Memes

Why is this such a thing people are obsessed with? Like there's a billion things wrong with the world at every scale imaginable and your concern is the cart return guy has to walk around an extra 10 ft? There isn't even consensus amongst the people who have to do the cleanup that this is bad. Just move on.

STOP! STOP PRETENDING THIS MATTERS.! The retail worker doesn't care! It makes no difference if the carts are in the corral or anywhere else in the lot. It effects NOTHING!! STOP!!

someone has a job to collect them and unless the parking lot is even close to full there's no risk for any vehicles getting damaged from a few dozen loose carts.

Oh… I am going to destroy my lemmy credibility by chiming in on what I think is the absolutely most stupid conversation in the entire universe!

I know you all to be people of deep conscience and this is what I love about coming here. Lemmy is filled with people obsessed with meaningful issues… except for this one.

Maybe the leftists will join me? I don’t know, I think my perspective is simply boomer: who efffing cares.

On a beautiful Spring day, I will sometimes march my cart to the farthest end of the farthest parking lot knowing that I am giving the cart retriever a lovely stroll in the sun.

Cart retrievers are paid to do a job. I allow them to do it.

Oh, I have seen that obscenely smug little essay about how the easiest test of a person’s character is what they do with carts.

I have watched that Cart Narc guy and I always hope he gets caught and beaten by the person he has antagonized.

Oh… whatever. Judge me. Don’t judge me. It doesn’t matter.

The carts don’t matter. I probably should have read the comments here before commenting this but I was surprised to see it — because generally speaking, only topics that matter make it here and this one just doesn’t.

Is this some sort of american meme that I am too rich to understand?

ITT people simp for corporations.

I'm sure daddy supermarket chain loves it when you offer your free labor to him after he's finished ripping you off with his shrinkflation and grocery prices rising faster than inflation.

As a union household we don't steal work from unionized grocery workers. Not even something as small as cart wrangling. Anyone who does is a scab.

Why is this practice promoted?

It's someone's job and they make their money grabbing those carts, aren't we taking that away from them if all is perfectly arranged and they can just collect the carts in 2 minutes? This concept seems to only benefit the business in saving labor?

Coincidentally, I was checking out two days ago at a Costco and the manager came up to my cashier and said, "close up after this one, I'm going to send you home early okay?" The cashier said, "yeah, I guess..." But you could tell they clearly didn't want to leave early. If there were a bunch of carts in the parking lot at that point, feels like that person might get an extra 30 mins or so on the clock... Why aren't we supporting that? Manager would say, " let's close you down after this one, and then please do a lap in the parking lot to grab carts before you go"

Us carefully putting the carts away as customers is just free labor that the corporation benefits from... Period. How does this help the worker making an hourly wage?

I usually put my cart away if the parking lot is full. Otherwise, that's what they pay the cart wranglers for, to wrangle stray carts. I even used to work at Kmart decades ago as a cashier and wrangled charts when the lines died down, so if the lots not full, and the employees are paid to recover the carts and as I know, it's a nice break to wander the parking lot instead of ringing people up, idk who is really upset about carts being left to their own devices... It does suck when the wind blows a cart into you or your car, but that's pretty rare... I do make sure my cart doesn't just roll off when I'm done, no need to send a cart missile careening across the parking lot, but otherwise I've never seen a good reason to not leave your shopping cart in an empty lot.