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The Underground Shopping Cart Economy

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George Rios has been wrangling shopping carts for over a decade. He works 10 hours a day, and he loves his job, though he admits that sometimes it can get to him. Why? When people don't have cars, in a car dependent city, shopping carts become serious business pretty quick. 

 
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