I got curious about how people justify leaving shopping carts in the parking lot. The reasoning I found with the Googles is that it supposedly saves people’s jobs, an anger towards stores making the customers do everything themselves, and people with children that they couldn’t leave in the car while they returned the cart.
Ok I admit I have left carts out
BUT I NEVER do it on bad weather days or extremely hot or cold days. That is just mean.
And I don't do it to small businesses only to large ones like Walmart Target and Grocery stores. And only to large grocery stores not to family owned ones.
The small palces don't pay people to get carts so I put them up. But big companies do pay people to just get carts so unless it is to hot to cold or bad weather or the cart return is less than 4 cars away I just leave the cart where it won't block someone from parking or damage someones car.
I can’t say I respect that about you. You are still making it harder on those that are paid to retrieve them. It’s like the people who decide they don’t want something in their cart so they put it back on a random shelf instead of where they found it.
Self-reflection doesn’t give me a solid answer as to why these behaviors bother me exactly. I just have an urge to do my part to maintain order in the world.
I will usually leave them only if we are in an area with no nearby cart corals, so other customers who park in the boonies will have it, but like you said, never in inclement weather.
@scatmandingo I never leave stuff I don't want to on a random spot. I put it back myself or if I am in the check out I hand it to the cashier. As a person who comes from a long line of people working behind a counter I know that it is a REAL PAIN IN THE ASS to find something someone just dropped off in some random spot ESPECIALLY when it is cold food.
I once even yelled at a person because they had a bag of frozen berries and put it down on the chip section and was going to leave them.
I said excuse me but if you don't want to the berries please at the LEAST place them back in a equally cold section or where you got them or hand them to the cashier that way the doesn't havve to could it as a loss or some random person doesn't get refrozen defrosted fruit that will make them sick.
The woman just grabbed them off the shelf all angry like said whatever and walked off I followed her like I was just shopping till I see her place them back where they are from.
But they are two entirely separate actions. 1 there are people specifically assigned to retrieve carts from the parking lot, its the entire point of their job and is even their title "cart attendant". The other is leaving items, often perishable, scattered around the store when there isn't someone specifically designated to retrieve those items, potentially leading to them melting/spoiling/damaging nearby products, leading to product loss. That's like saying someone is crappy because they go through a cashier rather than self check out.
As someone who was a cashier and only got to get carts on occasion, I relished when someone pushed a cart far away because it gave me a reason to take a walk and quit standing on my feet serving rude people. I still don't push my carts in because I hope there is a teenager somewhere getting a much needed break.
I, too, used to love bringing the carts back.
People suck. Oddly enough, those coworkers at the grocery store were worse than some of the customers could be.
The only time I left my cart was when I go do the grocery shopping by bicycle. I'll load my bike (bike bags and back wheel rack) and than I have to leave the cart since I can't push both at once and can't leave my paid groceries unattended. I feel bad everytime, but at least the bike rack is by the entrance so it's easy for someone to collect the cart.
One of the mass grocers near us just redid their parking lot but failed to put a cart corral anywhere near the handicap area. The closest one is two rows over. Even walking back to the store is a fair distance and for those of us with back issues that rely on a cart to lean on for support, it doesn’t work well. Most of us now leave it in the space between the handicap lanes and have not seen anyone have a different solution offered yet other than “just walk it back to the store”....... not helpful.
BUT I NEVER do it on bad weather days or extremely hot or cold days. That is just mean.
And I don't do it to small businesses only to large ones like Walmart Target and Grocery stores. And only to large grocery stores not to family owned ones.
The small palces don't pay people to get carts so I put them up. But big companies do pay people to just get carts so unless it is to hot to cold or bad weather or the cart return is less than 4 cars away I just leave the cart where it won't block someone from parking or damage someones car.
Self-reflection doesn’t give me a solid answer as to why these behaviors bother me exactly. I just have an urge to do my part to maintain order in the world.
I once even yelled at a person because they had a bag of frozen berries and put it down on the chip section and was going to leave them.
I said excuse me but if you don't want to the berries please at the LEAST place them back in a equally cold section or where you got them or hand them to the cashier that way the doesn't havve to could it as a loss or some random person doesn't get refrozen defrosted fruit that will make them sick.
The woman just grabbed them off the shelf all angry like said whatever and walked off I followed her like I was just shopping till I see her place them back where they are from.
People suck. Oddly enough, those coworkers at the grocery store were worse than some of the customers could be.