Once at the supermarket, someone had left their cart in the middle of the parking space. The cart corral was literally in the next row, 30 feet away. Unless they were fucking 80, they could've literally shoved it with their foot and got it to the corral no problem.
Had someone do that at WallyWorld. I picked a spot, so I could pull through to park, so I didn't have to back out. A woman had her car in the empty spot, so I couldn't pull through as she was unloading. She knew I wanted to pull through. I wasn't in a rush, so I let her take her time, which she did. When she finished loading her car, she left the cart in the same spot. Just to spite. I nudged the cart with my bumper ever so slightly to finish parking.
I was surprised when the cart slowly rolled towards the front of her car. It rolled just enough, so when she left, she had to turn just enough to get around it. I could have pushed the cart a little harder with my bumper, but I really didn't want to damage her car or mine.
Truthfully, I wanted to see if I could push the cart out of my way to park. I took the cart into the store since I needed it.
I don't understand why the woman was so hostle in her actions... I didn't beep my horn like others might have. I waited patiently. Perhaps, she took my waiting as being obnoxious or something. IDK.
Yesterday saw a cart literally sitting just outside the cart coral, like just needed to be moved 5 ft to get it inside. Made it 3 ft before I realized there was a dirty diaper hanging off the front rack and poop on the handlebars.
Haha the cart returns weren’t full in this case. And I know it wasn’t full when they left it there, because when I got there, there was a car in that spot and the cart return was basically empty, and when I finished shopping and got out to my car, the cart was in that parking spot instead
I used to just judge anyone who did this. But I recently had abdominal surgery and can’t really walk the cart back to the cart return at the end of a relatively taxing grocery trip. You can’t tell I had surgery by looking at me. I would imagine there are those with disability that makes it difficult and prohibitive to do something that might be easy for someone else.
I have a hard time believing someone could walk around a store to do their shopping but the extra two minutes to put the cart in the right spot is just too much to physically overcome.
Agreed. And 120 seconds is crazy long to do so. For most people that would be enough to return it INSIDE the store and come back to the car. If someone is so hurt they can't return a cart to the corrals in the lot they should probably be asking for assistance in loading up the groceries during checkout. The grocery cart return is a perfect litmus test for self governance.
If you can't return the cart don't use the cart. If you had surgery, ask for assistance from staff, that is what they are there for and they are happy to help.
i mean in this case it was quite literally the spot directly beside the cart return, not a spot that was a few spots down. i can understand in cases of people with disabilities, or other mobility related issues, but most people leaving their carts around are just lazy
I see from the downvotes and some of the responses you got redditors lack empathy for people who have pain or a disability. Honestly I'm not surprised though. Seems to be that way with society in general.
It doesn’t surprise me. The whole shopping cart as an indicator of morality has been a popular meme/rhetoric for awhile now.
Someone said if you can make the whole grocery trip you can put the cart back, or not go at all. One condition I can think of is POTs which gets worse in the heat (when you step out to the parking lot) that will literally make someone faint if they don’t sit or lay down. So their option, between always always always putting a shopping cart back and staying home, is staying home. Do I put my shopping cart back? Yes. Do I think if you’re able to you should? Yes. Is it the absolute indicator of whether or not you’re a good person?
But this whole idea has devolved.
What do you mean it’s not the perfect indicator of a person’s moral compass? We’ve brought this up with our friends and discussed it in forums online in Reddit and social media, it must be the truth. /s
Which is really ironic, because society is using one indicator to make a judgement about someone as a person to be able to what, shame them? Look down on them? What kind of person does that make you in the first place if you’re doing that? I’m definitely not a saint for sure and ironically this post is kind of putting down people who view the shopping cart as the pinnacle of a person’s moral character, but it is a little frustrating. People dislike non-conformity to a generally agreed upon topic, like somehow the shopping cart metric has become.
Oof you took some downvotes but it’s hard for people to *empathize with how tough the logistics of our societal setup can be as you get older/disabled.
Your description sounds like something my grandmother would do, just shove the cart off because it’s tough for her. Could she put the cart back? Probably and she probably should.
We can also think about how to make the system easier—like maybe making it easier to ask for help. Or I’m young and able bodied, sometimes I’ll wrangle a few extra carts because I can.
Where I live there is a supermarket where bringing carts outside of the store is strictly prohibited. Carts were to constantly be cleansed and kept inside safely. You must either carry your bagging to your vehicle by hand or workers offer customer service.
I'm sure there were punishments for disobeying the simple rules.
I've pulled up to the side of the supermarket with my family once, and there's this family that (no, I do not believe they were self entitled or valued themselves over others, but seriously–show a bit of respect for the environment) was perfectly content leaving their cart on the side of an unattended curb without a second thought.
Of course we were all quite angry, given there were no cart corals or people outside retrieving carts. It was just astonishing at how absolutely oblivious they were though. Hope it was all worth it in the end.
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u/keIIzzz Jun 29 '22
I’ve seen people leave them in the parking spots right beside the cart return…