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re: Is it trashy to leave grocery carts in the middle of a parking lot?

Posted on 5/2/16 at 4:27 pm to
Posted by Yewkindewit
Near Birmingham, Alabama
Member since Apr 2012
20026 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 4:27 pm to
I roll them back to the lobby of the store or to a cart Corral. I am getting older and I need to walk more so I don't mind the extra steps!
Posted by therick711
South
Member since Jan 2008
25097 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 4:31 pm to
I just want to point out that we now get our own cart, get our own stuff, check ourselves out, and pick up the carts. All that is left is for the store to attach a broom to your arse that you drag around the store and require you to re-stock items since you're going that way anyway and they won't need employees.

This isn't about being fat or lazy, just pointing out how the grocery store has changed from a model that emphasized service to one that is so hellbent on reducing margins that the customer has essentially become an employee.
Posted by tLSU
Member since Oct 2007
8623 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 5:01 pm to
I was sitting in my truck at Rouses on Carrollton a few weeks ago, and this hipster parked next to my passenger side loaded his shite into his Prius and proceeded to put the cart right behind the bumper of my truck. I got out, pushed the cart directly behind his bumper, and watched him nail it. There's no more ideally designed vehicle than a car with a high trunk for something like this
Posted by illinitiger
North then South
Member since Feb 2009
3224 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 5:11 pm to
Wow, I'm thankful I found this thread. This is hands down my biggest pet peeve in modern civilization. Someone earlier posted that is how they judge ppl, well brother me too. It is the height of narcissistic laziness to not walk 15-20 feet to replace a cart into the stall. And like others unfortunately I rarely saw this sort of actions until I moved to the south where the fat fatties like to be lazy and rude. /rant

also thanks for calling them grocery carts and not buggies.
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 5:19 pm
Posted by Wishnitwas1998
where TN, MS, and AL meet
Member since Oct 2010
58203 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 6:21 pm to
fricking yes
Posted by cuyahoga tiger
NE Ohio via Tangipahoa
Member since Nov 2011
5835 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 6:29 pm to
hell no....somebody getting paid to round 'em up
Posted by BayouFann
CenLa
Member since Jun 2012
6868 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 6:53 pm to
So buggy boys get paid to walk the lots for their health?!
Posted by AmosMosesAndTwins
Lake Charles
Member since Apr 2010
17886 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 6:56 pm to
quote:

People get paid to collect those carts. If everyone put them back then some poor bastard would be out of a job. Why do you want to take away jobs?


The baggers are the only ones I've ever heard radioed to collect carts. So, not only does it ding people's vehicles and block parking, it makes checkout longer. Incredibly lazy and thoughtless IMO.
Posted by BelleTigre11
Member since May 2011
1087 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 6:56 pm to
Guilty of this. When you're a girl and by yourself, you ditch the cart and hop into your car asap. I do it for my safety, especially if it's dark. Its also much more difficult for a mom hauling kids to the grocery store to put the cart back where it belongs while she's trying to hold on to her crew.
Posted by THRILLHO
Metry, LA
Member since Apr 2006
49507 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 6:57 pm to
quote:

Aldi knows that trashy people are also cheap.



Good on them. I thought that practice died out with The Real Superstore ~20 years ago.
Posted by Tempratt
WRMS Girls Soccer Team Kicks arse
Member since Oct 2013
13341 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 7:02 pm to
I take 'em back, regardless of the store.
FWIW, the Walmart markets never have carts lingering in the lot. Walmart supercenters always have them.
Posted by LSUDAN1
Member since Oct 2010
8962 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 7:13 pm to
Louisiana birthright
Posted by notiger1997
Metairie
Member since May 2009
58122 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 7:19 pm to
quote:

Louisiana birthright


Hell yeah baw!

Let's take a poll. If you were to go to every Walmart in the state, how many would have a dirty diaper in the parking lot?
How many would have an empty McDonaldl's bag?
How many would have pieces of chicken of some kind on the lot?
Posted by TigerLunatik
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jan 2005
93674 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 7:23 pm to
I always bring the cart back for women and elderly.
This post was edited on 5/2/16 at 7:24 pm
Posted by nc14
La Jolla
Member since Jan 2012
28193 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:02 pm to
Lazy. Trashy is flipping cigarette butts out of car windows as if it's not littering.
Posted by Hu_Flung_Pu
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2013
22163 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:02 pm to
I do it. I like to give people jobs to do. Kind of like littering.
Posted by White Bear
Yonnygo
Member since Jul 2014
13877 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:07 pm to
Nah, gives me a chance to test drive my buggy before I get in the store. Never fails if I get one from the stack inside it's got a stuck wheel or a flat spot on one tire, and/or handles like shite in general.
Posted by rlebl39
League City, TX
Member since Jun 2011
4740 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:13 pm to
In college I worked at academy for a semester and all I gotta say on the subject is that the assholes that don't take the carts to a cart stall have a special spot in hell, along with people who don't put things back where they go in a store. I really hated working in retail.
Posted by Hu_Flung_Pu
Central, LA
Member since Jan 2013
22163 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:13 pm to
Sounds like you were a lazy worker.
Posted by skrayper
21-0 Asterisk Drive
Member since Nov 2012
30873 posts
Posted on 5/2/16 at 8:14 pm to
Less "trashy" and more lazy, rude and dangerous.
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