People are so dogone LAZY!

[traditional_woman]

Maybe it's just this state b/c i have not seen this problem in excess anywhere else I've lived. Every grocery store I go to they have at least 15 or more cart returns, yet you will find shopping carts traced all throughout the parking lots, and I'm not just talking about a handful either. The spot I parked in today had a cart, then as i was coming out of the store this lady walks her cart over next to my car as i'm getting in (she had this ''caught'' look on her face) I grabbed it as she was about to back up and walk off and said ''I'll take that''. She said thank you, and eyed me back to my car. It's not like all these ppl are handicapped, or can't alk the extra two feet to put it back in it's proper place.

Yet, these ppl would be the first to complain if a cart ran into their car.

Ugh, had to get that off my chest!

[stodr]

I have to count to 10, sometimes I will say to my wife "wow it must be really far to drop off those carts"

[camarozz]

I have started a campaign; I tell the people Im taking down their license number and if I see or hear of a scratch on a car Im turning the plate into the cops.

[natalie addict]

I'll bet none of you live in Minnesota or the Upper Midwest. While there are a few running loose, almost all the carts are in their corrals.

[ISYairio]

I'm lazy....

Don't hurt me! :eek: I [usually] put the carts in their proper locations.

*cower* :P

[Apatriot]

Maybe it's just this state b/c i have not seen this problem in excess anywhere else I've lived. Every grocery store I go to they have at least 15 or more cart returns, yet you will find shopping carts traced all throughout the parking lots, and I'm not just talking about a handful either. The spot I parked in today had a cart, then as i was coming out of the store this lady walks her cart over next to my car as i'm getting in (she had this ''caught'' look on her face) I grabbed it as she was about to back up and walk off and said ''I'll take that''. She said thank you, and eyed me back to my car. It's not like all these ppl are handicapped, or can't alk the extra two feet to put it back in it's proper place.

Yet, these ppl would be the first to complain if a cart ran into their car.

Ugh, had to get that off my chest!


For me it depends on the # of cart returns. If I have to go to another row in the parking lot, I won't return it to a return, but will try to group it with another wayward cart. Wal-Mart is terrible about not having enough cart returns. They have them on every other row. and I'm not going to weave in between parked cars to return a cart. If they want me to return the cart, they need to provide the places to do so. On the other hand, Winn Dixie (Target as well) has a cart return on every row. I do return carts there every time.

[Ninjacorpse]

I am not lazy I just like to ram random peoples cars with my cart before i leave. :shifty:

[Ballygrl]

Oh jeez, I've actually done that. :redface:

[traditional_woman]

Oh jeez, I've actually done that. :redface:

i can understand if the person is handicapped(altho they could probably put it up againt the curb) or a mom who has young children and it's freezing outside, but these are able bodied ppl just too lazy to put it back. The lady had a guilty look on her face b/c there was a cart on her aisle and one on mine, and they could clearly be seen, and they were close to our cars.

[ISYairio]

I am not lazy I just like to ram random peoples cars with my cart before i leave. :shifty:

Guess your parents were lazy. :razz:

[Ninjacorpse]

Guess your parents were lazy. :razz:

You wait till i get him young man, your mother and I are going to have to have a talk ;)

[ISYairio]

You wait till i get him young man, your mother and I are going to have to have a talk ;)

I'm gonna tell the 2 yr old you stole her Satan baby. :evil:

(Really, he got the kid a purple baby that has sharpened teeth, finger nails, etc. She likes it too....)

[stodr]

For me it depends on the # of cart returns. If I have to go to another row in the parking lot, I won't return it to a return, but will try to group it with another wayward cart. Wal-Mart is terrible about not having enough cart returns. They have them on every other row. and I'm not going to weave in between parked cars to return a cart. If they want me to return the cart, they need to provide the places to do so. On the other hand, Winn Dixie (Target as well) has a cart return on every row. I do return carts there every time.


If it is on every other row and if it is not on the row you are parked, turn around it is on the row right behind you.

[Apatriot]

If it is on every other row and if it is not on the row you are parked, turn around it is on the row right behind you.

Still have to maneuver between parked cars. That's a bad idea for a number of reasons. As I said, if the store is too cheap to provide enough cart returns, they can retrieve their own carts.

[ALBOB2]

If it is on every other row and if it is not on the row you are parked, turn around it is on the row right behind you.

