As anyone who has shopped at IKEA knows, the store's carts move at the slightest touch and maneuver 360 degrees easily.
A recent wind storm sent dozens of shopping carts rolling out of the store's cart corrals and flying across the parking lot, some stacked in rows of 20 or more. Several cars were hit, including mine.
I contacted a store manager to see if the store would take responsibility in repairing my car, which will cost about $500. He told me some of the store's own employees had also filed complaints about damage to their cars.
The storm had been going on for at least 40 minutes before the cart hit my car. If the store has experienced wind in the past, they know their cart corrals are insecure and tend to let the stacked carts fly out when weather gets severe. I think this fact constitutes at least some negligence since the store knows how its stacked carts behave in wind. Am I just on my own with this?
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