Poll of the Day > Do you always return your cart to the cart-station thing when you're...

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Horrible people don't put the damn thing with the other carts.
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Always.
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Yup
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Yeah, I'm not human garbage. It's amazing how lazy some people can be... really, that just applies to parking lots in general.

The worst is when you see a cart in the middle of a parking space that's like right next to the cart corral

Yes
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DorkLink posted...

Yeah, I'm not human garbage. It's amazing how lazy some people can be... really, that just applies to parking lots in general.

The worst is when you see a cart in the middle of a parking space that's like right next to the cart corral

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I do if it is at least two parking spots away, any further and I'm just gonna leave it in the line in front of my vehicle
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Surprise surprise.
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They don't always make it to the corral, but I don't fucking leave them in the parking space either. And when I don't leave them in the corral, I at least put them somewhere the kart wranglers are going to have to go anyway.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Always.

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It depends on how far it is, but I also make sure it's not in the way or anything. If I'm near the spaces in the back, sometimes I'll move a couple spots from my car and put the front wheels up on the curb so it doesn't roll anywhere.
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I also make sure none of them are gonna roll back into other cars.

Unless I push it back into the store, always.
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No, because I'm a job creator. If everybody put theirs away, supermarkets would eliminate one full-time worker. Frankly, if you put your cart away, you're an evil fucking person who wants to get rid of somebody's livelihood =p

So leave your carts all over. Do it for the kids and the high school dropouts.
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Zeus posted...

No, because I'm a job creator. If everybody put theirs away, supermarkets would eliminate one full-time worker. Frankly, if you put your cart away, you're an evil fucking person who wants to get rid of a person's livelihood =p

This makes no sense though because the employee who retrieves the stray carts is the same person who moves them from the parking lot to the store

Yes
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Zeus posted...

No, because I'm a job creator. If everybody put theirs away, supermarkets would eliminate one full-time worker. Frankly, if you put your cart away, you're an evil fucking person who wants to get rid of somebody's livelihood =p

So leave your carts all over. Do it for the kids and the high school dropouts.

Don't forget about helping out the economy by infusing that extra money into it for the body shops to repair all the door dings, and likewise creating those jobs.
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You know what's funny? I bet the people that don't put their carts away are the first ones to complain when their car gets hit by one of them.
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Yup. Nothing wrong with walking a little more.
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Only if the receptacle is nearby. People get paid to put that shit away and I'm not one of them, so fuck that noise.
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I usually leave them in the front of the store where you grab them, but if I take it to the parking lot its going in the corral
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Usually, but if it's one of the shit places that only has a couple of returns I'm not walking all the way back to the store.
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If it's not nearby enough, I won't go out of my way to find one to put it there, Though, I'll at least make sure it won't be in the way of someone trying to park/drive.
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No, because not every grocery store has corrals. I don't actually believe everyone who answered yes here was honest.

I always leave the cart in a corral when there is a corral, anyway.
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Yes.

If I intend to use a cart I'll also purposefully park next to the cart bin, because that's where the carts usually aren't.

Golden Road posted...

No, because not every grocery store has corrals. I don't actually believe everyone who answered yes here was honest.

I always leave the cart in a corral when there is a corral, anyway.

Not everyone lives in the middle of nowhere
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Yes

I don't like it when carts block spaces or ram into my car and I doubt there are a lot of people who do. I will try to make it easier on myself and park near a cart-station, but if I can't I'll still make the walk.
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I always throw em in, sometimes I actually push it back so there isnt a pile of carts in there and they actually form a straight line.

Golden Road posted...

No, because not every grocery store has corrals. I don't actually believe everyone who answered yes here was honest.

I always leave the cart in a corral when there is a corral, anyway.

I don't think I've ever been to a store that didn't have one

DorkLink posted...

Golden Road posted...

No, because not every grocery store has corrals. I don't actually believe everyone who answered yes here was honest.

I always leave the cart in a corral when there is a corral, anyway.

I don't think I've ever been to a store that didn't have one

It's been a good 25 years since I was last at one that didn't.

Besides, I'm pretty sure there's an implied "If the store has a cart corral..." in there.
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Zeus posted...

No, because I'm a job creator. If everybody put theirs away, supermarkets would eliminate one full-time worker. Frankly, if you put your cart away, you're an evil fucking person who wants to get rid of somebody's livelihood =p

So leave your carts all over. Do it for the kids and the high school dropouts.

I know you're trying to be "funny" but god every part of this was wrong.
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I'm with helly. If its more than 4-5 parking spaces away i'm just leaving it.
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EvilMegas posted...

Zeus posted...

No, because I'm a job creator. If everybody put theirs away, supermarkets would eliminate one full-time worker. Frankly, if you put your cart away, you're an evil fucking person who wants to get rid of somebody's livelihood =p

So leave your carts all over. Do it for the kids and the high school dropouts.

