I can't imagine not returning my cart - it's just common courtesy! When my kids were little I would buckle them into their car seats, unload my cart, then return it all while leaving the minivan door open since it gets so motherfucking hot here. Now they're old enough to return the cart for me. #winning
I like the stores where the wheels lock a certain distance from the front door and you can't take the cart into the lot, you have to leave and drive up to load up. I think Whole Foods does this. Amazon is prolly going to eff this up.
I ran into something similar while on vacation last summer. Parked in the way back part of the lot and when I went to unload into the car I was a bit too close to the sensor and the cart wheel locked. I had to go find someone to unlock it and meanwhile the whole thing created an obstacle in an already small parking lot. Great in theory but the sensors were placed poorly at that particular store.
Full circle. A cart crashed into the front of my car yesterday while I was shopping at Target. I came out, and it was like it was staring at me defiantly. I bet it was one of those "secured not in a cart corral" ones.
Return your damn carts. You're an asshole if you don't. That's not even debatable.
I like the stores where the wheels lock a certain distance from the front door and you can't take the cart into the lot, you have to leave and drive up to load up. I think Whole Foods does this. Amazon is prolly going to eff this up.
I hate those! The first time I encountered one, the store was in a large shopping center and the wheels locked when the cart left the parking area directly in front of the store. I had unknowingly parked two rows past the cart area and so as I was going to my car the stupid thing locked. I ended up tilting the cart on two wheels and rolling it the rest of the way to my car. Then I tilted is again and returned it to the front of the store. It was such a pain.
I was at Aldi yesterday and there was a cart way in the far corner of the lot, rammed into one of the concrete islands. My first thought was this post and my second thought was "who didn't want their quarter back?!?"
This post started out with "if you're able-bodied, return your cart!" and then mr+ms shows up telling us about her not-able-bodied H and she gets jumped on? Not cool.
This post started out with "if you're able-bodied, return your cart!" and then mr+ms shows up telling us about her not-able-bodied H and she gets jumped on? Not cool.
She has stated "we" and "family" so she's presumably there. IIRC she also stated she'll purposefully leave a cart in the access area. Others have stated that's the opposite of helpful. I don't think that's jumping on someone with mobility issues.
This post started out with "if you're able-bodied, return your cart!" and then mr+ms shows up telling us about her not-able-bodied H and she gets jumped on? Not cool.
Its been made clear that no one has a problem with her H not returning it. The issue is when she, an able-bodied person, leaves it there on purpose.
In my country, you put in a euro coin to get the cart, so you take it back to get your money back. Sometimes there are scouts or other youngsters asking if they can take the cart back for you so they get the coin. That's ok for me. But even at Ikea, where there's no coin, I put it back. It's being an adult, no?
I must live in the magical land of cart returners. I've never noticed this to be an issue, and I looked when I went to the grocery store today- not a single stray cart.
This post started out with "if you're able-bodied, return your cart!" and then mr+ms shows up telling us about her not-able-bodied H and she gets jumped on? Not cool.
She wasn't describing what her husband did she described what SHE, a presumably able-bodied person, did while with her husband. No one is saying her husband should struggle to return a cart. But there is no reason her able-bodied self couldn't push the cart to the corral or back to the store.
Even if mr+ms is able-bodied, she described the perspective of her disabled spouse who appreciates carts left in a certain spot. I think the judgment in her case is dismissive of a perspective most of us don't share. But as I said upthread, I don't have a strong opinion on cart-returners.
She wasn't describing what her husband did she described what SHE, a presumably able-bodied person, did while with her husband. No one is saying her husband should struggle to return a cart. But there is no reason her able-bodied self couldn't push the cart to the corral or back to the store.
Even if mr+ms is able-bodied, she described the perspective of her disabled spouse who appreciates carts left in a certain spot. I think the judgment in her case is dismissive of a perspective most of us don't share. But as I said upthread, I don't have a strong opinion on cart-returners.
In at least some of those instances, people were pointing out the fact that mr+ms' perspective that it's helpful *for her DH* for people to leave carts near handicapped spaces, isn't necessarily the experience of others who are using those spaces on a temporary or regular basis.
Disabled people (and their caretakers) aren't a monolith and what may be helpful for one disabled person may be detrimental for another. It's not dismissive to point that out.
Yall. I am on my sofa. And you KNOW I like to dig in on stupid stuff. I already did it over there in the Amazon thread. Now you are poking me in the back over here with these carts. I just want to drool over Paul Holllywood and drizzled sponge. Let me be now.
Gawd, he's so scrumptious. I have one season of the show left on Netflix, then I'm going to start this year's on PBS.
Gawd, he's so scrumptious. I have one season of the show left on Netflix, then I'm going to start this year's on PBS.
