When I worked at a store we had two sizes of shipping cart and they couldn’t interlock but people would force it anyway or back them in to engage the coin latch. The cart sheds became a total mess and the store was too understaffed and the manager often ended up doing the cars, badly, in favor of pulling people off indoors cleaning or w.e. I often left the cart over a parking separator brick so it can’t roll into cars, but doesn’t add to the jumbled mess in the shed.
lol - these comments…
What the fuck rocks….
Interestingly, there was a time not too long ago where there was no such thing as returning your carts. No place to put them, and store employees fetched them. I always return my cart so it doesn’t blow away and smash into someone’s car - but I bet a lot of boomers think nothing of leaving it wherever - because that’s kind of what you did.
Instructions unclear, nailed shopping cart to the wall
I always park near the return stations and walk a little more to the store just to spare myself this ethical conundrum. Unless it’s raining, then I shift the burden to the rest of you. I’m sorry.
I’m curious? Do you also do this at Costco? The one I usually go only has two corrals and they are on the extreme sides of the parking lot, everybody leaves the carts between parking spaces. Abby other store I definitely put the cart in it’s place
fuck cars
I don’t mind if they just leave it in the parking lot, there are employees who will come around and gather them up.
The problem is when I find a Walmart card in the middle of nowhere
Yeah, but when you leave it in the middle of the parking lot you’re senselessly adding more work for the poor employee who probably is paid minimum wage to bring the carts back into the building…
I’ve read comments saying people didn’t mind wandering the parking lot for carts cause it lets them walk and get some air outside the shop
The wind could also blow it into someone’s car, though
They also employees who will clean up feces that are in the aisle but that doesn’t mean you should take a shit on the floor in the produce section.
Leaving carts in the spaces blocks access to spaces, leaves carts that can be blown into parked spaces, and causes extra work for employees. Just walk your cart back. Spoiler: if you don’t want to walk far, just park next to the cart return. It’s not that hard.
Poetry
It’s called the “cart corral”. I just love that.
The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.
A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it. The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
You’re missing the crucial part where the store is for profit. There’s no reason to provide free labor to corporations.
Not returning your cart should be the one and only criteria for the naughty list.
