I am glad I live in a place where many grocery stores don’t have this problem, because they don’t have parking lots, because most of their customers don’t even have a car much less would drive it to get groceries if they did. (Yes, I do realize how fortunate I am.)
I saw someone leave their cart next to their car and get back in the car. So I grabbed it and put it in the corral a few spaces away. That person drove back through the parking lot to tell me to “mind my own business”. I still get a little schadenfreude about how upset they were over their own conscience and perceived social judgement.
“Be a better person”. Hold onto that one for the next time this happens. It never will though.
“Mind your own business” is such a perfect encapsulation of how completely incapable of self-reflection that person must be.
The cart was no longer their business, but yours. So not only couldn’t they recognise that the judgment they felt came from within, they projected that feeling outwards so hard they ended up sticking their nose into your business about it.
That’s how they avoid learning basic life lessons like, “I should return the cart,” because as soon as they hit the “I should” part they freak out and make it everyone else’s problem.
Tbh I would have put it right behind their car lol
It’s surprising to me US carts don’t have to be unlocked by a coin (which you get back when you lock your cart again), it’s like that in every supermarket I know in France and Germany and probably many other European countries.
You can misbehave but it costs you a little bit, and if you do someone has the opportunity to make a buck off you by cleaning after you.
In fairness, that’s been phased out in many places.
I suspect less out of faith in humanity and more out of the reality that many people don’t carry cash, much less change, anymore and they kept annoying the cashiers.
Yeah it’s hard to justify carrying coins around, they’re not worth much, whereas euro coins still carry some value (1€/2€).
When I arrived in NYC a few years ago, I got cash from the ATM and then tried to take a bus to our airbnb in Brooklyn, it was $2.75 per ticket, only payable in coins… like we’d have 44 quarters in our pockets :-)
I keep a few quarters in my car for ALDI specifically. If I forget: I don’t get a cart and put the groceries in my reusable bags. Or nab those giant cardboard containers ALDI employees stock with and leave around.
The busses don’t take metro card? I’ve only ever ridden the subway in NYC.
They do now, that whole OMNY system
They probably do (it was 10 years ago) but we had just arrived from the airport and had no idea how it all worked
I think it’s because Americans don’t have dollar coins.
The USA has like 26 various prints of dollar coins. Only two of witch are not a standard weight and size. Those two also being the oldest and more rare of all the versions. We could absolutely start using them as they are still minted on a regular bases. For the life of me I still don’t understand why they are so rarely used.
I had never seen that before in my entire life until an Aldi opened here.
Stores have tried it. Customers hate it. Chiefly because many people simply don’t carry any coins on them. You can’t have all of your store’s registers set to card only mode (yes this is very common for some reason) and then expect people to have a coin on them at all times, so they don’t bother.
It also seems trivially easy to circumvent. Easier than remembering to bring a quarter with you when you go to the store.
Yeah in a cashless society things like that can’t work well. In Germany cash is king, you can’t go out without. In France it is mandated that shops accept at least 2 means of payments (among cash, card, check or wire transfer), and only cash and cards have enough safety and speed that shops and restaurants want to use it.
Why not use the European system where you have to use a coin to unlock the cart from the stack. People are more likely to return the cart if it costs them money if they don’t and if they still leave the cart out some kid or hobo will return it eventually.
My local aldi does this and still when I get there I find like 3 trolleys scattered around the tiny carpark. I can only grab like two max to take with me to the pen.
Yeah. For a lot of people a quarter is nothing and worth tossing for the convenience of not being a decent person.
Fine, they can subsidize the cart retrieval employee cost.
Also I discussed this with someone in the UK once and they pay an entire pound for a cart… we do quarters because it’s the largest denomination common coin in the US.
Yeah for me the real value here is where the hell am I going to get another quarter. I use my phone to pay and don’t carry cash.
Whenever I go to Aldi (US) there’s usually at least a couple carts with quarters left in the parking lot so I just put them back. The quarters pile up in my car until I eventually bring them inside.
True. Come to think of it, at least with the coin system there is an incentive for another customer to bring the cart back.
On the flip side, where I live people sometimes bring their cart back but don’t connect it to the others, so that somebody else can use it without needing a quarter. Those people are nice. :)
Wait is that an european only thing?
Can we just use the nordic system where people are not fucking savages and bring their carts back? I hate people who don’t return their carts but I hate even more when I need coins to unlock the cart. I haven’t carried coins since 2014.
