Shopping Carts

[snico]

The last few months, I've had to push carts a lot at my store, and it has lead me to a very grim view of the general public.  So, I started thinking about the kinds of people who do various things with carts that piss me off.  I figured you lot would give me an honest answer to what you do with your cart.

I know it's completely pointless and random, but I want to know if I'm judging people too harshly, or if i'm justified in giving dirty looks to people who leave their cart way out in the back of the parking lot when it's 100 degrees outside.

Thank you!

[Ahnaom]

Back at home we had a similar mess of shopping carts lying all around until the new system was introduced. Now every cart has a small lock and is attached to the others in a row. You put in a coin and it releases the lock. When you are done shopping, you either bring it back to the designated place and get the coin back or leave it wherever and lose it.

Surprisingly enough, everyone brings them back now despite the fact that the coin is worth not more than a pack of bubble gum. Theoretically, you could find another abandoned cart and get it back by attaching yours to it but there are none left in the odd places.

A neat little mind trick that actually works.

It's not that people are horrible but they tend to choose the easy way if left unchecked.

[Anthor]

I vary between taking it back to the store if it's not far... to sticking it in the corral... to leaving it between my car and the next... depending on distance, wind speed, whether the pixies are out sprinkling their fairy dust everywhere, etc! I do always thank the person collecting the carts if I see them passing though.

[Bobby the Hatchet]

If the corral's close, I'll put it up. Otherwise, I'll kick it up onto the nearest curb so at least it doesn't roll into some old lady. I was working the night shift at Walmart a while back, so I have a very grim view of the general public, but I ended up with an even grimmer view towards retail and the majority of the day shift. I'm sure you're cool though.

Now to justify all of this, I very rarely use carts. If I can grab everything in one go, I do. The only time I might use a cart is for major grocery shopping, and then my wife usually obligates me to use the corral.

What irks me is when the carts are pushed up next to my car, or left rolling around, or slimy, or there's a dead car battery in the bottom.

[snico]

Bobby, I understand the dayshift/nightshift battle... our latest shift is 2:30 to 11pm, which is what I work, and it drives me crazy how much work we have to do, while the morning shift is so lazy and leave everything for us. 

We've also had the issue of people frequently leaving dirty diapers in carts... ew.

Ahnaom, I totally suggested that to my boss, but they just kind of laughed at me.  I work for Costco, and they kinda are set in their ways about doing things, which sucks because that would totally work!  I have people who make me check a price for 40 cents... they wont leave without their quarter back!

Anthor, I always appreciate the thank yous!

[Mortis]

Generally I leave mine at the front of the store. If I have a busy day ahead of me I'll just push between the cement things near where I've parked. Mind you I get the handicapped parking space. 

[CyAdora]

I return it to the coral. Even with my babies, I would just carry them back to the car from there. At Aldis, they have the quarter in-return cart system; I leave my quarter in the slot. Maybe I can make someone's day a bit better.

[Mortis]

I return it to the coral. Even with my babies, I would just carry them back to the car from there. At Aldis, they have the quarter in-return cart system; I leave my quarter in the slot. Maybe I can make someone's day a bit better.

(I cut the quarter things off when I go to Aldis.) 

[Blacktooth]

What is a 'corral'? Is it the little shelter thing they have in the carparks to stick your trolley back into? I didn't know they had a name.

I always put mine in the corral (if it is indeed what I think it is). This topic is one of those things that gets my wife really unreasonably cross, so it's rubbed off on me a bit. I hate it when there's a parking space taken up by discarded trolleys for example.

But putting it back into the designated area isn't enough, though - I think you definately should stack it into the back of the others. I hate it when people just roll 'em in there randomly.

[Swarm]

I push the front wheels onto the curb next to parking spaces (you are supposed to do that there).

If I am close to a spot where the shopping carts are all stacked into eachother, I'll put the shopping cart there.

[Etherdrifter]

I feel slightly bad, I think we had a race in these last night >_<

[Mortis]

I feel slightly bad, I think we had a race in these last night >_<

I do that at a local supermarket just a few blocks from my house. The whole parking lot is blacktop as opposed to cement, so it's real smooth. 

[Iceman]

I've never used a shopping cart, because I live in the Green and Pleasant land that is England, where we only have trolleys. Rule Brittania!

[snico]

Don't trolley's carry people??  Aren't they like trains or something?  And red? 

[Swarm]

Maybe trolley is another word for shopping cart.