I see no evidence of lazy bones activity.
The people who went all-in a few years ago on shaming others for not returning their carts to the cart corral will have a problem with this.
When it’s so a corporation saves money: “The wind! The wind will blow the cart into cars! Wiiiiiiiiiiiind!”
I don’t know if/how you’ve never seen wind catch a shopping cart, but it can hurtle those fucking things. Mercifully the hurtling tends to be worst with the plastic ones because there’s more surface area, but I’ve seen one of those smack a car head-on at like 25 kph on flat terrain on a breezy day.
You can go look up videos of even pretty modest winds gently pushing metal shopping carts around; they look like they’re possessed.
Even on flat lots on windless days, you’re not sticking it to the man; you’re just being a jackass making someone’s already insufferable retail job even less sufferable over 10 seconds of returning a cart.
Here’s the thing. I am aware that wind exists. I’ve seen wind. I’ve even seen it push shopping carts like you describe.
This isn’t a problem in every parking lot, particularly underground ones. And it’s still just as much of a problem with these pictured carts.
So people aren’t really upset about the wind.
Cart Narcs know they’d be out of their jurisdiction there.
Nah. As far as I’m concerned that IS a cart corral.
I’d pull out my libertarian hat out and tell people that the market decided this is the most efficient location for the cart corral. Instructing customers to do otherwise is big government and communist.
/s
This is another cart corral.
No I won’t.
Seriously though if you aren’t putting your cart in this specific spot or the corral, what is wrong with you? It’s not that much further to walk. Don’t make more work for the person who brings the carts back inside, it’s just inconsiderate. Plus those things have been known to pick up speed in the wind and smash into stuff. You might not give a shit about your own car, but some people do.
Just be considerate, life is better when we work together.
Its a slippery slope, once they get you putting them in a corral then they will expect you to take it back to the building. At least Aldi tricks people into returning the cart or you pay.
Its job security to the cart grabbers. Make their job easy and once they collect the carts they get hours cut. Make it difficult and they can keep working all day.
Dumbest take. They put the corrals out there because they expect lazy people.
Whatever helps you sleep at night
I’ve gotten into the habit at my grocery store of taking a cart from the corral into the store rather than walking in and then taking one from inside the building. It’s functionally no effort for me and its one less time a store employee has to walk that cart back into the building. The people who work at that grocery store are my neighbors and townsfolk, every cart I bring back in on my way is an opportunity for them to stand around on the company dime.
Not quite. Stores typically do flex scheduling instead of a steady 9-5, and will only allocate enough employees to meet basic demand, and are cycled between stations.
There’s never enough hands for someone to be just a cart grabber. Once you’re done with that task, it’s back inside because that weird robot thingy saw a sticker and is calling for a cleanup.I am a little sad everyone took you so seriously. I assumed you were joking around. Made me chuckle.
“It’s a slippery slope to stop pissing in the parking lot. Once they get you pissing in the toilet, then they will expect you to just hold it in.”
It’s not a slippery slope; you’re just pretending it is because you’re a lazy, selfish, obnoxious chud, and pretending it’s because you care about the people who clean up your mess is insulting to them and the people reading this. I hope you also throw your trash on the floor because that helps them hire more janitors, you little slob.
It’s the reason anarchy can’t work.
People aren’t capable of self governance.
I’ve got sciatica in one of my legs. Not bad enough to justify a handicap spot (although those never have a cart coral near them), but bad enough that some days it is, actually, very painful to walk. Especially the walk back from the coral, where I don’t have the cart to lean on.
In fact, I often appreciate when people don’t put a cart away, and I can find a stray cart on the way to the store.
I still put the carts away when I’m done, and usually try to park near the cart coral as a result…with one exception: this fucking Dollar Tree near me, where their carts are all absolute shit to begin with and there’s one cart coral and no parking spots anywhere near it. I park against an embankment under some trees where there is always space and shade.
Usually there’s already a cart there waiting for me. When I’m done, I leave it pushed up against the embankment, back wheels on pavement, front wheels on grass, so it can’t roll back into the lot, and right in between the parking spots so it is easy to retrieve by the next customer.
as an avid despiser of assholes who don’t return their carts and leave them right in the fucking way, I grant you a pass because of how you’re doing it and what you do to avoid the situation in the first place
also the dollar tree sounds like it simply has a bad design and they should fix that
It’s just a new cart corral, no big deal
I will make an exception for this.
That is a cart corral, looks fine to me.
nope not at all
If you’re a police officer or military veteran and you need a special parking spot it’s because your handicapped.