I live in a Nordic country, we have carts which need a coin, most people have a thing on their keychain to unlock a cart, majority of carts are returned.
I need to get one of those, my local (rural) grocery stores don’t have the locking shopping carts and I alway forget to bring a coin when I need to unlock one.
In fact, we are so used to taking them back that we even return shopping carts that we have unlocked without a coin.
Uh, maybe that’s an unfortunate design.
You can and will replace the coin with something worthless of equal shape and size.
As an American, coins are already basically worthless.
This was very common in Canada in the late 80s and 90s with a couple chains still doing it today.
Because then we can’t use it as an arbitrary metric for judging people’s moral righteousness.
Some might think it’s the price for a cheap shopping cart. In German there was a comedian who did a prank call at a store, telling them he bought 500 carts for 500€ and use them as rabbit cages.
German
ComedianThe math ain’t mathing here.
German humor is no laughing matter
Oh of course the Europeans have done it better than us
This is how it is at about half the big grocery stores where I live in Canada
Food Maxx in the U.S. employed this in low income areas to prevent cart thefts. So, that’s nice.
If you want to prevent theft then I feel like 50 cents deposit isn’t going to cut it
Some stores in the US do this, most notably Aldi. It’s kind of a pain in the ass, especially in an increasingly cashless society.
Names a European store.
They sell like coin shaped discs you can put on your keyring, dunno if that’s a thing in the US though.
They give those out at the shop info where I live
You can 3D print a tool that lets you unlock the cart, then pull the tool back out, so you don’t need to leave anything (coin or otherwise) in the cart to use it.
A good option if it’s available to you, as long as it’s tough enough, would suck if it broke up in there.
I mean, yeah. Aldi is European but has locations in the US. They’re the only store here that does this afaik. I’ve never seen the keyring thing but sincw no other stores need a coin I’d have to shop at Aldi a lot to justify ordering one online.
It was tongue in cheek. But it does make sense a European chain would bring that over to the US.
Yes, I know Aldi started in Europe.
My point was, they have stores in the US, and their stores in the US also do this. Which is unusual for US stores. Trader Joe’s, for example (which is also owned by one of the Aldi companies) just has regular carts without the coin chain things.
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That’s not correct, actually. There were two brothers who inherited Aldi, and they did have a falling out over cigarettes, but they actually split the company in two - Aldi Nord (North) and Aldi Sud (South). As the names imply, they operate the Aldi stores in North and South Germany respectively.
In other countries, either Aldi Nord or Aldi Sud operates the Aldi stores, but they do not directly compete with each other. The exception is the US, where Aldi Sud operates the Aldi stores and Aldi Nord operates Trader Joe’s (which the original owner of Aldi bought from Joe Coulombe in 1979).
Huh, that sounds familiar too. Looks like I screwed this up last time I researched the history of Trader Joe’s for some post like this.
Because we’re not savages, and can return the carts like a civilized society.
Well we clearly can’t. Even the existence of corrals shows it’s too much to return a cart to a store we just walked out of with said cart.
“Civilized”
So civilized in fact, there are monetized YouTube channels dedicated to catching & shaming people for not returning their carts.
So it’s kind of like the European system in a way. Instead of getting a coin for returning an abandoned shopping cart, you can get a subscriber count & ad revenue!
That cart narc guy is absolutely obnoxious. Sure I get his angle, and perhaps some people need to be shamed into doing the right thing, but I’m amazed no one has run him over yet.
He had a firearm pulled on him once actually, he walked away very quickly while continuing the bit haha
Yeah I think I saw that, a contractor in his work van in Texas I believe
So civilised.
That original 4chan post is like Jordan B Peterson level, which says more about JBP than the 4chan poster.
Maybe we should make a game show titled “Are you more intellectual than a right-wing grifter?”.
This should be a do-or-die grade in the finals, globally. And don’t let anyone know when or where they’ll be evaluated and graded, make’em think the Civics teacher/professor will stalk them around town, putting together their resupply patterns, and grading their mall etiquette. That’ll put the fear o’God in’em!
Which defeats the whole purpose of the test - it has to be done not out of fear of consequences but out of a sense of duty.
This is basically the same as people that need their religion to define their morality.
Yeah but they tend to be the worst. This is the same crowd that will be a raging cunt all week but once a week they go listen to a sermon and somehow that absolves them of being an ass the prior week.
