I don’t mean just returning your shopping cart to the cart area, but actually sliding it back in. At my grocery store, some people half ass stack it back in or don’t at all. This drives me nuts because when I come to return my cart I have to fix the mess before I can return mine. Plus, I don’t want the workers who collect the carts to do any more work than they already do.
I caught this one guy who was returning his cart and I had to wait until he was done. Instead of stacking his cart, he just left it there in front of the stack and I said, “C’mon man!” He was surprised and said, “Oh!” then immediately stacked his cart.
They recently stopped using this in the area of Germany where I live. I hate the change. People immediately started leaving their carts all over the place. It’s crazy that €1-€2 deposit was the only thing holding people back from being jerks.
I’m in Germany too, nobody leaves their trolleys sitting around.
I’ve seen it mostly at Hornbach and one of the Rewe’s near me, but other places people still return them like normal.
That sucks. I noticed our Lidl did the same (maybe other supermarkets, too, haven’t paid attention), but people still return the carts. This is in Austria.
If the supermarket starts spending more on labour/lost carts than they were losing with lost business/upfront cost, they may bring them back.
I wonder what the conversation is between supermarkets. They have to know the one spending upfront for these devices is training the local population reducing the other’s running costs.