I see we share a common location. You ever shop at Albertson's around here? They'll have a single row with TWO cart returns and the next row over won't have any. And you couldn't even maneuver between parked cars if you wanted to because they have medians with dead trees between the rows. It's INSANE. I shove the cart up onto the median.

[stodr]

Al I do shop at an albertsons on the NW side. You are correct about two on a row. But they are on both sides of that one row. The next row does not. So all you have to do it turn around and go across the drive lane to that row, you do not have to go between cars. Unless it was in every third row.

At the Wall mart I shop at the rows run east west. they have the cart spots on the north side of each row. so if you park on the south side you would turn around and put it in the north row spot. You would not have to go between cars just across the lane.

[MarkyS]

Maybe it's just this state b/c i have not seen this problem in excess anywhere else I've lived. Every grocery store I go to they have at least 15 or more cart returns, yet you will find shopping carts traced all throughout the parking lots, and I'm not just talking about a handful either. The spot I parked in today had a cart, then as i was coming out of the store this lady walks her cart over next to my car as i'm getting in (she had this ''caught'' look on her face) I grabbed it as she was about to back up and walk off and said ''I'll take that''. She said thank you, and eyed me back to my car. It's not like all these ppl are handicapped, or can't alk the extra two feet to put it back in it's proper place.

Yet, these ppl would be the first to complain if a cart ran into their car.

Ugh, had to get that off my chest!

Believe it or not, I recently interviewed for a contract with a guy who asked, "What do you do with shopping carts after you are done using them?" I truthfully answered that I return them to the cart bin, and if there isn't one, I take it back to the building. He asked why. I said, "Consideration for fellow drivers first, and gratitude for having the carts in the first place, since I know how expensive they are, and how often they "'disappear'" from the lot."

M

[VCaddy05]

I personally wont park within 200yrds of a shopping cart! Or 20 yrds from any car I think may have a shopping cart come to drop anything off at. (yea my gf hates me)

[supreme_war_Pig]

....I return them to the cart bin, and if there isn't one, I take it back to the building...

Me too. Although I sometimes feel like a chump doing it, cuz NOBODY else seems to. And I am in the Midwest.

[MarkyS]

Me too. Although I sometimes feel like a chump doing it, cuz NOBODY else seems to. And I am in the Midwest.

I can't tell you how many times I've had the staff actually thank me at the building centers when I wheel the big lumber carts back to the building - especially at night, when they have to go round them up, so I never feel like a chump. My efforts have been appreciated.

M

[RogerDodger]

I always return carts to the corral. Unless its raining. Or too cold. Or too hot. Or too far away. OK, pretty much never.

[Army Wife]

Well as a brand new owner of a HUGE scratch on the upper part of the bumper of my Ladybug I would love to get my hands on the stupid hick knuckle dragging moron who could not walk TWO parking spaces down and put their cart in the corral. TWO PARKING SPACES...LESS THAN 20 FEET!! Believe me they really really don't want to run into me because they would get more than a piece of my mind. It is going to cost me close to $1000 to get it fixed.

[jeepers]

I'm usually a loyal cart returner but I've had a handful of occasions during my mothering career where something was going on and I just didn't have the time. Or the only slot to park in was so far away from my car and the weather bad, and I wasn't leaving the kid inside alone in the car.

Does that make me a 5% heathen? Then call me a heathen. But I've never left them loose so that they could blow around.

[RogerDodger]

Well as a brand new owner of a HUGE scratch on the upper part of the bumper of my Ladybug I would love to get my hands on the stupid hick knuckle dragging moron who could not walk TWO parking spaces down and put their cart in the corral. TWO PARKING SPACES...LESS THAN 20 FEET!! Believe me they really really don't want to run into me because they would get more than a piece of my mind. It is going to cost me close to $1000 to get it fixed.

File it on your insurance.

[Gabby]

I put carts in the return in the daytime. At night I only od it if the return is close.

Parking lots can be dangerous places. I've had two friends attacked in a parking lot at night. One by a guy who threw her to the ground, sat on her and started cutting her face and body in a frinzie with a broken bottle. She was saved by some of a couple of bag boys who happened to be helping another customer.

Another friend of mine was abducted from a grocery store parking lot at night. She was found about week later dead in the middle of the desert. Three men were later convected of kidnap, rap and murder.

I have a police friend who told e that if women realized how many women are attacked in the parking lots they would not go to the store alone.

Anyway, that's why I do not put away carts at night. I put them in a safest place I can near my car, get in my car and lock the doors... all as fast a I can.

