What are your thoughts on those who don’t return their shopping cart?

[Royale with Cheese]

I think its the ultimate sign of laziness.  
You don’t want to return a cart where its supposed to go because it requires 10-50 more feet of walking?

 

The worst are the ones who leave it in the parking spot next to them.  So the next person who comes to turn in has to get out of their vehicle, move the cart just to park.

[ProcessImproverMan]

I agree but I don't have the same hatred for them that I do for those who don't flush toilets (as a former retail worker.....)

[LeviF]

It's the simplest method of finding out whether a person is good enough to live in modern society.

 

You gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. In fact, you lose some fraction of a minute by returning the shopping cart. It does not benefit you in the least. But it is easy and is objectively the right thing to do. So really the motivation for returning the cart can only come out of how good of a person you are.

 

On the other hand, you lose nothing by not returning the shopping cart. You are unlikely to be personally affected by not returning the shopping cart. There is no law against not returning the shopping cart. It's just that not returning the shopping cart is objectively the wrong thing. Therefore you are a bad person for not returning the shopping cart.

 

In short, the people who don't return shopping carts are the reasons why the government must have the power to imprison and kill people. Their only motivation to do the right thing comes from the end of a gun.

[Just Jack]

As a former retail worker, I did not mind when people would not return their carts, since it meant more time outside gathering them up from all over the parking lot, instead of being inside dealing with customers. And we did not have these fancy motorized cart pushers like they have today, we did it with our muscles.  My personal record was 28 carts at once. But now that I'm older, and not working retail, I will return my cart to the corral, and even go and nest the ones that may be in there, to make it easier for workers today.  

[DrDawkinstein]

Cart Narcs. Not sure how this guy hasnt been shot yet pulling this in Florida and Texas. But he's doing gods work out there...

 

https://www.youtube.com/@CartNarcs/videos

 

Here's a sample:

 

 

[f0neguy]

I like Aldi’s with the .25$ return system.  Carts are returned by the folks that used them or someone else gladly grabs them.

[\GoBillsInDallas/]

Shiv the mofo?

[Sweats]

When i'm by myself at the grocery store, i usually just send the cart sailing down the roadway and then jump in my truck real quick before i even see where the cart ended up, which usually ends up in some form of argument (sometimes even a fist fight) because no one really knows where the cart came from, so people just start blaming each other........when my wife is with me, i make the effort to actually take the cart back to the designated cart spot because that's the "decent" thing to do.

 

Yes, i am a bit of an ***hole.......no need to point it out.

[4merper4mer]

31 minutes ago, Sweats said:

When i'm by myself at the grocery store, i usually just send the cart sailing down the roadway and then jump in my truck real quick before i even see where the cart ended up, which usually ends up in some form of argument (sometimes even a fist fight) because no one really knows where the cart came from, so people just start blaming each other........when my wife is with me, i make the effort to actually take the cart back to the designated cart spot because that's the "decent" thing to do.

 

Yes, i am a bit of an ***hole.......no need to point it out.

I sort of do that but not exactly.  Wherever I park, I park.  If it is close to the return shed or if it is far away, I shove the cart at the shed.  I’ve gotten really good at it, even from long distances.  Everybody wins.  Well unless some jerk isn’t paying attention.  One time I shot the cart from probably 75 yards.  I had to send it between two parked cars and account for the slope of the lot and the one misaligned wheel that pulled the cart to the left.  My shot was perfect.  I mean perfect.  The cart was definitely going in the tent and might have even folded into another cart that was already there.  It would have probably been my third best all time shot…….until……some bozo who wasn’t watching it as it went between the two parked cars just kept driving down the row.  The cart emerged, he hit it and it went tumbling along in the parking lot at a pretty high speed.  It got airborne for a second or two.  It almost hit a mom and a baby in a carriage.  The guy got out of the car and looked around confused.  The mom almost had a heart attack and was screaming and made a big scene.  Drama queen.  Suggestion:  If you’re going to have kids you’ll want to protect them so pay attention.  The cart was wrecked but the guy seemed more worried about the dent in his precious car.  Some people are just jerks.  I don’t like going to that store anymore because people are jerks like that.  Sometimes I go anyway because the wobbly carts are challenging.

Edited September 30 by 4merper4mer

[Ned Flanders]

Worse are the people at the gym who don't wipe down the machines after using them...effin slobs. 