Ooo so I googled and apparently he had an affair with the host of the American version of the show and his wife left him and it was all messy but they reunited a year later.
Gawd, he's so scrumptious. I have one season of the show left on Netflix, then I'm going to start this year's on PBS.
Ooo so I googled and apparently he had an affair with the host of the American version of the show and his wife left him and it was all messy but they reunited a year later.
I'm not surprised he's messy. I wouldn't turn down a roll in the cake crumbs with him.
Post by irishbride2 on Jun 18, 2017 17:16:06 GMT -5
I must live in a grocery store utopia. There is no where that would take two minutes to return the cart, even if I decided to walk it in the store myself.
Also, don't tell Pixy, but when it's really hot, I turn the car on to cool it down as I load the groceries (mostly for my kids sake but also for me and the groceries).
I will say people have zero excuse at Publix. If you really don't like returning carts, they always offer to help you out to your car for free (no tips allowed) anyway. So if you know you aren't a returner, then take the, up on the offer of help.
I don't return carts to the store and normally return them to the cart corral (if it's close).
When it's 100* and my groceries are in my 140*+ car I am not taking an extra 2 minutes to return it.
Sorry, not sorry.
So instead, some poor guy making maybe $10/hour has to schlep all over the parking lot to collect those carts in 100-degree weather. Nice.
When I worked at Costco, they had one of those giant orange coolers like you see on the sidelines of NFL games so the cart guys always had water. And they were strictly monitored to make sure nobody was doing it for more than 30 minutes.
ETA: and that was necessary just for the carts returned to the corrals. These guys had to hoof it all over the parking lot, and it was seriously unpleasant. Everyone taking an extra minute to return their carts would have saved them lots of time in the heat and the sun.
I don't return carts to the store and normally return them to the cart corral (if it's close).
When it's 100* and my groceries are in my 140*+ car I am not taking an extra 2 minutes to return it.
Sorry, not sorry.
This is really funny, because the extra 2 minutes is painted as a MAJOR INCONVENIENCE.
I live in inland SoCal. It's 100+ degrees this weekend and nearly every day through September. I return my damn cart, and nary a gallon of ice cream has been ruined because of an extra 2 minutes.
I don't return carts to the store and normally return them to the cart corral (if it's close).
When it's 100* and my groceries are in my 140*+ car I am not taking an extra 2 minutes to return it.
Sorry, not sorry.
this is hilarious. What a ridiculous justification. I just imagine you speeding home, glancing franticallly at the clock on the way home. Do you peel out of the parking lot and take the turn out on two wheels? Lol.
I hope you hit major traffic on your next grocery run and your ice cream melts.
I don't return carts to the store and normally return them to the cart corral (if it's close).
When it's 100* and my groceries are in my 140*+ car I am not taking an extra 2 minutes to return it.
Sorry, not sorry.
So instead, some poor guy making maybe $10/hour has to schlep all over the parking lot to collect those carts in 100-degree weather. Nice.
When I worked at Costco, they had one of those giant orange coolers like you see on the sidelines of NFL games so the cart guys always had water. And they were strictly monitored to make sure nobody was doing it for more than 30 minutes.
ETA: and that was necessary just for the carts returned to the corrals. These guys had to hoof it all over the parking lot, and it was seriously unpleasant. Everyone taking an extra minute to return their carts would have saved them lots of time in the heat and the sun.
Yep...they are wearing a nice big hat, have sunscreen on and have water and Gatorade...and don't have groceries dying in the car.
And I was that "poor guy/girl" in high school....
Yes it takes 2 minutes...maybe I just always have to park far away because it's busy?!
Like I said I put the cart in the corral 99.9% of the time unless it's super far away so not worried about door dings.
So instead, some poor guy making maybe $10/hour has to schlep all over the parking lot to collect those carts in 100-degree weather. Nice.
When I worked at Costco, they had one of those giant orange coolers like you see on the sidelines of NFL games so the cart guys always had water. And they were strictly monitored to make sure nobody was doing it for more than 30 minutes.
ETA: and that was necessary just for the carts returned to the corrals. These guys had to hoof it all over the parking lot, and it was seriously unpleasant. Everyone taking an extra minute to return their carts would have saved them lots of time in the heat and the sun.
Yep...they are wearing a nice big hat, have sunscreen on and have water and Gatorade...and don't have groceries dying in the car.
And I was that "poor guy/girl" in high school..
Oh, you're going to get sunburned in 2 minutes? Sorry, not even this palest person on earth has achieved this.
Really, you are making their lives way harder to avoid a tiny inconvenience. And your cart might ding someone else's car in the meantime. It's selfish and rude. Full stop.
I grew up in Texas and drove a falling apart car with busted air conditioning. I still returned my cart to the corral because we're trying to live in a goddamned society here.