[Hoobeedoo Bejesus]

I clean up the carts.

By getting them up to about 30 MPH on my front bumper and slamming on the breaks to watch them sail across the lot.

[gdoane]

I usually just use the handbaskets.

I think it saves me serious money because I'm a horrible impulse buyer, I've even bought a pet rock and so if I have to carry it, then I'm more likely to think it through.

Another thing I do is park way outside normal parking. Not being a hero, I live in Phoenix, Arizona and that's usually the only shade left anyway. I don't see a lot of advantage is saving a sweat by 50 feet extra of walking or getting into a 180° car.

Besides, where are the people who are too lazy to return baskets going to park? Not by me, because I'm willing to take a walk and they aren't.

I try to take a walk because as I said, I am TERRIBLE at impulse buys. You could sell me a tabloid if it had Ronald Reagan on the cover. I need the time to think because like most anybody, I make fewer mistakes when I take time and consideration.

Handbaskets work for me because I (paraphrasing Whoopie) don't "shop-shop", I just stop by stores on the way home from work or driving around. I don't let my supplies get so depleted that it would take a whole grocery basket to replenish them.

[jeepers]

I usually just use the handbaskets.

I think it saves me serious money because I'm a horrible impulse buyer, I've even bought a pet rock and so if I have to carry it, then I'm more likely to think it through.

Another thing I do is park way outside normal parking. Not being a hero, I live in Phoenix, Arizona and that's usually the only shade left anyway. I don't see a lot of advantage is saving a sweat by 50 feet extra of walking or getting into a 180° car.

Besides, where are the people who are too lazy to return baskets going to park? Not by me, because I'm willing to take a walk and they aren't.

I try to take a walk because as I said, I am TERRIBLE at impulse buys. You could sell me a tabloid if it had Ronald Reagan on the cover. I need the time to think because like most anybody, I make fewer mistakes when I take time and consideration.

Handbaskets work for me because I (paraphrasing Whoopie) don't "shop-shop", I just stop by stores on the way home from work or driving around. I don't let my supplies get so depleted that it would take a whole grocery basket to replenish them.

That used to be me when I was single. I bought so little that I never used a basket. Now married with kids, a full basket just means that I'm doing normal shopping. More than one basket means 'crud, I'm running out of everything'.

It's not just food it's things like laundry detergent, paper towers, toilet paper. Those things take up room. I buy in bulk with those items because I'm the one hauling this stuff. Depending upon where I'm shopping, it can mean savings per unit. I have different stores lined up for different products.

But things like school shopping? If heavy buying causes you stress, I think that if you watched me, your brain would melt. I'm a professional deal hunter. I'm not talking about 'get a deal on something that you think is cool' I'm talking about thinking ahead.

For example, if I'm buying jeans for a kid for school, I'm also scoping those sale racks for end of season shorts in the next size for next Spring (for two kids), or if I'm buying shorts, I'm also snatching end of season sweaters and winter jammas. I've scored majorly in this way, and have saved a boatload of money in the process. However, I can look like a homeless person at times with my cart.

My husband however, is a lot like you. I don't send him to places like Costco. If I go, I'll drop 100 bucks. If he goes, and dear God, he does it with the kids? Kaching! 300 bucks. Let alone if he goes to someplace like Home Depot. Scary stuff.

[ArmyMAJretired]

I hate the disgusting, lazy, thoughtless morons that don't return carts. They are probably the same people that litter, go to the speedy checkout with more than the posted item limit (10,15,20). They speed, run stop signs and red lights. Rules don't apply to them!

I think there should be immediate public execution for these evil people. The world would be a better place without their selfish, self centered and rude presence.

RANT OFF,

JMHO

[angelicmadrigal]

I'm so funny I'll park as far away as I have to from the store to be near a cart corral. When you're clear out in the boonies no one else parks there so you get primo space next to the cart corral. Plus you know, let all the old farts park up by the store.

[traditional_woman]

I'm so funny I'll park as far away as I have to from the store to be near a cart corral. When you're clear out in the boonies no one else parks there so you get primo space next to the cart corral. Plus you know, let all the old farts park up by the store.

Here's the kicker(here) they are all the way out there too!!!!!!<banghead>

[jeepers]

Here's the kicker(here) they are all the way out there too!!!!!!<banghead>


That was you that was right in front of me, scoping out that slot next to the corral??

