I have just gotten home after stopping at the grocery store after work. Could I get a parking spot toward the front? NO And you say why not? Because of all the lazy, don’t wanna make an extra step if I can help it, grocery shoppers before me. They put their groceries in the car and then push the cart to the front of their car. They then proceed to get in their car and drive off, leaving the shopping cart at the perils of the incoming shoppers. Maybe the next time one of those carts gets bumped into your car and you get a dent about the size of a football you’ll think twice the next time about leaving a cart. Geesh it only takes one extra minute to put the cart in the cart chute. It ain’t like you don’t need the fresh air and exercise. And it’s certainly no fun for the guys working inside to have to gather up all those loose carts. How about a little consideration here. Ok, now I’ll go put my groceries away.
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A semi-related BIG FAT fuck you goes to these retarded rednecks in the grocery store parking lot.
My sister had her Audi all of 3 days when we were walking back to the car with groceries, and here comes Cletus and his wife in a 1957 Sanford and Son-style hunk of shit pickup truck. They pull partway into the parking spot next to her car, but there’s a shopping cart in the spot (see–it does relate to the OP) so Cletus gets out, and just shoves the cart so it goes crashing into the front quarter-panel of said Audi. Dent and big scratch. I have never attacked a senior citizen in my life (I know, I know–where’s my medal, right?) but GODDAM I almost fucking shellacked this old bastard. My Sis talked me out of it. After a series of traded expletives and him getting indignant after my sister told him “that was a trashy thing to do”, I told him which sheep orifice to make use of when he got back to his two-bit farm.
Here in Germany, you have to pay a deposit to get a shopping cart so almost everybody takes them back to the corral. It’s kind of annoying when you don’t have any change and have to go into the store, make change, and then come out again to get the cart, but otherwise the system works well.
What I really, really can’t stand are people who leave their unattened shopping carts willy nilly all over the store and then act like you’re trying to steal their as-yet-unpaid for groceries when you move it out of the way.
This isn’t really related but it still sucks. I work at a drug store, so I get pissed when lazy pukes leave there items they don’t want in the wrong place. Whenever I go to the grocery store and someone I’m with justs puts an item anywhere, I give them hell. I’m sorry this isn’t the same topic, but I feel better.
“The idea of a walk-in closet sounds frightening. If I’m ever sittin’ at home and a closet walks in, I’m gettin’ outta there.” ~George Carlin
I live in a small town with a wee grocery store. Why can’t you fucking tourists BAG your own damn groceries? You stand there yakking about your ski lodge, while the one woman at the checkout stand rings up all your stuff, runs your credit card through, gives you your receipt, then starts bagging your gourmet food FOR you! Meanwhile, we tired working peons are waiting and Waiting and WAITING for you so we can go home after a long day.
It’s so simple. You picked the groceries off the shelf, so I know you can touch them without straining yourself. Why can’t you pick them up again and put them in a bag? Huh? [/rant]
(The parking lot is dirt - or snow - so no one takes the carts outside.)
Most places I’ve shopped are not bag-your-own. Your tourists probably don’t know that this is the custom, and I bet there isn’t a sign to that effect.
If I’ve had to strap a baby into a car seat before unloading the cart, I’m not leaving that baby alone in the car while I take the cart all the way back to the corral. If there’s one nearby, fine, but otherwise, forget it. (Fortunately this is not an issue for me anymore.)
What do you need a close in spot for, anyway? The walk’ll do you good! ::ducking and running::
{{I live in a small town with a wee grocery store. Why can’t you fucking tourists BAG your own damn groceries? You stand there yakking about your ski lodge, while the one woman at the checkout stand rings up all your stuff, runs your credit card through, gives you your receipt, then starts bagging your gourmet food FOR you! Meanwhile, we tired working peons are waiting and Waiting and WAITING for you so we can go home after a long day.}}
Hey, why doesn’t the store HIRE some more people? And the checkout clerk can bag the stuff as s/he rings it up, I believe.
Unless a store specifically states that the policy is “bag your own”, I want the store to bag. Not all medical problems are visible to the naked eye, you know.
Lynn
If it’s helpful, I’ll compare everyone to Hitler so we can get this
over with as soon as possible.
Yeha, I hate this too. As far as parents not being able to return a cart, that’s bullshit. Try taking your rugmonkey with you while you return the car, genius.
Man, stupid people shouldn’t breed.
There is no excuse for not returning your cart except being a lazy sack of shit.
Don’t give me any of your (<~~that’s general “you”, so no one take it personally) “I was in hurry!” bullshit, either. Other people don’t need to pay for your lack of forethought.
As far as bagging your own stuff, if you live in wide-spot in the road town like I do, you know that we usually bag our own shit at the corner store.
