Do you walk the shopping cart back to the cart pen or do you leave it near where you were parked?

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Do you walk shopping cart back to cart pen?

  • Yes

  • No

  • Sometimes

  • Yes if it's in the same aisle

  • If nobody is watching, no. /shiftyeyes


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Ichinisan

Lifer
Oct 9, 2002
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I typically grab a loose cart on my way into the store and leave it at the entrance with the other carts (I almost never buy enough stuff to use one while I shop).

I recall once when I saw a lone car far away from the building in a large parking lot. I was sitting in my car when a cart rolled past me, heading straight for the parked car and accelerating downhill the whole way. I rolled my window down and raced toward the cart to catch it *just* in time.

Assholes need to put the carts away.
 
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Ichinisan

Lifer
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I usually do unless I bought something really expensive that is visible from outside then I don't chance leaving the car in case it gets broken into while I put the cart back. My city has gotten super bad for theft in the past few years.
It sounds ridiculous that you'd be concerned about a break-in happening during the brief moment while you put the cart in the corral.
 

IronWing

No Lifer
Jul 20, 2001
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It depends. If the store provides reasonably placed corrals then I return the cart. If the store doesn’t then into the gravel/grass it goes. Yes Kroger, I’m looking at you.
 

Ichinisan

Lifer
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In southeastern USA, I've never seen a place that charges for shopping carts. I sometimes go to Kroger a few times per day for various errands.
 
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KentState

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Oct 19, 2001
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I've yet to be in a situation where I couldn't return the cart to at least the pen if not to the front of the store. I'm also the one to park at the furthest back corner to avoid door dings and give more room for the loading the car.
 

Red Squirrel

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It sounds ridiculous that you'd be concerned about a break-in happening during the brief moment while you put the cart in the corral.

You'd be surprised, theft is out of control in my city. People get stuff stolen right out of their trucks while they're loading it. Ex: building materials being loaded in their back yard. One guy got siding stolen that way. They steal just for sake of it, lot of it is stuff that has no real value on it's own. Got my starter motor stolen a few weeks ago. That's something they did at night though, doubt they'd do it in broad daylight.

Need to get out of this shithole and go further north or at least in a smaller town. Been looking at off grid property. Just need to figure out how I'd make money first but costs of living would be much lower so kill two birds with one stone if I get out of here. Used to like it here because it's where I grew up but it changed a lot for the worse in the past few years.
 

Ken g6

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Yes. Except for that one time I forgot about it completely and backed into it. :eek: Fortunately somebody caught it before it hit another car. :oops:
 

Avalon

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Jul 16, 2001
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No, but I move the cart in front of/behind other people's vehicles. /s
 

snoopy7548

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Jan 1, 2005
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I always return the cart to the corral. My first job was pushing carts for a grocery store and it sucked ass, especially when I had to walk all over the lot to get stray carts, though what really pissed me off was when I was pushing 20 carts and some jerkoff would be like, "Hey, want another?" and add their cart to my stack like they were some freaking wise-ass. No thank you, dickhole, take your cart and shove it up your ass why don't you.
 

Spacehead

Lifer
Jun 2, 2002
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Where's my self driving cart? Let's get the human element out of this!


Need to get out of this shithole and go further north or at least in a smaller town. Been looking at off grid property. Just need to figure out how I'd make money first but costs of living would be much lower so kill two birds with one stone if I get out of here. Used to like it here because it's where I grew up but it changed a lot for the worse in the past few years.
Drugs getting bad up there too or just bored kids? Or both?
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
Jan 12, 2005
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In southeastern USA, I've never seen a place that charges for shipping carts. I sometimes go to Kroger a few times per day for various errands.
It's not really a charge. Its a deposit that you get back.
Theres a little box on the handle with a chain that locks the trolley to the one in front when they are stacked, to unlock it you put a coin in the slot in the box, when you return it you get the coin back.
 

BarkingGhostar

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Nov 20, 2009
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I should add that while I do walk the cart back to its pen I have seen many cases at Costco where they had been so busy by the time I got their those pens were overflowing with carts to a point there where carts not in the pen but beside it waiting to roll down the graded lot. I usually will take one of them in those cases and realize that the people collecting the carts back to the front of the building are working other tasks. Unlike places like Walmart, the folks collecting the carts to return to the front of the building are not using any power-assist equipment.
 

Aikouka

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Nov 27, 2001
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Always. I'll even look around to see if the closest cart return has any carts in it, and if it doesn't, I'll consider going to one further away. One time, I went over three aisles in the pouring rain just to put a cart away. Heck, there are times at Kroger that I even rearrange their carts because they have plastic and metal ones, which don't go together properly. I'll also pick up other carts along the way and take 3+ carts back at the same time. I've even had a lady stop her car just to thank me for doing that sort of thing. I absolutely refuse to be lazy about putting stuff back, which is the exact same as products in the store. I don't care if I decide that I don't want something and it belongs on the opposite side of the store... off I go to the opposite side of the store!

It all goes back to one of my biggest rules... you don't leave a mess for someone else to clean up. ...and maybe some of it is a little OCD.

Oh, but that reminds me of this one thing I saw that just boggled the mind. I watched a lady fill up the trunk of her SUV and just leave the cart to the left of her monstrous beast of a car. The problem? Directly to the right of her car was the cart return. She literally could've just gone the other direction and put it away properly with slight more effort in turning the cart around.
 
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Exterous

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Always. I also may or may not have made verbal comments to people who are too lazy to return carts.

However m favorite interaction was on a nice sunny day with a woman who parked two spots from a cart corral. I had already left the store and was driving down the lane to leave the lot when I saw her just leave the cart in the spot next to her. (so just a few feet from the corral) As she put her car in reverse, I parked my car behind her, got out and slooowly walked over to get the cart and slooowly walked it over to the cart corral.
 

highland145

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Oct 12, 2009
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Then she hits your car, flops out on the ground holding her neck and sues you for blocking the lane.

How's that for a bright ray of sunshine?
 
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Always. I also may or may not have made verbal comments to people who are too lazy to return carts.

However m favorite interaction was on a nice sunny day with a woman who parked two spots from a cart corral. I had already left the store and was driving down the lane to leave the lot when I saw her just leave the cart in the spot next to her. (so just a few feet from the corral) As she put her car in reverse, I parked my car behind her, got out and slooowly walked over to get the cart and slooowly walked it over to the cart corral.
Trying to get your obituary in the paper? In the US, people have been shot for less.