If they have a corral, I take from the corral and put back in the corral. If there's a random cart between my car and the building, I grab that and return it to the corral.
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The brief time I worked in a grocery store I liked when people didn't return their carts, so I could go outside and fuck around
I usually walk it back to the cart manufacturer, recycling is good
Why have a corral if that’s not good enough? Of course the corral is fine, provided you actually put it in and not just in the general vicinity.
So I've live a few places around the US (all east of the Missisip. So it's not like a good survey), but the place that is worst for this has been southern Louisiana (north shore). Everywhere kinda sucks, but it's anarchy there.
I work retail, I occasionally have to push carts. The corral is good enough. Also frankly, even leaving the cart loose in the parking lot is better imo than the people who leave their carts inside the store right in front of the racks of carts, but don't actually rack it up(or even face it the right way to be racked up). As soon as even one person does it, everyone does it, and I have to waste fuck loads of time just clearing the entrances of loose carts.
Loose in the parking lot is bad to me because one good gust of wind can make the cart roll into a vehicle.
Eh, I don't get paid enough to care about peoples cars, I just want them in the corrals so it's easier to deal with them. I'll of course stop a cart from hitting a car if it was my fault it was about to happen, but if the wind pushes a loose cart that's between the car owners and god at that point. I drive a shitbox so I personally could not care less if a cart dings it.
It's not your fault it's the customers who don't put their carts back combined with those of us who care about our cars.
The issue, besides making minimum wage workers lives hell, is that the carts offten end up in the street, and can become a hazard or hit people's cars. If it doesn't have a corral, then take it to the store. Otherwise take it to the corral.
European here. I absolutely do NOT understand what everyone here is discussing. When I take the cart at mall, I just simply return it. What's the biggie? Since I take it from the place closest to my car, I usually return it to the same one where I picked it up. To be honest it never ever even crossed my mind to leave it on the parking spot. Are you, the ones who do this, animals or what?
i wonder what the association is between the size of a parking lot and the frequency of its stores buggies not being returned by shoppers. from the pictures of beautiful european cities and towns i’ve seen, walkability seems to be an important development concern. i’m sure not everywhere, but by contrast, many shopping areas in the us are concrete wastelands with stores wrapping around massive, massive parking lots. perhaps parking 1/4 mile away from the store you just left makes it easier for people to excuse themselves from doing the right thing. i guess we don’t have a great track record with doing the right thing in any context though.
walkability seems to be an important development concern
While true for more modern development, many beautiful, walkable European cities were simply built before cars were around, so it's not like they made an extra effort to make them walkable, that's just how things were done
thanks for the insight, which makes sense. stupid cars.
I mean cars do a lot of good, but yeah. The thing that messed up the US was a policy introduced in some places making a ridiculously high minimum number of parking spaces required for any business. And now, it's pretty tough to overcome the way that made cities take shape, since now you kind of need to take a car to get places reasonably, meaning places need parking spots to make their customers feel like they can get in... It's a viscous cycle
100%. it seems to me that the broad scaling of community played a critical factor, being born out of the privilege of personal vehicle transportation. now we live in one place, work in another, play in another, eat in another, etc. in some cases sure, maybe that could theoretically give you 3+ different circles of orbit and thus 3 different communities of fellowship and support. from experience though it looks more like an incongruent/lacking distribution of the kind of important ties between others that would otherwise develop organically within in a given community. ultimately it seems to reinforce our isolation and undermines a sense of belonging.
It is uncommon for US grocery stores and supermarkets to leave carts scattered around the parking lot in corrals on purpose. Typically there's an employee who frequently retrieves all the carts and puts them in a huge covered stall just by the building entrance, so the corrals are often empty. Hell, some stores don't have corrals at all.
It's a very visible thing when people do it. It's not common where I'm from, but if 1,000 other people go to a store, then just one person leaving a cart in an awkward place pisses off 999 others.
It doesn't take much to make it seem like a lot of people are being inconsiderate, when it's much more likely that a small minority of people have a very wide reaching emotional impact.
Same, same. Maybe one day I'll travel there and see for myself. Where I live people just walk 10-20m, get a cart, go shopping, put the groceries in the car, walk the 20m again to return it and drive home. No being a prick being involved at the supermarket. However, I've observed that some people don't return their carts at the IKEA.
you can't truly be a good person unless you establish was a bad person is first. Thats why I always murder someone on the way to the corral.
If it's a mediocre corral you can call it a shooting at the ok corral
Stabbing at the Shitty Corral
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