Do You Return Your Shopping Cart?

[MattRVA]

Yes

 

[Sam Gamgee]

I have issues walking so it stays where I leave it. It causes me pain to walk on my ankle (bad break, decent surgeon, could only work with what he had). I'd rather deal with the looks than the constant daily pain being exacerbated.

I don't think being handicapped is the same thing as being lazy. I'd give you a pass on this.

 

[Snook]

I always park next to a cart corral so there's no excuse not to. In the instances where I can't find such a spot, I'll go as far as walking the sucker all the way back into the store.

 

[El Capitán]

I don't think being handicapped is the same thing as being lazy. I'd give you a pass on this.

My hobble usually gives me away. I even have a handicap plate and I've still been given the "you can walk, put it up" diatribe.

 

[blackpowderpiper]

I think they are likely the same people. Example: yesterday I was outside in my front yard and this fellow drives by (way too fast, I mean, why should he have to drive responsibly in our neighborhood?) and tosses a water bottle out his car window. A neighbor's trash can was sitting by the curb and this person was trying to land a shot. He missed, so that meant someone else got to clean up after him. I'd be willing to bet he's the same kind of person that doesn't return his shopping cart.

That guy most certainly would not return a shopping cart.

 

[blackpowderpiper]

My hobble usually gives me away. I even have a handicap plate and I've still been given the "you can walk, put it up" diatribe.

I too would give you a pass. I've been there (eight orthopedic surgeries) and done that.

 

[Egg Shen]

I have issues walking so it stays where I leave it. It causes me pain to walk on my ankle (bad break, decent surgeon, could only work with what he had). I'd rather deal with the looks than the constant daily pain being exacerbated.

You’re an obvious exception and not A dbag. I can even understand not returning it in a heavy downpour. Everyone else: D’bags

 

[scloyd]

@BigBadMastodon
You get a pass. After my knee replacement last year, I ordered my groceries to pick up so I didn't have to get out of my truck.

 

[mso489]

At the grocery, I will return the cart to the bay provided in the parking lot which is regularly monitored by store staff who return the carts to the store.

At my local drugstore chain, where carts are left on the sidewalk outside, I usually roll it back inside the story. The selfless reason for this is that I spare the check-out person from having to hustle carts at the end of his/her shift. The enlightened self-interest is that carts get stolen and raise the costs to the store and its customers.

Rarely, if i am under pressure for time, I will leave the cart on the sidewalk or wheel it back near the door.

 

[sablebrush52]

Yep. I return it every time. I also check my position when I park in a space to make sure that I'm centered in it so people on either side of me can get in or out of their cars. Surprising how many people don't give a shit.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Always except in a blizzard or if on rare occasion I just don't give a rat's ass. Once, twice a year or so.

I like finding a cart at another store or parking lot and righteously wheeling it over to the correct rack. What a dichotomy!

 

[Zack Miller]

My wife worked for an international supermarket chain. She even returns rogue carts.

 

[AcesAndEights]

Not only do I ALWAYS return my cart to the corral, but if I’ve got the toddler with me and he insists on a race car cart, I’ll actually walk that back into the store cuz it doesn’t stack nice with the normal carts. And MAN it feels good to be better than everyone. .

 

[UB 40]

In Brazil I return the trolley to the proper spot (no money involved...).
In Australia I did the same (but got my $1 or 2$ coin back).
In London I usually let one of the homeless people take the trolley back so they could collect the £1. Actually, Sainsbury's in Whitechapel took out an injunction against these people who were always polite and didn't complain if the trolley user said no when asked if they could take the trolley back; they got a lot of bad publicity locally and relented

There are some countries where the shopping cart return man service, payed by the Center, is regarded as a real job for unskilled workers, that provides some small income for the family at least.

 

[simong]

A cart? That's a single axled contraption made out of wood, not to be confused with a barrow, which whilst similar to a cart is normally pulled along by hand, not by a horse, which is the favoured method if you own a cart. What you're referring to is a shopping 'trolley'. Stroll on, don't you yanks know nothing?
Round my way, the most popular way of return or disposal is via the local river or canal.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Most places where I live use the coin hostage locks.

I've seen some "prank" videos where people get a hundred dollars and go and unlock every cart, but you can be fairly certain that wouldn't last long.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

A cart? That's a single axled contraption made out of wood, not to be confused with a barrow, which whilst similar to a cart is normally pulled along by hand, not by a horse, which is the favoured method if you own a cart. What you're referring to is a shopping 'trolley'. Stroll on, don't you yanks know nothing?
Round my way, the most popular way of return or disposal is via the local river or canal.

Down here in the South, the true South, we call them "buggies." The word "Cart," is abrasive sounding, and hard on the ears. "May I return your buggie for you ma'am?"
"Go get me one of them buggies, Junior."
"Don't put that in my buggie."

And, what Northerners call golf carts... KARTz... we also call buggies. "Gandpaw got em one of them buggies to tool around the lake in."

Kartz... sounds like a cat hockin' a hairball, or maybe of German origins.

Whether you are virtuous by putting the Kartz up for people or not, are you being abrasive and harsh on everyone's ears?

 

[JOHN72]

I love it when a beautiful woman asks me for my shopping cart, and I tell her, keep the change, and if you regret it, here's my phone number. Damn it. I bet 20 pounds of tobacco, that the Mariana Trench, is full of shopping carts, bras, and some dentures.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I love it when a beautiful woman asks me for my shopping cart, and I tell her, keep the change, and if you regret it, here's my phone number. Damn it. I bet 20 pounds of tobacco, that the Mariana Trench, is full of shopping carts, bras, and some dentures. View attachment 245456

The Mariana Trench is where I put all of my empty tins... like a cauliflower.

 

[JOHN72]

The Mariana Trench is where I put all of my empty tins... like a cauliflower.

Damn you Cosmic. I'd love to kick your cute ass, like a fresh cauliflower. I think I'll send you to purgatory.