Do you return your grocery cart to the store or rack?

[Jacinth]

I thought I was helping employ someone by leaving the cart next to my vehicle...

Well, usually the same people who have to get the carts from the racks anyway, are the same one who have to go around finding/gathering all the stray carts.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think businesses (typically) hire separate "cart retrievers" anymore. I think it's a rotating position today.

I think of it as, in the heat of the summer and frigid winter, why make that person have to endure the weather longer than they have to?
They have other stuff they can do inside.

*Also, while you may think you're putting your cart in a 'safe' spot in the parking lot, others may not.
I've seen people strategically place their cart between parking spot separators, but it depends on how the other cars park around it....it can make it very awkward for a person to have to park; and many times someone has to get out of their car b/c a slight wind moved the cart right into the spot they're trying to use.

[Patti311]

I do....it's a combo of a lot of factors that leads me to. Like others, I shop at a store that has a $.25 deposit for a cart...they are chained so if you want a cart you must cough up a quarter....but it's fun to also pass my cart along to someone w/o them needing a quarter with a "God Bless, have a great day, no keep your quarter".

In additon, it's annoying to drive around carts or miss a parking spot due to carts being left there, so I avoid that happening to others by putting my cart back in the stall....plus it's a little extra exercise.

[IamHis]

I always return the cart to the outside rack. The loose ones are a hazard
to people trying to park their cars. Also, you are not 'creating a job' for
anyone, the employees take them from the racks and return them to the
store. Just ask yourself, where did you get the cart when you started
your shopping? From a rack or inside the store, right? Well.

[tbrian40]

I always grab the cart closest to my car and leave it there when I'm done. Just kidding...

[Alex]

They took away the bagger jobs, they took the grocery boy job away and soon they will take the cart boy job away too. You want me to return my cart to a holding spot, Please... go find them like I had to when I was 16.

Where is the customer service we use to give? We use to make good tips bagging and hauling groceries out to cars.

[Wally]

Part of the reason I try to avoid the self serve registers.

They don't have kids to put through school.


**You got tips?!!? The only tip I got was when I changed a flat tire for a lady.

[Alex]

Tips played a major role in what checkout we worked at and knowing friends moms was a big help as well.

When I did a product return, I'd buzz the store looking for customers "Pssst Mrs. Jones, pull into lane 3, I'll get you through in a flash"

[IMSAVED]

Personally I find it terribly annoying when someone leaves their grocery cart in the middle of a parking spot.They think that it is ok where they have left it but it can drift off.Alot of times hitting a car that is in the way.People are not saving jobs by not returning their cart they are creating a hazard and creating more work for the store.Unless their are NO racks in the parking lot,I for one have never seen this before.

[Raphael]

I have sworn off my unregenerate pranks (which I justified due to poor customer service):

1) Wait until a parking lot cart rack is full, then weld all the carts together.
2) Wire a cart to the rear bumper of a vehicle parked near the store. Watch results from inside store.
3) Place a cart inside an unlocked SUV, then call the police.
4) Promise a group of twelve-year-olds that I will give the winner of a cart race around the parking lot $500. When they start racing, drive home.

[LightOfMyLife]

I have sworn off my unregenerate pranks (which I justified due to poor customer service):

1) Wait until a parking lot cart rack is full, then weld all the carts together.
2) Wire a cart to the rear bumper of a vehicle parked near the store. Watch results from inside store.
3) Place a cart inside an unlocked SUV, then call the police.
4) Promise a group of twelve-year-olds that I will give the winner of a cart race around the parking lot $500. When they start racing, drive home.

We put our cart in the cart rack that is closest to where we parked.

[ANewCreature]

Personally I find it terribly annoying when someone leaves their grocery cart in the middle of a parking spot.They think that it is ok where they have left it but it can drift off.Alot of times hitting a car that is in the way.People are not saving jobs by not returning their cart they are creating a hazard and creating more work for the store.Unless their are NO racks in the parking lot,I for one have never seen this before.

Middle of a parking place? that's nothing, I've seen carts on rare occasions in my neighborhood several blocks away fromt he nearest store. (And it could be one of several, all but oe across a busy street.)

I can see shopping and rolling the cart home, not everyone can drive and with my vision, that might not be a bad idea for me if I had the time to walk it back then and then walk home again. But, if you have to do that, it seems to make sense that the person had enough energy to also walk the cart back again and walk home again. As I said, it's not that far, just a block or two.

