Shopping carts are seen stacked in a vacant parking lot outside of a Costco in Wheaton, Maryland, US, May 18, 2020. Tom Brenner/Reuters. New York CNN — ...

Santa Fe, New Mexico, paid a local contractor $47,000 to round up about 3,000 shopping carts around the city in 2021 and 2022. Fayetteville, North Carolina, spent $78,468 collecting carts from May ...