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Abandoned carts: Albany may try again

Written March 9th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Trying to get a handle on the problem of stolen and abandoned shopping carts, Albany passed a law in 2008. The law was amended in 2021 and then, in a reorganization of the city code, passed again in 2022. What has been the result?


 
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