Trolleys being scattered around supermarket carparks is a tale as old as time.

But for Wayne Busbridge, every trolley that goes uncollected makes his life more and more difficult.

That's because the 53-year-old, who lives above the Raynes Park Waitrose in Coombe Lane, has been completely blind for the past 16 years.

He says that trolleys are constantly left where they should not be and it is causing him to crash into them on an almost daily basis.

"At the moment people will just take them to the car, open the boot and give the trolleys a little nudge," Mr Busbridge said.

"I either have to push the trolley that way or pull it this way, but then make sure I don’t bump into another one that’s lying around.

"It just makes it so difficult."

The 53-year-old who has been visually impaired his whole life said this is not the fault of the staff at the store, who have on occasion helped him find his way back to his home.

"They will come out and collect them but two minutes later another trolley just appears," he said.

"It's also time consuming for them, taking staff 20-30 minutes to clear them."

But he does think there is a simple solution that would make this problem go away.

Make the trolleys coin operated.

"I just think that if that if the trolleys were coin operated people wouldn’t just leave them everywhere," Mr Busbridge said.

"At the moment there is no encouragement to put them back.

"I’m sensible enough to know that not everybody is going to put them back, but it will make things better than what they are now."

When contacted by the Wimbledon Guardian to see if anything could be done to help ease the problem, a Waitrose spokeswoman said: "We're really sorry our trolleys are sometimes left where they shouldn't be.

"This is something we try to regularly check and we're always reviewing the trolleys we offer."