I know you're trying to be "funny" but god every part of this was wrong.

^this lol

I hope the people who leave their carts just in the parking lot get a nice big dent from one some day.
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Always. Speaking from experience as a courtesy clerk at a grocery store, I can tell you our jobs are difficult enough without having to return customers' carts for them.
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Yes I always return the trolley (that's what they are called in the U.K).

Reason being in the U.K they have a locking mechanism on the trolleys that requires a £1 coin to unlock them and when you return the trolley to the trolley area and relock it you get your £1 back.

This: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart#Deposits
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Some stores in America have those, but not very many.
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Yeah

There was a grocery store near my apartment at college that was just perpetually littered with carts all over the parking lot. People there were scumbags.
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hoggys2much99 posted...

Reason being in the U.K they have a locking mechanism on the trolleys that requires a £1 coin to unlock them and when you return the trolley to the trolley area and relock it you get your £1 back.

That sounds pretty brilliant, although I think here in America too many people would make a big stink about it violating their "personal freedom" for it to really catch on.

DorkLink posted...

hoggys2much99 posted...

Reason being in the U.K they have a locking mechanism on the trolleys that requires a £1 coin to unlock them and when you return the trolley to the trolley area and relock it you get your £1 back.

That sounds pretty brilliant, although I think here in America too many people would make a big stink about it violating their "personal freedom" for it to really catch on.

Plus, buying a cart for £1 is a steal
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DorkLink posted...

hoggys2much99 posted...

Reason being in the U.K they have a locking mechanism on the trolleys that requires a £1 coin to unlock them and when you return the trolley to the trolley area and relock it you get your £1 back.

That sounds pretty brilliant, although I think here in America too many people would make a big stink about it violating their "personal freedom" for it to really catch on.

I've seen that in new Jersey back in the day but I'm not sure if they still do it.

dedbus posted...

DorkLink posted...

hoggys2much99 posted...

Reason being in the U.K they have a locking mechanism on the trolleys that requires a £1 coin to unlock them and when you return the trolley to the trolley area and relock it you get your £1 back.

That sounds pretty brilliant, although I think here in America too many people would make a big stink about it violating their "personal freedom" for it to really catch on.

I've seen that in new Jersey back in the day but I'm not sure if they still do it.

They do that at Aldi's, but I don't think you get the money back when you return the cart. Hence, people rarely let them lock again.
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yeah we have a similar system at Aldi here in the US. havent used a cart in aldis in a while(reusable bags to carry stuff+dont buy a full load at Aldi anyways), you DID get your quarter back. Which is why I never seem to see Aldi carts littering the lot, thrown everywhere.

it is a brilliant system.

Yes.

The people who don't are the downfall of society, because their laziness and lack of caring doesn't stop there.

There are people who get paid to collect the carts, but that isn't their only job, And sometimes people call in sick. The weather here gets to -40 and below sometimes, with upwards of three feet of snow. I've worked in a department store, and had to help those guys when they were short-staffed. It sucks, bad.

rexcrk posted...

You know what's funny? I bet the people that don't put their carts away are the first ones to complain when their car gets hit by one of them.

go ahead an hit my truck with the cart, i don't care. it's an almost 20 year old truck with rust starting to creep up from the undercarriage. i give it maybe two more years before i'm forced to actually get rid of it, even though, besides the rust bubbles on the bottom of the panels, it looks fantastic.

but it's on its last legs. it has a constant miss that just wont go the fuck away, it needs new ball joints, an alignment, tires, probably brake pads. new wiper blades, a new wiper motor, a new coil pack, ect.

it's done me good, but it's dying. and it's not worth it at this point to put any more money into it. then it'd just go into the sunken cost fallacy

so if you wanna throw your cart against it, or hit it when opening your car doors because you don't know how to pull into a spot properly and don't have enough room, go ahead
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hoggys2much99 posted...

Reason being in the U.K they have a locking mechanism on the trolleys that requires a £1 coin to unlock them and when you return the trolley to the trolley area and relock it you get your £1 back.

A buck here doesn't get you much, so a lot of people leave their carts laying around the Wal-Mart parking lot. Sometimes, if I have the time, I'll go around collecting the carts. It does add up.

helIy posted...

rexcrk posted...
go ahead an hit my truck with the cart, i don't care. it's an almost 20 year old truck

I have a 2001 Infiniti QX4 that had one previous owner. I've only owned new vehicles before this, so I don't really care what happens to this thing. It's funny when people park too close to me, like they think I'm just going to get in my passenger side and climb over, like I care if my door bangs off their entire vehicle... When I'm in my new trucks, I avoid the ratty vehicles at all costs, because I know they feel the same way.

to be fair i don't give a shit if i bang their vehicle either.

when i'm driving the car, then i give a shit, because it's a fancy car. for me, at least. an 06 mitsubishi gallant?

the fucken thing has a goddamn touch screen in it and cameras. that's fancy.
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