In Europe you put a coin in to take the cart and get ir back when you lock it back in. Annoying, i know, but you can have a special token on your ring or keep a change in your car. But because of that, Carts are never a problem. Either people put it back, or some kids do it to get the coin. Either way, the car park is free of trolleys.
Walmart Shopping Carts Left Feet Away from the Cart Corral.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Michal@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In the US Aldi grocery stores do this.
It has mixed effectiveness. Usually people put their carts up, but not always because “who cares its a quarter”.
Michal@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Quarter is nothing! But i get it, US has mostly paper money. In Europe it’s usually 1 euro, or 2 euro.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The quarter could be just the price of going to Aldi, for some.
daggermoon@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
Subscript5676@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
TIL this exists
But I must say… “can’t leave a child unattended” is such an ass reason. Like, just bring the kids along? It’s good education for the kids too. If they’re a baby, well there are ways to carry a baby without using your hands. If you don’t have one, then fine, but I also tells me that you have no one to rely on to take care of a baby for an hour or even two when you need it, and it makes me wonder what your relationship is with those around you.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly! I used to take one of my kids to Costco regularly. Just me and him. When he was too little to be left in the car while I returned the cart, I’d just take him with me when putting the cart back in the return area. It’s not that hard. People are just lazy. And the Shopping Cart Theory has a lot of merit to it.
dingus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not a common scenario nowadays, but I have a coworker with 4 incredibly young children all only a year or two apart in age. A bit harder to wrangle that many children who are that young.
waka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
PlaneMaker@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
This gave me an idea. Is it possible to judge a society by looking at supermarket parking lots?
lokalhorst@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
No. In Germany this is unthinkable behavior, our society is still shit.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Having spent a decent amount of time in Germany (but not integrating into society): what about it is shit? From an outsider’s perspective, you guys seem to have it mostly together. Sure AfD exists, a percentage of the population will always be trash. But social services are there, mass transit is acceptable, and the economy is probably the strongest in Europe.
Cheesus@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Even in France, the country who’s people literally invented being arrogant, selfish asses, I never see this.
zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I think looking at this picture explains exactly why Americans voted for and elected trump… Twice
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s possible, of course.
Is anything gained by doing so. Doubt.
folekaule@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Cart Narcs dropping the ball.
ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
*while waving light stick
Weeewooo beeebleeeeboooboooo - that’s not where the cart goes, sir.
ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So I used to return my carts all the time. Then I actually talked to people who grab carts. They appreciate getting the stray carts because it’s the only time they have to check their phone and just get some time.
Then I asked myself… am I putting the carts away because that’s what I was trained to do by capitalism or is it because it’s the “right” thing to do? My response to that question is somewhere in the middle between the extremes.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
It’s fucking Walmart. Why are you there?
Tiger666@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
You guys need to start cleaning your forests, they are making a mess in your parking lots. Probably a fire hazard.
Qwazpoi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was a cartpusher for my first formalish job.
I probably wouldn’t be too annoyed having to deal with that just because the coral is a fucking hassle that made the job harder in some ways. The metal on the bottom is always all messed up from people hitting the coral and the carts need extra man handling to get through. Also having different kinds of carts makes them not stack and need to be pulled apart or left next to it and taken back by hand. Also one cart facing a different direction than all the others usually happens anyway. The benefit of having them already stacked up or close to it is already defeated by those things and you spend more time screwing around with the coral than if they were just in an open spot that allows for me to just move them.
I’ve seen so many people put in significant effort to shove them into the sidewalk or gravel over a curb and that IS the infuriating part for me. It’s going out of your way to accomplish absolutely nothing helpful. It makes a physical pain having to lift and drag them all back. All it did was make me need to drop everything and clear off the sidewalk so people in the mobility scooters and a few regulars who came in wheelchairs could actually traverse the lot.
I have my own theory as to the logic of where people leave the carts. Basically everyone hiding their cart in the space in front of their car like an Easter egg hunt or shoving them over the curb never appear to believe that they are doing anything other than being helpful or convenient. I think it comes down to carbrain thinking where the path that vehicles use is the big sacred thing to protect and keep clear first and foremost in their minds.
