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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 211 points 4 months ago

If you scatter carts in random places the supermarket has to employ someone to collect them. So you are a job creator^TM^. This is why I never return my cart, and also why I jump on cartons of milk in the dairy aisle and take a dump in the broccoli.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 68 points 4 months ago

People who actually think this are using it as an excuse for their bad manners.

The person employed by the supermarket to gather carts is not employed to return your cart to the cart return near your vehicle. They are employed to gather the carts from the cart return near your vehicle and bring them back to the store building's cart return.

By doing this, you do not create more jobs (as the cart return employee position already exists whether you return your cart or not), you create more work for an already probably underpaid employee and you also increase everyone's autoinsurance because when the wind blows the carts damage other people's vehicles.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 50 points 4 months ago

OK, you got me, I actually always return my cart and seldom shit in the broccoli.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

... But what about the milk?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago

That information is classified. But you'll know it when you see/smell it.

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[-] bstix@feddit.dk 54 points 4 months ago

That explains Elon Musk. He's a job creator, right? Destroyer of everything.

[-] Bricriu@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Jean-Baptiste

Emmanuel

Zorg

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[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Reminds me of teens saying that janitors are paid to clean so what's the issue with throwing trash on the floor?

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[-] CptEnder@lemmy.world 95 points 4 months ago

You return your cart because it's the right thing to do

I return my cart because it gives me a sense of superiority

We are not the same

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 4 months ago

You return your cart because it's the right thing to do

I return my cart to get my euro back that I put in to unlock it

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Mr fancy pants here with full euro coins.

I treasure my red plastic €0.50 coin replica more than my life.

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[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 78 points 4 months ago

No one will punish you for not returning the cart

My opinion on this is reason number 8735 why I will never, and should never, be in charge of a country.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 42 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I too have thousands of reasons why I shouldn't be in charge of a country, however I do have one good pitch.

My appointment to dictatorship would be guided solely by autism. I guarantee my powers will only be focused upon my two fixations that deal with the general public, trains and healthcare.

If made supreme leader I will not only make the trains run on time, there will be more trains, more hospitals, we would even have trains that can take you to your job at the hospital. I would shape the perfect world for me, and vicariously a more efficient and safer world for you.

Demand Me for dictator 2024

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Why not put the hospital in the train? Instead of taking the train to the hospital, the hospital comes to you

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[-] GroundedGator@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

I'd vote for you.

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[-] SayJess 68 points 4 months ago

Don’t be a lazybones folks!

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[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 67 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

My favorite part about when this gets posted is that there is always someone trying to justify not putting the shopping cart back.

Edit: didn't even have to scroll half a screen length lmao.

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[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 60 points 4 months ago
[-] CsJ5NPkuvE@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

how do they get out of their cars, they can't open the doors

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[-] ThoranTW@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

As a combination cart pusher and cleaner for a supermarket, absolutely fuck anyone that doesn't return their cart or worse, throws it into a gardenbed

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

I used to see threads like this on reddit where people would defend the act by claiming it keeps people employed. Anyone who has worked in retail knows otherwise, but it doesn't stop these neanderthals from existing and making their bullshit toxic arguments.

[-] ThoranTW@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

100%

And knowing how corporate works in these sorts of places, they ain't gonna hire/roster more people to deal with the extra work, just push the existing staff even harder so they don't have to pay out extra hours.

The worst shit is when I see someone dumping a cart, they see me, smile and nod at me and then walk off like they haven't just been caught being shitty.

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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 31 points 4 months ago

I've always told my family I like to build up "cart karma." You get karma by bringing a cart in with you from the parking lot, or returning the one you use after. You lose karma by leaving your cart in the parking lot. Even if I'm going in for a single item, I'll take a cart in from the parking lot with me and leave it in the rack by the store.

I don't really care about cart karma, it's just a way of saying that it seems like the nice thing to do.

[-] match@pawb.social 24 points 4 months ago

st peter at the pearly gates: "yup, looks like you're up 14 carts overall. welcome to heaven."

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[-] CaptKoala@lemmy.ml 28 points 4 months ago

I take other people's trolleys back on my way because I'm not a piece of shit.

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[-] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 4 months ago

That goes for everything you can return but don't have to. You can throw your trash away after the movie, you don't have to leave it in the theatre.

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[-] Frog@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 months ago

No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart.

Cart Narcs. Those guys are fucking crazy. They were doing their thing in Texas. I've read stories of idiots pulling out guns for less.

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[-] oneofmany@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

BUT! What if the parking lot is four miles long and there are no cart returns anywhere and you're tired because you've been working 20 hour days with no time off and it's 140 degrees outside and the grocery store is exploiting their workers and you haven't eaten in days and you have a disability and the carts are coin operated and this is literally the only way to solve the unemployment crisis? WHAT THEN??

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago

Murica, fucked up because of shopping carts. In germany you have to put money in the cart, and get it back while bringing the cart back to where it is from. Problem solved.

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 22 points 4 months ago

I'll do you one further. It is morally correct to take a cart from the parking lot to use in the store rather than grab one from inside the store.

[-] prole 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

I would add scooping dog shit is another test. There are people out there who will bag the shit and then leave the bag on the ground for the poop to steam in for a few days before they put another bag right next to it to keep it company.

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[-] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

To shop is human. To return is divine.

[-] halvar@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago

Don't know about you people, but here in Hungary (Eastern-Europe) I haven't ever seen a cart not returned at least as far as I remember.

[-] match@pawb.social 17 points 4 months ago

i once visited Lewiston, Maine and none of the carts had been returned to the proper spot. more than a dozen carts were just scattered around the parking lot. as soon as i found somewhere to park, i got out and collected every cart in the lot. the boy i was dating at the time looked at me with concern in his eyes

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago

A lot of countries use coin operated cart releases, which give you a coin back on return. This is very uncommon in the US. Generally there are just metal "corrals" with guardrails you return a cart to in the parking lot.

The only store that I know of that uses coin returns is Aldi, but that's still regional in the US.

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[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

I uh, avoid taking a cart, because I have a big ass reusable shopping bag. I'm not sure where that leaves me.

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[-] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

I've gone out of my way multiple times to put up multiple cats that were blocking parking spaces, including handicap spaces. While the handicap ones make it seem like the person is an extra asshole, I wonder if it's the handicap person that leaves it there and it just moves into the space. There's are very few stores that put a corral by handicap spaces.

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