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.

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    There’s only one shop within 400km of where I live that uses these.

    People here do seem to do a reasonable job of returning their trolleys to the bay.

    I think most of the trolley collectors are disabled in some way, so their jobs will be subsidised.

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      I think most of the trolley collectors are disabled in some way, so their jobs will be subsidised.

      A bit beyond the scope of the post. But instead of supermarkets using society to subsidise their labour costs, we could use supermarkets to subsidise society. Tax the wealth and institute a UBI.

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        details of oppression uwu

        Tap for spoiler

        goodwill is the sweatshop SNAP applicants are shunted to for less than min wage, if they aren’t otherwise meeting the work requirement instituted…

        Honesly idk if it was 2017 or a last ditch Busch Jr thing. Certainly tried.

        i like to mention it, bc i talked to some caseworker and counciling staff who were unaware, despite their clientel relevance.

        Sucks if you can’t handle a concrete box full of light and noise and the reek of harassed strangers. After some training videos, of course.

        Go usa. (fortunately urban gardening and grocer coop is improving…)

        Forced or underpaid labor of anyone, esp minorities anyware is hella bad. uwu down with labor extortion.

        I worked one grocer that had the ghost of a union coughing out, and we had a light duty round and a low key vibe on night stocking. The bored jocks and people who wanted a temperature change did the cart grabs. Not just whoever was on some dole voucher(general).