“Our business has SO MUCH CRIME INSIDE that the police have special parking” is not a message that makes me want to come inside.
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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 8 hours ago
It’s 99% shoplifting. But the police in my area don’t use those parking spots anyway, they always park in the fire lane.
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Still, they’re having to call the police so frequently that this parking space made sense to someone. Maybe there’s something about their store that needs to change. If a strip club was having to call the police every single day, they’d probably shut the place down.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Wal-Mart was a huge generator of calls for service in my patrol area, so much so that our county government had hash things out over multiple meetings and eventually write an MOU with them to stop calling us over $20 shoplifting cases.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I’m doing my part!
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I will judge you if you don’t return your shopping cart to the proper place. This seems to be a proper place.
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
If you’re a police officer or military veteran and you need a special parking spot it’s because your handicapped.
Otherwise you can fucking walk like everyone else
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Damn, I don’t want to be my handicapped.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The point is parking close to rapidly respond to calls for service.
At least that’s my interpretation, anyway. I never considered people might want to park there off-duty just to shop.
Wren@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Looks like people are doing the same thing to the handicapped spot behind it. The locals are chaotic and have no gods.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
I don’t endorse not putting your cart back usually… But yeah, this is alright.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Im guessing you shouldn’t say police but instead say maintenance cart or something like that
DandomRude@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The Walton family is certainly one of humanity’s greatest enemies.
ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world 11 hours ago
Wealthiest family in the world funded entirely by underpaying it’s workers.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Absolutely, and they are undoubtedly one of the key players responsible for the global resurgence of fascism—for example, in the form of the current U.S. regime, but at the same time also in other countries, first and foremost Israel, but also in Europe, and in every remaining democracy. Their unlimited resources make this possible, and they want more and more.
As I said: These are humanity’s worst enemies.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yup. Them and the Murdoch family. Cancers on our civilization and enemies to the inhabitants of Earth.
DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You could actually list every billionaire in the world. It’s simply impossible to become that absurdly rich without getting involved in these schemes. They all know each other and would never allow anyone who was even remotely decent to rise to their level.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Rupert Murdoch is so old that his fucking dad (not grandfather or great-grandfather) orchestrated a successful smear campaign against Australia’s best general during WWI, over a century ago. Reason: the general was Jewish.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
We don’t have parking for the police in Canada. But we do have parking for pregnant women, and disabled people. Plus, the grocery store I use has a solution for the carts.
makeshift0546@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
I love this and will contribute to it going forward.
Widdershins@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
That sign does not look bolted down. 3 youths with a skateboard could recreate Iwo Jima and move it somewhere less convenient like at the bottom of a lake or wherever cops like to park and hide to print speeding tickets.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
If I was a minimum wage worker and had to work 30 minutes more at night putting those shopping carts in their place, I would be annoyed until I get home, then be fine with it.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The people who went all-in a few years ago on shaming others for not returning their carts to the cart corral will have a problem with this.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
No I won’t.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Seriously though if you aren’t putting your cart in this specific spot or the corral, what is wrong with you? It’s not that much further to walk. Don’t make more work for the person who brings the carts back inside, it’s just inconsiderate. Plus those things have been known to pick up speed in the wind and smash into stuff. You might not give a shit about your own car, but some people do.
Just be considerate, life is better when we work together.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I’ve got sciatica in one of my legs. Not bad enough to justify a handicap spot (although those never have a cart coral near them), but bad enough that some days it is, actually, very painful to walk. Especially the walk back from the coral, where I don’t have the cart to lean on.
In fact, I often appreciate when people don’t put a cart away, and I can find a stray cart on the way to the store.
I still put the carts away when I’m done, with one exception: this fucking Dollar Tree near me, where their carts are all absolute shit to begin with and there’s one cart coral and no parking spots anywhere near it. I park against an embankment under some trees where there is always space and shade.
Usually there’s already a cart there waiting for me. When I’m done, I leave it pushed up against the embankment, back wheels on pavement, front wheels on grass, so it can’t roll back into the lot, and right in between the parking spots so it is easy to retrieve by the next customer.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Its a slippery slope, once they get you putting them in a corral then they will expect you to take it back to the building. At least Aldi tricks people into returning the cart or you pay.
