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It is so strange that you should mention this now. Recently I've seen a few shopping carts at my neighborhood dumpster and the leasing people just put up a sign about it. People don't read clearly because the carts were still there. The sign even said something about reporting anyone who does this. I guess it doesn't matter because no one enforces that rule. The good thing though is if they're putting it at the dumpster at least it's not affecting anyone whereas my mom gets perturbed when she sees it in the parking lot because someone could hit it with their car.
I used to leave mine all the time..but I had an excuse..i had severe back problems and it was very hard for me to get around but per doctor's orders, I had to walk around some, so it's not just because people are just bad persons...
And if you think thats bad..some carts actually lock up when you take them past a certain range..so not only do you have to go get them, but then you have to reset the device so that way they will work! Talk about a major PITA!
When I park my car, (relatively close to the cart corral) I try to take one of those "abandoned" carts with me into the store. I'm going to need a cart to shop, right? If everyone did this, it wouldn't solve the problem of the people who leave the carts, but it would help to clear the lot of carts that might roll into someone else's car.
What I truly don't understand is the distance between the handicapped parking spaces and the cart corrals. There should be corrals near the blue spaces, right?
ALDI isn't the only store that has the quarter-deposit-for-a-cart. There is a Shop-Rite in Manahawkin, NJ that does the same thing. I think it would be cost effective for most stores to institute this system.
Here in Germany all grocery stores require you place a deposit to release it from the pen. If anyone would see a shopping cart outside the pen they will take it to get the deposit, 1 euro which is the equivalent of about $1.30. I never see a cart outside the pen. So in Germany you must come to the market with a euro coin to get the shopping cart and with your own bags, most people have very nice large bags they keep in their trunk and reuse each time.
I've noticed that the biggest offenders seem to be Wal-Mart shoppers. I can't help but notice that, on average, there are many more carts abandoned throughout the parking lot at Wal-Marts than any other stores. So maybe it has something to do with poor people don't respect themselves, so therefore they don't respect others?
In my area I have only seen Walmart employees rounding up shopping carts at closing time. Other stores have employees go out to round up carts throughout the business day. This would explain your observation.
I walk the cart to the cart return area, no matter how far or inconvenient. What I hate is when I come out and someone has left their cart resting on the car next to me and that guy comes out and thinks I did it, when I didn't even use a cart that time. People are lazy period. I like the stores where you pay 25 cents to get the cart and get it back when you return it to the holding area. Yeah, look around the adjacent areas of a lot of Wal-Mart stores and you will see abandoned carts everywhere. People just don't give a darn. Just let someone else do it! Really irritating. My ex used to want to just
leave the cart anywhere and I'd grab it, put it back and he'd ? me as to why I was bothering to do that? Yeah, that's the mentality!
The City of Toronto has clearly marked trucks , that collect the carts that are off the store property, and the workers are also clearly identified with photo ID cards on their shirts. The point of the by law is to make sure that shopping carts are not ending up in creeks, or ravines.
Here in Germany all grocery stores require you place a deposit to release it from the pen. If anyone would see a shopping cart outside the pen they will take it to get the deposit, 1 euro which is the equivalent of about $1.30. I never see a cart outside the pen. So in Germany you must come to the market with a euro coin to get the shopping cart and with your own bags, most people have very nice large bags they keep in their trunk and reuse each time.
It would be great to see more stores in the U.S. institute this practice. I've seen one or two stores put in carts that require a deposit of a quarter to get a cart, but even at those I've seen abandoned carts rolling around in the parking lots. Maybe a two-quarter deposit instead would be more effective?
I use reusable shopping bags as well and think they're extremely beneficial. Instead of fifteen tiny, flimsy, plastic bags each containing two items, I leave the store with two square, sturdy packages with canvas handles.
Nowadays, the store I frequent most has someone walk you out and they bring he cart back with them.
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