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24 August 2019, 01:57 AM | #1 |
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Not a Rant...well if you want to rant. :chuckle:
Just wrapped up a Costco trip. No...this isn’t about Rolexes in the jewelry case...
. . . While returning my buggy to the corral in the parking lot I noticed this... Why can’t Walmart shoppers park buggies as neat and straight? It can’t be the thriftiness that both sets of shoppers share...opine if you care... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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24 August 2019, 02:35 AM | #2 |
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Better than the animals who leave their carts in parking spaces.
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"Buggy?"
Hate to break it to you but that's a shopping cart. And you might as well ask why can't Wallmart shoppers brush their teeth.
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To answer the OP, some people are just lazy.
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I think further investigation is warranted. Perhaps an independent council.
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No need for negative or mean comments on the perceived shoppers at either place, but...
Its simply the weather at the time, design of the corrals and condition of the carts. And personally, I'm not doing a perfect job someone could and should be hired to do if I'm doing it wrong, and if Wally and Costy had an issue, they'd do an Aldi and make people add a quarter in there and they'll be returned uniformly. |
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I think your ocd is showing! Not something I’d have even noticed, much less taken a photo of!!
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My 6 year-old son has asked me why I return my cart to the corral or store when everyone else leaves them in the parking lot. I tell him there’s nothing we can do about other people, we can only do the proper thing ourselves. Hopefully it wears off on him.
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I refuse to park anywhere near loose carts. runaway carts have radar for my car. people are lazy generally if they are not being watched. If i owned a store i would have a big sign out front with CCTV mugs of people refusing to follow basic courtesy. I would just shame them
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The employees who bring the carts back to store entrances still have to gather them all from the parking lots. I don't consider it some great injustice if I take a cart to where they belong. We've all seen parking spots that are taken up by carts . I've seen carts randomly rolling in parking lots that end up dinging cars. Frankly I would feel terrible if I left a cart out in the open somewhere and it rolled away and hit someone's car.
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Great answers...
Well, we are ALL Animals - mammals, that is. But some mammals can park a buggy/cart straight and other mammals can’t and some may just be lazy. I will throw this out there - a mom/dad alone with toddler(s) can’t easily handle it. I wonder if the stats change when it’s raining... My wife loved Publix stores because of 2 things: BOGO & the bagger pushes your cart to your car and returned it to the store. I have seen the motorized ones parked way in the back - maybe they were racing and the battery died? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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I think someone loves their job, and whoever did that, is going places.
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I always thought I was keeping someone employed by leaving it about.... but hey. If it’s need maybe it’s just less overtime |
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My Costco does not even have the cages for carts. An employee has a cart machine and he gathers them up with it and brings them back to the store.
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The rationalization being that leaving a cart out in a parking lot is keeping someone employed. Right. I can see it now. Put stuff in car. Look at cage 20 feet away. NO! I'm going to leave it right here. Doesn't matter that if I might end up blocking a spot. Doesn't matter that it might roll away and hit someone's car. Nope. Someone has a job because of me
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Never thought about that. If we all left them randomly scattered in the farthest reaches of the parking lots it would be healthier [mean more exercise for us (walking the extra 1/4 mile)] and more jobs/OT at the stores. Brilliant! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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Yet another affirmation that I have found my tribe among these forums. Watch people also tend to be good people.
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I leave that to my butler.
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Now, if you go to the store I go to there is one cage per acre. But there are a couple guys who do nothing but shag buggies and take them inside. They seem happy in their work. They usually come to my car to grab the buggy. But if they don't, I leave it in the space next to my car. Sorry that poor buggy service in your store has ruined your life, but I'm not walking half way across the lot to cage the buggy. |
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All those empty baskets remind me of the cases at Rolex AD
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What do they do in the winter in Sweden? Keep the poor buggies warm inside the store and use reindeers to save the butlers? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro
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I hate these thinly veiled political posts!
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