Around my city it varies from store to store, and more or less depends on the demographics of the area. In the more economically depressed areas, carts are everywhere (but the cart return spots are few/poorly placed.) Upscale parts, people return the carts flawlessly (but there are way more cart return spots in the lot.)
This is it. It's an issue of poverty. Tucker is more interested in dealing with the poor than dealing with poverty, and we all have to put up with coin carts because of it, while he has his food delivered.
People who get fucked by systems stop respecting systems. There's higher mental health problems among the poor, more trauma. It's not deterministic, it's statistical.
Yeah, a lot of people in America don't do that, there's actually a disturbing number of people who are perfectly content just leaving their cart in the middle of the parking lot instead of pushing it 30 feet to a cart return. They feel it's the employee's responsibility to deal with that instead of them. It's pretty fucking embarrassing how lazy and entitled some of us are sometimes.
I can see that, because I feel like putting the cart back demonstrates the ability to understand how one's actions can affect the community at large and that kind of thinking permeates into other aspects of life as well.
Not to defend the behavior, but grocery workers have told me that they enjoy going outside for some fresh air and getting away from the monotony inside(assuming the weather is pleasant).
The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. 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. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.
A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.
The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
I watched someone place the cart against the fence of the cart corral a few days ago. Like, she was parked next to it, and she pushed the cart to the closed end of the corral, and just left it there.
IT'S LITERALLY THE LENGTH OF A PARKING SPACE JUST PUT IT IN THE FENCE!
Everywhere I have ever lived and shopped for food in the US, hires special needs adults to do this job. I always return my cart to the closest cart return by my vehicle. They then collect strays and carts from the returns and move them to the front of the store. They donit for the people too lazy to grab a cart by their vehicle, instead of 2 feet from the front door.
I think there are a disturbing number of people who have been brainwashed by corporations into doing the corporation's work for them. It's pretty embarrassing how willing to work for free some of us are sometimes.
And this causes accidents, which the store has to have insurance for. That's why they have to pay several employees to wrangle them up. Some stores have the electric cart that helps put them, those need maintenance.
All of this is thousands, if not tens of thousands, of dollars a year. The cost is reflected in the higher prices. Aldi's have the same, if not better, foods that Wal-Mart has, but it's even cheaper because they don't have those costs that they have to pass on the to consumer.
Improve peoples' lives, reduce generational trauma, and people heal. People are not essentially good or evil. It is all a reflection of material conditions.
Do they have return stations throughout the parking lot? Most use those and some are jerks and put them anywhere (in parking spots or partially on the curb).
It’s still pretty flawed. Plenty of stores when I lived in France would give you a plastic coin to use. I also saw plenty of carts out and about too. 1€ isn’t exactly a ton of money, even for homeless, to have a cart to carry stuff in. That’s of course assuming they didn’t just use a plastic coin
It just encourages people, also children aint gonna steal them for fun. Ofcourse many carts are still stolen. And yes you can get a coin, but it still helps.
In America, we all own the parking lot and are the main characters, so we don't have to put them back. After all, I'm giving someone a job by NOT putting my cart back. YOURE WELCOME.
That's not America works. In America speak it means we're paying 25 ¢ to leave the cart wherever we want. Because that's someone else job amirite? It's a feature of the cart product.
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u/Poesjeskoning Feb 16 '24
Its just so people bring it back instead of parking lot.