:lol:

Damn, you took my spot. :cool:

[angelicmadrigal]

Here's the kicker(here) they are all the way out there too!!!!!!<banghead>

Okay, they car all the way out in no man's land so they can be next to the cart corral, and they still don't put the cart away? That's not laziness, that's idiocy. That is the WHOLE point of parking out there.

[MrShotShot]

It drives me crazy when people leave carts all over the parking lot.

What people seem to not understand is that the store is extending you a courtesy and you should be courteous in return. They could very easily put a couple of posts up by the door so that the carts couldn't leave the building.

I shop at a Pet Depot that doesn't have cart returns. But you can bet that I'm grateful that they offer shopping carts when I'm taking 4 40lb. boxes of cat litter out to my car. And you know what, it takes me less than a minute to return the cart to the store.

I guess I'm just not as busy or as important as the folks who are in such a rush that they have to leave the cart sitting out in the lot.

[super cool ski instructor]

I always return the cart it's rightful place...and get annoyed when I see people who don't.

[ArmyMAJretired]

I always return the cart it's rightful place...and get annoyed when I see people who don't.

You are a nice person, who was obviously raised right!

I think all the cart abandoners post on DU and Huffington!

[super cool ski instructor]

You are a nice person, who was obviously raised right!

I think all the cart abandoners post on DU and Huffington!

I agree :D

[Apatriot]

It drives me crazy when people leave carts all over the parking lot.

What people seem to not understand is that the store is extending you a courtesy and you should be courteous in return. They could very easily put a couple of posts up by the door so that the carts couldn't leave the building.

I shop at a Pet Depot that doesn't have cart returns. But you can bet that I'm grateful that they offer shopping carts when I'm taking 4 40lb. boxes of cat litter out to my car. And you know what, it takes me less than a minute to return the cart to the store.

I guess I'm just not as busy or as important as the folks who are in such a rush that they have to leave the cart sitting out in the lot.

I disagree about grocery stores. In that case, they need to provide enough cart returns for convenience--one per row is sufficient. For example, in the case of a parent shopping with babies and toddlers. When I had both my boys with me I had a choice sometimes. Walk 100 feet into different rows of the parking lot with my kids in the car or abandon the cart.

[MrShotShot]

I disagree about grocery stores. In that case, they need to provide enough cart returns for convenience--one per row is sufficient. For example, in the case of a parent shopping with babies and toddlers. When I had both my boys with me I had a choice sometimes. Walk 100 feet into different rows of the parking lot with my kids in the car or abandon the cart.

Why stop at grocery stores? Aren't parents as "inconvenienced" at Target or Home Depot, etc. etc.

And when you put one in every row, then the next thing you hear is they need one at the end of each row, and then one in the middle, and then one every other space because god forbid I shouldn't be expected to walk 20 feet to propertly put a cart away.

[super cool ski instructor]

I don't buy that whole "parents are inconvenienced" thinkg either.

If you can't manage to function in society because you have your kids with you, maybe you shouldn't take them with you to the store.

[MrShotShot]

I don't buy that whole "parents are inconvenienced" thinkg either.

If you can't manage to function in society because you have your kids with you, maybe you shouldn't take them with you to the store.

Not to mention what type of example are you setting for your kids when you display this type of behavior? The rules don't apply to me? Screw courtesy if I'm being inconvenienced? Let's just **** on my fellow shoppers?

[Apatriot]

I don't buy that whole "parents are inconvenienced" thinkg either.

If you can't manage to function in society because you have your kids with you, maybe you shouldn't take them with you to the store.

That's easy for childless people to say. As I said, if the cart racks are convenient, I used them. If they aren't, it's the store's choice.

I have observed store parking lots on this issue. Those stores that have sufficient cart racks don't have nearly as many stray carts as those that don't. It's simple human behavior.

[Apatriot]

Why stop at grocery stores? Aren't parents as "inconvenienced" at Target or Home Depot, etc. etc.

And when you put one in every row, then the next thing you hear is they need one at the end of each row, and then one in the middle, and then one every other space because god forbid I shouldn't be expected to walk 20 feet to propertly put a cart away.


Targets generally have sufficient cart racks (as do most real grocery stores, about the only place I've seen that is skimpy on racks (and that I've not put carts back) is Wal-mart. The local wal-mart only has a cart rack every other row in the front sections, and none in the back sections. I never went to Home Depot alone with two kids of that age.