Completely agree with you! But that may be a bit idealistic at this point, to be honest, and it pains me to accept it, too, believe me! I’m starting to think more in the lines of “doing the best with what we’ve got,” and we ain’t got much…
Edit: of course I was joking in my initial comment, just to dispel any potential uncertainty! But everything with its grain of truth and all that…
I take it one further and bring in a cart from between spaces, someone is finishing using packing away groceries, or already in the station and bring it back into the store to use. And as a single person struggling with the increasing cost of groceries, trying to keep my weekly trips under 80$. I can carry out everything I get by hand, leaving the cart in the store.
Returning the cart to the station is like bare minimum and still many people can’t even do that.
I prefer the Gom Jabbar but the Shopping Cart seems like a viable alternative.
Gom Jabbar always seemed like a pointless task. Are you “human” by being able to willingly withstand physical pain? Some people have higher pain tolerances and willpower; doesn’t make them beasts.
It was always more about the triumph of the mind over the body. When the body is screaming to run away, the mind retains control. That is what makes someone Human.
It’s an interesting definition of humanity, but certainly not a definitive one.
In the real world, sure.
In the context of Dune, it is a question of whether you can maintain your logic in the face of pain or danger, or whether you will be ruled by your instincts when push comes to shove. And that question is a vitally important one when taken in the context of choosing a new leader or ensuring that someone (in this case Paul Atriedes) is able to handle the pressures of their given task. An animal will be ruled by its instincts while a human can overcome them by force of will. If you are not a human then you are an animal. Animals can still be treated with respect, but they are unfit for leadership roles because a frightened animal driven by fight-or-flight response is unpredictable and dangerous. A cornered king can be reasoned with, but a cornered animal will gnaw its own leg off to escape a trap.
I think the idea was that you knew that it’sa test and that you’d die if you remove the hand, so it’s less willpower and more reasoning over instinct/fear, at least in theory. You have to presume the box is at least tuned to different people’s pain thresholds or whatever.
Also, the text pretty much says that Mohiam is doing it wrong more or less on purpose:
“Enough,” the old woman muttered. “Kull wahad! No woman child ever withstood that much. I must’ve wanted you to fail.”
If you give the benefit of the doubt that Herbert figured out the practicalities and wasn’t going by rule of cool (which he absolutely was) the implication is that the person administering the test has some control of the itnensity and you’re supposed to deal with some pain you’re supposed to hold, not become convinced that your hand is a charred stump like Paul is.
That, and the movie verisons amp the whole thing up a lot, so it comes across a bit differently.
I thought it was less about the charred stump and more of another activation of his powers. Turning the inner eye, conquering it, knowing it won’t come out a burning stump, because his whole arm and body would be that way if it was actually on fire.
Well, it can’t be that in the context of the story, because as it’s presented, they give this test to pretty much everybody they train, including Jessica (although Mohiam clarifies that “seldom” to men).
Don’t get me wrong Paul and all the other Dune protagonists don’t need much encouragement to go supersaiyan on your ass, and this often comes in similar circumstances, but this particular first example seems to mostly be Paul taking his finals and things getting intense because his examiner turns the dial to eleven. In the book it isn’t even that big of a deal, he just says the litany once, has the vision of his hand getting melted for like a paragraph and Moiham goes “phew, I went a bit hard on you there for a second and poofing away”.
Also, this doesn’t relate to anything else, but I went back to find the passage for this and man, both her and Paul are such little shits to each other in this bit. He calls her “old woman” and threatens to have her killed, she mocks him for being so privileged he has to know about poisons as a a teenager… They’re so sassy, and neither movie quite nails that part.
Put like this sounds pretty lame yes.
I go to Buehlers where my stuff gets conveyor belted outside and they put it in my car for me. I need not return the cart because it does not leave!
god america is weird you can’t even carry bags a few metres out the door to your car
In my case it’s a whole ass shopping cart full so
you can’t push the trolley to your car then return it it takes like 30 seconds
I’d prefer not to when it’s below freezing and snowing
*leaves car there*
I’m Geordi.
I love that they won’t trust Wesley Crusher with the task 😄
Can you put names with all these faces? I can only do three. Updated with trash@lemm.ee 's & Klear@sh.itjust.works help, we’ve got 5 of them labeled now. Plus something about broccoli according to ashestoashes@lemmy.blahaj.zone.
the 6th on the right is lt. broccoli
okay I’ll take your word for it. I have no idea what’s going on.
