Why don't people return their shopping carts?

No scientific study is needed. People don't return carts because they are lazy and figure the staff is paid to collect the carts so why should they do it. It's that simple. And don't get me wrong, sometimes in big places like Costco, i don't bring it back either. i don't leave in the middle of the parking space but will put it on the raised area next to the end of the parking space. That why it wont hit another car and shouldn't interfere with a car parking in the space
 

They also have a YouTube channel.

The magnets are part of their deal. It didn’t used to be. I enjoyed their older ones (hilarious), not so much the magnet, personally. Seems different now, than it used to be.
 
I'm a returner esp. at a certain supermarket which takes a quarter to unlock the cart. There, people are too lazy/entitled to return their carts so I use theirs then collect the quarter when I'm done! Between that & the 5% Senior Citizen discount...livin' large!💰💰💰
 
I park next to or across from a shopping car corral, doesn’t matter how far from store door. I don’t mind the brisk walk to or from store. When I’ve got multiple containers of ice cream and perishable dairy on a hot day, I want to minimize time to launch for home. Load car, return cart in as few steps as possible.
 
Wishful said:
I'm a returner esp. at a certain supermarket which takes a quarter to unlock the cart. There, people are too lazy/entitled to return their carts so I use theirs then collect the quarter when I'm done! Between that & the 5% Senior Citizen discount...livin' large!💰💰💰
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They do this in Germany. It's a great idea.
 
I return them. What I hate is when they are left in the car spot...call the Cart Narc.

 
Lol It makes my day when I shop at Aldis and someone leaves their cart with the quarter in.

It’s like years ago I bought a rental property with coin operated laundry. I got happier emptying the 50 bucks in quarters once in awhile than I did when they paid rent.
 
Capt MJ said:
I park next to or across from a shopping car corral, doesn’t matter how far from store door. I don’t mind the brisk walk to or from store. When I’ve got multiple containers of ice cream and perishable dairy on a hot day, I want to minimize time to launch for home. Load car, return cart in as few steps as possible.
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A strategy that’s shared with this gramma with a baby riding in the cart…..
 
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Capt MJ said:
I park next to or across from a shopping car corral, doesn’t matter how far from store door. I don’t mind the brisk walk to or from store. When I’ve got multiple containers of ice cream and perishable dairy on a hot day, I want to minimize time to launch for home. Load car, return cart in as few steps as possible.
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To be honest, I park next to a corral for the convenience of brining it back. But also to be able to find my car. I hate when I forget where I parked. ;)
 
A1Janitor said:
I bought NY Strips and left them under the cart
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Big stuff under the cart - the bagger throws a Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility over it.

Worst item left in the car. By Distracted Me. DH was in the hospital having unplanned surgery some years ago. I went home that night once he was stable, swung by a grocery store and picked up a bunch of frozen Lean Cuisines and Healthy Choice bowls he liked, handy balanced small meals quickly prepped any time the recovering patient is hungry. Got home. Dogs needed to be let out, fed and walked. I needed a shower, some food, sleep. Up early, took care of dogs, back to hospital. Came back out to car in parking lot at noon to run home for dog care, opened the door, and those meals in the trunk had had a chance to defrost, bake in the heat, start oozing and definitely start to smell like a pre-dumpster fire. It was awful. I shed a tear of frustration, said sailor words, off-loaded the mess. And was it a plastic bag? Noooooo, a paper one, which had allowed the horrific slime to soak into the trunk liner. The dogs’ enzyme pet stain carpet cleaner was the key, along with multiple boxes of baking soda around the car. To his credit, when I was ferrying DH home a few days later, and he asked about something he was smelling and noted the baking soda boxes, he didn’t inquire further when I told him I would tell him when I could laugh about it. When I could, I took the car to a full-service car wash and told them I needed a deodorizing interior clean, not a cover-up treatment. I told them what the source had been. They nodded, said they saw it all the time, noted bags of decomposing frozen chicken parts were the worst.

Hadn’t thought about that for years.
 
Don't Give Up the Ship said:
What I hate is....getting home and realizing you left a case of soda on the lower rack of the cart.
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Yes! I picked that up.
Wishful said:
I once did that with beer :eek:
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That too!

(True, on both counts).


Once, my wife bought 5 pounds of cut-up chicken parts and left them in her trunk, all weekend. In the Summer.
My goodness, that stench was aggressive.
 
Speaking of smelly fish...I was Chief Mate on a US Merchant Ship....the Chief Engineer was a pain in the a$$. Really bad. I think someone put a flying fish under his bunk...changed the smell of his room after a few days....not sure who did it...but I heard it happened. For non mariners, it's common to find dead flying fish on the deck of a ship underway.
 
Capt MJ said:
Big stuff under the cart - the bagger throws a Harry Potter Cloak of Invisibility over it.

Worst item left in the car. By Distracted Me. DH was in the hospital having unplanned surgery some years ago. I went home that night once he was stable, swung by a grocery store and picked up a bunch of frozen Lean Cuisines and Healthy Choice bowls he liked, handy balanced small meals quickly prepped any time the recovering patient is hungry. Got home. Dogs needed to be let out, fed and walked. I needed a shower, some food, sleep. Up early, took care of dogs, back to hospital. Came back out to car in parking lot at noon to run home for dog care, opened the door, and those meals in the trunk had had a chance to defrost, bake in the heat, start oozing and definitely start to smell like a pre-dumpster fire. It was awful. I shed a tear of frustration, said sailor words, off-loaded the mess. And was it a plastic bag? Noooooo, a paper one, which had allowed the horrific slime to soak into the trunk liner. The dogs’ enzyme pet stain carpet cleaner was the key, along with multiple boxes of baking soda around the car. To his credit, when I was ferrying DH home a few days later, and he asked about something he was smelling and noted the baking soda boxes, he didn’t inquire further when I told him I would tell him when I could laugh about it. When I could, I took the car to a full-service car wash and told them I needed a deodorizing interior clean, not a cover-up treatment. I told them what the source had been. They nodded, said they saw it all the time, noted bags of decomposing frozen chicken parts were the worst.

Hadn’t thought about that for years.
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Reminds me. When my daughter was young, she left a banana in the seat pocket of my truck. In the middle of a hot California summer. At the time, I had a take home vehicle for work, so I did not drive my truck for a couple weeks. Smell of fresh baked banana bread 😋! Smell of rotting baked banana in my truck 🤢. It took months to get rid of the smell. Story still comes up regularly.
 
Stray-cart haiku:

Living in Europe,
we dropped a coin, got a cart.
They always came back. 🤗
 
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MidCakePa said:
Stray-cart haiku:

Living in Europe,
we dropped a coin, got a cart.
They always came back. 🤗
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Lmao. A good friend and client for 30 years, former employee/general contractor moved to Vegas. Lived in Hawaii for many years. Great guy - in town to fix a student house for me.

We went to Aldis and he got out and said look at the parking lot. No carts. He said Hawaii and Vegas Aldi’s are unbelievable.

I was just looking around for free quarters.
 
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