Posted on 03/22/2023 5:42:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Winner. That’s what I told my “kids” when I was doing mentoring/leadership stuff: whatever slot they give you, leave it better than you found it. It’s up to your successsor what he or she does with what you give leave.
There is an art to the shopping cart return: you must stand at the end of the cart return area and push the cart so it nests perfectly with the other carts in the rack.
Cart wrangler is a terrible job. But it is one that will make you look for a better job.
I think Aldi does that for all their stores.
I’m a good person
“Winner. That’s what I told my “kids” when I was doing mentoring/leadership stuff:”
I picked it up while on Boy Scout camping trips in the 70’s
The counselor told us “Always leave the camp site better than it was”
There are a couple of guys working at the local Home Depot who would not have jobs otherwise.
Plus - after dragging my cart through 4”+ of snow and slush and puddles of water because the lot does not get plowed too often I’m not to inclined to haul it back. And when I do I often can’t put it in the corral ‘cause they don’t plow the corral so all these carts pile up in front like cattle headed into the chute.
My G-mother used to say “... always act like I am watching you.”
... that worked for my three sons also.
I always take my cart back to the cart corral. Why? Two reasons: 1) It’s the right thing to do. 2) As a teenager I worked at the largest grocery store in Wisconsin and fetching carts from the farthest regions of the parking lot was time-consuming and annoying.
At the Costco near me, they removed about half of the shopping cart return pens in the parking lot to make more room for parking. Now a lot less people return the carts to the pens and just leave them in parking spaces. Shopping cart return is a covenant with the supermarket. Customers will return them if the supermarket has a fair allocation of return pens and doesn't make you walk half a mile to return them.
I love all of the excuses being posted by the non-returners.
I always return my grocery cart to the spot provided for them. I put my groceries in the trunk, place my purse in there, close the trunk, lock the car, put my car keys in my pocket and walk the cart over to where it belongs - even if it’s several rows away. Sometimes another elderly person will be walking from their car to the store and will want the cart I’m returning to use for support. Works for everyone.
I was being serious. It galls me to see an errant shopping cart left parked out in the lot. Especially if it’s near one of the cart corrals.
Great story. We both had early lessons on how to direct our anger.
I always return it for a bunch of reasons.
1. It annoys the hell out of me when carts are just put anywhere, especially if it means I need to move it to park or get out of my parking spot. So I’m not about to do something that I don’t want other people doing (the old ‘do-unto-others’).
2. My parents and the Navy drummed into me the concept of ‘a place for everything and everything in its place’.
Not valid. The expectation of what to do with your shopping cart varies regionally. Some places actually send someone out WITH you to put your groceries into your car; is accepting such help unethical? Why is it unethical to accept the help of someone hired to round up your grocery carts?
In the last couple of decades, the trend has been more and more places scattered throughout the parking garage to return the carts to. When I see those, which is almost all the time now where I live, I take the hint. But they still round carts up FROM those places to bring into the store. So is using those only partly ethical?
A better test would be people who leave groceries they’ve changed their mind about on the shelves in the wrong place. If the groceries are spoilable, you’re positively evil.
“”Isn’t that only Aldi?””
Evidently - I don’t have a clue what people are talking about as I don’t go to that store - not one close by. Who gives who a quarter and when?
You have to pay a quarter for a shopping cart? Do you have to pay a quarter to use the stall?
I relocated from South Fla to Charleston SC two years ago. I was immediately struck noticing the absence of lose carts in the grocery parking lots unlike So Fla. People here are polite. Yet to experience the road range frequently encountered in So Fla.
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