Do you return your cart to the corral at grocery stores?
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I return mine, and organize the carts you lazy idiots leave behind.
I had forgotten about those carts that the at boys would use.First off, I do corral.
I was a bagger from 1986-87 at a local independent. The owner had the biggest store in town. We thought at the time that it was huge. He had 9 checkout lanes and did more business than any single Kroger here(we have three).
There was a time when the cart corrals didn’t exist. The grocer would have more help dedicated to scouring the lot for empty carts or have bagger/carry outs.
The man I worked for would not let a shopping cart leave the building.
After bagging the groceries, the baggers would place the paper sacked groceries in one of these
and take them to your vehicle.
The customer shopping carts always looked brand new from never seeing the lot.
No dings for anyone to ***** about.
Tips happened too, but weren’t much. I could usually make enough to buy lunch from the deli.
I return my carts. I worked for a department store during high school. The store was in a mall and we were the only store with carts. I liked going out at night to round them back up. It was a lot more fun than cleaning/organizing the store. Some of those carts would end up at the extreme ends of the mall parking lot.
I live to fire that f er from distance into the cart corral and see how accurate I can be. The real,pressure is when you’re about 50 feet away and the parking lot is slanted and there is a car parked right next to the corral. You have to put some velocity on that cart to counteract the slant. But I usually have my car running, in case I miscalculate and the cart rams the other car. But I figure anybody that parks right next to a cart corral has got to expect a little incidental body damage.
I always return my cart even if the weather is terrible.
People not returning their carts where they go is my number 1 pet peeve!
People not returning their carts where they go is my number 1 pet peeve!
Look up on YouTube "cart narcs". It's very fulfilling.
Typically I'll grab one that's been left out and take it in with me. I was at a store years ago when a storm blew in and watched a loose cart hit a car so hard it almost bounced over the trunk. I should have left them a note about what happened but all hell was coming out of sky. They probably blamed someone else instead of a cart at the Flatwoods Food Fair.
I'll also add that I'm not too judgemental about carts left out. I used to work nights and did my grocery shopping at really weird times. You see a lot of elderly and handicapped people then that leave carts out because they're legitimately having a hard time.
I'll also add that I'm not too judgemental about carts left out. I used to work nights and did my grocery shopping at really weird times. You see a lot of elderly and handicapped people then that leave carts out because they're legitimately having a hard time.
Yes, always. Just returned from KY to Texas tonight. Helped out Middlesboro Kroger employees while shopping there this past Wednesday.
6-2, 245 pound white guy and I always do...also park in the back of the lot since I don’t mind walking
If the one in my row or the row behind me has room I do but it seems like half the time 3/4 of the carts from the store are all over the parking lot because the corrals are to full. Then I just put the cart somewhere that it won't roll into someone's car like a flat empty parking spot where you can still use the spot or I put the front wheels up in the grass if nearby.
Yes, I do.
I had this strange (in today's world) advice growing up to put things back where you find them. If not back, then close as you can.
I grew up in a different world than from today.
We were more unselfish then.
I had this strange (in today's world) advice growing up to put things back where you find them. If not back, then close as you can.
I grew up in a different world than from today.
We were more unselfish then.
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Anyone remember the Biggs that used to be out on Shelbyville Road where you had to have a quarter just to get a cart and you got the quarter back when you returned it.
I do this as well and make sure I grab a stray when going inside!
Same here. A sizable chunk of the American public is lazy, selfish, arrogantly stupid, stubborn and basically doesn't want to be inconvenienced in the slightest way, even if it's as simple as pushing a touching cart less than 50 ft to a corral.
Depends. I have medical issues. On good days i will corral, especially if one is close. On bad days, no. I need to go home. My wife, who has bad knees grabs the first shopping cart she comes across because it makes it easier for her to walk. And in some mom and pop shops, i will gather the carts and corral them, or take them to the door. I'm complicated that way.
My first job was at the old Walmart in Middlesboro.
Pushing carts gave me a new level of hatred for people.
Gathering up all the carts after the store closed was like exploring a post apocalyptic wasteland.
The parking lot was covered with dirty diapers, used tampons, and rubbers.
Job should have required hazmat gear.
Pushing carts gave me a new level of hatred for people.
Gathering up all the carts after the store closed was like exploring a post apocalyptic wasteland.
The parking lot was covered with dirty diapers, used tampons, and rubbers.
Job should have required hazmat gear.
I do, try to park close to a corral. People that don't corral are like the people that take up two parking spots so their precious car or truck doesn't get touched!!!
6’8” Navajo Indian and heck to the no I never return my cart. Actually I try to find the most expensive car in the parking lot and jamb my cart right up agin it. Why should their car be perfect when mines not. Who do they think they are anyway driving those fancy cars .
oh yeah.......138 1/2 Lbs.
I didn't know the paddock had so many poors. What's a cart corral? You guys do your own shopping still?
Same thing where I worked 64-66.First off, I do corral.
I was a bagger from 1986-87 at a local independent. The owner had the biggest store in town. We thought at the time that it was huge. He had 9 checkout lanes and did more business than any single Kroger here(we have three).
There was a time when the cart corrals didn’t exist. The grocer would have more help dedicated to scouring the lot for empty carts or have bagger/carry outs.
The man I worked for would not let a shopping cart leave the building.
After bagging the groceries, the baggers would place the paper sacked groceries in one of these
and take them to your vehicle.
The customer shopping carts always looked brand new from never seeing the lot.
No dings for anyone to ***** about.
Tips happened too, but weren’t much. I could usually make enough to buy lunch from the deli.
I actually witnessed someone chuck a cart from one aisle to another. She threw hands up in a very triumphic manner. I just sort of glared at her. She looked at me and said "What? I knew I was gonna make it"
Yes, I do. I even pick up litter and dispose of it that's close by.
Yes I return them. I will usually look to see if any is near by and take them along with mine if they aren’t to far away. I want to help out the people working there and keep buggy’s from hitting people’s cars.
1. People who brow beat their doctor to have handicapped parking pass though not handicapped.
2. People who drive 55 in left lane on highway and don't get over to let cars pass.
3. People who don't return their carts to cart barn.
4. Youth sports parents.
That's the list. Awful people.
2. People who drive 55 in left lane on highway and don't get over to let cars pass.
3. People who don't return their carts to cart barn.
4. Youth sports parents.
That's the list. Awful people.
My first job was bagging at Kroger's for $3.50/hour... (-;
Never understood why folks never returned their carts ??
in Europe, many shopping venues with carts require coinage to get a cart, and it's returned upon returning the cart--guess they had a head start on Amerika (damnit!) understanding the animal mind...
p.s. I'm impressed that people would respond to this tread after the author inserted his social bias into his original hypothesis...
I tend to think dumb a _ _ posts like this appears all the time on the football / basketball threads in an attempt to sabotage UK sports in some small way (the non-UK supporter/haters).
Wish we had an effective way to filter those posters out...?!
I tend to think dumb a _ _ posts like this appears all the time on the football / basketball threads in an attempt to sabotage UK sports in some small way (the non-UK supporter/haters).
Wish we had an effective way to filter those posters out...?!
Can still hear Pop saying, "if you use it (and you're welcome to...), just put it back where you found it when done with it."
Same thing on the ranch as "if you go thru a gate that's closed, close it back after you go thru"