Zone1 The Shopping Cart Theory

[1srelluc]

But what about the employee who’s job it is to retrieve empty carts?



Of course we shop at Aldis. If we don’t return our cart then we don’t get our quarter back!

 

[pknopp]

Comparing a person that doesn't return their cart to an absolute Savage? Why do people feel a need to resort to over the top hyperbole?

 

[1srelluc]

Comparing a person that doesn't return their cart to an absolute Savage? Why do people feel a need to resort to over the top hyperbole?

You could also make the case where women that do not have the planning skills and forethought to park near the cart corral should not be allowed to vote.

 

[Woodznutz]

Comparing a person that doesn't return their cart to an absolute Savage? Why do people feel a need to resort to over the top hyperbole?

People don't have to not return a shopping cart to demonstrate how thoughtless they are. Just look at the jumbled mess of carts that customers leave in the 'cart corrals' that store employees must unscramble several times per day. Thoughtless morons.

 

[pknopp]

People don't have to not return a shopping cart to demonstrate how thoughtless they are. Just look at the jumbled mess of carts that customers leave in the 'cart corrals' that store employees must unscramble several times per day. Thoughtless morons.

Thoughtless? Yeah, OK.

 

[Woodznutz]

Thoughtless? Yeah, OK.

The supermarket is great place to witness the thoughtlessness of people, and the patience of others that must put up with it.

 

[Hellokitty]

You could also make the case where women that do not have the planning skills and forethought to park near the cart corral should not be allowed to vote.

I did this when kids were little. Now I park far and just walk my cart to corral. If I'm going into store and I am walking past a stray car I'll grab it.
I'm also annoyed by people who don't pay attention walking in parking lots or who walk in a diagonal when they're crossing in front of cars... also people who get cart in store and wipe it down in entrance blocking everyone else...also people shopping who pay no attention when they're blocking aisles...oh and the milk area always is annoying.
I do shop more at Aldis since they've changed a lot and seem to be popping up all over lately.

 

[Meriweather]

I did this when kids were little. Now I park far and just walk my cart to corral. If I'm going into store and I am walking past a stray car I'll grab it.
I'm also annoyed by people who don't pay attention walking in parking lots or who walk in a diagonal when they're crossing in front of cars... also people who get cart in store and wipe it down in entrance blocking everyone else...also people shopping who pay no attention when they're blocking aisles...oh and the milk area always is annoying.
I do shop more at Aldis since they've changed a lot and seem to be popping up all over lately.

My solution is to shop early--before 6:00-7:00 a.m.; sometimes at 5:00 am, depending on the store. That way, I do not annoy anyone, and no one annoys me. My shopping cart is parked neatly in the corral--and the parking lot is so empty I could do cartwheels, diagonally, across it--that is, if I could do cartwheels.

 

[pknopp]

My solution is to shop early--before 6:00-7:00 a.m.; sometimes at 5:00 am, depending on the store. That way, I do not annoy anyone, and no one annoys me. My shopping cart is parked neatly in the corral--and the parking lot is so empty I could do cartwheels, diagonally, across it--that is, if I could do cartwheels.

My wife gets on her computer. Picks the items she wants, the store sends her a message saying they are ready, she shows up and they bring it out and put it in her car.

 

[Meriweather]

My wife gets on her computer. Picks the items she wants, the store sends her a message saying they are ready, she shows up and they bring it out and put it in her car.

I enjoy the shopping experience, selecting my own meat and produce, adding steps to my daily tally. However, one day perhaps I won't enjoy it any more, so I will keep your wife's solution in mind. (Besides, what else is there to do between 5-7 a.m.?)

 

[Woodznutz]

Every now and then a whole family including small children will appear at my store. While they are there, they are in everyone's way, in every aisle, including the checkout lane. The epidemy of thoughtlessness.

 

[Hellokitty]

My wife gets on her computer. Picks the items she wants, the store sends her a message saying they are ready, she shows up and they bring it out and put it in her car.

I often do pickup. I shop at Kroger and it's easier to keep track of sale items. I always do pickup when I stock up on water/soda. I've tried delivery but they usually screw up my order.

 

[Mr Natural]

People who don’t return their shopping carts are nothing but self centered inconsiderate assholes.

But not quite as bad as the ones who pick up their dogs shit and leave the bag behind.

 

[Woodznutz]

People who don’t return their shopping carts are nothing but self centered inconsiderate assholes.

But not quite as bad as the ones who pick up their dogs shit and leave the bag behind.

Dog owners. They're the worst.

 

[Winston]

I had just started out on my own, married, new apartment, working as a meat cutter. I walked to work, my apartment was about a mile away. One Sunday I was off, went to the store to do some shopping and the manager saw me. He told me he heard there were a lot of buggies at my apartment complex. He told me he could give me one dollar for everyone I bought back.

It is not fifteen minutes later, I am sitting on the hood of my car as my wife drives and we are crawling down the road. More than twenty grocery carts lashed together with the car pushing them. Manager pays me shaking his head.

 

[Woodznutz]

Comparing a person that doesn't return their cart to an absolute Savage? Why do people feel a need to resort to over the top hyperbole?

Maybe because the rest of their lives are also a series of thoughtless acts.

 

[Woodznutz]

I had just started out on my own, married, new apartment, working as a meat cutter. I walked to work, my apartment was about a mile away. One Sunday I was off, went to the store to do some shopping and the manager saw me. He told me he heard there were a lot of buggies at my apartment complex. He told me he could give me one dollar for everyone I bought back.

It is not fifteen minutes later, I am sitting on the hood of my car as my wife drives and we are crawling down the road. More than twenty grocery carts lashed together with the car pushing them. Manager pays me shaking his head.

I worked at a supermarket (as a meat cutter) adjacent to a 'low income' neighborhood. There was an endless parade of these customers wheeling their groceries home in the shopping carts. Many of them brought them back when they returned to shop. However, their neighborhood was littered with unreturned carts.

 

[Winston]

I worked at a supermarket (as a meat cutter) adjacent to a 'low income' neighborhood. There was an endless parade of these customers wheeling their groceries home in the shopping carts. Many of them brought them back when they returned to shop. However, their neighborhood was littered with unreturned carts.

Yeah, it was pretty low income. Right across from the store was one of the low income car lots, fenced in, guard dogs at night, vicious guard dogs, or so the owner thought.

I walked by the lot every night on the way home, it was usually closed and the dogs were vicious at first, up against the fence, snarling at me. Then I just started tossing them a few bones every evening. Before long, we were all best buds.

 

[1srelluc]

I did this when kids were little. Now I park far and just walk my cart to corral. If I'm going into store and I am walking past a stray car I'll grab it.
I'm also annoyed by people who don't pay attention walking in parking lots or who walk in a diagonal when they're crossing in front of cars... also people who get cart in store and wipe it down in entrance blocking everyone else...also people shopping who pay no attention when they're blocking aisles...oh and the milk area always is annoying.
I do shop more at Aldis since they've changed a lot and seem to be popping up all over lately.

Good lord, I was coming back from the gun shop this morning and decided to take a back road into town.

I was on this straight stretch and saw someone walking up ahead, who to their credit was walking facing traffic and had a dayglow vest on.

Well, the closer I got the more she (it was a woman) headed into the middle of the road to the point I had to almost stop and blow the horn at her.

When I blew my horn she acted all surprised and hot-footed it to the side of the road.

WTF? If you can't walk like you got any sense then you don't need to be voting.

 

[Mac-7]

ALDI has a good idea

Customers have to insert a quarter to use a cart

If its returned it after use the quarter is returned