Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts?

[DGUtley]

On a pet peeve of mine -- Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? This article discusses why and the different categories of "cart users". Personally, I think it's laziness.


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[Tahuyaman]

On a pet peeve of mine -- Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? This article discusses why and the different categories of "cart users". Personally, I think it's laziness.

Throw in a fair amount of selfishness. I was in a Home Depot a while ago. A guy had a German Shepard on a leash in the store. The dog stopped and took a huge crap on the floor. The guy started to walk away. I stopped him and "you're going to take care of that, right"? He said "not my job, I don't work here". I said "wrong answer combat". We stood there for a couple of minutes until a worker came by. The employee said. " Oh my, I'll go get you a kit to clean that up".


Laziness combined with selfishness creates problems for others.

[FindersKeepers]

Everyone returns their shopping carts at Aldi.

I think the article covers the reasons pretty well -- I'm one of the "Always Returners," because I like things to be orderly. I do know one more reason for a shopper not returning a cart -- they just can't. My mom uses a walker to get around but I take her shopping, and instead of her walker, I go and get her a cart from somewhere in the parking lot she can push. I then use my own cart and when we get back to my car, she can only get in -- she can't take her cart to the cubicle and walk back without it. But -- I put both carts in the cubicle so one is never left on the parking lot.

Seriously, though, Aldi has it right. No carts in the lot there.

[Standing Wolf]

I always return the cart, just because I think it sets a good example. And I need the exercise.

[countryboy]

On a pet peeve of mine -- Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? This article discusses why and the different categories of "cart users". Personally, I think it's laziness.


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Some of it is laziness, but sometimes I see elderly and people with mobility issues leave the carts. I usually try to gather a couple up when I go to the store. For one, I don't want them to get torpedoed into my vehicle by high winds (those plastic carts are practically supersonic projectiles), and for two, I like to help out and keep prices low. I also often straighten out the cart corrals. At small stores like Dollar General, I'll run my cart all the way back into the store. I'm happy to do it, it means I can.

[hanger4]

I always take it back to the store and more times than not I get a cart from the outside cart storage as I/we go in.

[Admiral Ackbar]

This relates to not being a pig. People are so self centered, self important that they believe the world rotates around them. You can tell a lot about a persons true character if they return the cart or not.

[Collateral Damage]

I return. I've been a victim of carts being left in the last available space (I get out and move it), and I'v had carts bounced off me vehicle when someone was too damn lazy to do any of the decent things and return it or put it in a cart alley.

Adding my personal parking lot complaint, with larger vehicles, sometimes it's hard to see around them when yours is smaller. So I back out very slowly until I can see around what's next to me. What is with these flaming morons who either just keep walking behind your vehicle as you pull out, or the twits who need to cut around you with their car at 30 miles an hour while you are half out of the parking space?

I've threatened once or twice to just keep going, but I like my vehicle. One of these days, my ire will exceed the value of my vehicle....

[Chris]

I hate when a runaway cart hits your vehicle, or when someone leaves one in an open parking space.

I put mine in return bins out in the parking lot.

[Tahuyaman]

I try to park as close as I can to a cart corral. It’s really not a big deal to return a cart.