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In case you weren’t aware, the cart corral is not there to make it more convenient for the cart wranglers. The reason it’s there is to make it more unlikely that a cart will roll free and slam into a parked car.
The people not returning their carts to the corral are dickheads because the carts they abandon could damage someone else’s car.
The people putting their carts over the curb or in the grass or wherever are lazy, but they are at least considerate enough to make sure the abandoned cart won’t roll into someone.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
curb never appear to believe that they are doing anything other than being helpful or convenient.
“i am preventing my shopping cart from rolling away and hitting another cart. that is the extent of my social obligation” i think is the thought process. not “i should put the shit i am borrowing away when i am done with it”
Dohnuthut@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve had to do this at Walmart before, but not intentionally. The safety alarm locked the wheels and I couldn’t move it. It wasn’t for a lack of trying though and after a few attempts of lifting it, I gave up. Otherwise there’s no excuse.
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was at a grocery store that had those. I didn’t realize at first. I figured the wheels just got stuck.
I guess I’m more of a gorilla than they expected, because I just kept pushing it to where I was parked. An employee ran out to unlock it before I ground the wheels flat.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A little extra cardio never hurts.
I’ll take the hard to push cart, if I get it by chance.
456456@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I love seeing people cry about carts not being “put away” in parking lots. Put that energy toward pressuring the multinational conglomerate that is undoubtedly mispricing items and stealing from employees’ paychecks to hire more people to patrol the lot for carts.
TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Maybe they received a call their Partner was rushed to the hospital, their child was home alone and hurt, their crazy ex spotted them and was harassing them as they loaded their car, a person whose back went out loading their car and couldn’t walk, a disabled person who doesn’t have a placard for special parking
Relax yourself. Do you realize half of the world lacks sufficient clean drinking water?
Brennenstein@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Or the guy was just lazy.
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Both of them were too lazy, there’s two carts there and the second guy couldn’t even bother putting them together.
marighost@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Found the lazy bones.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The same people who leave trash within a few feet of a trashcan.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Your character is how you act when no one is watching.
Aerosol3215@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
I worked at a grocery store in the late 80s. It was not common to return your cart at that time. I think it is generally a good thing that society has moved to the expectation that you should return your cart. Most places where I live do not have the coin for a cart but one place does. Living without the coin for a cart is a fair trade for returning the cart to the corral, in my opinion.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Well how else is a cart going to bang into a car?
It takes three calories to push it that extra 12 feet. I thought this was America. Maybe they do this in Cuba.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Meh. When I walk past one on the way in, I grab it because I’m going to get one at the door anyway.
I park near the corral so it’s easy to return the cart. That’s all I do, but I don’t care what other people do. There are plenty of other things to get upset about that deserve our attention more.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
Really depends where you are.
I’ve lived/worked all over the US. Since Walmart is everywhere, you get to see how different regions behave, or even different areas of a city.
I have 2 Walmarts nearby, one is like this, the other isn’t.
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I would really love to say that shitty lazy ass parking lot behavior is limited just to Walmarts, unfortunately, it’s not.
Since the pandemic how people behave in Shopping environments is incredible. They park like shit, They leave their carts and trash all over the fucking place, They have no problem, blocking aisles, and being absurd while shopping.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was happening way before the pandemic. It might have got a little bit worse since then, but not by much.
I distinctly remember back in the late 2000s and early 2010s people frequently leaving carts in the middle parking spaces that were only a few spaces away from a half-filled car return area. That shit really irritates me. Too many people are lazy fucks.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Your Walmart only has two carts like that!? The one near me (which I refuse to go into) looks like a shopping cart battlefield.
Walmart is the physical manifestation of not returning a shopping cart.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
in some neighborhoods, you could literally have a cart corral next to every single parking space and somehow these lazy morons will still leave their cart in a parking space or driving lane.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Probably big regional differences. At the Walmart near me, there are very few stray carts. My guess is the ones in the middle of the city are much worse, though. I don’t go there.