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One of my pet peeves is pulling into a parking spot at Costco, Walmart, grocery store, etc. and seeing a shopping cart sitting in part of the space. At Costco, people leave their carts all over the parking lot. They will pop the front wheels over the curb or just leave them in the space next to their car. All the while, the cart return is just yards away from their spot. On more than one occasion I have seen individuals leave their cart in the spot next to them and have approached them. I'll usually say "are you just going to leave the cart there?" One woman told me that a loose cart hit her cart once, so her revenge is to just leave her cart. I'll usually point out where the cart return is and offer to return it for them. "The cart return is right there, I'll return it for you if its too far away."
I consider these people lazy, but is there some other reason why they would just leave a cart in the space next to them when the cart return is just a short distance away? They are above such tasks? It seems inconsiderate to me. I was always raised to have common courtesy, as most people are, but this habit seems to go against that belief.
Well, on the other side of the coin, it pleases me to project myself, to come across as a Ranger, and returning shopping carts, either my own or that of others, fits into the image.
Like D'artagnan said, "I may not be a musketeer but I have the heart of one!".
Generally, I would say people are just lazy. Population wise, I would say many, many people are in the specialist frame of mind (not me, I'm a generalist) and ....... "THAT'S NOT MY JOB!". Society wise, it is just rush, rush, rush.
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I'll add one other thought. I shop at Aldi a lot. Aldi requires you to put a quarter into a slot in the cart to release the chain. When you return the cart and insert the end of the chain, the quarter pops out so you get it back. I never see a cart sitting in an Aldi parking lot, so apparently, the $0.25 is incentive enough not to be lazy or inconsiderate. Amazing.
OR........someone watched "The Terminal" and learned that lesson!
This infuriates me as well. Not only at shopping centers, but at my condo building. We have 4 shopping carts at my building to assist people with bringing goods from their cars to their units. While it is clear as day that the expectation is to return carts to the first parking level, more than a few lazy, rude, inconsiderate residents will leave the carts on outside of their units. If we didn't have daily grounds staff cleaning the halls, etc., the carts would never get regularly placed back to where they should be. Some people amaze me with how inconsiderate they are of others
You could always go around putting the carts away as a volunteer thing, I guess.
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People are stupid.
It's definitely laziness. I also love people who're so lazy that they'll circle the parking lot for 10 minutes for a close spot instead of just taking one further away and walking.
That drives me nuts too.
When I'm unloading my groceries into my trunk, and someone pulls up wanting my parking space. Of course, I try to hurry a little but holy cow. Can you not see that there's a space just 3 spaces further down? In fact, the parking lot is CLEAR 3 spaces down? Why do you have to sit there and wait while I unload and put my cart away?
Florida is filled with these types. Carts all over the place. I told one man who was leaving his cart, and not returning it. That I would return it, as I was returning mine. Not as much as a Thank you. Of course he is probably one that throws his trash out the window. That I also see all over Fla. I think of these types as what they show of themselves. Trash. Thoughtless behavior doesn't just end with leaving carts.
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Florida is filled with these types. Carts all over the place. I told one man who was leaving his cart, and not returning it. That I would return it, as I was returning mine. Not as much as a Thank you. Of course he is probably one that throws his trash out the window. That I also see all over Fla. I think of these types as what they show of themselves. Trash. Thoughtless behavior doesn't just end with leaving carts.
No, it doesn't. It goes clear through the individual.
I came upon a woman at COSTCO who had the open parking spot next to her car blocked by her open car door while she loaded the back of the van.
So, I politely wanted for her to finish loading while I sat waiting with my turn indicator on.
When she finished loading, she pushed the empty cart into the middle of the parking spot I was waiting for, and then got into her van and then proceeded to chat with a friend (acquaintance?) who was parked on the other side of her.
I had to get out of my car and move her cart out of the way so I could park. Once I did, I called her a lazy fat b*tch. She and her friend seemed to be offended by that.
Interesting comments. I'm a little surprised a couple of people admitted to leaving their carts in place and not returning them to the cart return area. So, it's not necessarily that they're lazy, they just feel that since the store pays someone to retrieve them, they should just leave the cart where ever their car happens to be parked? Even if there is a corral a short distance away and their cart might be blown by the wind and hit a parked car? Wow. I was not expecting that sort of response. Some people obviously just don't give a s**t about their fellow man. I can't imagine having that sort of attitude about things. How does one develop an attitude like that?
It's probably the same people who decide they don't want something in their cart and just leave it on any random shelf. Extra points if it's something that can be spoiled, like a carton of milk in the pasta section.
This is one of the reasons I don’t shop at those places very often. Inconsiderate lowlifes don’t put carts away, carts get bagged up and wonky, and I hate banged up, wonky carts.
I go to more upscale stores where the customers put their carts away, and the employees make sure to collect them quickly. I understand that handicapped people might not be able to get back from the cart collector and might need to leave it by their parking spot, but everyone else has no excuse.
I have a temporary handicapped placard, but I always park close to the carts instead of handicapped parking. I’m fine with a cart to hang onto.
To me, it's a character issue, kind of a mercenary attitude.
If you can't be bothered to do these kind of minor, common-courtesy tasks that show consideration for your fellow humans, you are not the kind of person who can be counted on in the moments of major need.
False equivalency. And sometimes not returning carts has nothing to do with other customers, but is an indirect passive aggressive message to the company itself. I don't return mine to Walmart's carrels on purpose. Why? Because the employees don't ever round them up. Every time I go they are overflowing in the carrels or strewn all over the lot. There are so few available at the store sometimes I have to pull one from the parking lot itself. Almost all businesses I do (Costco included), but the company has to do their job too.
As for Costco, those are some incredibly rude customers, banging into other customers with their carts, cutting in line, running up on me, stealing parking spaces others are waiting on, blocking aisles while they yammer on their cell phones, etc. . . And why on earth is every cart so godawful huge anyway? Sure many customers buy a lot of things, but many just need an item or two. They should offer smaller cart sizes that take up less space.
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