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What is 'Shopping Cart Theory'? The test can tell if you are a good or a bad person
Meaww ^ | 6/17*21 | Anusha J

Posted on 03/22/2023 5:42:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

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To: 10mm

That is strategic and doesn’t count. Lol.


161 posted on 03/22/2023 7:41:01 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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I travel for a living and have found that there is a correlation between neighborhoods that do not return shopping carts with neighborhoods that remove the trigger locks on gas pumps


162 posted on 03/22/2023 7:42:45 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: moovova
I always take my cart back...to get the quarter.
How's that going to work in a CBDC world?
163 posted on 03/22/2023 7:42:46 AM PDT by citizen (Dealing with the Left is like trying to convince a drug addict that they need to get treatment.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

Unless I’m in a hurry...................


164 posted on 03/22/2023 7:43:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: citizen

There’ll be a phone app.


165 posted on 03/22/2023 7:44:36 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’ve gotten flamed for this in the past BUT will share for the sake of seeing another viewpoint. At my local supermarket, the guys that corral the carts and return them to and from the store to the return areas are disabled. If everyone returned their cart, it would create less jobs. So, I think occasionally leaving a cart in not the right space, gives a disabled person a job.


166 posted on 03/22/2023 7:46:49 AM PDT by clarissaexplainsitall
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Disagree.

A third option is to put it somewhere safe which is what I normally do.

It is not because I feel unseen so I can be naughty. I don’t consider it naughty. God always sees me, and I know it.

They have employees paid to come out and wrangle the carts.


167 posted on 03/22/2023 8:12:53 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Been there watched that. Once when a woman filled her car she then pushed the cart to the backside of the chart corral but not ten feet farther to it’s proper position . She then turned around and took off and the cart started rolling downhill toward other cars. I ran and stopped it before it hit.

She was from Oklahoma. Figures.


168 posted on 03/22/2023 8:13:47 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: moovova

If someone is about to get a cart I say “Take Mine!” saves them a quarter and they may gain one when they bring the cart back. After it is only a quarter. Not even a silver one any more. about the equivalent of an old real 1 1/2 cent copper penny.


169 posted on 03/22/2023 8:18:34 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I’ve done that in the past, and it’s a good thing to do. But then we find we don’t have a quarter for the next visit. I’m leap years ahead of Biden and his digital economy. Seldom do I carry change, or even cash in the wallet to break a dollar at the cash register. We usually use the same quarter over and over. About to wear it out! LOL


170 posted on 03/22/2023 8:29:16 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: central_va

Aldi sometimes sells items other than groceries. The wife purchased some solar yard lights from them several years ago.

The lights have been remarkedly long lived. Usually the ones she’s purchased were toast by the middle of the second season. The ones purchased from Aldi are going on four years now with very little degradation in performance.

Like everything else in this world, caveat emptor.


171 posted on 03/22/2023 8:32:16 AM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Here in LA shopping carts are replaced often because the homeless keep taking them for their portable home transporter.


172 posted on 03/22/2023 9:01:14 AM PDT by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: READINABLUESTATE; jagusafr

Generally applies to conservative protests as well. Meanwhile, our Leftist friends run a protest and tend to trash the streets and sidewalks and parks in the vicinity.


173 posted on 03/22/2023 9:11:47 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I think this theory is lacking. This "test" only became a thing very recently and it isn't due to goodness on anyones part. In the far distant past grocery stores would actually have people that would wheel your groceries out to your car from you and load them up. They would then bring the shopping cart back. No problem.

Then some grocery store genius was looking for a way to cut costs. They said "You know what, customers can bring their OWN groceries out and we won't have to pay so many people to do this".

The entire grocery industry went "gee okay!". However it wasn't too long before the flaw in their plan became evident...they had to buy MORE carts and of those carts they bought MORE were being stolen and lost. In addition they now had to deal with carts clogging the parking lots and all kinds of claims because of dented and dinged cars.

Then some other grocery store genius said "I know...we'll train the customers to do the very thing that we used to pay people for. We'll ask them to bring the carts back!"

Well that didn't work so hot. So instead they made cart corrals to at LEAST get the carts in one location so they could hire people to go out and get the carts from the parking lots.

In other words this test and the guilt associated with NOT returning the carts is a clever marketing act intended to help you save the grocery conglomerates money so they don't have to provide personalized service anymore.

174 posted on 03/22/2023 9:20:11 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’ve been fascinated at how Aldi has largely conquered shopping cart theft for a mere 25-cent deposit. People are strange.


175 posted on 03/22/2023 9:27:35 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“There is no good government at all & none possible.”--Mark Twain)
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To: Qwapisking
IT DOESN’T MATTER in the bigger scheme of daily life whether or not one puts a shopping cart in a particular area.

Just don't be the guy who wipes his boogers onto the wall above the urinal... we have a civilization to uphold, y'know.

176 posted on 03/22/2023 9:31:29 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If I could I’d return the cart to the nearest correl. However, I have trouble walking and have to use a motorized cart. I’d return it to the store except then how do I get back to my truck?


177 posted on 03/22/2023 9:53:40 AM PDT by upchuck (When you never took the vaccine or boosters: Still alive and healthy with no chance of side effects.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
By and large, and depending on the size of the parking lot, proximity to the corral, and whether the whole surface is iced up because it's winter (risk of breakin' a hip), uh, usually I put the cart in the corral. I find it frustrating to encounter a cart in a parking space I'd planned to use, and also know the paint on others' cars could be damaged if the wind (or a bump from a car, or the force of gravity) moves the cart while no one is around.
Alien cart circles

178 posted on 03/22/2023 9:57:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I like to park next to a cart corral. Easier to find my car and return my cart.

If a cart corral is close by, I will walk to it.

If I take a cart left near my car in the parking lot, I feel justified in leaving it right where I found it.

If there are insufficient numbers of cart corrals, I feel justified in leaving my cart anywhere.

If there are no cart corrals, it’s a 50/50 chance that I will return the cart to the store itself.

I do have back/hip/knee issues, but I won’t use them as an excuse to not return a cart. The cart makes a nice walker, and everyone just thinks I’m just shopping.


179 posted on 03/22/2023 10:30:30 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Some of our local stores employ mentally challenged folks (since we can no longer say “retarded”) to collect carts in the lot. If everyone did “the right thing” they’d lose their jobs.


180 posted on 03/22/2023 10:40:45 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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