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.
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.
At Aldi’s you get your quarter back.....................
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.
i once returned a cart to the good will store after finding it left in a field.
does that make me a bad guy?
About 20 years ago, I saw a woman move their cart from the parking lot over the curb and onto the grass. I said, “saw that.” (The cart return corral was nearby like they all are.) She launched on me like a tyrannosaurus karen. I shook my head at her and walked away. The lazy old bat.
I sometimes gather extra carts.
Oh sure. It’s noble to ruin entry level jobs for those who need work and are willing to work. Just like self checkout, you are not helping anybody. If it makes you feel good though, go for it.
I’ve pushed some hundreds of yards in the woods/ logging roads, closer to a gate on the road, but I was going that way, anyway. Loaded up some trash along the way. I’m not pushing them a 1/2 mile or more farther to the various stores they belong to. I might climb down or rig a line to pull one up a slope. Make of that what you will. Mostly, I don’t like seeing them in the woods. Apparently some homeless people are bad people.