In b4 someone unironically tries to defend not putting their cart back. There's always one.
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My husband wouldn't put the cart away.
But he has cerebral palsy which made walking back to the car without the cart for stability difficult when he was shopping alone. He actively liked if someone left a cart in the handicapped hatch mark area because then it would be close so he could grab that going into the store and be balanced against it.
He did know it wasn't ideal though, and I'd take the carts back when I started shopping with him.
There's always one.
Confirmed, it seems one did. Sigh.
Nobody posted the copypasta yet? I guess it's gotta be me, then.
I watched someone in a Costco parking lot shove his cart onto one of those berms at the end of a row, very obviously about to walk away from it. I was already frustrated, so I walked over and basically yanked it from him, saying something to the effect of "no don't worry I'll get it" in a very "you're part of the problem" tone.
It felt nice, I'm not gonna lie.
Edit: looks like the idiots who this meme is directed at are out in force lol
Yes, smug self satisfaction at the expense of others feels nice. You do you bro.
Sounds like the other guy didn't have to do Costco's job, and you got to feel smug and superior without any real reason. Win win win
Do you throw trash on the ground because it's the custodian's job to pick it up?
Can you explain why you believe this analogy is valid? I don't think you can, but I'd absolutely love to see you try.
Just because it's someone's job to tidy up doesn't make it okay to be messy.
And why do you see deliberately throwing trash on the ground as being analogous to leaving the cart near where it was needed, and will be needed again?
Because throwing trash next to a trash can is still littering.
We got a live one
A live one what? I don't use shopping carts because I'm not a cuck.
What does one's kinks have to do with their shopping practices?
Our guy installed wheels on his arms and legs in order to get the fully uncucked shopping experience, likely because he's just built different.
You're really weird
I'm cool with that, but you still did mention leaving a shopping cart in a parking lot which somehow makes you not a cuck. Bare minimum it's an asshole move
Correction, you didn't say that, but your comment absolutely leads me to believe you do "because it's not my job"
Ohh I see, you don't know how to read. This makes way more sense. Try again.
I am deeply amused that your reading comprehension was so wrong a random stranger downvoted you in my defense. ❤️ To whoever that was.
What dont ones kinks have to do with shopping?
What a wild sentiment haha. Guy's so insecure that he thinks using a SHOPPING CART will make him less manly.
Why is being a cuck anything to do with manliness?
Ohhhhh so you literally mean that people who use shopping carts are in relationships where their SO is having sex with someone else behind their backs?
Right. Of course that's what you meant. Well obviously that would be a MUCH more normal thing to believe.
Wat?
Maybe don't be an asshole by lodging it on a berm behind another car and just walk the extra 20 feet to put your fucking cart in the corral.
Oh I didn't do that. You're confusing me with the person you met in the Costco parking lot. But I am not them!
Smug virtue signaling anyone?
Found the animal.
Of all the things to get your panties in a twist about. Oh, world’s on fire, I’m going to make cart etiquette a big thing.
Exactly, the world is on fire and www are verging ww3. People that can't do the bare minimum can't be trusted in current times.
Yeah, etiquette is important. I'll tell you off for queue jumping too, if you like. Did your parents not teach you to pick up after yourself? Do you need to be sent back to kindergarten?
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This is something I care about.
I want people to abandon corporate social media and I want them to support and use Federared options run by cool people.
That’s you.
That you spend your time worrying about carts is not really relevant to what connects us.
I just want to let you know that I can be courteous and professional and interested and interesting and still believe that carts are not a big deal.
The topic of this post, on the memes community, is shopping carts. I think it is an okay place to share our opinions about lazy people.
My choice not to return those is a political decision to make corporations pay for their privilege.
They just pass the cost back to us, genius. You're lazy for not returning the cart and lazy in your justification.
If you don’t like the prices don’t shop there. You might try Virtue Signalers: the grocery story for people with self esteem so low they need to attack strangers on the internet. Virtue Signalers: behold my contributions! I am worthy. My daddy was wrong in withholding his love. Virtue Signalers: I’m better than you, so fuck off.
Why is this practice promoted?
It's someone's job and they make their money grabbing those carts, aren't we taking that away from them if all is perfectly arranged and they can just collect the carts in 2 minutes? This concept seems to only benefit the business in saving labor?
Coincidentally, I was checking out two days ago at a Costco and the manager came up to my cashier and said, "close up after this one, I'm going to send you home early okay?" The cashier said, "yeah, I guess..." But you could tell they clearly didn't want to leave early. If there were a bunch of carts in the parking lot at that point, feels like that person might get an extra 30 mins or so on the clock... Why aren't we supporting that? Manager would say, " let's close you down after this one, and then please do a lap in the parking lot to grab carts before you go"
Us carefully putting the carts away as customers is just free labor that the corporation benefits from... Period. How does this help the worker making an hourly wage?
As someone who has previously put carts away for a job. No, not only does leaving carts out make it more annoying to pick up it can also damage other people's vehicles, and take up parking spots. Carts roll around or are difficult to see and can get hit. This is the equivalent of saying to just knock stuff off the shelf as you walk through the store, an employee would have to pick that up and it would just cost the company money.
I don't think this comment actually responds to my points. I've worked many hourly retail and restaurant jobs myself. In many there was a regular struggle to hit minimum hours per week to qualify for benefits and managers were instructed to cut people during perceived slow times - none of this considering that I sat in an hour traffic to show up for my scheduled 8 hour shift that I need to meet to make my rent.
I was happy when gobacks piled up, shelves needed to be faced, tables needed to be bused and yes, to carts needed to be collected. When that was the case, I typically made my hours in those common, "we're going to need to cut someone" moments.
Again, this entire conversation seems biased to the business owner, the corporation's labor cost, and not the employee. Saying "all the carts are going to hit cars" is a false premise, in my opinion. And what I'm arguing for is the "good trouble" version of this. Place the carts safely away and maybe near the corral, but not in the corral.
Near the corral doesn't take a lot more time to pick up from in the corral. I agree that leaving then in the corral is fine, someone still has to pick them up from there. But leaving the cart randomly outside has the potential to cause issues for others, completely ignoring the business owner.
As stated previously, doesn't seem you've ever worked an hourly job where management was actively working against that 29 hour threshold and sending people home early from scheduled shifts to make you avoid qualifying for expanded employees benefits.
I definitely have and that doesn't change the fact that I'd rather not risk damaging others property for an extra 15 minutes of work.
Leaving a shopping cart near your car is the same as deliberately causing damage to products in the store? Very very interesting point of view, if completely unhinged.
You are right, I was being a bit hyperbolic. It's equivalent to picking stuff up off the shelf and setting it on the ground. No damage to the product and would take workers more time to pick it up. Might as well start doing that every time you go to the store.
Is this some sort of american meme that I am too rich to understand?
So I used to put my cart back all the time but then I found out it creates jobs for people that cant get a job. Some one getting out of jail living in a half way home can use these jobs to get out of their situation. I no longer put it back.