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re: Oldie: Shopping Cart Theory
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:09 pm to drunkenpunkin
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:09 pm to drunkenpunkin
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In the buggy. I don't take him unless it's unavoidable.
So you leave him in the buggy while you take the cart to the corral. When you get there, take him out, hold him in your arm, and push the fricking cart into the corral. He's not left alone and you're not a lazy arse. Win-win.
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Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:09 pm to UltimaParadox
People that return shopping carts are the same ones that use the self checkout.
Destroying jobs everywhere.
ETA: Sarcasm off...I normally park next to the cart return because the spots bigger at the place I shop at, so its no big deal.
Destroying jobs everywhere.
ETA: Sarcasm off...I normally park next to the cart return because the spots bigger at the place I shop at, so its no big deal.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 2:17 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:11 pm to LouisianaLady
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Exactly. The kids thing makes no sense to me. Bring them to the cart corral the exact same way you brought them across the parking lot into the store and then throughout the store and then back to the lot.
I bring my cart to the Corall 9 times out of 10 but the rare times I don't its usually due to my kids. You can judge if you want but parking lots are dangerous for young kids. They are too short to be seen by cars (especially in reverse) and they get excited and run ahead or pout that they have to do something they don't want to and drag their feet. If one of my kids is in a mood, I will usually try to find someone going in and offer them my cart or in a worst case scenario find a convenient place to leave it near my car.
Now if my wife is with the kids, I tell her not to leave them or take her eyes off of them. Traffickers target women with young children and wait for the mom to separate herself from the child just enough to grab them and go. It may not be a thing that happens daily but it most definitely happens and I'll be damned if cart etiquette is gonna put my wife and/or children in danger.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:11 pm to LouisianaLady
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Tell yourself whatever you want. You’re an a-hole and I’ll 100% move your cart back behind your car if I see it
I dont care either way, but id have my kid kick you in the nuts.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:12 pm to Earnest_P
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Question is how far will you go to return the cart if the parking lot has too few cart returns? Will you walk two rows over? Three?
I park near car returns when possible to not have this issue, but one store I frequent only has two returns in a fairly large lot, so I don’t judge people for just tucking them away neatly somewhere nearer to their car.
There are pretty much no exceptions.
If the closest corral is across the lot, you take it back to the front of the store.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:12 pm to Antib551
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Depends on my situation. If I'm by myself, I most always return. If my youngest kids (2&4) are with me, I don't return it, as I'm not turning my back on my young ones or leaving them unattended while I walk across the way to put a buggy away. I've instructed my wife to do the same, but be aware of her surroundings and leave the buggy if it doesnt feel right
Nobody wants your kids.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:13 pm to IAmNERD
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Nobody wants your kids.
Someones kids being kidnapped and trafficked is SOOOO funny.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:14 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Now if my wife is with the kids, I tell her not to leave them or take her eyes off of them. Traffickers target women with young children and wait for the mom to separate herself from the child just enough to grab them and go. It may not be a thing that happens daily but it most definitely happens and I'll be damned if cart etiquette is gonna put my wife and/or children in danger.
Listen, I'd probably give my wife the same advice.
But the idea that traffickers are - with any frequency at all - snatching suburban white kids from parking lots is ridiculous. You're much more likely to get your kid backed into by a car or have a teenage thug jump in the car and steal it not knowing/not caring a kid is in there.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:16 pm to Pettifogger
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But the idea that traffickers are - with any frequency at all - snatching suburban white kids from parking lots is ridiculous. You're much more likely to get your kid backed into by a car or have a teenage thug jump in the car and steal it not knowing/not caring a kid is in there.
Not once but twice my wife has had someone follow her and one of our kids around target and had to get police to intervene and both times the cops told us the scheme the are running in detail.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:16 pm to UltimaParadox
I return my cart, but the people who post this theory like it's some grand explanation on the underpinnings of the human psyche make me want to put the cart in the middle of a lane.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:17 pm to BottomlandBrew
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Cart Narcs
How that dude hasn't had is arse kicked is remarkable. He does have some funny comebacks though.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:19 pm to drunkenpunkin
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This. My 5 year old is autistic and can't be trusted in parking lots or alone. I try very hard to not shop alone with him, but sometimes there's just no choice. On those trips, I don't return the cart. When I'm by myself,I always do. If someone has an issue with that, that's their problem, not mine.
No 5yo can be trusted in parking lots or alone, autism has nothing to do with it. You take them with you to return the cart. What is so hard for yall to understand?
"I have an autistic kid so I don't have to return my cart" is such a low class selfish opinion.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:19 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Not once but twice my wife has had someone follow her and one of our kids around target and had to get police to intervene and both times the cops told us the scheme the are running in detail.
Then it's an incredibly low success rate because toddlers are not getting snatched in suburbia and being trafficked
The huge, huge volume of trafficking in America involves runaways, immigrant children and severely impoverished areas. And the huge majority of those don't resemble Taken, they involve broken kids who are often mixed up in drugs before they're trafficked (which is often the hook).
Being overly cautious with your own children will meet no objection from me, but this Facebook mom kid snatching fear is less realistic than the Facebook mom being-murdered-and-on-Dateline fear.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:22 pm to Antib551
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If my youngest kids (2&4) are with me, I don't return it, as I'm not turning my back on my young ones or leaving them unattended while I walk across the way to put a buggy away.
At that age, kids love pushing the shopping cart all the way into the stall. It’s fricking adorable. Go home and bust that #1 Dad mug.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:22 pm to EarlyCuyler3
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Someone already mentioned Aldi but they have the system perfected.
I just got back from Aldi. I had to move about 9 buggys out the way that still had a quarter in them to get find one to hook up and get my quarter back. People are lazy as frick.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:22 pm to UltimaParadox
I find the same with “to hold or not to hold” the door….
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:23 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Not once but twice my wife has had someone follow her and one of our kids around target and had to get police to intervene and both times the cops told us the scheme the are running in detail.
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Bert Macklin FBI
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:26 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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Not once but twice my wife has had someone follow her and one of our kids around target and had to get police to intervene and both times the cops told us the scheme the are running in detail.
This post was edited on 9/29/23 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:29 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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I bring my cart to the Corall 9 times out of 10 but the rare times I don't its usually due to my kids. You can judge if you want but parking lots are dangerous for young kids. They are too short to be seen by cars (especially in reverse) and they get excited and run ahead or pout that they have to do something they don't want to and drag their feet. If one of my kids is in a mood, I will usually try to find someone going in and offer them my cart or in a worst case scenario find a convenient place to leave it near my car.
Now if my wife is with the kids, I tell her not to leave them or take her eyes off of them. Traffickers target women with young children and wait for the mom to separate herself from the child just enough to grab them and go. It may not be a thing that happens daily but it most definitely happens and I'll be damned if cart etiquette is gonna put my wife and/or children in danger.
I'm surprised that you leave your house at all. You should probably stay behind locked doors at all times and just use delivery services for all your food needs. Make sure that you do some due diligence on those delivery drivers though. They could be drug fiends just looking to score an easy mark.
Better to be safe than sorry.
As for me, when my kids were little, I'd just hold their hands in parking lots. My wife is also somewhat competent and aware, so she never lost them.
Posted on 9/29/23 at 2:32 pm to Jim Rockford
quote:What?
Rounding up shopping carts in the parking lot provides gainful employment for people who may not be qualified for anything else.
Those carts still have to be taken from the parking lot back to the store, regardless if they're all over the lot or where they should be.
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