I had this problem yesterday. My SO just left it next to the exit. Would have taken 5 seconds to move it to the rest at the entrance. But noooo im the one overreacting because ppl do it all the time. It felt like littering.
If my time on reddit taught me anything… When’s the divorce?
Lol I should repeat this if I see it happen again.
Feels similar to littering your cigarette butt. It’s super common for smokers to not feel anything wrong with throwing their toxic smoker trash somewhere it doesn’t belong, even if they wouldn’t litter anything else.
As an ethical nicotine addict, I always hated those people! As I kinda felt some type of guilty by association, I always made sure to pick up butts every time I left the beach. Granted it was a fairly popular beach, but I would pick up no less than a half dozen easily spotted butts just walking the 50 or so meters from the water to the stairs, where there were two cans and bags for pet waste, every single time. I really don’t get how uncaring and/or lazy most people are.
I’m sitting in the break area right now, there’s 3 bins for people to toss their cigarettes in, yet the ground is littered with them.
It’s fucking disgusting.
Wonder if its the same energy as the people that bag the dogs crab and leave it on the trail. Like who does that?
The most ethical decision is to leave your cart at the top of an incline, aimed at any pickup making more than 1 space unusable. Just behind the rear passenger bumper is also acceptable.
What about aiming it at a line of motorcycles the biker gang rode in on?
Don’t forget, these things become fucking wrecking balls in windy storms. So not putting it away during a wind storm means you’re a full on pos. Ive seen it sooo many times.
You get back your 1€ though.
The trolley return is the decent human checker of the world.
I put them back in the cart corral.
Mainly because the business has to pay someone to go get them.
Same reason spill shit on their floors
I don’t put the gym weights back so the employees can get a workout also. Youre welcome. /$
I used to return the cart when the concept was “return the cart to avoid the grocery store having to hire someone to collect carts, increasing their overhead, thus raising prices”.
Then we learned, at least in Canada, that the grocery chains kept prices high after the pandemic well after the supply chains settled down. They even did a second wave of higher prices. They are price gouging so much they’ve never seen such high profits.
They have also made a move to get rid of regular checkout, pushing robotic checkout so they don’t have to hire humans and they can increase their profits even further.
The shopping cart question used to pose itself as “do you help society and return your cart if there is no reward for you.”
Let’s rephrase it. “Will you do free labour for a multi-million dollar company who is laughing all the way to the bank with record profits while some people in society are going hungry because they can’t afford the higher prices?”
I NEVER return my cart now.
The problem is, that the only person you punish is some 16 year old making minimum wage.
It’s not a punishment. It’s part of the job.
If we keep putting away carts and self checking our groceries, that person won’t have a job.
They take in the carts from the designated cart returns.
Why are you working for free for a multi-million dollar corporation that doesn’t give a shit about you? Just leave your cart anywhere. Someone will be along to collect it.
Because I care about the people that work for them. The only person acting like a cold hearted corporation is you. Why have you let their actions steal your humanity? If you can’t bring yourself to help out someone making around minimum wage and then use corporate greed as an excuse, you’re kind of a piece of shit.
Because I care about the people that work for them.
Give me a break. You are pretending returning a cart is some sort of moral high ground just because it’s pointed out you’re doing free labour for multi-million dollar corporations with nothing in return for you.
If you REALLY cared for the employees you’d be standing outside the store demanding they pay better so they employees can get above the poverty line and no longer need food stamps to survive.
What kind of 10 year old child logic is that? Unless I can devote my life to a cause there is no point in making anything better? It seems like you’ve crafted a world view where you get to act like a conservative asshat but with the smugness of a Hasan type loser. So glad I don’t know someone like you irl.
This just changed my mind on the trolley problem.
The solution is to be so broke you dont need a cart to finish grocery shopping.
sad hungry noises
Can’t we please just kill some people?
Does the cart need to be returned to right at the entrance of the store or is it acceptable to return to a mid parking lot cart corral?
I was so close to cross-posting this back before I realised
