One relatively cheap addition to what should be required of both retailers: automatically locking cart wheels. I confront trashy neighbors about taking carts when I see it happen, but there's no way to police every cart, and a few bad apples can make a whole (nice) neighborhood look like a ghetto just by discarding a few carts in visible places. Suburbs face this problem too: A state law requiring autolocking wheels for retailers above a certain size would not be unreasonable.

I second Thomas's idea. The Canton Safeway has automatic locking cart wheels too- thus you don't see many stray carts around Canton.

The Safeway store located on 25th Street where the old Cadillac dealer used to be (I'm seeing a trend here) has locking cartwheels. I would hope that the 25th Street Station would also look into using the system.

On the cart-locking topic: All stores should employ Aldi's tactic of requiring a quarter deposit to unlock the cart. To retrieve your quarter, return the cart. Simple.

Locking cart wheels are a no-brainer. They've been in the plans from day one.

Wal-Mart's carts are so crappy that I doubt anyone would want one.

Don't doubt it, RS. There are regularly carts near where I live and we are minimum 8 blocks from the nearest store.

Remington residents seem resigned - far from the truth, Jay. Take a walk in Remington and talk to people. The majority are fully in favor of the project AND Walmart. By the way you could do a lot of good talking to various communities about Electric suppliers. There are a lot of "salesman" knocking on peoples doors.

I am in hesitant support of having a Wal-Mart in Remington, I'm in full support of having a Lowes. I live within walking distance of this new retail project, near 33rd Street and Greenmount Avenue in Waverly and sure it'll be a great convenience for Remington, Charles Village, Waverly and the surrounding communities, but I also share the communities fear that with Wal-Mart comes poor benefits and low wages which unfortunately Wal-Mart is well known for (see the well known activist site Wake Up Wal-mart). I would be very surprised if Wal-Mart is actually working with Remington like they have stated publicly and if this Wal-Mart actually offers good benefits and wages to its employees. I also share with the community's fear of increase in traffic and crime which comes with all major retail projects such as this. However, retail developments like the 25th Street Station do bring a tremendous amount of benefits to Baltimore City so I am in support of this project in general.

I think locking wheels is critical. Already tons of trash blowing around Remington; last thing we need on top of the trash are empty carts on the streets.