what is so difficult

[MissMillie]

about putting the shopping carts into the corrals when you're done w/ them?

It makes for more parking spaces... 4 spaces in the lot today... no cars, just carts.

It reduces the chance that someone will hit a cart into someone else's car

it might even save the store some money, not having to pay people to be out in the lot rounding up carts all the time. The store would be able to pass the savings onto the consumer.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. The store uses coral in their parking lot?

It must be expensive to shop there!

[petronius]

14. At my store, the shopping carts are made of pure platinum,

and the receipts are all printed directly onto a strip of cashmere wool. I find that pop-tarts just taste better when the shopping environment is quality...

[DarkTirade]

2. What, me, soil my hands doing something that would require me to actually

give a shit about the people around me? Why would I do a thing like that? :sarcasm:

I for one ALWAYS return the cart. I don't care if I'm in the middle of a fucking hurricane or a snowstorm. It ain't that (*&%ing hard.

[lost-in-nj]

3. because god forbid

they should walk an extra 25 steps to put them away

and they won't worry about it until one is against their caddy and scratching it...

it is irritating isn't it....

they started to put the corrals in the parking lots for those lazy people...
and they STILL can't put them away



lost

[alarimer]

4. I know! I hate this. My biggest pet peeve.

Some asshole actually parked her cart in the space AS I WAS PULLING INTO IT. I honked my horn and yelled at her but she just walked away oblivious.

I like the idea of charging a small deposit for using a cart, like at the airport. You put it back, you get your money back.

[AlCzervik]

5. Miss Millie!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7478445&mesg_id=7478489

[Chan790]

6. I don't return carts.

I do it intentionally in order to create a job. Economy here sucks. I have the good sense to leave the cart against the curb and out of parking spaces though.

[qnr]

7. Yeah, I probably put away about 8 per trip, as I'm waiting for my wife.

About 3 weeks ago, on a very windy day, I saw a guy leave a cart with four cart corrals within 3 parking space of him in any direction. The lane was facing downhill and the cart was one of those plastic ones, with lots of "sail area." Naturally, the wind caught it and it slammed into someone's SUV at about 15 MPH. (I was two lanes way, with no way of stopping it)

Edit: s/about away about/away about/

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

8. What I Can Tell You, Is That A Lot Of The Time They're Full.

Not sure if that's an issue you've seen, but near me quite frequently I see people leave the carts in the spots because the corral is totally full.

[flvegan]

13. Returning the cart to the storefront a crime where you are?

Seems there are 3 choices:

1. Return to the store/storefront;

2. Return to the corral;

3. Be a fucker and leave it in a parking spot.

If one can't choose #2, it would seem they could choose #1 rather than #3.

[Gormy Cuss]

9. I'm one of the assholes who

always brings the carts back to corrals, or at least to the informal corrals at the end of the aisles for those places that can't be bothered to place the corrals at convenient intervals and can't manage to keep them cleared.

I'm so old I remember when stores actually hired people to go around the parking lots rounding up the carts on a regular interval. I also remember when grocery stores offered to bring your cart to the car or had loading at the door (the Star Markets in Cambridge were good at the latter.)

[SPKrazy]

10. Laziness

sense of entitlement

:shrug:

I dunno

you name it

prolly someone thinks it

[av8rdave]

11. This would imply someone having to take an extra 15 seconds out of their day

They might miss part of American Idol, or God forbid some of that cell phone conversation!

[flvegan]

12. Today, I watched someone put their cart BEHIND another car next to them.

Soooooo basically, what this shitbrick has said is that they needn't be bothered with burning 3 or 4 calories to put a cart in a return, but the owner of that car that NOW has to move the cart because lazyass didn't fucking feel like it is subservient enough to have to do their work.

Last week, I watched some pencilneck put his cart right in the middle of a handicapped spot. Like, could you pick a bigger douchebag move, assclown? Since I was already putting my cart back, I went ahead and grabbed his cart to move it out of the way of someone needing the spot. I made DAMN sure that Little Prince Fuckwad heard me say, "damn, but some folks are just lazy fucking assholes." I know he heard me, as he kinda paused and looked away. Maybe he thinks twice next time. Maybe not. At least he got to feel like a shit for at least a moment.

[ThomCat]

15. People are addicted to convenience

and it's very convenient for them to just leave things wherever they they are when they're done with it. :(

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. I think a lot of people figure it isn't their job.

And that's pretty sad. These are the same folks who toss trash out their car windows. :-(

[MonkeyFunk]

17. I wanna know what's so difficult about not leaving trash

in your shopping cart. 90% of the carts I get have some piece of trash in 'em - a receipt, a used coffee cup, a store flyer... There are about 4 big garbage cans near the exit. Throw your shit out!