(Which is the other reason - besides not knowing which store it's from - that I don't walk them back myself; I give the benefit of the doubt and figure the person probably will and just got caught on the phone or something like that. And maybe they do; the carts do eventually get back and they can't move themselves.

[countryboy]

Just like me.

I return my cart because I want my € back. We have coin operated locking mechanisms.

Cool! I do the same thing! Aldi is just like that!

[Ovicula]

Cool! I do the same thing! Aldi is just like that!

So You are also a tract missionary?

Did You know that Aldi is one of the biggest German supermarket chains?

[IMSAVED]

Middle of a parking place? that's nothing, I've seen carts on rare occasions in my neighborhood several blocks away fromt he nearest store. (And it could be one of several, all but oe across a busy street.)

I can see shopping and rolling the cart home, not everyone can drive and with my vision, that might not be a bad idea for me if I had the time to walk it back then and then walk home again. But, if you have to do that, it seems to make sense that the person had enough energy to also walk the cart back again and walk home again. As I said, it's not that far, just a block or two.

(Which is the other reason - besides not knowing which store it's from - that I don't walk them back myself; I give the benefit of the doubt and figure the person probably will and just got caught on the phone or something like that. And maybe they do; the carts do eventually get back and they can't move themselves.

Well,if you really want to think outside the box I have seen many homeless with grocery carts rolling them down the street with all of their possessions in them.Who am I to say "Hey you better go take that back to the grocery store rack"Who could deny a person who has so little a grocery store cart to haul all their worldly belongings?

[Florian9]

So You are also a tract missionary?

Did You know that Aldi is one of the biggest German supermarket chains?

Ovicula: Have you ever wandered into a Catholic Church & left tracts on the pews? My mother taught me that tactic awhile back. Seems like people are oblivious as to who it is from and actually do take them home & read them. We've had some good results in Spain--I can't imagine Germany being any different!

[Ovicula]

Ovicula: Have you ever wandered into a Catholic Church & left tracts on the pews? My mother taught me that tactic awhile back. Seems like people are oblivious as to who it is from and actually do take them home & read them. We've had some good results in Spain--I can't imagine Germany being any different!

Florian, I live in East Germany. It is completely different. An international survey from an US university about belief in God found, that the former communistic East Germany had the highest rate of people who said they never believed in God (59 percent).

It is the most heathenish area in the world. Most of the people here are very resistant to the gospel. Some summer camp counselors from our church told us some years ago that a teen asked them: 'Bible? What is this? Never heard this word.' Other missionary from overseas asked some years ago somebody if he knew Jesus. He answered, No, I'm new in the town. He thought our Lord was an inhabitant of the town!

First the Nazis, then the Communists and this is the result. Christianity nearly exterminated.

Every Sunday I'm visiting my very little congregational chapel. Most of us are true believers. So I have no chance to visit the Church of Rome.

I use other ways to leave tracts, this thread has many helpful suggestions:

http://rr-bb.com/showthread.php?1327...-Gospel-Tracts

Soon I will go on vacation and my tracts for this country are already packed. And there are lots of Catholic Churches...

You and Your mother had the same idea like me!

[Steph58873]

Did You know that Aldi is one of the biggest German supermarket chains?

I normally went to Lidl. It was closer and I walked everywhere...

[Acts5:41]

IMSAVED, a grocery cart costs between $300 and $500. So, I think the store objects to the theft of the cart, by the homeless.

[IMSAVED]

IMSAVED, a grocery cart costs between $300 and $500. So, I think the store objects to the theft of the cart, by the homeless.

I hear you.I can see the cost issues on the grocery store side.And it is stealing.

[Mommytoa3rdgradeboy]

I do....it's a combo of a lot of factors that leads me to. Like others, I shop at a store that has a $.25 deposit for a cart...they are chained so if you want a cart you must cough up a quarter....but it's fun to also pass my cart along to someone w/o them needing a quarter with a "God Bless, have a great day, no keep your quarter".

In additon, it's annoying to drive around carts or miss a parking spot due to carts being left there, so I avoid that happening to others by putting my cart back in the stall....plus it's a little extra exercise.

You have to PAY .25 to use the shopping cart???? I have never heard of such a thing! I am guessing the shopping cart is the 'buggy', correct, or are you talking about the little baskets?