Working in hotels for years, one of the most annoying things I encountered were people that would come to the lobby with a luggage cart and ask me where to put it. Just put it back where you took it from, it is that simple.
Do you return your cart to the corral at grocery stores?
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Working in hotels for years, one of the most annoying things I encountered were people that would come to the lobby with a luggage cart and ask me where to put it. Just put it back where you took it from, it is that simple.
Yes I do, we have several in the parking lot and it takes a matters of second to reach one. Down here we call them buggies
5. Bringing personal bed pillows on airplanes. I always sit next to a person who brought one.
Scientific American weighs-in on this obviously riveting subject:
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?
Pulling up to a parking spot and finding a shopping cart there can be pretty frustrating. Why do people ignore the receptacle?
"The world will likely not end because we aren’t returning our shopping carts—that would be an amazing butterfly effect—but it’s an example of a quality of life issue we can control. That guy who didn’t return his cart may not be a complete jerk. He may just be using the example set by others so he can get home a little more quickly. But if everyone does that, then we’re shifting the balance of what is acceptable, which may have greater ramifications to the social order. We have a greater influence over seemingly mundane situations than we realize. "
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?
Pulling up to a parking spot and finding a shopping cart there can be pretty frustrating. Why do people ignore the receptacle?
"The world will likely not end because we aren’t returning our shopping carts—that would be an amazing butterfly effect—but it’s an example of a quality of life issue we can control. That guy who didn’t return his cart may not be a complete jerk. He may just be using the example set by others so he can get home a little more quickly. But if everyone does that, then we’re shifting the balance of what is acceptable, which may have greater ramifications to the social order. We have a greater influence over seemingly mundane situations than we realize. "
Currently at Scottsville Rd Kroger in Bowling Green. Returned my cart AND another which some silly pushed out near end of parking lot.
I usually give my cart a tune-up. I wash it first, then remove the wheels and bearings. lube and grease then replace. I find a nice corral with a view to return the cart to after I've swept and mopped it, of course.
Not taking your cart to the corral should be punishable by death and be carried out immediately.
When I worked at Walmart when I was a kid they had 3 full time cart pushers
They still have to go out to get the carts rather you put it in the corral or not, so no, it's not creating more jobs.
If we all put them back properly it’s easy to gather and bring in and you don’t miss a beat. But when you leave them scattered all over the lot it takes much, much more time. Then noone is in to bag groceries, thus creating new bagger jobs.
I'm sure it's different from store to store, but when I worked at Kroger, we did either 30-minute or 1-hour shifts on cart duty, depending on what the temperature was outside. I only worked there one summer but on the really hot days they only let us do it for 30 minutes.
Every couple hours (or more if it was busy) management would send out two of the baggers for 30-60 minutes regardless of what the cart situation was like. Backup baggers were not brought in for these 30-60 minute cart shifts. If we needed help bagging then the shift manager and other managers had to help.
So no, it still does not create more jobs.
What if it’s one of the ******, noisy, three wheel carts that Wal*Mart leaves in service well past their usefulness? You know, the kind where the front wheel just spins around horizontally. I think it’s acceptable to just push those down towards the homeless folks at the corner. I’m a humanitarian at heart.
At least push it off the property. I refused to leave the property when I was a bagger/cart pusher. I figured if I got hurt on the job then getting hurt off the property getting a cart would just be more reason for their insurance company to be a jackass and deny my work comp claim.
Always return the buggy to the rightful area, even the ones that are left in parking spots and the elderly when they finish if I’m close to them.
It’s just respectful to return them
It’s just respectful to return them
I saw a family ruined by cart returners. Laid off. No school or food for the kids because do-gooders did all the work for him so he lost his job. Bankrupted him. Last I saw he was divorced, homeless, and laying in wait with a truncheon to mug tourists for whisky money. So prance on over and return those carts, snowflakes, but just like everything else you're doing more harm than good just so you can pirouette around acting like you're some angelic saint when actually you're callous and selfish for taking food off people's tables.
