ORLANDO, Fla. -- They're designed to make shopping easier, but some city officials in Orlando say shopping carts are creating an eye sore. That's why, next week, the city council will meet to see what needs to be done to keep carts from ending up where they don't belong.

The City Beautiful is trying to avoid having shopping carts removed from their rightful owners that end up then abandoned several miles away.

"I get angry at the folks who take them off the property. Basically, it's property of the store," said Doug Shellhammer, manager of Clemens Produce.

Eight years ago Clemens Produce installed 8-foot metal poles on each of the store's shopping carts because so many of them would end up missing. Still, some customers are finding a way to take a cart to the parking lot.

"The only problem is I have too many things here. I can't possibly hold all of these things to my car that's parked right over there," said customer Allen Aboo.

The city might consider requiring new stores with more than 20 carts to have a cart retention system. Customers of Big Lots, for example, must pay a quarter for a cart. At Wal-Mart, a digitally encoded locking signal prevents shoppers from leaving the parking lot with the cart.

"I want to make sure the store owner doesn't get punished for something someone else is doing," Shellhammer said.

That could happen, but it's unclear when. The city is reviewing numerous ordinances to see if they need to be updated. For now, it seems, the carts will continue to be an eyesore. City commissioners are meeting Monday morning to discuss the issue.