Basic courtesy

Nobody posted the copypasta yet? I guess it's gotta be me, then.

How else do I get my £ back?

This is mostly an American thing. They/we tend to be more entitled and very selfish. Often making excuses for bad behavior with lines like "I'm keeping people employed". No stupid, you're increasing our groceries because of your selfishness.

Now I live in Taiwan and have visited many countries and found out that this is not the norm. Most people care about the community their live in and oftentimes put back their carts.

Another example of American entitlement. Americans often throw trash on the ground in parking lots because the trash cans are too far away or they can't find one. Again the same excuses, "Keeping these people employed".

In Taiwan(and Japan), if you can't find a trash can, you take your trash home with you. You actually have a hard time finding a bin in public here. But our streets are typically very clean. Because we care about the community and the people here are less selfish.

In b4 someone unironically tries to defend not putting their cart back. There's always one.

You'd have to be some sort of lazy bones to not do something so simple.

This is such a weak post. You really wanna be a good steward of carts? Get one from the corral on the way in instead of using one from the inside. Especially if it's not out of the way. Make the cart retriever's job even easier. Especially on super hot/cold days.

joke's on you, i use a shopping bag

There are some of you out there that really can't return the cart. Maybe it's your own mobility issues; maybe it's children, animals, or something else that you can't leave unattended in the vehicle; maybe you just ran out of spoons picking up your medical supplies; whatever reason--I got chu, fam.

When I turn around to return my cart, I always look for stragglers and bring them back. I'm forever alone, but healthy, so getting carts back to their "home" is the least I can do.

I used to work at a Costco. There were two long stretches of parking lot that had no cart corrals anywhere nearby. They were at the farthest points of the lot on either end. Despite all the employees begging them to add a corral in those spots the manager never did. But he would always complain about carts being abandoned way out there constantly.

I think a 30 seconds round trip to return a cart is more than fair. If you cannot reasonably locate a Coral (or the store does not have one within that walking distance timeframe) I think its fair to attempt to store the cart in such a manner that it doesn't block someone else trying to park.

All that being said the average shopper at our location wouldn't even attempt to find a corral. Often times they would just leave them in the empty space next to their car blocking a parking spot. Usually within 20 feet of an actual corral. Sometimes they would literally yell at one of the cart runners from a distance something like "wouldn't wanna put you out of a job!" Before they just left their cart slowly rolling across the lot unattended.

If you ever want to lose whatever small amount of hope you had left for the basic decency of the human race just work at a Costco for a little while.

People would leave their trash in the carts constantly. They would spill food and drinks all over the kids seats and just leave them there. They would almost never put them into the corrals properly. They would just shove them towards the corral from a distance which almost always cause the carts to jam up at angles and then the corral would over flow and eventually people would just leave them with their front wheels put over the curbs right next to the corrals that was now spilling over with 7 carts because nobody decided to properly put the cart away and instead just pushed it to the edge and called it quits.

I have worked all kinds of service jobs over the years. Costco by far had the most selfish and shitty customer base out of all of them. You can tell by the way many of them spoke to employees that they felt entitled to treating everyone like shit because they paid a membership. Hell some of them would even say exactly that whenever they felt even slightly inconvenienced or slighted. Just right out the gate with "I pay a membership fee blah blah blah blah". Every once in a blue moon they had s legitimate argument to be making, but 99% of the time they were just throwing s fit because they wanted to get their way and the managers would bend over backwards for the customers every single fuckin time.

Sorry this turned into a rant about the worst job I ever had.

Yeah many people are too selfish to put away a shopping cart these days.

wowowow mister millionaires, who has so much money they need a "cart" to carry their things. I can only buy like 7 eggs from my salary, so I don't have this kind of 1% problem, I can carry them easily in my hands

I don't take the cart out of the store anymore. I really can't afford that many groceries.

I‘m German. It’s in my DNA.

One time I didn’t return the cart at Aldi.

I still think about that a decade later.

Because that haunts me I always put the cart back no matter what

For those that don’t know you have to put a quarter in to use a cart and you get it back when you put it away which means there are never stray carts anywhere. People want their money back.

I leave the carts that I find near the handicapped spots, as I know when my back goes out I really appreciate having a cart to lean on. I think it's common for a cart to be a sort of crutch.

My own carts I take back to the store unless I'm way at the end of the lot. If it's raining or something, always back to the store. I'm already wet, and I don't wanna make someone trudge out in the wet any longer than necessary.

I bring it back to the store, like a proper child of the light.

EDIT - ProTip: Leave your reusable bags in your car. When you checkout tell them you don't need bags and to just put the groceries back in the cart. You can bag the stuff at your own pace once you are back at your vehicle. No self bagging stress, no "I forgot the bags stress, no extra work for the cashier, no need for a bagger, and you help the queue move faster.

That time Cart Narcs got a gun pulled on them in Texas:

https://youtu.be/h8d_XYd1dac

Assholes have guns and that's all they need to think they're right.

STOP! STOP PRETENDING THIS MATTERS.! The retail worker doesn't care! It makes no difference if the carts are in the corral or anywhere else in the lot. It effects NOTHING!! STOP!!

Oh… I am going to destroy my lemmy credibility by chiming in on what I think is the absolutely most stupid conversation in the entire universe!

I know you all to be people of deep conscience and this is what I love about coming here. Lemmy is filled with people obsessed with meaningful issues… except for this one.

Maybe the leftists will join me? I don’t know, I think my perspective is simply boomer: who efffing cares.

On a beautiful Spring day, I will sometimes march my cart to the farthest end of the farthest parking lot knowing that I am giving the cart retriever a lovely stroll in the sun.

Cart retrievers are paid to do a job. I allow them to do it.

Oh, I have seen that obscenely smug little essay about how the easiest test of a person’s character is what they do with carts.

I have watched that Cart Narc guy and I always hope he gets caught and beaten by the person he has antagonized.

Oh… whatever. Judge me. Don’t judge me. It doesn’t matter.

The carts don’t matter. I probably should have read the comments here before commenting this but I was surprised to see it — because generally speaking, only topics that matter make it here and this one just doesn’t.

I'll never understand people who make doing free labor for a corporation some sort of top tier ethical standard.

Not lttering, following traffic rules, there are so many small ways we make our society better and yet people get so worked up over the one that is providing free labor.

It’s hard to believe that a reddit post about being able to tell if someone is a decent person based on whether or not they put a shopping cart away has stuck around as long as it has. It’s a pretty arbitrary metric.

someone has a job to collect them and unless the parking lot is even close to full there's no risk for any vehicles getting damaged from a few dozen loose carts.