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cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/228035
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The solution is to be so broke you dont need a cart to finish grocery shopping.
sad hungry noises
even though you gain nothing
Faulty premise. If I return the cart, I do not need to navigate my car around the cart as I exit the parking lot. This, alone, is a reason to return the cart to the designated collection zone.
You also normalize returning the cart and impressionable people around you will see people returning carts and increase the probability that they will return carts in the future. Together, these increase the probability that on the future, the carts will be where I want them at the front of the store and not all over the parking lot.
Also I get to be smug
where’s the question? yes
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Before college I worked at a grocery store and initially I bagged groceries and gathered the carts
I always wonder if this meme is put out there by some penny pinching Kroger executive trying to justify paying off more of their bottom line workers.
My perception though is of a small grocery store with like 20 carts max and gathering up wasn’t a big deal…having seen how many the guys at Costco pull at once looks pretty rough on the other hand
no it’s because I’m sick and fucking tired of having to dodge carts all over the place because some lazy Karen thinks they’re too important to walk 50 more feet
What is it with every regional grocery store being owned by right winged pricks? Like I moved from a publix dominated area to a Kroger one and it just saddens me that there are no ethical alternatives outside of becoming a homesteader and growing my own food.
Edit; who’s out here shilling for billion dollar corpos?
“What are you gonna do, stop eating?”
They get off on it I think.
I put them back in the cart corral.
Mainly because the business has to pay someone to go get them.
They have to pay someone to get them if you don’t put it in the corral, plus it would take longer
They also don’t take up as much space in the lot and don’t get blown into random cars. It’s pretty clear-cut.
Yes, I get that. My comment was in reference to the person above me, who started they only put them away so the company has to pay someone to bring them back in. If that is really their reason, they could make the company pay more by themselves doing less.
But the company isn’t paying them only when they are collecting carts. They are there on a schedule and have to be there for that allotted time. They don’t clock in and out every time they go collect carts.
Correct, but the more time dealing with carts means less time doing other things that need to be completed, meaning they need more employees, this costing them more.
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Same reason spill shit on their floors
I don’t put the gym weights back so the employees can get a workout also. Youre welcome. /$
The trolley return is the decent human checker of the world.
I’ve always said I was going to run for president on the platform that we have executioners in parking lots who take out people who do not return their shopping cart, but are able to. I think it would solve almost everything.
But it’s kind of like “God fearing” Christians - if they only do it out of fear, not because it’s the right thing to do, does it really count?
Hey, they said sorry to their imaginary friend after fucking you over repeatedly. That’s not good enough for you?
That’s honestly fucking disgusting. Forcing the people to do free labour under the risk of death for massive corporations turning a higher profit from said free labour.
You need to rethink your moral compass.
work on your sarcasm a bit, it doesn’t quite come across well enough tbh
Worked at a grocery store growing up, I confirm this meme wholeheartedly! And now shopping at certain retail places, all able body between the ages of 17 - 30 should work on carts for an entire season so one understands the shity criterions.
Don’t forget, these things become fucking wrecking balls in windy storms. So not putting it away during a wind storm means you’re a full on pos. Ive seen it sooo many times.
You get back your 1€ though.
I think this is more of a North American-centric meme. It’s pretty rare in North America to have to put a coin in to use a cart. I think Aldi is the only one I’ve seen do it in the US. Maybe Lidl and Trader Joe’s (owned by Aldi) did it at some point but I haven’t seen it there in years. Basically they’re all German brands operating in the US. Maxi in Quebec used to do it but the past few years when we’ve visited my wife’s parents the carts have been unlocked, although they still have the locks. None of the other stores there even have the locks. Even when we visited her family in France this year, though, it seemed inconsistent. Some stores used them but others didn’t.
What I found to be the biggest difference between North America and Europe was the cart returns themselves. In North America most stores have corrals throughout the parking lot, but throughout the day employees will go collect the carts and return them to the store entrance. In France they also had the corrals but they’re never returned to the store by an employee. Customers grab a cart from the corral near their car and bring it with them to use in the store. That kind of makes more sense, in that it reduces the work an employee must do.
There’s an interesting thing I’ve noticed here in Europe:
Plenty of places, partly due to corona or whatever, you no longer need to pop a coin in. Or you simply ask for a worthless plastic token that you can use instead of a coin.
But because we’re all so used to returning the trolley to get our coin back, we’ve all been trained into returing the trolley, even if there’s no reward for doing so.
I reject the premise. One already gained something - the loan of a cart. Returning it repays the debt.
I gain the satisfaction of doing my part to keep society turning.
I gain the satisfaction of simply putting things where they belong.
There may be urgent reasons for not returning a shopping cart, but I think that at most one in a million shopping carts is actually not returned for such a reason. Usually, the reason is quite simple: poor character.
The most ethical decision is to leave your cart at the top of an incline, aimed at any pickup making more than 1 space unusable. Just behind the rear passenger bumper is also acceptable.
What about aiming it at a line of motorcycles the biker gang rode in on?
