Always return, anything less = garbage person

On my way out of GW noticed someone left their iPhone in a shopping cart. Turned it into the store clerk. Hope it made it home OK.

Here is a picture from the other day. The location is the far upper/right curb with mulch. I will put it in spoiler and be warned, some will find this image infuriating:




It can't be this black and white, daryn. Way too many extenuating circumstances.

Just using the horrifying imagery above, what if the shopper is an old lady parked on the right of that lot? Should she be expected to feebly walk her cart over three parking aisles to replace into the corral?

What about a dear mother with her new baby that is having a meltdown after 45 minutes of shopping? Should she be expected to walk her cart back to a corral three aisles over?

How about a parent with a very autistic 15 year old? Are they expected to make sure they're dear cart is returned to the proper designated area 50 yards away?

I cant be the only one that does this?

If theres no cars directly next to the cart return opening I will literally shove my cart full speed from half way across the parking lot into said return. Still shooting 100% with no incidentals to date ftw..

When the store sees that, they should convert two parking spaces nearby to a cart return rack. Not that hard a decision to make.

Tom,

This store's corrals are only ONE SPOT. Even easier.

Just to clarify, the scenario you'd like us to sympathize with involves a feeble old lady who parks in the far corner of the parking lot, walks clear across the lot to go into the store, shops, pushes her cart full of goods back out to the far corner of the lot, and loads up her car? This is the person who's unable to return her cart?

The mother should obviously just lock the child in the car with the windows rolled up and enjoy the few peaceful moments she gets while returning the cart.

I cracked the **** up when I read this.

wp

Grunching: Hard to say which is the bigger blight on the world, people and their shopping carts or their ****ing cars. Here's a solution to what ever problem you guys are somehow devoting time and effort to: stop leaving the house.

"solution"

Nvm

would your uncle have a job if everyone was returning carts?

The hardest part of the job is pushing in a set of 15-20 metal ones that are already corraled.

The easy part is walking around collecting, actually.

grunch

Put your damn carts back in the cart bin thing. And, stop putting them in all willy nilly so it clogs up everything and they end up all over the parking lot. Hell, even fix it if someone before you doesn't do it right.

yes?

it is that black and white. if you can take a cart and push it around a store, you can put it back.

Idk, those carts are placed there pretty neatly except for the one in the foreground. We’re on the outskirts of the lot with no corral near. I think I’m okay with creating jerbs by leaving your cart out there.

Supposed to be hush-hush, but Elon's next venture: self-driving carts

He's going to put a lot of cart drivers out of work.

Almost always return and will bring back inside to grocery stores if raining, cause wet carts suck when shopping for food (particularly if I have to put my kid in the seat when browsing).

Few cases when I may not:

- if parked like a mile away at a place like Target and they stopped putting corrals like 50 yards from the store

- the new trend of grocery stores inside malls (Whole Foods-type stores doing it by me). The parking lots don't take carts into consideration and it's difficult to park anywhere close.

I notice a lot of shoppers will lift the cart up over a curb, push it up hill and into shrubberies rather than suffer the indignity of putting their cart safely in a corral.

...then there are those who bring their cart near the corral but resist actually putting it inside.

This is silly. I thought I'd hate all your posts in this thread as I'm an "always put it back, even if you have to take it back into the store" person, but surprisingly I don't. However, phrasing this as though leaving carts strewn about is like doing the workers a favor is dumb. It's extra work and they still have to move them all once they're corralled, unless you're suggesting they retrieve them one at a time, which may not raise the height of peak exertion, but it's definitely more total work they have to do.

Source: as a human male, I am required to carry all my groceries in one trip, so I know a little something about not making 25 mini-trips =P

EXACTLY. Some places like Target will have a cart machine that can load like 20 at a time. They use light plastic carts though so that helps. But yea, most grocery stores have people manually push them or use straps to pull them.

And by them I mean fifteen to twenty carts at a time FROM the corrals to the front.

My first day every pushing carts, it was a struggle to do like five. Eventually got it up there pretty good and came to enjoy the job. Since no one else other than the same five or six people wanted to do it, we had our own little cart pusher squad. Coordinated our breaks together, bought drinks and ice cream bars to share, it was pretty a decent gig. Just wear sunscreen!

PROTIP: If you collect the carts and push them BACKWARDS as in, the handle is facing away from you, this helps tremendously.

When you come to a complete sudden stop because of a customer, the front carts don't go flying off the line. Plus, this makes them easier to control and keep them in a line when going solo.

Balderdash to returning carts. The way some of you overbearing moralists would have it there should be an eleventh Commandment:

Thou shalt return all shopping carts.

Random shopping carts strewn all over the parking lot and in the margins means that you have a choice of parking anywhere and nabbing a cart right away. But enough of this. What I really dislike are the stupid arrows in the parking lot supposedly to direct traffic. These also need ignoring and smart people know this and park as needed, grab the randomly left cart humped up on the curb and race into the store with abandon, spending money like mad to keep capitalism chugging down the tracks, while simultaneously getting foodstuffs to satisfy their tummies wants and needs.

A pox on you all. A too orderly society is bland and meaningless and ugly and stupid.

Saw this, thought of this thread LDO.