Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:25     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote:What a jerk!

My xH was like this. Said if the employees didn't like rounding carts up, they could go to school and get a real job like he did.

One time a guy at Harris Teeter finished unloading and pushed his cart in front of my car. I pushed it right back in front of his, and because his trucks was so massive, he didn't see it and hit it. Hope he learned his lesson that day.


Deeply satisfying!
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:21     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote: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.


That is awesome. That’s the kind of old lady I’m going to be. Go, Granny!
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:18     Subject: Re:Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote: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.


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'.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:17     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
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!
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:14     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:10     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery 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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:04     Subject: Re:Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 16:01     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone put the cart back? I would think it news-worthy to see someone put their cart back.


48 year old male with three kids here. I haven't once in my life not put the cart back.


And you’re a master of strangled syntax. Do you write for the government?
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 15:26     Subject: Re:Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 15:23     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Collecting carts in the parking lot is a solid grocery union job and I'm not going to take away someone's bargaining unit work.


Yeah but they are supposed to collect them from either the corrals or directly from people. Not stray carts from parking spaces. That's just crappy.

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!
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 14:37     Subject: Re:Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 14:29     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I mean, doesn’t this speak volumes about a person’s character? We hardly ever go together and I was dumbfounded to see him stick the cart to the side. Should I divorce?


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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 14:26     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote:I mean, doesn’t this speak volumes about a person’s character? We hardly ever go together and I was dumbfounded to see him stick the cart to the side. Should I divorce?


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?)

Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 14:26     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
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.
Anonymous
Post 04/08/2021 14:21     Subject: Just found out DH is the kind of person who doesn’t put the grocery cart back
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Collecting carts in the parking lot is a solid grocery union job and I'm not going to take away someone's bargaining unit work.


Yeah but they are supposed to collect them from either the corrals or directly from people. Not stray carts from parking spaces. That's just crappy.


You see crappy. I see extra hours of an hourly job.


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.