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They hire people to just gather carts? No other responsibilities? WOW! That must be a busy store with so many carts.
They have several employees whose jobs include rounding up the carts. If that task never needed to be done, whey could get by with one less employees in that department.
That is like saying it is alright to be careless and start a fire.....after all......you are providing job security for firemen, builders, insurance agents, healthcare workers.
I can't believe all of the lame excuses people are coming up with to excuse careless, selfish, lazy behavior that causes damage to other people's property.
Even more disturbing.....some seem to be proud of it.
^^ I'm proud of myself for not leaving carts around. The corrals are there for a reason, and I'm fortunate enough to have functioning legs and arms which can push the cart in a store and all the way to the corral in the lot. Just today, I brought someone else's cart in that was left in a parking spot next to mine. I don't mind taking care of someone else's laziness if it means not getting to complain that my car got banged up.
Here in Toronto the solution is simple. Vertical steel posts, 15 feet outside the exit doors, placed so close together that a cart cannot pass through them. Carry the bags to your car, folks.
And, the city of Toronto has contractors, who drive around and pick up stray carts, and bring them to a holding cage, and then the store owners have to pay $50 a cart to get them back. The fines go to the city, to fund a job creation program for homeless people, who learn how to recycle electronic equipment, and get a paying job, and a place to live. Unclaimed carts are cleaned up and sold, to local stores, at a discount price.
Works well, here.
Jim B
Toronto.
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Originally Posted by canadian citizen
Lerner :
To answer your question.
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.
It works.
Jim B
Toronto.
I had to chuckle a bit at this. In the city in which we used to live it was the homeless who were stealing shopping carts so they would have something in which to store and push around their belongings. How ironic.
Most of the people who took the carts home were those who lived in subsidized housing because they didn't have cars. In that same city, almost all large stores finally put the electronic brakes on their cats so they couldn't be wheeled off the property.
The low income people didn't seem to care and often left the carts in streams and ravines. The rest of us returned the carts to the stores or the corrals. I'll leave it at that.
lol--- so up tight... and nobody is proud of damaging others cars,, you miss the point which you do NOT want to hear!!!! you do as you please. lazy ?? I don't have time - working 2 jobs. And my special need friends love those carts and helping load!! it is their jobs, and the are happy. leave their jobs ALONE
It's the store employees jobs to gather the carts, period.
It is the store employee job to collect the carts from the corral, but it is the shoppers' responsibility to return them to the corral. It is the right thing to do to avoid damage to other shoppers' cars and not block parking spaces. To not return the carts to the corral shows a disregard for others and laziness.
If the store did not desire for patrons to return the carts to the corral, they would not have put corrals in. After all, it wouldn't make much sense for a store employee to go around the entire lot putting carts into the corrals only to then bring them back to the store.
I'm no genius, but this seems pretty obvious to me...
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