In terms of the racks, there is probably an optimum number of cart racks per parking lot in terms of getting people to put their carts up, and I bet there are numerous studies that model that. I'm sure Wal-mart sees those types of studies, and instead of optimizing for cart return, they are optimizing for profit. They have to live with that consequence. One per row is not asking too much, especially in the huge rows that Wal-Mart lots have.


In terms of modelling the behavior, I'm talking about toddlers/infants, not kids who will remember. Now that my kids are old enough, they put the carts back.

[Apatriot]

Not to mention what type of example are you setting for your kids when you display this type of behavior? The rules don't apply to me? Screw courtesy if I'm being inconvenienced? Let's just **** on my fellow shoppers?

The stores not having enough cart returns is the one who chooses to **** on the other shoppers. Human behavior is predictable. Grocery stores with adequate cart returns don't have this problem. The only places I've seen with major problems are wal-marts who (as usual) cheap out on the cart returns.

[MrShotShot]

The stores not having enough cart returns is the one who chooses to **** on the other shoppers. Human behavior is predictable. Grocery stores with adequate cart returns don't have this problem. The only places I've seen with major problems are wal-marts who (as usual) cheap out on the cart returns.

Glad to see that you're all about the lowest common denominator.

And again, what you may view as adequate might be viewed as "******** on the other shoppers" by someone else.

So who decides?

Here's a tip, just put the carts where they are supposed to go and don't rely on someone else to do it for you.

[super cool ski instructor]

That's easy for childless people to say. As I said, if the cart racks are convenient, I used them. If they aren't, it's the store's choice.

I have observed store parking lots on this issue. Those stores that have sufficient cart racks don't have nearly as many stray carts as those that don't. It's simple human behavior.

So myself and other shoppers are to be inconvenienced just because you don't think there are enough cart racks? Because leaving carts all over the place is a very carelss thing to do...they are on wheels...and they roll....sometimes into cars, parked or running.

But I guess as long as it doesn't inconveniece you, you don't really care.....

[stodr]

So myself and other shoppers are to be inconvenienced just because you don't think there are enough cart racks? Because leaving carts all over the place is a very careless thing to do...they are on wheels...and they roll....sometimes into cars, parked or running.

But I guess as long as it doesn't inconvenience you, you don't really care.....

if it was not about being lazy and just convenience they would park in the row with the cart spots but they don't because they might have to walk an extra 10 yards.

[ArmyMAJretired]

I really hate when they just leave them in an open parking place. You can't see it until you start to turn in and then you have to stop, get out, move their damed cart, get back in and park then return their cart for them.

LAZY BASTARDS!

[ArmyMAJretired]

I really hate when they just leave them in an open parking place. You can't see it until you start to turn in and then you have to stop, get out, move their damed cart, get back in and park then return their cart for them.

LAZY BASTARDS!

Was it the result of poor toilet training or lack of a mother's love that turned them into the I don't give a crap about others person they are today?

[super cool ski instructor]

Talking to yourself ArmyMAJ? :))

[ArmyMAJretired]

Talking to yourself ArmyMAJ? :))

The only way to ensure intelligent conversation. Actually I thought I selected "edit" to add it to my post but realy hit reply.

You'll get old someday too you wipper snapper. Now go away or I'll hit you with my cane!:wall:

[super cool ski instructor]

:)) See...I am young, so I can outrun you :))

[jeepers]

That's easy for childless people to say.


Yes, indeed it is. I don't agree with the rest of your post because I'm not cavalier about this. I make a concerted effort to return carts. I just am being honest that there have been a handful of occasions where I've abandoned a cart, and didn't return it.

Oh, say like the time that I was loading everything and then started getting hammerred with dimesized hail. The time that I was running late and didn't want to miss the bus with my five year old on it coming home. Or the n ight that I saw a suspicious guy in the parking lot and I was alone, so I just left. Or the newborn who had completely unloaded liquid diarrhea into her bucket seat, was screaming and I realized that I was out of diapers in the diaper bag (sleep deprived haze). I was singing to her and driving that 10 blocks straight home...

And some childless people really don't understand. I don't mean that as a slam, I mean that in a real way. It's really easy to be superior when they've not been put into a tenuous position.

I make it a point to park immediately next to a corral, whether my kids are there or not. They're much older now, so this isn't an issue of wee ones.

But if I saw a mother with a newborn in bad weather ditch her cart, I would nod to myself and wish her no ill will. I would know immediately why and approve. Just like I'll hold the door open for an elderly person, or let them cut in front of me in line. Or have patience with the person in line in front of me dealing with food stamps.

