Do you return your shopping cart?

[vailpass]

Some of you not only return your cart 100% of the time but you say you also seek out and return carts in addition to your own?
Do I have that right?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by vailpass

Some of you not only return your cart 100% of the time but you say you also seek out and return carts in addition to your own?
Do I have that right?

I'm thinking about hiring a team of high school aged workers to go around to all the local grocery stores to help them clean up their cart situation.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I'm thinking about hiring a team of high school aged workers to go around to all the local grocery stores to help them clean up their cart situation.

I guess that's part of my surprise here. That is some kid's job. Maybe things are different here; maybe we don't have the seemingly large number of stray carts that the other folks on here seem to experience.

[Sorce]

Originally Posted by vailpass

I guess that's part of my surprise here. That is some kid's job. Maybe things are different here; maybe we don't have the seemingly large number of stray carts that the other folks on here seem to experience.

At least at the stores I go to, the cart corrals routinely overflow because there is nobody actively retrieving them. I return mine because I always worry about it rolling into someones car after I've left. Sometimes if I can carry the bags to the car I'll leave it in the cart lobby area of the store but not put it away but at that point it's easy for someone to grab and not in danger of rolling across the parking lot.

[cooper barrett]

Originally Posted by Sorce

At least at the stores I go to, the cart corrals routinely overflow because there is nobody actively retrieving them. I return mine because I always worry about it rolling into someones car after I've left. Sometimes if I can carry the bags to the car I'll leave it in the cart lobby area of the store but not put it away but at that point it's easy for someone to grab and not in danger of rolling across the parking lot.

I do the same and just carry the bags to the car if I can.

[KCrockaholic]

Originally Posted by Sorce

At least at the stores I go to, the cart corrals routinely overflow because there is nobody actively retrieving them. I return mine because I always worry about it rolling into someones car after I've left. Sometimes if I can carry the bags to the car I'll leave it in the cart lobby area of the store but not put it away but at that point it's easy for someone to grab and not in danger of rolling across the parking lot.

The problem with this is that when you do this, so does monkey see, monkey do. Everyone else after you does this and it begins a huge pile up during the busy times of the day and ends up blocking the front of the store for other people.

That cart guy isn't telepathic. He's out grabbing as many as he can to bring back into the store. By the time he gets to those piled up carts on the inside that you didn't return properly, it's overflowing and people walking out end up blocked by all the carts.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by KCrockaholic

The problem with this is that when you do this, so does monkey see, monkey do. Everyone else after you does this and it begins a huge pile up during the busy times of the day and ends up blocking the front of the store for other people.

That cart guy isn't telepathic. He's out grabbing as many as he can to bring back into the store. By the time he gets to those piled up carts on the inside that you didn't return properly, it's overflowing and people walking out end up blocked by all the carts.

That doesn't seem like much of a problem in any store I've ever shopped in. Maybe some store layouts might lead to problems if you can only get to the exit through the register lines.

[cooper barrett]

Originally Posted by vailpass

I guess that's part of my surprise here. That is some kid's job. Maybe things are different here; maybe we don't have the seemingly large number of stray carts that the other folks on here seem to experience.

My Kroger store has 65 YO men out chasing carts, no lock out devices here...Just the Aldi 25 cent honor system