How do you feel about returning your cart to the right place?
I never really concerned myself about it, at all.
I always parked nearish one of the cart garage thingys, as to swipe a cart going in, just in case there were none inside. Seems to happen often to me. Or maybe they just hire crappy cart wranglers. I don’t know. It’s a thing around here.
Ivy was unloading some groceries into the car. I was standing around, looking bored.
Now see, Ivy’s a slow mover. I have bins in my turtle-hull for bags to go in. Bumpy roads are an issue. Don’t need no spilled milk to cry over. Ivy was carefully arranging things. The cart may have rolled 2 feet away. I didn’t see it happen.
A lady (can I pleeeeease call her a karen ?) came over and gave a lecture. Highlighted with a few curse words.
As I was bored and not paying much attention (hey, daydreams are a fun diversion) I was slow to react. I heard Ivy get a shrill voice and say “Hey, Lady, give me time!”
I said, to myself, “Eh, what’s this shit?”
I don’t confront. I don’t attack. Heck, I rarely say much. But this lady was off the charts. She was ranting that no one ever returns their carts. They are always rolling into her car. Always in the way.
I said one thing to her. It was mean. It was inappropriate. NSF little kids.
I said “Eat shit, bitch!”
I feel terrible.
(Oh, we replaced the cart in the garage thingy and left)
Karen’s gotta know what the consequences may be when they start cart-policing.
I always try to put the cart back in the corral, but husband is so impatient (and generally in a bad mood from being in the grocery store already), that sometimes I just stick the cart in the grass. One day somebody’s going to get on my case about it.
I truly believe the Lady got a life lesson, today. I looked back when we were leaving and she was still standing there with her mouth open.
I suspect she gets away with being bitchy and mouthy way too often. Most people would just ignore her and go about their business.
She caught ol’ beck in a mood.
I’m a guy but folks kept stealing those baskets so I’m stuck using a cart
I put the cart back at the front of the store and carry my few bags to the car.
It pisses me off when I first get to the store and see all the carts blocking parking spaces because lazy assholes were too lazy to put them in designated spot.
I put the carts where they belong. It can be a significant nuisance for others when people don’t.
The most I do about somebody actually leaving a cart where it doesn’t belong, even when they’ve left it in the handicapped spot, is to roll my eyes and roll that cart to where it belongs (I don’t always move carts that other people left in the wrong place, but I sometimes do.) I’m certainly not going to start reading people lectures about it. Maybe if I had kids of an age to be taught how to behave while shopping I’d read them a short lecture; but certainly not strangers.
I would not consider somebody who was in the middle of loading their car to have left their cart in the wrong place, because I’d assume they hadn’t left their cart at all, yet. If it were rolling away into traffic I might grab it and take it back to them.
i have been known to straighten and neaten the cart zone. i also take carts that are not in the cart zone to the cart zone when leaving. and taking a cart that is not in the zone to go into the store to shop.
Beck, I hate when people get cranky because someone doesn’t return a cart. Some elderly/mildly disabled people use the cart to lean on as they walk into, around, and out of the store. If they put it back in the cart corral, they don’t have that support from the corral to their cars. If you turn the cart so it doesn’t roll, it’s not going to hit anyone’s car.
I don’t know what that lady’s problem was, but I always figure people that angry have a built-in punishment in that they stew in their poisonous attitude all day.
I always return them to their proper place and wheel one in if there are a ton in the lot when I arrive. Now let’s solve the real problem- developing shopping carts that don’t get stuck together when nested.
I always return my cart to the proper place. Part of that comes from the fact that I worked at a grocery store for a brief time in college.
I was the employee that had to trek all the way down the far end of the parking lot to retrieve the carts that had rolled away because customers didn’t put them in the corral. Or worse, the cart would roll into a parked car and damage it. I saw it happen multiple times. And our store’s policy was to pay for the repairs for any customer’s car that got damaged by one of our carts. Some people will just leave the cart with two wheels up on the landscaped island in the middle of the parking lot. At least it won’t roll away that way, but it prevents one who want to park in that spot from pulling all the way forward. And it’s just more work to have to run all over the parking lot collecting all the carts people left in random locations than it is to just gather them up from a few designated areas.
Leaving shopping carts at random around the parking lot is jerkish, especially when they’re blocking parking spots or could roll into another vehicle. Probably 99% of the time it’s laziness and/or entitlement (“oh, someone (a supermarket drone, presumably) will take take care of it, I have more important things to do.”).
Bitching about it when someone is still loading their car deserves an acid rejoinder, however.
Cart Narcs is one of the funniest YT channels out there. He guy hangs out in Walmart parking lots, and harasses people who don’t return their carts. This woman went batshit on him! Can’t say I blame her.
I always return my cart. When I go to Costco, my prize parking spots aren’t near the store, they’re close to the cart return so I can unload, park the cart and leave with a minimal amount of wheeling an empty cart through lot traffic. I did my retail stint but don’t think that has a ton to do with it; if anything cart collection was a chance to dick around a little and avoid dealing with customers or stocking shelves.
I don’t verbally harass anyone leaving their cart, I just silently judge them as God intended.
