much its gonna cost. On the good side, if it wasn't a car it is covered under my "comprehensive" insurance. Only a $300 deductible instead of $500.
#37
Originally Posted by Thermos2003
4. I work there! I park in the very last spot as far from idiots as possible. There was no one parked within 20 spaces of me.
i dont have a dent of that size but i do have scratches on the passenger side of rear bumper... that had me upset for a while...
anyways,
hope everything works out for u
#40
the marks do look like its a cart ....and ive seen carts take off in the parking lot due to high wind ....but ide go to the place and see if they have it on camera so they can either catch the person that did it or atleast find out what happened. If someone let their cart go full of food .... at some point they had to go get it ...so that will be on camera.