There but for the grace of God, and we all have moments where things just aren't working well. Being a person means giving your best and sometimes your best isn't always perfect.

When I was single, I used to sometimes see harried women with small children in a store, dressed like crap and would think, 'honey, how much time does it take to slap on some lipstick or change your tshirt?'

After going to work despite showering and dressing and realizing midday that my shoulder smelt faintly of baby vomit, I had no room to talk....Or my used to be perfect car, that has ground pretzels in the back floor area...Or the fact that my standards have changed in my house. My biggest problem back then was occasional dust because I wasn't there. Now? OMG, I'm like a chicken on a treadmill...

Life changes with time, and the advent of children. Oh yes it does. Yep, you still shoot for high standards but perfection is out of reach.

[ArmyMAJretired]

:)) See...I am young, so I can outrun you :))

Isn't it time for your nap yet?

[super cool ski instructor]

Isn't it time for your nap yet?

It's almost 2:30..isn't it almost time for your dinner? :razz:

[Dr. Funkenstein]

It's almost 2:30..isn't it almost time for your dinner? :razz:
Damn...

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/08/oh-snap-flowchart-small.jpg

[super cool ski instructor]

:))

[ArmyMAJretired]

It's almost 2:30..isn't it almost time for your dinner? :razz:

Not yet the good discounts don't start till 5pm with coupons. Right now I've got to go drive slow in the parking lot and then slow in the left lane as you young kids drive home!

[stodr]

:)):))

[Dr. Funkenstein]

Not yet the good discounts don't start till 5pm with coupons. Right now I've got to go drive slow in the parking lot and then slow in the left lane as you young kids drive home!
Dad?

[super cool ski instructor]

:)) D...it's more like "Grandpa?"

[Dr. Funkenstein]

:)) D...it's more like "Grandpa?"
http://www.urban-fabric.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ohsnap-300x300.jpg

(this is NOT a self-portrait...but it's not far from one either :shifty: )

[super cool ski instructor]

Yeah right.....that is your Facebook cartoon version of yourself isn't it? It's okay to admit it :))

[traditional_woman]

You guys call it a corral? Learn something new everyday....

[super cool ski instructor]

You guys call it a corral? Learn something new everyday....

Here in Michigan it is called a corral.

[Dr. Funkenstein]

You guys call it a corral? Learn something new everyday....
We didn't have them out in the lot (just in front of the store) when I worked at a grocery store. I just had to run around the parking lot, normally taking my life into my own hands, to chase down carts that people couldn't be bothered to bring the carts back down.

Was especially fun in the rain, by the way.

[StoneScratcher]

I only put the cart back if the cart garage (corral, cart barn) is close to my car. Otherwise I step on the back of the cart and put the front wheels up on those parking lot islands so the cart won't roll into someone's car.

Someone told me to not put the cart away if I walked too far from my car because someone had had a stranger jump into their car and they were car-jacked. That story scared me.

[spearmaster]

Yes people do seem to be lazy. I hate going to the store because of all the damn carts all over the parking lot!

[CaptainPike]

When Aldi's came up with their cart return system, they must have known that people that don't like to return carts were also cheap bastards that couldn't part with a quarter.

[Wookinstien]

We didn't have them out in the lot (just in front of the store) when I worked at a grocery store. I just had to run around the parking lot, normally taking my life into my own hands, to chase down carts that people couldn't be bothered to bring the carts back down.

Was especially fun in the rain, by the way.

At a local Grocery store they had this 70 year old man who would go gather the carts. I saw him at 2AM one winter walking the carts back. I in my heated beat up truck decided I would show him an easier way by going out in the truck and grabbing the carts out of the window and driving them back to the store front.

He stood amazed he never thought of that. The next night he was doing the cart rodeo.

See being lazy sometimes works to your advantage. :)

[Dr. Funkenstein]

At a local Grocery store they had this 70 year old man who would go gather the carts. I saw him at 2AM one winter walking the carts back. I in my heated beat up truck decided I would show him an easier way by going out in the truck and grabbing the carts out of the window and driving them back to the store front.

He stood amazed he never thought of that. The next night he was doing the cart rodeo.

See being lazy sometimes works to your advantage. :)
That's pretty good...I'd never considered that.

[DuckSoupe]

Some people think taking the cart home and leaving it on the sidewalk is a food stap right of passage. Homeless use them for their bottles. I hear Acorn is changing their symbol to a shopping cart.