I mean, you can see whatever you want, but it's not like people who are cart collectors are working overtime because some people didn't return their carts. They are working their shift and then the next person is getting paid a low wage to collect carts when their shift starts. The real crappy thing about not returning your cart is that it takes up a parking space, rolls into a car, or makes a sidewalk or walkway inaccessible. All of which are rude and unnecessary. But people see what they want to see, I guess. |
|
ITT: People who destroy fitting rooms and leave trash on tables because "cleaning up after me is someone's job".
Great behavior to model for their kids. |
Lazy and selfish (gotta get my Starbucks and get back to work chit chat!) Leave it for the women / workers to do. (Me too important!) Careless and thoughtless (ding a car, whaaa?) |
But if their precious car was dinged by a stray cart you know they'd be in the store raising hell over it. |
|
I feel like I've said this before, but i'll say it again. I used to be a cashier at a supermarket. There was a guy whose ONLY JOB at the supermarket was to walk around the parking lot collecting shopping carts and lining them up near the front door. If everyone put their carts back at the front, he'd be out of a job. There was another guy whose ONLY TWO JOBS were to put away "throwbacks" (when people are checking out and decide they don't want that box of tampons or crackers or that yogurt after all) and to "level" shelves which means to go left to right, top to bottom, making all the items on the shelves look neat and orderly. If everyone put back food from Aisle 2 that they decided in Aisle 9 that they suddenly decided they didn't want and then put it back very neatly that guy would be out of a job.
So I think as long as you don't put your shopping cart in a handicapped parking spot, it's totally fine to leave it in the parking lot. |
Honestly who cares? The store will pick them up. Honestly is there no mundane topic that some on here won’t hysterically fret over? Are they that bored? They’re carts! |
|
Hi! My name is John and I sometimes don't put the cart back.
To be fair, I only do this when there are already at least two carts sitting in a space, then I'll push the carts all together to make them easier to collect. |
And you’re a master of strangled syntax. Do you write for the government? |
|
You are just finding this out now??!! Wtf?
I took note of how my boyfriends treated waiters/waitresses, cashiers, and their manners (giving up seat for elderly, holding doors for people, offering to carry heavy things, etc.). My husband had wonderful manners and we often went to Whole Foods together to shop for dinner when dating so I definitely saw him put the cart back. |
| LOL - I just watched a guy get SHAMED in the Giant parking lot for ditching his cart by some old lady last week. Maybe it was your DH! And he left trash (Starbucks cup of course) in his cart - another crappy thing to do. She let him have it and made him go get the cart and put it away. |
I hate that. Trash in the cart is the worst. Who wants to touch your used anything? yuck. |
| I know this is kind of a joke post, but I would also be pissed if my husband just decided to leave his cart in the parking lot. Rude! |
Use your imagination -- obviously that cart is gonna roll into another car long before the lazy-ass whose job it is to collect carts actually collects the carts. It has literally never dawned on me to NOT put my cart back. Absolutely triflin'. |
That is awesome. That’s the kind of old lady I’m going to be. Go, Granny! |
Deeply satisfying! |