Its job security to the cart grabbers. Make their job easy and once they collect the carts they get hours cut. Make it difficult and they can keep working all day.
athatet@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Nah. As far as I’m concerned that IS a cart corral.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I’d pull out my libertarian hat out and tell people that the market decided this is the most efficient location for the cart corral. Instructing customers to do otherwise is big government and communist.
/s
snooggums@piefed.world 13 hours ago
This is another cart corral.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Cart Narcs know they’d be out of their jurisdiction there.
gork@feddit.online 5 hours ago
I will make an exception for this.
MrShankles@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s just a new cart corral, no big deal
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
nope not at all
zikzak025@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That is a cart corral, looks fine to me.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
When it’s so a corporation saves money: “The wind! The wind will blow the cart into cars! Wiiiiiiiiiiiind!”
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I don’t know if/how you’ve never seen wind catch a shopping cart, but it can hurtle those fucking things. Mercifully it tends to me worst with the plastic ones because there’s more surface area, but I’ve seen one of those smack a car head-on at like 25 kph on flat terrain.
You can go look up videos of even pretty modest winds gently pushing metal shopping carts around; they look like they’re possessed.
Even on flat lots on windless days, you’re not sticking it to the man; you’re just being a jackass making someone’s already insufferable retail job even less sufferable over 10 seconds of returning a cart.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Nah. This is the least that the bastards deserve.
Hupf@feddit.org 5 hours ago
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I always park in the “Online Pickup” or “Coffee Customer” or “Uber Eats” spots.
Fuck you. I’m spending money are your store.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
So you’re being rude and anti-social because “i’M a PaYiNg CuStOmEr”? You do realize that is basic Karen behavior right?
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Why would you side with a corporation and call not doing so “anti-social”?
I’m a paying customer. Why should some other paying customer have priority over me? The fact that I’m not doing a quick pickup means I’m probably spending MORE on their products.
It’s not like I’m parking in a handicap spot.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
…and everyone clapped, right?
Larp on reddit.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Is everything that bothers you LARPing?
Is it that hard to wrap your smooth brain around a pretty believable scenario? I’m sure a lot of people have done what I did to parking Nazis. You just don’t go outside, so you wouldn’t know.
Not that I give a fuck whether some kid living in their parent’s house believes me, but it definitely happened. Maybe you’re just such a subservient pussy you can’t fathom standing up to someone.
boobookittyfrick@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You just have to be an asshole?
MrChewy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yes, but only towards other assholes (:
Jomega@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
What about the workers whose job it is to put the carts where they belong? This hurts them too.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 12 hours ago
We should show a little respect for our heroes in blue and not do things like this.
gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 hours ago
eh i remember when a bank robber who stole $100 got 20 years in prison (because it was bank robbery) meanwhile a cop who shot an unarmed innocent civilian got away with a fine.
the cops are not there to protect you, they’re there to protect the banks.
felsiq@piefed.zip 12 hours ago
You mean the Walmart employees who have to grab the carts, right?
athatet@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
It’s okay. Cop parking is usually closer than the cart corrals anyway.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
A police offers time is something like 0.001% catching an actual criminal and 99.999% larping military action and harassing/threatening normal people. Sometimes its even misusing public funds to commit murder or stalk their ex. Theyre also much more likely to be domestically abusive.
“All cops are bastards” because the system is broken, allowing most cops to be bastards, and therefore participating in the system (even being a “good cop”) makes you, a bastard.
Am i calling the police if someone breaks into my house? Yes, after ive done all the work of removing the threat so i have a legal standpoint to file insurance claims or whatever. Thats the problem with the system. I cant trust a cop to not consider me to be the real threat or shoot me by accident.
There is no situation made safer by having a racist coward with a license to kill involved.
Tippy@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
MrChewy@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Enforcement of a good government is arguably good, enforcement of a bad government is unarguably bad They’re more like villain’s henchmen than heroes in the current state of things
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Hell yeah
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 21 minutes ago
ACAB