A Costco shopping cart made its way off store property and onto the sidewalk on South Eads Street in Arlington this weekend. TBD reported in March that D.C. grocers had been experiencing cart theft as an unpleasant byproduct of the plastic-bag tax—customers make off with a loaded cart of unbagged groceries rather than part with a few nickels. Arlington, along with the rest of Virginia, remains bag-tax-free, but Costco doesn’t provide bags to its customers.

Until the store starts doling out sacks or employing wheel-locking anti-theft technology, expect to see more carts lining Pentagon City streets.