City & Municipal Shopping Cart Retrieval Contracts
Stray shopping carts on streets, sidewalks, and in neighborhoods are one of the most common — and most visible — quality-of-life complaints cities face. All American Retail Services, Inc. is the partner municipalities turn to for a permanent solution: we work directly with cities to keep public spaces litter-free from abandoned carts, fulfilling local shopping cart ordinances and giving code enforcement departments a dedicated partner instead of a recurring headache.
What We Do for Cities
- Ordinance-driven retrieval: We retrieve abandoned carts from public streets, parks, and residential areas within your city, returning them to the correct retailer.
- Retailer accountability support: We help ensure retailers operating in your city meet their cart-retrieval obligations under local ordinance — reducing the burden on your code enforcement staff.
- 24/7 public reporting system: Residents can report a stray cart any time, day or night, through our online form or by texting the cart location to 800-913-5639. Carts are typically retrieved within 24 hours.
- Documentation & reporting: We provide cities with timestamped, photo-documented retrieval logs on request, so you have a clear, verifiable record of ordinance compliance activity for every cart collected.
Why Cities Work With Us
- 15+ years in business retrieving carts and supporting retail compliance
- 15,000+ carts recovered
- Established relationships with major national retail chains, so carts get returned quickly and correctly
- A single point of contact for both the city and the retailers operating within it
How It Works
- Your city adopts or already has a shopping cart retrieval ordinance.
- AAR Services contracts with the city (and/or with individual retailers) to handle retrieval within the specified radius.
- Residents and city staff report stray carts directly to us.
- We retrieve, log, and return carts — keeping your city clean and your retailers accountable.