[DrW]

Here in West Texas the grocery stores have employees (mostly kids or retirees) that will push your cart (here called a "basket")  to your car, load your groceries and take the cart back. On my first visit from Rochester to Lubbock I was of course not familiar with this arrangement, and I started to fight with the basket kid for my grocery cart. I "won" and was able to get the cart myself to my car, and unloaded the groceries. However, the kid had followed me and offered to take the cart back to the store. I accepted.

Edited September 30 by DrW

[Royale with Cheese]

2 hours ago, Sweats said:

When i'm by myself at the grocery store, i usually just send the cart sailing down the roadway and then jump in my truck real quick before i even see where the cart ended up, which usually ends up in some form of argument (sometimes even a fist fight) because no one really knows where the cart came from, so people just start blaming each other........when my wife is with me, i make the effort to actually take the cart back to the designated cart spot because that's the "decent" thing to do.

 

Yes, i am a bit of an ***hole.......no need to point it out.

 

I was at Target one time and I saw this and the cart put a football sized dent in this guys car.  The cart somehow got momentum to pick up that much speed.

It's a really s***** thing to do to someone....caused $1,000 worth of damage to a car.  I put it up there with slashing all 4 tires with a knife....it costs the same.

[Augie]

13 minutes ago, DrW said:

Here in West Texas the grocery stores have employees (mostly kids or retirees) that will push your cart (here called a "basket")  to your car, load your groceries and take the cart back. On my first visit from Rochester to Lubbock I was of course not familiar with this arrangement, and I started to fight with the basket kid for my grocery cart. I "won" and was able to get the cart myself to my car, and unloaded the groceries. However, the kid had followed me and offered to take the cart back to the store. I accepted.

 

I would like to have seen his face if you just said “no thanks, I think I’ll take this one with me.” Maybe throw it in the back of the truck or tow it with a bungy cord, see if that gets a rise out of him! 

 

I’m probably at the grocery store 6 days a week, so it’s rarely a “big shop”. Unless I get a case of water or something I generally don’t take a cart into the lot. I pay attention to how many steps I get daily, so unless it’s bad weather I park far from the front door and don’t mind if I have to double back to return a cart. I saw Mitch Morse on Eric Wood’s podcast and he said “motion is lotion.” That stuck with me. 

[Mike in Horseheads]

My first job at 16 was working for a grocery store and they didn't have "corrals' back then.  You could spend a lot of time out in that parking lot fetching carts and like @Just Jack  said we didn't have any motorized crap to push them in.  Also like Jack said it was bonus not to be inside dealing with  people.

[Your Brown Eye]

Jim Kelly was notorious for not putting his cart back in the cart-corral back in the day.

[ICanSleepWhenI'mDead]

It's an indicator of character, or lack thereof.  Speaking of "back in the day" - - when my Dad was a young man, cars did not have automatic, fob-controlled door locks.  When he was on a first date, he says he always paid attention to what his date did after he unlocked the passenger side door first to let her get in the car.  If she reached over to pull up the button to unlock the driver's side door (cars generally had bench seats back then, not buckets) before he got there, that was sort of an initial litmus test for whether she was likely to be a keeper, or too self-absorbed.  Never asked him whether Mom passed that initial test (both have been gone for years now).  Not sure what the modern day equivalent could be with electronic key fobs that control all car functions.

[BillsPride12]

There's a special place in Hell for those people 

[BringBackFergy]

All you “Holier than Thou” cart returners haven’t reached my level yet. 
 

On my way INTO the store, I’ll stop and grab a cart out of the corral and take it into the store. Then, when I go back outside, I’ll put it in the stack near the sidewalk to the store. 
 

Boom!! How’s that?

[SinceThe70s]

3 hours ago, DrW said:

Here in West Texas the grocery stores have employees (mostly kids or retirees) that will push your cart (here called a "basket")  to your car, load your groceries and take the cart back. On my first visit from Rochester to Lubbock I was of course not familiar with this arrangement, and I started to fight with the basket kid for my grocery cart. I "won" and was able to get the cart myself to my car, and unloaded the groceries. However, the kid had followed me and offered to take the cart back to the store. I accepted.

 

Here on Long Island (Lawn Guyland for the uninformed) we don't get that courtesy from grocery employees. I imagine if we did it would go similar to this:

 

 

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

They’re the lowest form of sub human scum … I’ve seen how fast carts can fly through a lot when it’s windy, and yes, some of us take a great deal of pride in their vehicles