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.
Yes, it is common courtesy to return your trolley appropriately.
I’ve only really seen the system abused when visiting countries like the USA, shoppers seem feral over there.
Some stores seem to have removed about half of icart returns. My Costco barely has any, same at the two Walmarts in town. The Costco is only a couple of years old, so its parking lot was designed without them. Cart gets pushed up on the median. Both Walmarts actually took them out. The store is who broke the social contract. At least it gives some employee a chance to walk around outside for a while.
Seems wild. Are employees not a relevant cost factor?
The Walmarts just seem to have not replaced their cart corrals over the years. The ones they still have are bent from being hit.
Costco really seems to have been intentional. The parking spaces are wider than average so even if there are cars parked already on either side of me, that I can easily back out and use any cart left there. The medians between parking rows are full of rocks with no walkway.
Exactly. Some things just work in every civilised country.
As an American, it’s my god given right to be shitty and make the lives of children and underprivileged and/or retired people as terrible as possible to make myself feel good. As the founding fathers intended.