The shopping cart manifesto
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Probably doesn't make the bed when they wake up.
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Yeah, I saw that on someone's SoMe and it made me laugh a bit too. But to be fair, I think it's wrong when it says you get nothing by returning the cart -- should say there is no monetary reward for returning the cart, but people have souls which can be pretty awesome when it comes to helping people out or doing favors. Brain gets activated in a positive way, and the most fulfilling lives often involve generosity.
It's why people have been known to perform better under "social" motivation than "market" motivation in many cases. Like donating blood seems to be done more when not compensated. Or another example is when a group of accountants was approached to do work for poor elderly folks at a discounted price there was less interest than doing it for free? Why, because doing it for free gave joy from a charity/social standpoint, whereas doing it for a reduced rate was just a feeling of doing underpaid work. Same concept when it comes to helping a friend move -- people will enjoy it more if their friend "pays them back" with a favor at another time, as opposed to paying your friend a lower rate than actual movers charge as "reward" for their behavior.
But yes, you can definitely see evidence of where people can self govern. Unfortunately it only takes a few bad apples to ruin things for everyone.
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I go out of my way to return other carts lazy people leave in parking spaces.
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I’ve heard it argued that sometimes you have to park further away from the store, and that there are no cart receptacles when you’re that far away.
But, it isn’t simply whether or not you return it. I see carts all the time which are ouches into the receptacle sideways, or just strewn about in the receptacle area even though there are clearly two rows of carts, all of which can be pushed into the one in front of them.
Nearly every time I’m at the store I see this. People push their carts into the receptacle, but don’t even put in enough effort to straighten them out, rendering the entire thing moot.
Fuck those people. And I bet there are plenty of sherdoggers who do that.
But, it isn’t simply whether or not you return it. I see carts all the time which are ouches into the receptacle sideways, or just strewn about in the receptacle area even though there are clearly two rows of carts, all of which can be pushed into the one in front of them.
Nearly every time I’m at the store I see this. People push their carts into the receptacle, but don’t even put in enough effort to straighten them out, rendering the entire thing moot.
Fuck those people. And I bet there are plenty of sherdoggers who do that.
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Well in a lot of places in europe you get your coin back you have to put in to unlock it. Probably should do something similiar. There is not much problem with people not putting the cart back but some people take the cart home and never return it. It will just lay around for months at someones basement or left behind on some corner. Now its forbidden to take the cart home which hurts elderly who always brought it back. People are generally pretty shit.
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They have that in the US is some places. Not where I live though.
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It probably works if you give people a small enough reason like a coin. Obviously they should just do it because its common sense but a lot of people are self serving assholes.
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Counterpoint
1. By not returning your cart, you are keeping someone employed.
2. Some cheap ass stores don't have cart corrals in the parking lot
3. As long as you plant the front of the cart over a curb, it cannot roll away and hit someone's car. Therefore you've done no harm to anyone.
1. By not returning your cart, you are keeping someone employed.
2. Some cheap ass stores don't have cart corrals in the parking lot
3. As long as you plant the front of the cart over a curb, it cannot roll away and hit someone's car. Therefore you've done no harm to anyone.
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Found the culprit.
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For the record, I return my cart 99% of the time.
But that last 1% I don't feel guilty about at all.
The only way anyone is harmed is if I leave the cart where it takes up a parking space, or if I don't secure it so it won't roll away into someone's car. Since I don't do either of those things, nobody is harmed.
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Lol I just remembered an episode from a long time ago. I was at Aldi's near my university. They had these coin returned carts and this Indian bro wanted my quarter to use the cart. I should have just given him my cart but I made him walk with me to the return cart then gave him a quarter.
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I remember one time I was walking towards the supermarket and I approached this kid who was returning his coin trolley. And I was like 'hey, here's a dollar' (It took Canadian Dollars), and I gave him the dollar so I could just take his trolley without him having to return it thinking it was a win-win for both of us
It wasn't until I got out the store I found the trolley had no dollar in it, and the little shit just took my dollar without telling me. I felt like such an idiot. I still remember the little smirk he had when he took that dollar off me, and I didn't think anything of it at the time
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Ole Pete always returns his cart, even if he has to fight his way through the waves and waves of unreturned carts all strewn about all over the parking lot like bodies on a Civil War battlefield, he's a fine upstanding member of his community, no doubt about it
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My first job was a bagger and cart returner at Winn-Dixie back in the day. Ever since working there I return my cart inside the store. Those carts when you do quite a few at a time are heavy and if you push wrong it will mess up your back.
That being said I'm not against the way Aldi does their shopping carts. Put a quarter in and unlock the cart. In order to get the quarter back you need to put and lock the cart back.
That being said I'm not against the way Aldi does their shopping carts. Put a quarter in and unlock the cart. In order to get the quarter back you need to put and lock the cart back.