Top right is Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction “we made it up” guy.
Fourth on the left is Marcus from Fallout 2.
Sweet! Added it 😂
I assume this is funny answers only? Some kinda woooosh? I think a lot of Lemmy could name them all, given how popular Trek is on here.
Unfortunately I’m serious and I cannot put a name or anything else to any of those faces but of course I recognize them from the show which I’ve never really watched. Ideally the actors’ names or characters’ names. At this point it doesn’t matter, I could Google it if I really cared.
You’re allowed not to know! It’s just that since you’d got Picard I thought you’d know the rest since they’re from the same show (Star Trek: The Next Generation).
Seeing as I’ve just discovered you can use tables on Lemmy, I’ll give you a proper answer:
Actor Character Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes William Riker Brent Spiner Data Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi LeVar Burton Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn Worf Denise Crosby Tasha Yar Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher Colm Meaney Miles O’Brien Diana Muldaur Katherine Pulaski Dwight Schultz Reginald Barclay Michelle Forbes Ro Laren Majel Barrett Lwaxana Troi Brian Bonsall Alexander Rozhenko Brian Bonsall? The kid who played the youngest child Andy on Family Ties 80’s sitcom? He was on TNG? I googled him and TNG does not show up for Brian Bonsall. Is there a different Brian Bonsall in existence?
Yeah, the same kid:
That’s awesome! Thanks 😄
Ooh Lemmy tables, groovy. I’mma play with Lemmy tables sometime too.
yeah Captain Picard is ubiquitous and he’s in so many memes, and all over pop culture, as much as I live under a rock, I think someone would have to be living under a rock AND COMPLETELY DEAD not to know Captain Picard haha
Best STTNG Meme ever!!! I really enjoyed reading them all as they were so fitting to the characters. I had a few legit LOL moments here. I too am Geordi.
I believe USSBurritoTruck created this one. I was going to link the original post, but I don’t know how to make a specific post link server-agnostic.
I’m Levar Burton. This is Reading Rainbow.
I’m also the guy in column 2, number 5.
I’m disappointed Q isn’t on this.
Q: increases the gravitational constant of the cart collection area until all the carts fall into it. Keeps going until a singularity forms and the planet is destroyed.
Q: with a bright flash Captain Picard becomes Captain Picart
Oops! Disappears with a blink
Q shops with 1 cart for each item he has, and returns them all upside down.
Covered by the original’s post text: “Q intentionally leaves his cart in the blind spot behind the most expensive car in the lot.”
I disagree with returning the shopping cart being an act of free will. There is a lot of societal pressure to do it for some people, or to not do it for some other people. And there is always the risk that someone who you know will walk see you not returning, and tell all your friends about it. Or want if your boss happens to see you? What would happen then?
So yeah, better quickly return it. Better than having to deal with all these unknowns.
Why the downvotes?
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What if, hear me out, you return it where you found it? But, but, I found it in the back of the parking lot next to where I parked.
Neutral good?
I have very young children, meaning very often I can walk away from the car after getting them in their carseats and unloading the groceries or whatever and be gone for about two minutes before one or both of them start losing their minds and getting scared. If the shopping cart return spot is more than two minutes from my car (round trip), then the cart gets left exactly two minutes (round trip) closer to the return spot and in a spot that doesn’t inconvenience a) anyone parking, b) anyone leaving, and c) the employee that will eventually have to return it to the store.
Ideally, I catch someone walking inside the store on my way and ask if they’d like the cart, but not always.
That’s just how it is, I don’t feel bad about it. I don’t know if you all live somewhere where these cart return chutes are more available, but most large parking lots here are the size of like two football fields and they have three total return chutes.
What irritates me is how often the “parent parking” spots are filled with people that get into their cars with no kids. They are typically located right next to the chutes, and it is great because you don’t have to walk short children through a parking lot, you can put them in a cart, and then walk in where cars backing out can see the little kids.
I seriously rarely see people with kids using those spots. 100% some of the people in this thread are using the parent parking spots without kids, returning their shopping cart right next to where they’re parked, and then judging people for not returning their carts.
If your kids can’t be alone for 3 minutes, then take them with you.
But don’t blame your laziness on your kids.
I mean this is all in your head. Your children will be fine if you return the kart.
It’s not all in my head, insofar as it then makes the drive home miserable because they’re upset. You honestly think that your desire to whine about this ever-recurring meme complaint about shopping carts isn’t “just in you head” too?
