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by: ForestFinds Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 7:26pm  
I am noticing that many people are not taking the time to return their shopping cart to the cart return. They leave them in the parking space. I have to move them to get in and out of the parking space I have chosen. I really wish that people could choose to be courteous and walk the distance to the cart return.   4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:05pm  
Many people likely don't have the time to do the store's job for them. We go there, buy things and hand over money.. The store, in exchange, supplies what we want, maintains the store AND the store's property, both of which are the cart and the parking lot it sits on, and they collect payment for us. We pay them to so a series of services for us. Plain and simple.
 
The store hires people to go around and collect those buggies. If the parking lot is too cluttered for you, then you are invited to discuss that with the store management. You can't seriously look to the people of a community forum to collectively do the work that should be done by the store.
 
And, if you think, for a second, that you have a right to attempt to shame or guilt me into doing (1) my full-time at work, (2) my damn-near full-time job at home with my family, (3) my job in the community AND ALSO (4) some snot nosed kid's job in the parking lot collecting buggies when I'm through shopping, then you must have..... somehow.... LOST... YOUR.... MIND!!! 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:14pm  
It isn't about whose job it is, it is about preventing damage to other people's cars and not require others to clean up your mess. The respectful thing to do is return the cart. 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:17pm  
It isn't about whose job it is, it is about preventing damage to other people's cars and not require others to clean up your mess. The respectful thing to do is return the cart.
 
@BusyMommy: Then all of the people who have all day long to shop, notice buggies and then fuss about them, are respectfully invited to grab the buggy I leave behind, because Sonny Snot Nose is too slow to clear them before they hit cars.
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dac2010 Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:20pm  
As long as I am not finding them in my neighborhood Im not going to worry yet. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:22pm  
I usually try to park next to the cart corral whenever I can (because I know it won't open it's doors onto my car causing dents and scratching paint) so returning the cart doesn't require much extra effort in my part, but even if I'm not close to one I'll still return the cart. At Aldi's you have to return the cart to get your quarter back so there are never carts in their parking lot. 4951
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BusyMommy Active Indicator LED Icon
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:22pm  
Wow. Just wow.
 
You clearly are one of those special people.
 
I make time to be courteous to other drivers. Even people like you who don't deserve it. Maybe one day your life will change and you too can be polite. Even to the snot nosed grocery workers. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:22pm  
Thank you to everyone who takes the time to be polite. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:31pm  
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:39pm  
Thank you to everyone who takes the time to be polite.
 
@BusyMommy: You do what you want with your cart and I will do the same with mine. What is NOT POLITE is to jump all over someone on a forum, telling them what to do, and attempting to collectively shame them just because your opinion is different. It's not just my cart on the lot.
 
Go be the PC police at home to your own family. It's not your place to tell me what to do, and you are the one not being polite. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:45pm  
My kids already make good choices and are often the ones who return the carts.  I don't need to police them because I taught them well.  4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 8:53pm  
I think the right thing to do is to return your cart to the in lot corral when you are done with it.  I agree that it is rude to leave it in a parking space to 1. roll into someone else's car,  or 2. clog up a parking space where a car is supposed to go.   When I shop, I have to take my baby with me.  That means I either have to put him in the car and leave him there to return my cart, or carry him with me.  Either way, it's a hassle, but I always return it, because it is the right thing to do.  I look at it as "return things to where you got them".  It is the job of the cart kids to gather the carts from the corrals and bring them to the front, not clean up after patrons.  Leaving your cart stranded in the lot is dangerous and inconsiderate.  When I see a lone cart in the lot, I usually take that as my cart for the store.  When I am loading my car I typically offer to take my neighbors carts to the corral, since I am on my way there anyway.  I think we, as a society, have gotten very selfish and inconsiderate. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 9:27pm  
Many people likely don't have the time to do the store's job for them. We go there, buy things and hand over money.. The store, in exchange, supplies what we want, maintains the store AND the store's property, both of which are the cart and the parking lot it sits on, and they collect payment for us. We pay them to so a series of services for us. Plain and simple.
 
The store hires people to go around and collect those buggies. If the parking lot is too cluttered for you, then you are invited to discuss that with the store management. You can't seriously look to the people of a community forum to collectively do the work that should be done by the store.
 
And, if you think, for a second, that you have a right to attempt to shame or guilt me into doing (1) my full-time at work, (2) my damn-near full-time job at home with my family, (3) my job in the community AND ALSO (4) some snot nosed kid's job in the parking lot collecting buggies when I'm through shopping, then you must have..... somehow.... LOST... YOUR.... MIND!!!

Sounds like someone needs a nap.I believe it is called common courtesy.
 
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 9:45pm  
The first time I was staying with my wife in Australia I went to the local supermarket. They have a big chain called Coles and of course there is Woolworths.  This lady was lifting her last bag of groceries out of her shopping cart into her car and I asked if she would like me to take the cart for her, I thought I was being polite and saving her the trip. She scowled at me and said in a loud voice, "Certainly not, there is one dollar in there!" That is when I found out that the stores in Oz have this system where very cart has a small coin box and a chain. When you go to the where the carts are stored in the parking lot of the store you have to put $1 (Australia uses their version of the dollar as a coin) into the box to release the chain that hold it to the next cart. Off you go and when you are done you lock your cart back in the line and the dollar coin pops out. No money lost, no carts in the parking lot. Bloody brilliant! 4951
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donnatella Active Indicator LED Icon 13 Forum Moderator
~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 9:56pm  
@ChrisinKingwood: That is a great idea. The one that uses the cart can still leave it and walk away from that dollar, and the one that puts it up, collects the money in exchange for doing so. 4951
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~ 8 years ago   Sep 1, '15 10:09pm  
I was so excited when I saw the post title!
 
I've never lived in an area where people are so damn lazy about returning carts! The little Kroger (WLH and NP) just added corrals to the lot to help and people still can't walk one spot over to return it. It's maddening!! It is common courtesy because the carts do roll into cars and they take up whole parking spots (or more)!
 
I've been in the store at 12p on a Sunday where they're packed and the Starbucks workers are called over to bag my groceries. The wine manager is ringing up customers! They don't exactly have so many extra staff members to be running out to a lot to return their cart because it's "owed to the customer". Have the bagger walk you out yo your car and help load groceries then!
 
I shop, often, with 3 young kids and would feel embarrassed to have help out. In fact, I'm embarrassed when the workers run over to bag my groceries because they see me doing it. (Personally, I'd rather do it because too often does my smelly stuff, like soap, end up in a bag with an onion! lol)
 
I think we can respectfully agree to disagree here, friends! 4951
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