Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread
halvar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Don’t know about you people, but here in Hungary (Eastern-Europe) I haven’t ever seen a cart not returned at least as far as I remember.
A lot of countries use coin operated cart releases, which give you a coin back on return. This is very uncommon in the US. Generally there are just metal “corrals” with guardrails you return a cart to in the parking lot.
The only store that I know of that uses coin returns is Aldi, but that’s still regional in the US.
Now I'll upset some people here, I'm sure but...
Here in the UK, you can see how decent an area is using this method.
Go to the nearest Tesco Extra. If they have the coin traps on the trolleys, probably a dodgy area. If they don't, not so dodgy area.
In both cases, you're going to find the trolleys are generally not left lying around. Read into it what you will.
I only use Tesco extra as an example because from my experience other supermarkets either have the coin traps, or don't. It seems only Tesco (correct me if I'm wrong) vary the behaviour by area.
This is accurate is my city with no coin traps. Nicer areas have no carts laying around. “Lower class” areas have lots of carts around.
Funny thing is in the high class area I never see an employee doing cart return, but in the lower class area they’ll be 2 or 3 doing it.
So it’s not a matter of staffing. It’s the people not having good cart etiquette.
UK here, no coins in any shop’s trolleys.
I’m outraged at the number of people leaving carts everywhere.
Do they have other people wiping their butt for them too? I don’t understand.
Do some houses in areas that are struggling have barred windows? Are grocery stores likely to put laundry detergent and liquor behind plexiglass?
And a German company no less.
Yeah, every store has those here. Also Aldi is nationwide.
Yeah, both are uncommon here. Aldi is regional in the US. Trader Joe’s is generally in the other regions, which is owned by the Aldi nord part of the family.
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
i once visited Lewiston, Maine and none of the carts had been returned to the proper spot. more than a dozen carts were just scattered around the parking lot. as soon as i found somewhere to park, i got out and collected every cart in the lot. the boy i was dating at the time looked at me with concern in his eyes