Busaholic
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My nearest Waitrose is seventy miles away, so have no personal experience of this, but such offers never last for too long because a proportion of people mis-use the system by being greedy. It's the same with 'honesty boxes', if everyone played by the rules they'd exist in many more places. We do still have such things in West Cornwall but where they've disappeared it's mostly because some summer visitors think 'why should I put £1 in a box for six large newly-laid eggs when I can drive off and no-one will be the wiser?' A camera was installed at one place and recorded the BMWs and 4x4s arriving and disappearing without paying, sometimes with as many as four boxes of eggs. Result? An increase in the price of eggs for the rest of us.
