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.

What does it say about me if I try to aim it in from fifty feet away?

I'm a person that returns their cart to the corral but removes one and sends it off on its merry random way. Yep, I live dangerously.

Clearly SuggieTits theory does not account for boundary conditions cases....

I normally see older people returning carts almost never a young punk? Am I bashing our young people again? Now, about putting things back on the shelf. That goes for all ages. 99.99% of the time, I see people just toss it back on the shelf somewhere. Sad.

What burns me is when they park two spots away or even right next to the cart corral, and they are too effin lazy to put it back in, and leave it between the spots.

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I thought of this also, my first job in 1982 was at Kroger pulling carts in from July's heat, and January's blizzards for little money. There were no cart corrals out in the parking lot then, so people shoved them to the front of their parking space....especially fun on days preceding big holidays when everyone was buying groceries.

Around here, the plastic carry basket, that works great for a few items, has been discontinued at a lot of stores.
People steal them/never return them.

Calling those people animals is an insult to animals!


I just refer to them as sub-human.......

Sugar needs a hobby..
Tim

I knew you were SW all along, except when you posted as Bob Kontak about informational things.

I always return my cart - it's the only exercise I get.

I always park as far away as possible - it's why my car is 100% ding free, and it increases my exercise.

When I retire, which is not far away, I'm going to get a job returning carts to the store - I think it will be fun and will increase my exercise. I'm sick of sitting at a desk and making decisions all day.

LOL, I know. Just remind him people exist over 40 or mention a liking of anything older than last week- he spazzes out LOL.

rjp

The Safeway on Park avenue and 20th in Denver (more commonly referred to as the UNsafeway) stopped providing carts for a while because too many of them got stolen by the uhhhhh...... 'unhoused.'

You mean the campers were using all of them to go camping?

I'm 76 yeas old and ALWAYS return the cart to either the store or the corral. The lazy *******s that don't do either are just that - lazy *******s.

don't use carts

^^^ Carts are preferred over pockets. :D

I usually try to park right next to the corrals as that is where you're least likely to find a kart on the loose.

there's this new high tech thing now; they're called "shopping bags"

if you are bilaterally symmetric you can probably carry 2 of them!

It's almost the benchmark as to who is a trash person and who is not.

There is a state housing area the next street back from me. the bastards are living on charity from us tax payers yet crime/vechile breakins/tagging and supermarket trolleys radiate out from the complex. They sometimes park trolleys in front to my house then carry their shopping the last 100 meters to their place. I deliver the trolleys/discarded belongings/stolen bicycles things back to their place.

The more I think about it, cart theory seems to be a proxy litmus corollary test for the Marshmallow test