• rustyfish@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Pretty sure if you do that here in Germany you will get stomped into the ground by other shoppers.

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    11 months ago

    Sorry, doesn’t resonate

    I live in one the countries that’s civilised enough to not need telling

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      11 months ago

      Where’s that? I’m in Finland and even though people almost always do it, I’ve seen some errant carts

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    There’s a Twitter or 4chan post floating around about how putting the cart back is the apex test of your humanity because there’s no reward for doing it and no consequences for not. It’s just “are you a good enough dude to put the cart back?”

    (Unless you live near one of those places where you “rent” the cart for a coin, in which case there is a slim monetary value in cart management.)

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    “Weee-wooo weee-wooo weee-wooo… Sir, I’ve noticed that you’ve missed the cart return. That’s okay, it’s kinda hard to find. See, the cart goes over there.”

    cue incoming verbal violence.

    For anyone missing the reference: CartNarcs Absolute treasure trove of comedy gold featuring entitled shitty people.

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    In 45 years living in Germany I haven’t seen once a free roaming cart in a car park, the only ones I’ve seen are abducted ones, from homeless people etc standing somewhere under a tree or shit where they can’t cause problems. Just saying.

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    When the air is too intense, it can move carts around and break them into a parked or even a moving car. I didn’t believe it before I saw it myself. One another reason to fix them in a corral. Redoing a paint job after such random shit’s what I wish not to myself, nor to anyone.

    Surprisingly, there’s many videos of that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eHMHxpoVi84

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    I think voting rights should be tied to returning carts to the little cart thing. It’s such a simple act that provides almost no personal benefit to the person doing it (apart from just “doing the right thing”), but in my mind the kind of person who does it is being respectful and considerate of their fellow person. People who don’t return the carts and just leave them sitting around are trash and shouldn’t have any say in how the rest of society functions (handicapped folks would obviously get a pass).

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      11 months ago

      I’ve never understood why people don’t put them away. At worst, it’s like 1 minute of your time

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        I think that says a lot about Americans because it’s basically unheard of in Europe. And we do have our fair share of selfish assholes here too

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          I am not sure about that. In any given grocery store parking lot, in my experience, the vast majority of our carts get returned and we have an enormous asshole population here in America. I wouldn’t say unreturned carts is a huge problem here either

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      11 months ago

      What stops you from returning them in the situations in which you don’t?

      I am assuming it’s got something to do with your bones.

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    Last time this shit came up, some dude chimed in that walking around the parking lot collecting lose carts was the best part of his day, since he could be outside away from managers slowly collecting them relaxing.

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      It was hit or miss at previous jobs. I worked at Kmart for a few years and would often help the stock guys round up carts in the evening. During summer evenings it was kind of fun wandering way out into that concrete sea with the boys, rounding up impossibly far carts and running the wrong carts (or electric scooters) back to the grocery store next door. But during the winter it was hell on fucking earth, and I’d help them round them up just to spare them the agony of a slipped disk.

      I live in Canada now and couldn’t imagine rounding up carts during these cold snaps. You’d probably stick to them, imprisoning you in parking lot until you succumb to frostbite.

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      This is why I never ever put carts away. Give those poor kids something better to do than stand inside and listen to bitching customers while they bag their groceries.

      They don’t even need to push the carts. They just walk around with a little machine that does the pushing while they bop around with their headphones on enjoying the fresh air.

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    In Spain you have to use a coin to detach a cart from the others.

    Well, I have a homemade metal thingy than can release the cart without a coin AND I can pull the thing right back out so I don’t even have to leave it in the coin slot.

    When I’m done I still leave the cart in the return area and attach it to the others. I don’t even leave it unattached for the next person, because some pieces of shit already leave carts around the parking lot somehow.

    I’m a petty motherfucker and I wish the worst to those assholes.

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      Doesn’t work in America because the largest coin is a quarter (i.e. 25 cents), likely not enough to deter theft (or even laziness).

      So instead, many supermarkets installed a system that locks up the carts’ wheels if they’re taken off the property, which makes them extremely difficult to push. Unfortunately, that also doesn’t help with laziness, so we still need memes like this.

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    Used to wrangle carts and I didn’t mind the carts that weren’t returned to the corral that much, but I did greatly prefer it when they were at least hiked up onto a planter curb so they don’t roll away.

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      Yes! If I feel I’m too far from the cart return, I will at least put it somewhere safe. The whole point of cart return is to keep the lot clear for cars, assuming there are enough carts to go around