How do you judge the world?

[Woodznutz]

Without regard to other countries, I judge America by the way people put their shopping carts away in the 'cart corrals'. Without a structure guiding the carts most are a jumbled mess that store employees have to deal with many times each day. A big waste of time for them. This habit reveals the confused and disorganized state of mind of most of these shoppers. This can be seen at grocery stores, building centers, big box stores; anywhere there is an outside cart enclosure. Sadly, most are completely unaware of the sad mental state that they are in. Until this is corrected, I don't see a bright future for America.

 

[1srelluc]

Since I park in a handicapped spot now I just leave the cart i use for the next "cripple" that uses the space.

I know I appreciate it when one is left for me.....Unless it has a bum wheel.

 

[Dekster]

I am happy if people make some effort. At Walmart a lot of people just leave the carts wherever in the parking lot they won't hit it backing out

 

[Woodznutz]

Since I park in a handicapped spot now I just leave the cart i use for the next "cripple" that uses the space.

I know I appreciate it when one is left for me.....Unless it has a bum wheel.

I think most carts come from the factory with bum wheels.

 

[1srelluc]

I think most carts come from the factory with bum wheels.

Well, at least i can lean on it till I can get a fresh one inside......If I can manage to pull one away from the rest.....They must have some kind of machine that compresses the carts at stores these days.

 

[Woodznutz]

Well, at least i can lean on it till I can get a fresh one inside......If I can manage to pull one away from the rest.....They must have some kind of machine that compresses the carts at stores these days.

I told a guy that was struggling to decouple a cart that it needed "a good jerk on the handle". He gave me a mean look.

 

[WorldWatcher]

I judge the world and sometimes wonder: "Maybe Thanos was on to something..."

WW

 

[shockedcanadian]

Without regard to other countries, I judge America by the way people put their shopping carts away in the 'cart corrals'. Without a structure guiding the carts most are a jumbled mess that store employees have to deal with many times each day. A big waste of time for them. This habit reveals the confused and disorganized state of mind of most of these shoppers. This can be seen at grocery stores, building centers, big box stores; anywhere there is an outside cart enclosure. Sadly, most are completely unaware of the sad mental state that they are in. Until this is corrected, I don't see a bright future for America.

The courageous who sacrifice for freedom and liberty versus cowards who exploit and oppress others for personal gain.

Whichever group wins in this struggle will determine the future of our species

 

[1srelluc]

I judge the world and sometimes wonder: "Maybe Thanos was on to something..."

WW

 

[1srelluc]

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Without regard to other countries, I judge America by the way people put their shopping carts away in the 'cart corrals'. Without a structure guiding the carts most are a jumbled mess that store employees have to deal with many times each day. A big waste of time for them. This habit reveals the confused and disorganized state of mind of most of these shoppers. This can be seen at grocery stores, building centers, big box stores; anywhere there is an outside cart enclosure. Sadly, most are completely unaware of the sad mental state that they are in. Until this is corrected, I don't see a bright future for America.

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I like the way it was done in UK. You don't get the use of a "trolley" unless you stick a pound coin into a slot, which releases it from a chain. Then, if you want your pound back, you must park the trolley in line and engage the chain, at which time, the pound pops out.

Maybe this could work at WalMart and give us a use for those Sacajawea dollar coins.

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[1srelluc]

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I like the way it was done in UK. You don't get the use of a "trolley" unless you stick a pound coin into a slot, which releases it from a chain. Then, if you want your pound back, you must park the trolley in line and engage the chain, at which time, the pound pops out.

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That's how ALDI does it. Keeps out a lot of the riff-raff....It's a quarter there.

It also serves as a low-rent IQ test.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

That's how ALDI does it. Keeps out a lot of the riff-raff.

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Oh, cool! ALDI originated in Europe, so no surprise. I've never been shopping at ALDI, or I'd know that, right?

Sure wish I'd been the guy that invented that.


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[Foxfyre]

Without regard to other countries, I judge America by the way people put their shopping carts away in the 'cart corrals'. Without a structure guiding the carts most are a jumbled mess that store employees have to deal with many times each day. A big waste of time for them. This habit reveals the confused and disorganized state of mind of most of these shoppers. This can be seen at grocery stores, building centers, big box stores; anywhere there is an outside cart enclosure. Sadly, most are completely unaware of the sad mental state that they are in. Until this is corrected, I don't see a bright future for America.