But if you live in Megalopolis, like I have, then you might not know that. The thing is, if the cashier is bagging for the ignorant choad, then you should take it up w/ them. Obviously, if you don’t bag your own shit up then they do it for you, it’s a service they offer, if you don’t like it, complain. Sorry about that run on sentence, I know I suck. Sorry.
By the way, I’m usually this much of a jerk, but we are in the pit after all, and laziness is one of my pet peeves.
Noonch.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV
What I meant was: I’m not usually this much of a jerk.
This understandable, because whenever I am, I look like an idiot.
Guess I won’t be havin’ any kids if that law ever gets ratified. Sheesh.
Sorry. I should practice what I preach.
We now return you to your normally scheduled MB.
Noonch.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV
Ah, grocery stores - one of my favorite pet peeves. No doubt the people who leave their carts in the parking lot are the same ones who leave them in the middle of the store aisle to block your way. I’m just outside D.C. and all our grocery stores have these metal posts along the curb so you CAN’T take the cart to your car. You have to pull your car up to the pickup lane to load the bags, or take the bags to your car yourself, which is what I do because of the lazy assholes who sit in their cars in the pick-up lane waiting for their spouses to come out.
Melin, I can understand if you’ve got a baby with you, but most people don’t. Most of them are just inconsiderate. I see them puching that cart all over the store and then they can’t even push it back out of the way in the parking lot?
There’s one store around here (Auchans) where you do have to pay 25 cents deposit to get a cart, and the only way to get it back is to bring the cart to one of the cart corrals. It helps a little, but a lot of people try to defeat the device (it’s a plastic box that takes your quarter with a chain that plugs into the plastic boxes on other carts and makes the quarter come out) and you end up with a bunch of carts with their own chains stuck in them littering the parking lot. Talk about rude.
Speaking of bagging, though, when I worked in a grocery store we (the cashiers) had to bag the groceries ourselves. If it was really busy they made some stockers bag, but under no circumstances were we to let the customers do it. If a manager saw that he’d come over, give us a dirty look, and insist on bagging it himself. Of course, this was the same store that didn’t let girls help customers carry out groceries (that’s a man’s job) and made us stand in front of our registers when we weren’t busy, which always made the customers think our lanes were closed.
I’m considerate in the aisles, I don’t use the express lanes, I bag my own groceries, and I put the cart back in the corral.
What I can’t stand however, is the deli counter! Whether six in the morning, noon-time or midnight, I end up taking a number and waiting 10 minutes while some lady stocks up a 1/4 pound of this obscure cheese and a 1/8 pound of this obscure salad and a couple slices of this gourmet ham, etc. Then, when it’s finally my turn, I get some stupid, lazy clod who gives me slices off a week-old slab of the wrong damned meat.
I want my roast beef RARE. I want MAPLE HONEY ham. I don’t want to pay full-price for some random gray mystery meat that happened to be unwrapped in the bin.
[Pardon me while I pull this stick out of my ass.]
Melin,
about the child and carseat thing. I have a 15-month old son. When I shop, which is often since I stay home with him during morning and work the afternoon and night, I unload the groceries with him in the cart, then take him with me to take the cart back to the coral, THEN he gets put in his car seat. Not hard. If it were raining or snowing, there could be room for argument, but in general, keep 'em close.
Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
– a Celtic motto
Sorry, but I’ve got to disagree here. The comfort of the kids is more important than the groceries or the cart. Kids go into the car first, then the groceries, and the cart gets put somewhere close to the car, but out of everyone’s way. Even if the weather is nice, I don’t want the babies in the sun any more than is necessary. When I shop alone, I’m happy to return the cart to the corral.
What’s so uncomfortable for your kid to be carried in one direction and then another? He’s not doing the pushing. If you’re worried about the sun, slather some sunscreen on him - which you should be anyways. Sorry, Cher, doesn’t sound like it’s about the kid to me.
OK, I need to chime in here. Whether you have a kid or not, The carts are the property and responsibility of the store. IT is their job to make life easy for their customers, not the other way around.
They don’t bag your groceries, they don’t take your stuff out to the car. The least they can do is have one of those conveniently located cart corrals that are out in the parking lot.
I will not shop at store that do not have these. I don’t want to leave my cart in the parking lot, but I also shouldn’t have to do their work. Christ, what is the per day cost for someone to gather carts? I think they can afford it. They should be keeping their parking lot in order for the customers.
Next we will be bussing our own table at restaurants.
You are so right. I’ve seen people two cars away from one of those corrals and still leave the cart in the middle of the parking space. All they have to do is take a few steps. Or at least move the cart out of the parking space. How hard is it?