Posted on 03/22/2023 5:42:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Interesting. I am now going to have fun watching the parking lot.
I always take my cart back...to get the quarter.
I leave mine near my car. Why? Because Local 22 of the United Shopping Carts Retrievers of America wants me to!
What if you add items to other shoppers carts when they’re not looking?
See Post #4
I always return the cart to the storage area. Always.
If there is one loose in the parking lot nearby, I often grab that one and return it too.
If it is a bunch, I don’t. I figure that is a flaw in the management of the store, and they need to fix it themselves, but I always do the one-offs.
I work at a hospital, and I do that with orphaned wheel chairs too, sitting in the parking lot. Same dynamic. If it is one, I grab it. More, they need to know they aren’t doing something right.
Quarter or not, I always take my cart to the cart area.
I always put things back where they belong and leave things better than you found it.
That’s a very interesting point.
What do you do in private because it’s the right thing to do, simply because it’s the right thing to do, tells a lot about a person’s character.
100% of the time when I shop at Aldi’s.
Some people at Walmart will make extra effort to jam one up on a curb rather than return it
I’ve seen it at grocery stores too
They have to lift the cart as opposed to pushing it
My wife and are cart returners. Had a great time one day. I told my son to take the cart back. He left it on sloped ground. He walks away, but the cart turns and starts rolling toward him and kept following him. It was like it had a life if it’s own. My son started running and screaming. I was laughing a lot.
Character is what you do when you know you won’t get caught.
Good exercise, and no skin off my nose.
The wife and I have a spot in the truck console cup holder for the “shopping cart quarter”. It’s for shopping at Aldi’s. There may, or may not be quarters in the actual console well, but who wants to scrabble around in there looking for a quarter?
At Aldi’s you get your quarter back.....................
You’re a good person!
“I always return the cart to the storage area. Always.
If there is one loose in the parking lot nearby, I often grab that one and return it too.”
Same with me.
When I was working in retail as a young man I was asked by the store manager to do cart returns. I was supposed to be an assistant manager so I was really angry.
I proceeded to retrieve every single cart.
When every single cart was in the store it was virtually impossible to get in the entrance.
I was never asked to bring in carts again.
It was also the deciding factor in my choice of not pursuing a retail career.
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