Extremely specific contrary case (I always put my cart back, it’s fun when they accordion together), but my grandma appreciates the carts near the handicap spots because then she doesn’t have to get out her walker.
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I honestly couldn't car less about shopping carts. I want people to pick up their dog's shit for fuck sake
All right, I'll just drop off my shopping cart in front of your place, kick it over, and pick up my dog's poop.
Deal?
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I am so worried about the book accurate version of this movie coming out.
My first job at 15.5yo was the grocery store. I bagged and got carts for work when bagging could be plastic (newer), paper (common), or a combo of both (old people, usually). If you don't return your cart, fuck you! Now I live a few blocks from the same grocery store and return that shit to the inside of the store, grabbing spares sometimes if they're just sitting around in the way. It used to surprise me when someone didn't return it, then the last couple decades happened and it makes more sense. There are just some people who want to be a part of society and others who want to benefit from it while not contributing to it.
If you don’t return your cart, fuck you!
It seems there's a certain personality type the managers of stores prefer working out there in the parking lot.
Yeah, when I walk into the store, I grab them from the handicap spots. It's the only place where I say "Okay, you get a pass," when I see carts left, and so I bring em back to the store.
You give people a pass for ditching carts in the handicapped spaces?
Ha, definitely unclear. The presumption is it's a person with a handicap who left it there. I know I've seen some older folks leave them at the end of the spaces and so I guess I'm more inclined to let slide someone who perhaps has some infirmity that makes walking difficult.
Interestingly I've read handicapped individuals prefer there to be a cart next to the handicap parking space. Save having to walk inside before getting a shopping cart that doubles as a walker.
Makes sense in my mind, could be bs though. I certainly haven't done a study.
Jesus Christ, I'm out here disenfranchising the disabled.
Haha, it never dawned on me until someone else said it to me.
One of those things that seems obvious in hindsight.
As long as you don't dismember them
You just can't win in this thread, can you?
This whole chain was a roller coaster!
Yeah, my husband had cerebral palsy and loved when people left carts in the handicap areas. He'd grab that and use that to walk around the store instead of a cane.
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Ha! Let me tell you an anecdote.
My apartment building is positioned around 7 to 10 minutes walking distance to IKEA, a huge department store and a few small grocery stores. People would be fine dragging a IKEA/department store/grocery store cart for 10 fucking minutes being loud and an ass. And of fucking course they wouldn't bring them back.
Also, some of them would bring one INSIDE OF THEIR FUCKING APARTMENT and keep it on the balcony filling it with trash. In some cases, they would bring trash inside cart out to the trashcans (we have private that open only with our key) and leave cart with their trash at the trashcans.
On average, our apartments are expensive and most of our neighbors are wealthy enough to rent these apartments. Yet, we got swines all over our apartment block...
Edit: wanted to add that this is in a major city of an EU country.
Why would wealth correlate with morals?
If you're think poor people are more likely to be shitheads, that's propaganda speaking for you.
People being shitheads is ubiquitous, eh? Very frustrating.
I said for years that every second date should be to a grocery store. The first date can be as fancy and choreographed as the couple wants, but the second date needs to be to the grocery store.
You can learn just about everything you need to learn about a person from watching them at a grocery store. From how they chose a parking spot, to how they talk to employees, to how they budget, to how they prepare a list, to how healthy they eat, to how they check out, to if they return the shopping cart.
Heh. My first date with my husband ended up at a pizzeria chain. He pulled out a gift card (he won at karaoke). Believe it or not, despite Weird Al asserting that pulling out a coupon book when on a date is tacky, I actually admired it. We've been together 14 years, and this year is our tenth wedding anniversary. 😊 Turns out we had a whole lot more in common.
Change your mind on a product. Do they put it back where it belongs or throw it on the nearest clearly wrong shelf?
Or, is the person a shopper at all? Do they act like they've never been to a grocery store in their lives?
That's useful information.
Or do they compulsively steal? And if so, did they remember what my favourite chocolate bar is?
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Is this one of these american things? I have never seen someone not returning the shopping cart.
There's math behind it.
Walmart: they won't even walk the cart one spot over to the car corrall.
Target: They generally return them at least to the corrall. Target lots are usually smaller and busier.
My local grocer: They'll return them if there's a corral in the current line. If they park on the outside, they'll never return them.
If the place has a small busy lot with lots of corrals and isn't poverty level shopping, most will make it back.
If it's a giant walmart with one corrall per zipcode and people that are fed up with life, they might just let it roll down the hill into traffic.
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Never understood people who couldn't put the shopping carts in the cart return when they are done.
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