They’re both “in our head”: I’m worried about my kids’ happiness and comfort, and you’re worried about being critical for a meme.
It’s a shopping cart. I do what I can, and when I don’t have the kids, I return the cart to the chute. I realize it’s funny to make this a big deal on the internet, but my real point was that people with small children find it harder to do, and if we all keep spaces near the chutes open for people with children, it’s much safer for children going into AND back out of the store.
And you’ll get your shopping carts returned more often, as you’d prefer.
If you genuinely believe the sanity of your children rests on the whole 20 seconds it takes to return your shopping cart, you are thoroughly delusional.
Not only that, but you should seriously rethink your parenting skills. If you are so afraid of how your children will react that you can’t even return a shopping cart, then your children have very serious self-control issues, which again stem from your own parenting
Return your shopping cart. It is not that dire, you’re just being lazy and trying to make excuses for it.
It isn’t about their “sanity,” and you’ve made quite a few assumptions here.
And you’re this mad about people not privileging your interests when it comes to checks notes shopping carts being returned? I take it you still ride inside them rather than push them? 🤣
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Edit: I was going to block, but I checked your comment history.
Hey. I love my kids. I do try to take care of them in parking lots. They run around in the woods pretty freely, they travel often, and I’m very proud to be their parent.
Everyone deserves supportive parents, and I’m sorry that your parents can’t support who you are. That isn’t fair to you. That is THEIR problem. It is THEIR flaw. You didn’t do anything wrong. I bet more people than you even realize love you for just who you are. Focus on them! Let them be your support.
I have never heard of or seen a ‘parent parking spot’. It seems kind of unfair to people who don’t have kids. I can see why people don’t really care to honor that.
They’re usually the two spots directly next to a shopping cart chute. They allow a parent to take a returned cart from the chute and immediately put their children in it so that they don’t have to walk through a parking lot where no one can see them in their rearview mirrors. Also, you may not know this, but sometimes small children just… start running when they get out of the car. If you’ve got more than one child, it can be very difficult to hold them while trying to get your other child or children out their carseat. Those things are like jet seats.
It’s much easier to plop then in a cart that makes them visible to surrounding cars and less able to run away while unloading kids. It is also better for getting them into the store. I live in America. The average distance needed to see a 2ft child through the WINDSHIELD is shocking. When multiple cars are backing up and trying to leave a parking lot, it’s not fun.
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Yes, it is “unfair” to people that don’t have kids, but, given it helps reduce the chance of small children being hurt or killed, they are generally seen as a part of good parking lot design.
If you’re less interested in the safety of children, perhaps you might also think about it from a profit perspective. Making accommodations for people who are interested in the safety of their children is more likely to attract people with children, who very often spend money in the store for not only themselves but also those children.
Additionally, it reduces the incidence of tragic accidents involving children in a commercial parking lot, and costs almost nothing, which is generally seen as a positive by most businesses.
They’re usually the two spots directly next to a shopping cart chute.
Well that works out well. Nobody else usually wants those spots, presumably because you’re more likely to get nicked by an errant cart there. Seems like a win-win.
Excellent! Though, you would be surprised how often they’re taken just because they’re the closest available spot.
And agreed, my car does get bonked by shopping carts fairly regularly when I’m in those spots.
My car has cameras that monitor the exterior when I’m parked, and the amount of times I’ve come back to watch a video of someone on their phone and just ramming the cart directly into the rear is… more common than you’d think.
But! They were returning the cart, so it is kind of a win-win, I think.
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I’m not judging you, but to offer another perspective to anyone reading this thread: I am a parent of two young children, and have never not returned a shopping cart. I take the kids with me when I return it.
As a parent, I realizes that it’s harder to do things with kids than without, but I go out of my way to not pass that burden onto others.
There are many ways our situations could be different that would make it harder for you to do this than me - your reasons are completely your business.
I hear you, but in a busy parking lot, the shopping cart elevates the height of the children, making them visible to cars.
Where I live, the grocery store and target or whatever are primarily SUVs and trucks. The blind spots on vehicles like that are huge, and my children suddenly decide something looks and interesting and will sometimes just bolt off.
They’re pretty good in parking lots, and obviously we have to and do walk through them, but, when I can, I try to limit the time my children spend on their feet in a busy parking lot.
My daughter barely comes up to the bumper of some of these trucks! But I do appreciate what you’re saying, and I tend to agree with you in most circumstances.
