Shopping carts left scattered all over the parking lot are an illustration of why socialism and communism fails.
I’ve always returned my cart because I like to show off knowing how a cart return works.
Never used to be concerned about cart return until I bought my first new car. Parked it in the back forty to be safe but there was a loose shopping cart that dented the door. I was sick. Ever since I will put mine back and round up nearby loose ones too.
PS. That was the only damage on that car ever!
My wife taught me that the best parking spots are those near the cart returns.
I always return things I use to there proper place. And, if there are carts that lazy, unethical people leave loose in the parking lot, I generally gather those so they are not a hazard or impede others parking. It disgusts me that so many people are so lazy they can’t return the cart they borrowed to its corral, which is usual a very short distance away.
Taking your cart back, being kind & tipping wait staff generously, saying thank you & please: all good signs of a decent human being. How animals & kids react to a person is a big tell also.
When I see someone abandon their cart I definitely feel some kind of way about them & it isn’t good.
Don’t put the cart before the louse.
Way back when, in junior high in the 60âÂÂs, I got a job at a local supermarket stocking shelves on Friday nights and SaturdayâÂÂs. . I rode my bicycle seven miles each way. At night my Dad would come get me with his old 56 Chevy pickup. One of my âÂÂother duties as assignedâ was cart retrieval. Sunny, hot, humid, deep snow, dark of nightâ¦.didnâÂÂt matter, it was my job. The manager once told me if it wasnâÂÂt for cart retrievals he could easily make do with one shelf stocker. And I wouldnâÂÂt be it. So my take, and IâÂÂm dead serious, IâÂÂm helping give some poor kid the opportunity to save for a car and a useful education beyond the local indoctrination. So no, I never return the cart. Ever.
Mose time I take my cart back especially when it’s windy. Often the guy gathering carts is out side and I just drop it off to him. Best is to find someone going into shop and giving the cart to them. I have often told shopper that have just funded unloading cart if I can use it. Everyone’s happy.
Another BS metric to judge people by. Some folks are “compelled” to put a cart in a designated cart area just to pat themselves on the back, some don’t even think about it while they do or don’t. Others that I know personally are not going to even try because of health issues and because they refuse to get a placard to park closer in order to take advantage,they will make the trudge to their vehicle but can’t make it to the cart area simply because of health issues. The worst part of this thread is how judgy people are about the stupid things of life. IT DOESN’T MATTER in the bigger scheme of daily life whether or not one puts a shopping cart in a particular area. Some folks need to get a real life.
The weirdest shopping cart thing I saw was someone pushing a shopping cart down the shoulder of I-25 on the long stretch between the last Albuquerque exit and the Bernalillo exit, which is several miles. They were halfway there, but a cop was having a chat with them.
Was at Walmart recently and was parked close to a return area in the parking lot. When my wife and I got to our car a young lady (late teen/early 20s) had left her cart right next to her car and proceeded to get into said car. I made sure to walk over, grab the cart and take it the extra 10 yards to the return rack after I had put my bag in the car (I did NOT use a cart). She saw me do it and looked over at my wife who was in the passenger seat. My wife gave her “the look” and the girl quickly turned her head and left. Sheer laziness on her part.
I kind of expect it from that generation at this point. They can’t be bothered with trivial stuff like putting a cart in its proper place. Probably needed to update her Instagram discussing what she purchased at Walmart.
Not returning cart to the store is a feature of low rent feral shopping centers
I see a lot of old people who do not return them, but they leave them on the sidewalk adjoining the market, so it is close. I assume it is hard for them to wheel them back. The ones I blame are the young ones, who appear more healthy than me and leave them in the parking lot.
I’m a good person
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.
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.