How do you judge the world?

[Woodznutz]

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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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I was dazzled as well the first time I shopped at Menards.

 

[Woodznutz]

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




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I like that Home Depot's lumber is inside, and they will custom cut lumber and plywood. Also, custom cut and thread pipe at no cost.

 

[1srelluc]

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.

But the shopping cart analogy is so much more fun to talk about.....Much better than getting bogged down in other's two-bit opinions.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Blah, blah, blah.....But the shopping cart analogy is so much more fun to talk about.

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Kinda true. It's more fun to talk about shopping carts and home improvement stores than politics.

Although, if pet peeves are the subject, it does make me a little nuts to see the lazy f**k who can't be bothered to walk 30 feet to deposit the cart where it belongs.


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[Woodznutz]

But the shopping cart analogy is so much more fun to talk about.....Much better than getting bogged down in other's two-bit opinions.

The shopping cart analogy convicts all classes of people. It's a very reliable indicator of society as a whole.

 

[Darkwind]

But the shopping cart analogy is so much more fun to talk about.....Much better than getting bogged down in other's two-bit opinions.

Returning a shopping cart or not amounts to others two-bit opinions.

 

[1srelluc]

Returning a shopping cart or not amounts to others two-bit opinions.

But it's not as boring.

 

[Woodznutz]

Returning a shopping cart or not amounts to others two-bit opinions.

If you followed these people home, you would find that their lives are probably in complete disarray. Making or adding to the mess in the cart corrals is just natural to their way of thinking.

 

[Darkwind]

If you followed these people home, you would find that their lives are probably in complete disarray. Making or adding to the mess in the cart corrals is just natural to their way of thinking.

You'll find that they are wired wrong or are the product of a poor upbringing or have always had other people pay for their stuff.

 

[d0gbreath]

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

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If the nonexistent cart maintenance crew can't keep the wheels rolling straight, I can't see the coin boxes working for very long.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

People throwing trash out of their car into the street/parking lot.
Even in my worst teen years - I have never did this.

People talking in a grocery store aisle, blocking the path and act annoyed when you force your way through them. GTF out of the way is my method of dealing with them

People who hog the left lane. - is it a power trip? Or are they really this stupid?

People who get a puppy - "oh how cuuute!!" - then chain it to a doghouse and ignore it for 10 years.

These things, and many others, show there is no hope for mankind to ever achieve greatness.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

People throwing trash out of their car into the street/parking lot.
Even in my worst teen years - I have never did this.

People talking in a grocery store aisle, blocking the path and act annoyed when you force your way through them. GTF out of the way is my method of dealing with them

People who hog the left lane. - is it a power trip? Or are they really this stupid?

People who get a puppy - "oh how cuuute!!" - then chain it to a doghouse and ignore it for 10 years.

These things, and many others, show there is no hope for mankind to ever achieve greatness.

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The fact that you recognize the morality required to act right, as in all your examples, shows that there is hope for mankind. There are more people like you.


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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

If the nonexistent cart maintenance crew can't keep the wheels rolling straight, I can't see the coin boxes working for very long.

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How long have they worked in the UK? My experience there was 20 years ago.


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[Captain Caveman]

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

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It's a rare sight now, most have gone back to no deposit trollies.

Supermarket carparks should have AI cameras and just send a penalty charge to the car owner that was too lazy to put a trolley back.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

It's a rare sight now, most have gone back to no deposit trollies.

Supermarket carparks should have AI cameras and just send a penalty charge to the car owner that was too lazy to put a trolley back.

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Well, that's a good use of technology.


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[hondo 50]

Do an internet search on Cart Narcs.

 

[Cassandro]

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.

Many Americans are too self-absorbed to even think about their shopping carts, other than to use them as trash receptacles. On the other hand, it provides additional employment for store employees. That is why Oregon won't let you pump gas into your own car.