I don’t know why you’re catching so much flak. Parking lots are not safe places for kids, and you can’t leave them alone in the car for long either. I’ve never had an issue returning a cart, but that’s because I’ve never shopped at a place where the return corrals are that sparse. If it’s over a minute’s walk to return a cart then that’s a failure of the parking lot architects, not you. You’re doing what you can, which is good enough.
Hey, thanks for your understanding. It is much appreciated.
I do return the cart when I can!
Where I’m from, they’re also open to expecting mothers.
They are also people who shouldn’t have to walk super far, especially later on in their pregnancy. It would really suck know for people to get upset at them just because they don’t have kids with them, even though they might literally physically struggle walking. I hope that’s not the case here lol
Most of the spots where I live aren’t close to the doors. They’re not handicapped spots. They’re just located next to the shopping cart return chutes, which are usually generally found in the center of the parking lot. That CAN help someone that struggles to walk, because they can use a cart to support them as they walk from the middle of the parking lot, but it’s probably less ideal than a closer parking spot (if available).
I’m happy to hear that that wasn’t the case :)
Why is this shopping cart meme so prevalent all of a sudden? I’ve seen like five unique memes about it in the last few days, not just reposts but three completely unique memes
Why is this particular meme everywhere this week?
Why is this shopping cart meme so prevalent … I’ve seen like five unique memes … three completely unique memes … Why is this particular meme everywhere …
Yeah, kinda makes ya wonder just what “meme” means. ;-)
But this has been around for years, why this week am I seeing it all over the place NOW
And yeah a meme is a way of sharing information, has nothing to do with timeframe
Counterpoint:
The Wholefoods in Redmond, Wa is known as Hellfoods by their employees because of how cold people are there and how overbearing management can be. It also is in one of the most beautiful parts of the country. When I worked there, I love the warm summer evenings when I could go out to the outfield to fetch a cart because I got to be outside and no longer under the micromanagement that is retail.
When I would clock off, sometimes I’d nab a cart and send it out on purpose for the guy behind me to give them an escape.
I’ve been on both sides of this and it really depends on what management is expecting at the time. If “cart run” is a considered a task unto itself then it can be bliss, but if you’re short staffed then management starts to look at “cart run” as a means to an end. When the expectation becomes that you’ll be back on register in 10-15 minutes (but all the corrals out front are now full and no customers are complaining about it), then all those wayward carts mean you gotta hustle.
When I eventually found myself in a supervisory role, I remembered that and tried to equitably rotate between everybody that I knew liked doing carts (or offer when I could tell someone was getting burnt out/long day and needed to go outside for a while) and just let them do their thing. Mostly people really appreciated that and in those cases it was gratifying to be the cool supervisor, but I hated that my responsibility had become to ensure that the front carts were acceptably full at any given time rather than to gather the carts – all it takes is a random rush and suddenly there are no carts and a micromanagey shift lead is chewing you out because they only appear at moments like these (or immediately after the rush while everyone is catching their breath to ask why you can’t find something to do) and your guy outside was just standing in the back of the lot smoking a cigarette, the shift lead doesn’t care that there were carts mere minutes before they arrived on the floor, nor that the cart runner only just started that cig after gathering all the carts strewn into bushes and discarded between cars or down the sidewalk…
god I don’t miss retail lol
Did every other employee feel the same way as you? Because otherwise that’s not a counterpoint.
But you could say the same for the original premise- not every employee hates getting rogue carts, in fact many like getting them.
I gave an anecdotal point, but the broader argument simply questions one of the assumptions of OP.
Their job is already to gather carts from the corrals. Putting carts in the corrals allows employees to gather carts if they enjoy it without it being an extra inconvenience if they have a time limit. Also like 99% of employees would say they dislike people who leave carts everywhere, especially when they, you know, are a threat to cars if they roll into someone’s vehicles, hence why cart corrals are a thing in the first place. I certainly don’t want carts taking up parking spaces or rolling into my car if it gets windy.
Yeah bringing in the carts is one of the best parts of some jobs
When I was a cart pusher I could spend all day in the lot. What really sucked is when they changed from the lightweight plastic basket carts to the XL metal carts. Could push plastic basket carts all day and I would smoke cigarettes by my car in the downtime. XL metal carts ruined that job. Also never cared if they were corralled. You have to push them out the corral and with the XL metal carts they were heavy and hard to maneuver.