Our grocery store has mini cart parking spots in the handicapped zones where I leave the cart when departing. I really appreciate finding one there when I arrive as I can use it as a 'walker' to get from my car to the store--I can get there just fine under my own steam but it's nice to have the cart. And then if all the wheels are working well I just keep using that cart to shop.

But the greatest thing is that as I am loading the last of the groceries into the trunk, more often than not a passerby will offer to take the cart back to the store for me. A small kindness but not at all insignificant. And it always helps make my day.

As for the regular cart corrals, they are designed so that you really can't jumble the carts but they automatically nest with each other as you put them away. The problem may not be with the people who return the carts but the way the cart corrals are engineered?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Our grocery store has mini cart parking spots in the handicapped zones where I leave the cart when departing. I really appreciate finding one there when I arrive as I can use it as a 'walker' to get from my car to the store--I can get there just fine under my own steam but it's nice to have the cart. And then if all the wheels are working well I just keep using that cart to shop.

But the greatest thing is that as I am loading the last of the groceries into the trunk, more often than not a passerby will offer to take the cart back to the store for me. A small kindness but not at all insignificant. And it always helps make my day.

As for the regular cart corrals, they are designed so that you really can't jumble the carts but they automatically nest with each other as you put them away. The problem may not be with the people who return the carts but the way the cart corrals are engineered?

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Yeah, my favorite store has that kind of corral. The one thing I dislike about Menard's, the Midwest's favorite home improvement store, is that they use three different kinds of carts and they are always jumbled up in the corral. Poor employees who have to deal with that mess.


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[Foxfyre]

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Yeah, my favorite store has that kind of corral. The one thing I dislike about Menard's, the Midwest's favorite home improvement store, is that they use three different kinds of carts and they are always jumbled up in the corral. Poor employees who have to deal with that mess.


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Albertsons for awhile had large carts and small carts--two sizes--and yes, they did create more mess in the cart corral. But now they just have a one-size-fits-all. And the carts in the corral are neatly stacked.

 

[Woodznutz]

Our grocery store has mini cart parking spots in the handicapped zones where I leave the cart when departing. I really appreciate finding one there when I arrive as I can use it as a 'walker' to get from my car to the store--I can get there just fine under my own steam but it's nice to have the cart. And then if all the wheels are working well I just keep using that cart to shop.

But the greatest thing is that as I am loading the last of the groceries into the trunk, more often than not a passerby will offer to take the cart back to the store for me. A small kindness but not at all insignificant. And it always helps make my day.

As for the regular cart corrals, they are designed so that you really can't jumble the carts but they automatically nest with each other as you put them away. The problem may not be with the people who return the carts but the way the cart corrals are engineered?

In such an arrangement both ends of the 'chute' are open so the clerk can push them out easily. In most applications this can't be done as there is only one way in and out.

 

[Woodznutz]

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Yeah, my favorite store has that kind of corral. The one thing I dislike about Menard's, the Midwest's favorite home improvement store, is that they use three different kinds of carts and they are always jumbled up in the corral. Poor employees who have to deal with that mess.


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Menard's is terrible. Home Depot is a little better.

 

[Darkwind]

I don’t judge the world based on my own pet peeves. The shopping cart issue doesn’t serve as a moral value system for the entire world.


Anyone can learn from early childhood to return shopping carts—just consider whether you’d want one to hit the car you spent four years saving for. Usually, when you work hard for something, you treat it well, and by extension, you respect what others own—unless you’re simply wired differently.


I find it interesting that some people believe eliminating half the population solves anything.


I judge the world using a long list of criteria. In short, I ask:

1. Do you take care of yourself financially and emotionally?
2. Can you be happy alone, or do you need things to make you happy?
3. Do you respect the struggles of those who came before you?
4. Do you let others’ actions define who you are?

There are certainly a host of other criteria, but I just don't feel like typing them all out at the moment as I'm working on a coding project so this will have to do for now.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Menard's is terrible. Home Depot is a little better.

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I think Menard's depends on location. We have two branches, west and east Sioux Falls. I use the eastside store and love them. Went to the westside store once and will never go back.

Have to mention that I have not been to Home Depot since I moved to the Midwest.

Funny story, when my niece and her husband were vacationing here, we were having a conversation over dinner about a few little jobs I needed to have done around the house. The hubby said "Let's go get the materials". I took him to Menard's, and he spent the whole week looking for more honey-do jobs around the house, so he could have an excuse to go to Menard's.


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