I don’t always put the cart back… But the times I don’t are the times I am finished with said cart right as someone going into the store comes along and offers to take it to use themselves.
There’s a Twitter or 4chan post floating around about how putting the cart back is the apex test of your humanity because there’s no reward for doing it and no consequences for not. It’s just “are you a good enough dude to put the cart back?”
(Unless you live near one of those places where you “rent” the cart for a coin, in which case there is a slim monetary value in cart management.)
A lot of places in the UK don’t have the coins deposit thing either. I pretty much avoid our local Aldi because they have this, and I never have any cash on me.
“Weee-wooo weee-wooo weee-wooo… Sir, I’ve noticed that you’ve missed the cart return. That’s okay, it’s kinda hard to find. See, the cart goes over there.”
cue incoming verbal violence.
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In 45 years living in Germany I haven’t seen once a free roaming cart in a car park, the only ones I’ve seen are abducted ones, from homeless people etc standing somewhere under a tree or shit where they can’t cause problems. Just saying.
When the air is too intense, it can move carts around and break them into a parked or even a moving car. I didn’t believe it before I saw it myself. One another reason to fix them in a corral. Redoing a paint job after such random shit’s what I wish not to myself, nor to anyone.
Last time this shit came up, some dude chimed in that walking around the parking lot collecting lose carts was the best part of his day, since he could be outside away from managers slowly collecting them relaxing.
It was hit or miss at previous jobs. I worked at Kmart for a few years and would often help the stock guys round up carts in the evening. During summer evenings it was kind of fun wandering way out into that concrete sea with the boys, rounding up impossibly far carts and running the wrong carts (or electric scooters) back to the grocery store next door. But during the winter it was hell on fucking earth, and I’d help them round them up just to spare them the agony of a slipped disk.
I live in Canada now and couldn’t imagine rounding up carts during these cold snaps. You’d probably stick to them, imprisoning you in parking lot until you succumb to frostbite.
This is why I never ever put carts away. Give those poor kids something better to do than stand inside and listen to bitching customers while they bag their groceries.
They don’t even need to push the carts. They just walk around with a little machine that does the pushing while they bop around with their headphones on enjoying the fresh air.
I work on a system of cart karma. I try to use carts that are abandoned in the lot. I try to return them most times but I don’t always. As long as I put away more than I take then my contribution is net positive.
I am not sure about that. In any given grocery store parking lot, in my experience, the vast majority of our carts get returned and we have an enormous asshole population here in America. I wouldn’t say unreturned carts is a huge problem here either
I think voting rights should be tied to returning carts to the little cart thing. It’s such a simple act that provides almost no personal benefit to the person doing it (apart from just “doing the right thing”), but in my mind the kind of person who does it is being respectful and considerate of their fellow person. People who don’t return the carts and just leave them sitting around are trash and shouldn’t have any say in how the rest of society functions (handicapped folks would obviously get a pass).
Ugh. One of the things that I hate about the state of AZ. Seems like the entire state are full of these kinds of assholes that leave carts in the parking lot. Whole fucking herds of carts all over the parking lot with the cart return less than 40 yards away from them.
I just loudly bitch to my wife when I see someone leave a cart in the parking lot now and make sure they can hear how much I think they’re lazy, assholes.
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