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Do you return your shopping cart to the store or corral?

Do you return your shopping cart?

  • Yes, always!

    Votes: 11 68.8%

  • I do if I've decided they put the return location close enough to where I've parked.

    Votes: 4 25.0%

  • Depends on what store I'm at and/or if anyone will see me not do it.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No, they pay people to come out and collect the carts.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No! I don't care about that sort of stuff.

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
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Just as the title says. Do you regularly take your shopping cart to the designated location, like the cart corral or back to the entrance of the store?
 
SoberasHotRod said:
This poll is a little strange to me. I've only ever witnessed teenagers not returning their carts.
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If that's the case I'm not sure why grocery store parking lots always seem to be absolutely littered with shopping carts.

I've seen all sorts of people do it.
 
I don’t if the return station is like 30 yards away and I have my three little ones in the car and it’s hot as balls out and I have frozen/refrigerated items in the hot truck. The Wegmans here virtually always has 1-3 kids doing the carts and I’m not going to feel guilty if they have to work during the times I don’t return it.

I probably return it like 92.5% of the time.
 
Gameface said:
If that's the case I'm not sure why grocery store parking lots always seem to be absolutely littered with shopping carts.

I've seen all sorts of people do it.
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By us, I think ppl without cars use them to transport **** to their motel/hotel or apartment. But I guess that would only explain why they’re in the woods or whatever or some random spot and not in the lot.
 
I have a bad hip, so, if I'm hurting, and it's a ways away, I might not take it back. But I often go to the store on the bus anyway (most of the grocery stores here are just a single bus ride away from my house) so I don't usually take a cart outside, I just do 1 or 2 bags.
 
Keefe said:
By us, I think ppl without cars use them to transport **** to their motel/hotel or apartment. But I guess that would only explain why they’re in the woods or whatever or some random spot and not in the lot.
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So you don't typically see carts in empty spots, propped up on the little curbs where the parking lot trees are or just any old random place?

Maybe Utahns just suck? Or maybe it's sort of like you were saying, a mom with her 7 youngest kids that she has to take grocery shopping with her isn't going to abandon them to walk the cart a football field away.
 
Gameface said:
So you don't typically see carts in empty spots, propped up on the little curbs where the parking lot trees are or just any old random place?

Maybe Utahns just suck? Or maybe it's sort of like you were saying, a mom with her 7 youngest kids that she has to take grocery shopping with her isn't going to abandon them to walk the cart a football field away.
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In a parking lot with maybe 300 spots within close proximity, I’d guess there’s maybe 4-5 carts usually sitting around.

This lot doesn’t have any dirt areas with curbs really to prop one up on until you get at the end of the lot. So that could be one reason why. Wegmans also has a better clientele who shops there so I don’t think you get lazy riff raff who give a **** about no one.
 
Gameface said:
So you don't typically see carts in empty spots, propped up on the little curbs where the parking lot trees are or just any old random place?

Maybe Utahns just suck? Or maybe it's sort of like you were saying, a mom with her 7 youngest kids that she has to take grocery shopping with her isn't going to abandon them to walk the cart a football field away.
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Some stores need more cart corrals. I was just at a store in Montana where they have a loader employee for every customer, with a special loader cart. All shopping carts stay in the store. It was nice.

I always put my cart away unless an a-hole takes up 2 or 3 close in prime spots to create a buffer for his yuppy mobile (if you want to do that do it at the back of the lot). For that guy i put my cart right next to his car.
 
Keefe said:
Wegmans also has a better clientele who shops there so I don’t think you get lazy riff raff who give a **** about no one.
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Instead you have super-entitled ****s whose time is way more important than any of the employees. :cool:
 
Gameface said:
So you don't typically see carts in empty spots, propped up on the little curbs where the parking lot trees are or just any old random place?

Maybe Utahns just suck? Or maybe it's sort of like you were saying, a mom with her 7 youngest kids that she has to take grocery shopping with her isn't going to abandon them to walk the cart a football field away.
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Californians are at least as bad if not worse in this regard. I watched someone the other day, parked literally 1 stall away from the cart coral, leave their cart in the empty spot next to them AWAY from the cart coral. It was just too much effort to walk 10 feet when they could just push he cart slightly and be done with it.

I return mine probably 95% of the time. Depends on circumstances. But I also shop at Aldi a lot and there you have you return it if you want your quarter back. That is generally the German system. Use a quarter, or there are even tokens sold that people collect, to get a cart and get the coin back when you return it. I never heard anyone complain about it. It's just the way it is there. Funny how Americans find all kinds of excuses to do or avoid doing **** that other countries just take as a given.
 
Keefe said:
In a parking lot with maybe 300 spots within close proximity, I’d guess there’s maybe 4-5 carts usually sitting around.

This lot doesn’t have any dirt areas with curbs really to prop one up on until you get at the end of the lot. So that could be one reason why. Wegmans also has a better clientele who shops there so I don’t think you get lazy riff raff who give a **** about no one.
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Keefe said:
I don’t if the return station is like 30 yards away and I have my three little ones in the car and it’s hot as balls out and I have frozen/refrigerated items in the hot truck. The Wegmans here virtually always has 1-3 kids doing the carts and I’m not going to feel guilty if they have to work during the times I don’t return it.

I probably return it like 92.5% of the time.
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Wegmans? Isn’t that where Dr Oz shopped for a veggie tray? What did he call it again? A Crew-de-tay?
 
I park in disabled parking, which is usually close to a cart corral. Always return my cart.

The other day an employee was headed to the cart corral to pick up the one cart there. I told her I would take the cart into the store, which I usually do for stability in walking. She looked at me with a decidedly confused look on her face. Just wait, my dear, you will get old someday.

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Keefe said:
@Gameface

If you’re gonna do a poll, make it public.
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I usually do and I really thought about it but I thought that in this instance it might deter people from answering honestly.

EDIT: You can edit the poll after posting it but making the votes public is the one thing you can do after the fact apparently.
 
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