Otherwise you can fucking walk like everyone else.
You’re not special. Special people aren’t regularly put in dangerous situations for relatively low pay.
Top 10 most dangerous jobs in the U.S. according to Forbes:
- Logging Workers
- Fishing and Hunting Workers
- Roofers
- Aircraft Pilots and Flight Engineers
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers
- Delivery and Truck Drivers
- Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors
- Underground Mining Machine Operators
- Construction Trade Workers
- Electrical Power-line Installers and Repairers
I’m know I’m preaching to the choir here, but it’s good info to be familiar with when some knuckle dragging MAGA hat pretends to be patriotic.
Notice that law enforcement overseers and military are not on this list. Moreover, LEOs often get paid MUCH better than many of the people employed at some of the jobs listed above. It’s also a pretty safe bet these days that if an American police officer is in a dangerous situation, they are the danger. I’m all for respecting people that choose dangerous careers, but police and veterans are not heros for making that choice any more than any of the others on this list.
OSHA has a similar list, no police either.
USA Today has a top 25 list, still no police.
Also notice that,
The point is parking close to rapidly respond to calls for service.
At least that’s my interpretation, anyway. I never considered people might want to park there off-duty just to shop.
Damn, I don’t want to be my handicapped.
Hell yeah
We should show a little respect for our heroes in blue and not do things like this.
Enforcement of a good government is arguably good, enforcement of a bad government is unarguably bad They’re more like villain’s henchmen than heroes in the current state of things
eh i remember when a bank robber who stole $100 got 20 years in prison (because it was bank robbery) meanwhile a cop who shot an unarmed innocent civilian got away with a fine.
the cops are not there to protect you, they’re there to protect the banks.
A police officers time is something like 0.001% catching an actual criminal and 99.999% larping military action and harassing/threatening normal people. Sometimes it’s even misusing public funds to commit murder or stalk their ex. Theyre also much more likely to be domestically abusive.
“All cops are bastards” because the system is broken, allowing most cops to be bastards, and therefore participating in the system (even being a “good cop”) makes you, a bastard.
Am i calling the police if someone breaks into my house? Yes, after ive done all the work of removing the threat so i have a legal standpoint to file insurance claims or whatever. Thats the problem with the system. I cant trust a cop to not consider me to be the real threat or shoot me by accident.
There is no situation made safer by having a racist coward with a license to kill involved.
You mean the Walmart employees who have to grab the carts, right?
It’s okay. Cop parking is usually closer than the cart corrals anyway.
That sign does not look bolted down. 3 youths with a skateboard could recreate Iwo Jima and move it somewhere less convenient like at the bottom of a lake or wherever cops like to park and hide to print speeding tickets.
The Walton family is certainly one of humanity’s greatest enemies.
Wealthiest family in the world funded entirely by underpaying it’s workers.
Absolutely, and they are undoubtedly one of the key players responsible for the global resurgence of fascism—for example, in the form of the current U.S. regime, but at the same time also in other countries, first and foremost Israel, but also in Europe, and in every remaining democracy. Their unlimited resources make this possible, and they want more and more.
As I said: These are humanity’s worst enemies.
Yup. Them and the Murdoch family. Cancers on our civilization and enemies to the inhabitants of Earth.
And clearly we can add the Trump family to the list as well.
Rupert Murdoch is so old that his fucking dad (not grandfather or great-grandfather) orchestrated a successful smear campaign against Australia’s best general during WWI, over a century ago. Reason: the general was Jewish.
You could actually list every billionaire in the world. It’s simply impossible to become that absurdly rich without getting involved in these schemes. They all know each other and would never allow anyone who was even remotely decent to rise to their level.
I used to counter this argument with Paul McCartney, but it turns out he’s been something of a cunt his whole life as well.
Yeah I don’t like breaking that one to people
Looks like people are doing the same thing to the handicapped spot behind it. The locals are chaotic and have no gods.
If I was a minimum wage worker and had to work 30 minutes more at night putting those shopping carts in their place, I would be annoyed until I get home but then be fine with it.
I love this and will contribute to it going forward.
I will judge you if you don’t return your shopping cart to the proper place. This seems to be a proper place.
We don’t have parking for the police in Canada. But we do have parking for pregnant women, and disabled people. Plus, the grocery store I use has a solution for the carts.
There is reserved police parking at Fairview Mall in Toronto, Ontario .
I don’t endorse not putting your cart back usually… But yeah, this is alright.
The cart return locations (pictured above) are back enough
