Abandoned Shopping Carts

The Glendale Municipal Code requires merchants with shopping carts to contain/control them on their properties.

• Stores must install/implement an effective shopping cart containment system or control method. No more than five (5) carts per day may be removed for the method to be considered effective;
• Stores must post signs informing customers that removal of shopping carts is a crime;
• Stores must maintain a shopping cart retrieval service at all times;
• In the event a cart has been abandoned and is abated by City staff, there is a $92 abatement fee per cart, if the owner chooses to retrieve it.

All Glendale stores choose which method of cart containment or control will work best for their particular store. This may include a wheel-locking system which stops the carts once they are removed from the parking lot boundary, or it may be a simpler method of control, in which employees monitor their carts, not allowing them to be removed from store property.