People who do not return the shopping cart
 

at aldi it costs a quarter to use a cart if not returned

my parents ran and owned a grocery store.

i agree with the theory. we are not all good with the honor system. lots of that lately.

The only thing that really gets to me is when some idiot leaves their cart in a striped handicap zone. Normally I will verbally assault them.

"So, you gonna let the guy in the wheelchair get out and move that for you?!!"

Usually gets a few giggles from those out in the lot. I'm pretty loud when I do that. It's almost always some fat minority female and they just shrug and get in their car. They are not even parked in the HC spot. I hate these slugs.

OTOH, collection corals are sparsely placed and seldom near a HC parking spot.

At a lot of stores in Europe you have to insert a one Euro coin to unlock the cart and then get it back when you return the cart to the corral and insert the key from the cart in front of yours. I've seen that (a US quarter) at a Shop Rite in Manahawkin, NJ, but nowhere else in the US.

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Actually, I always return the cart, and hold doors .

I hand mine to someone in the parking lot (which is nice and smooth) to put their bags and purse in it.
They usually offer me a quarter which I refuse.
Win-Win and good karma.
I just saved more than a quarter by shopping there.

Seems like everyone in the homeless population has one. Why do they get cut slack? Is it because it's their pantry, closet and tent hold'er down?

If I see the parking lot full, it's busy, and I'll grab one of the stragglers in the lot and use it. Sometimes, the people walking in front of me, turn to look, and sometimes asking, where did he get that cart, when they find none are at the entrance.

+1 I am seeing the Aldi cart return culture changing. Lots of people handing their cart to another shopper with most refusing the quarter. None are left in the lot and if they are, the quarter bounty clears them.

I judge people by this event.

Trolling thread strikes paydirt.

Trolling? This is the single best thread he's ever started.

:cool:

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No way possible to talk about shopping carts, without mentioning bubbles .

My observation, when I went to FL last.
I was looked at as weird when I returned my cart.

Around here, it is the norm to at least put in the corral.
Before COVID, some used to take it into the store.
Now, for sorting reasons, the corral seems to be nearly always.

Counter-point? Doesn’t NOT returning the cart create jobs?

My first job was 50% shagging carts. $4.20 per hour in 1982.

Started is the key word.

Based on history, about 23 posts in, someone will say something that triggers sugarwood's solid rocket boosters and that poor bastard who posted will be beaten about the head and shoulders for telling a story that might have some stretch in it.

Costco has teams of people solely responsible for shagging carts. I did it one winter in college. It was brutal and Costco is generally a good place to work, but in that role someone is always on you and you are never moving fast enough. During that season I worked there over the holidays it was not unusual for every last cart to be in use.

One of those gigs that makes you thankful you have an education.

This has been a pet peeve of mine for as long as I can remember. There aren't that many things that really get under my skin, but that's one of them for sure. The ones that get me the most are the ones that are only about 5 spaces from the cart corral. I was at Menards and saw someone leaving without putting their cart in the cart corral. I walked over, grabbed the cart and said "Let me get that for you, you lazy ass" The driver must have liked it because he said I was number one!

Sugarwoods solid fuel rocket boosters . Lols. love this place

They are the same damn people who do not put an item back on the correct place on the shelf after they pick it up and look at it. The just toss it anywhere. Its not hard to put it back in the same place.