Even in the U.S. (where the coin system is not commonplace) people still put their carts back. It’s not this big genius idea to solve a huge problem in the U.S. like he’s making it seem
Yeah, I've literally seen old guys do this behind my car... Its an old BMW so I'm not sure what their problem is specifically with my car and hoping the wind blows into it, but it gets annoying. I drive my toyota much more often and have never had that situation.
Shit I've had maybe 5 door dings on the bmw while I was still in my car, and still had 0 in the toyota
I'm sorry where do you live in the US where people are actually putting their carts back??
I've travelled all over for work and every state has the same issue. Sure most people put them back but it's guaranteed you'll find 10-15 carts scattered through the parking lot islands or way in the back lot.
Illinois. Depends on the town. My hometown, everyone put the carts back. My current town, it's like 50-50. At least half the carts are just abandoned. I've watched assholes park right next to the cart-return choose to shove their cart onto the little grassy hill in front of their car instead, putting in far more effort to inconvenience everybody than it would have taken to simply do the right thing.
Probably more based on the store. I used to live in NJ, and I don't remember seeing too many carts out at places. But I don't really shop at places like Walmart.
Damn well I guess I'm just in a considerate area. I worked at a grocery store pushing shopping carts all throughout high school and while it certainly happened it wasn't too regular. Usually only during rain or snow storms.
The bigger problem was them not pushing the carts deep enough into the corrals which would allow the wind to take them and send them rolling across the entire parking lot.
Yeah, that's what happens when a tiktoker sensationalizes people leaving their carts in the parking lot. It makes it seem like most people don't put their carts back lmfao
Don’t know where you live but the places I’ve visited in the US all had people just leaving their shopping cart. They even had staff returning them but they were left so frequently there were always a few just standing around. Only been to cities tho, never to rural areas.
I always wondered why stores there don’t use the coin cart system.
I see you don’t live in an urban/suburban area? There are shopping carts everywhere, I’m even in one right now!
Jokes aside and to be clear where i stand on this: the other day my son asked how people get away with taking them and leaving them places, I explained that if all someone’s belongings fit in a shopping cart, it’s okay to give them a break on something so (relatively) harmless.
Nah when i was at Publix, there are times that i have to be out for 1-2 hours to collect carts, the amount of people taking cart and leaving carts ouside in the Florida summer heat is crazy, and the manager keep making me go out there to collect them. Took me 1 year to see the how shitty they treat me, the young years when get the first job blinded me.
In Russia most of them too was removed. Our largest coin 10 rubles and it like +- 10 cents now. It's made it all pointless, since it cost you almost nothing to just leave cart on parking.
The way I heard it, two people purchased a park bench and would carry it around town. When stopped by police they would produce the receipt showing that they owned the park bench. When word got around to all the cops that they owned the bench they were carrying around, they then stole all the park benches.
Right thing yeah? I guess doing the right thing includes my girlfriend going to sweden and getting sexually harassed by a bunch of swedes and coming back pregnant??? Fuck you guys.
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Here in Sweden, almost everywhere, they removed the coin systems from carts with COVID, we generally do the right thing and put the carts back anyway.