I want others to return their carts so I expect the same from myself. Unironically, we live in a society, so that means cooperation for things to run smoothly
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The cart corral things were invented in my lifetime, before that we were expected to walk that shit all the way back into the store.
And don’t forget all the jobs you make at the auto body shops fixing damage from carts! And all the jobs at the shopping cart factories from having to replace broken carts!
This is why I always throw my cat into a ravine or pond when I’m done with it.
Reuse would be economically inefficient.
Edit: cart not cat, I do not throw my cat into ravines or ponds
Hi there, Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg
I don’t know what this comment means and I’ve been thinking about it all day
haha! that’s Gary Oldman’s character in The Fifth Element. One of the best movies and one of his best characters IMO. There is a scene where he’s dragged the priest into his office and after being accused by the priest of wanting to destroy life, as a rebuttal he breaks a glass on the floor which sets a flurry of automatic cleaning robots into action and says the destruction he caused creates work for robots which means work for the robot makers and enables them to have children. Something like that. I should have just linked the scene instead of trying to summarize from memory but of course who has time for a video link for everything? destruction creates life
You gain the knowledge that you didn’t make a retail worker’s day even shittier.
I’ve done cart balancing enough times to say it’s really not a big deal. I’d rather collect stray carts than distribute the ones sticking out over three parking lot lanes to emptier cart sheds. I also used to feel bad for staff etc, our manager did carts a lot, other stuff etc again, but when I really think about it, fuck supermarkets.
As far as being a nice person or whatever, I will hand over the cart to someone arriving as I’m leaving. I will not take their coin because I use a shim that cannot be retained by the lock to unlock the cart rather than a coin.
As someone who’s had the job of bringing carts in before… why are you redistributing them instead of bringing them inside? Was that just the policy at whatever store you worked at.
There was no inside place for them, just the parking lot sheds.
Oh, I see. My experience is with a store that didn’t have enough carts, or a big enough parking lot, to justify sheds. The carts were all lined up at the front of the store, and that was it.
I guess a lot of stores have different methods. I can’t remember which but one had this crazy cart wash and dispensing machine. Ours were an afterthought and placed in the parking lot. A few times the whole stack would lose hold on the end chain in the shed and cars have been hit by runaway cart trains.
Return the cart and make sure they’re all nested with each other so the cart guy has an easier job
Return the cart and make sure they’re all nested with each other
so the cart guy has an easier jobbecause it’s satisfying.This maybe pick up a stray cart on the way too.
Yup. Or help somebody else out with their cart. Feels great.
Yes, because that’s where they go.
People complain about capitalism but there is never a loose cart in the aldi parking lot.
Always. While everyone tries to park close to the entrance, I park close to the stall. I park in the same spot at my grocery store 90% of the time.
I don’t “gain nothing” from returning the cart! It feels good to do the right thing!
How does that boot taste?
What are you talking about?
Oh, I thought that’s what people said to each other on Lemmy. Like a standard Lemmy greeting.
Uh-huh…
You do gain something though. By not contributing to the problem the overall likelihood that other people also don’t contribute increases because they see a cart put away instead of a herd of them roaming the parking lot. Same as being polite when you aren’t required to be.
Society exists because most people choose not to be assholes.
“Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” The categorical imperative, Immanuel Kant
Oh yeah smart guy? Then is it still a categorical imperative if returning the cart will somehow result in greater harm than good, say if the employees are paid based on the number of carts they retrieve from improper positions? If not, then what use are maxims if they cannot take into account the specifics of a situation? Are they just a matter of logical coherence, or can they be used for actual decision-making?
ANSWER THE QUESTION
The shopping cart thing is no longer a good test of character. The whole idea is there’s no reward for doing it and no punishment for not doing it. Now that everyone knows that there’s a large contingent of the population who could be judging them for their actions, it’s not the same thing anymore. It’s more like a test of how a panopticon situation effects people.
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Id like to run a test where we silently observe cart return behaviour on hidden camera, and compare return rates with when we station people outside the shops to stare at cart users who are loading their shopping into their cars
Tldr funny cart moment from a guy who didn’t realize I could see him until too late
I was once chilling in the car for a second after putting groceries away when the guy adjecent to me finished unloading, pushed the cart about 2ft away, made eye contact with me, then proceeded to act like he was stretching and not stepping back toward his car. It was a comical amount of time between the stepping away, eye contact pause, awkward stretch and grab the cart again
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Unless you’re in Europe
These things aren’t just tests of characters. They also generate character. It’s a feedback loop, and it’s okay if you do things with a known context of judgment, because just adhering to the rules grows your credit with society.
I do it every time because I’m not one of those bad words you can say on other websites.
Lazy bones?
shhhhhh
What words can’t you say on lemmy? I assumed there are no restrictions outside like racial slurs. Cunts? Assholes? Retards?
nice try.
This, but for people who block traffic stopping on the curb instead of pulling into a parking space so they won’t have to walk a whole extra 50 steps.
I get my 50 euro cents back
Is that half a euro?
I think it’s a milli-euro?
Here in finland you have to insert a coin in there. It gets released when you chain the shopping cart back to another shopping cart or the roof thingy where they go. Works like a charm. Very few loose carts
We have that in the US as well. Just not every store gets those. Guessing that enough people just consider it a payment for not putting the cart back.
Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything like this.
I’ve seen this at the Aldi stores near me here in the Northeast US
Aldi is actually a European store (specifically German if I’m not mistaken), so that makes sense.
I return it, and also try to make sure there’s space, by nesting it, and the few in front of it.
Same. But I mostly do it because I just like slamming my carts into other carts and pretending it’s a multiple car pile up.
Justify not putting the cart back without the root reason being that you’re selfish (too lazy, in a hurry, not my job, cart return is too far away, etc). Go ahead, I’ll wait.
If it’s a nice day it gives the employee in charge of rounding up carts a chance to go outside and no longer be under the direct eye of management, and maybe even get to see a beautiful sunset in the evening.
When I worked at Whole Foods I loved when a cart was way in the outfield. I got some fresh air and I didn’t have to deal with angry customers.
I’ll give you this one, because your intentions are good. I will suggest, however, that not everyone who is collecting carts has the same outlook. This would be highly season- and weather-dependent as well.
I frequently collected carts in the summer heat and it always resulted in me being a damp sweaty mess for the rest of the workday.
Haha thanks!
I don’t know the word for this argument, but I would say the “not everyone likes collecting carts” is kinda not the best argument only because you could say the same thing the other way. Like there are people who like collecting the carts and are sad to see them put away (like me).
I worked in the PNW when I was at whole foods, and summer in Seattle is phenomenal but I know it’s not always like that elsewhere.
So the new rule is “put the cart away unless you live in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, parts of Idaho and northern California, and southern Alaska, given that it is between the dates of June 1 through September 31st, and the weather is nice to help combat the Seasonal Affect Disorder”
This is the perfect rule of morality and I will not be taking questions.
I’m not into performing unpaid labor for for-profit companies.
I put the cart back anyway but I’ll never tell someone they’re wrong for not doing it.
