1. An apparatus comprising: a retail shopping facility; a plurality of motorized transport units that are each configured to temporarily attach to a corresponding mobile item container and to move the temporarily-attached mobile item container in correspondence to the movement of an authorized consumer, the motorized transport units each including at least one video camera; a central computer system configured to simultaneously task various ones of the plurality of motorized transport units to temporarily attach to a corresponding mobile item container and to move the temporarily-attached mobile item container in the retail shopping facility in correspondence to the movement of an authorized consumer while also receiving and analyzing video input provided by the video cameras to identify security and safety anomalies in the retail shopping facility.