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• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨49⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Lowe’s does this and it’s quite clever. Maybe you came for one thing and saw some other stuff. Having a cart right there makes that extra sale where otherwise you may be too lazy to go get a cart.

  It’s also nice for the employees not to have to return every cart to the front of a large store. I always filled those places when I ended up with an empty cart.

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• TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Some do.

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• cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They do – – they are the abandoned carts for those people who have the “oh, I guess I didn’t need a whole cart for this one thing“ moments

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  • MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I basically never see abandoned carts, but I have returned to where I parked my cart to find it gone. I’m sure no one is taking it maliciously, but I am always just an aisle over and I parked it there because the aisle I need is jam packed with shoppers already.

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    • xylol@leminal.space ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The rules of the cart

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  • Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I believe, that would only really be a thing in the US? In most other countries, we have coin locks on the shopping carts, so you can only get them from the corral by inserting a coin into the shopping cart, and you only get your coin back when you return the shopping cart to the corral…

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• Edges@lemmy.zip ⁨46⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  A lot of places don’t offer baskets anymore, it makes me sad

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• Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Always grab a basket when you enter
  When you get to the middle if you don’t need the basket, leave it
  ??
  Win?

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I just always take a basket at this point. Pretty much as soon as you’ve got more than one item, it starts getting awkward to hold. And the chance is pretty low that I won’t find something else to take. Even if I specifically go to the shops for one item, chances are I actually want two of them, because evidently I’ve run out.

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• EpeeGnome@feddit.online ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  My strategy is to bring my own reusable bag and shove the loose items in there. Only problem is remembering to bring the damn thing in.

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• MoonMelon@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  I would settle for, “stores should have baskets”. I assume people steal them because the store has the basket racks, but they are empty. Desperately foraging around the checkout lines like some kind of basket goblin yields nothing.

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  • gigaqps@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I suspect they want people to use carts because they believe it will increase the number of products you buy

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• numbermess@fedia.io ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Stores around me (west Tennessee) do this.

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  More like. I came here for 1 thing and suddenly am holding 4 in my hands

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• borosilicate@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨41⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  There are always baskets near the checkout lines.

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