What makes a person good or bad, do you think?
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What makes a person good or bad, do you think?
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The Shopping Cart Theory
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What makes a person good or bad, do you think?
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While I roll my eyes at the special kind of laziness that leads people to leave cart laying around the store parking lot, laziness is still at the low end of the "bad" spectrum. And, to be frank, some stores make returning the carts a PITA (my Costco has no cart returns in the furthest part of a very large parking lot, for instance) so as long as people put them somewhere where they aren't going to obstruct a parking space or roll into someone's car, I generally don't complain. So I guess I question that premise. At most, it measures how lazy someone is and maybe how well-planned the store is. Now, leaving your cart in the middle of a parking spot (or two parking spots as I have seen before)? Yeah, that strikes me as a more deliberate act of malfeasance.
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An even better test would be whether someone pushes a shopping cart that someone else has left out in the far reaches of the parking lot back to the corral, or even back into the store when that someone first arrives and parks her car. Yep... that's me!
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Most of the Supermarkets here have a coin deposit to obtain (unhook) the trolley. In order to regain your deposit ($1 or $2), you need to return the trolley to the trolley return bays in car parks. There are very few abandoned trolleys as a result. If somebody leaves one you can be sure somebody else will return it to get the coin back.
At the moment most people use the trolley as a social distance tool to keep the imposed COVID distance.
At the moment most people use the trolley as a social distance tool to keep the imposed COVID distance.
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I have a triple garage full of shopping carts.
Does that make me a bad person, or just an opportunistic collector?
Does that make me a bad person, or just an opportunistic collector?
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Most of the Supermarkets here have a coin deposit to obtain (unhook) the trolley. In order to regain your deposit ($1 or $2), you need to return the trolley to the trolley return bays in car parks. There are very few abandoned trolleys as a result. If somebody leaves one you can be sure somebody else will return it to get the coin back.
At the moment most people use the trolley as a social distance tool to keep the imposed COVID distance.
That works up to a point. There are problems with those system in my experience and they are "hackable", being simple mechanical locks with the coin as the "key". So someone really determined to be lazy can find a way.
Also, around here, my regular grocery store has stopped using them during COVID. One less touch point between patrons.
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I have a triple garage full of shopping carts.
Does that make me a bad person, or just an opportunistic collector?
It makes you the main reason for the systems Meggsy and I are talking about.
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An even better test would be whether someone pushes a shopping cart that someone else has left out in the far reaches of the parking lot back to the corral, or even back into the store when that someone first arrives and parks her car. Yep... that's me!
We always park toward the back of the lot and snag a shopping cart on the way to the store. If we find another one on the way we'll either park it in a corral or take it into the store. Being in a small town the store employees get to know you and it has it's benefits. A small jester that helps those poor guys and gals who have to chase after them. Especially now in this summer heat.
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That works up to a point. There are problems with those system in my experience and they are "hackable", being simple mechanical locks with the coin as the "key". So someone really determined to be lazy can find a way.
Also, around here, my regular grocery store has stopped using them during COVID. One less touch point between patrons.
We must be fortunate - No Hackers and the very very few lazy ones that leave a trolley leave the coin so somebody returns the trolley to get the coin.
As for the COVID - all supermarkets provide wipes and sanitiser to wipe the handles down and many actually employ somebody to do it before the customer takes the trolley - Do they wipe the packets down they take off the shelf - unlikely.
How do people cope with a weeks shopping if no trolley ?
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I always take shopping cart back to it's playpen but at times, I park so far away from the entrance that the cart eventually locks up on me.
What do I do then? I can't do anything about it but I make sure that I don't leave blk napkins in cart (I clean my blk gloves after touching wet produce.)
I don't think it makes me a good person for taking back cart to playpen, I'm just doing what I always do.
I know it's not a playpen but that's what I've called it since I was in my single digit yrs.
What do I do then? I can't do anything about it but I make sure that I don't leave blk napkins in cart (I clean my blk gloves after touching wet produce.)
I don't think it makes me a good person for taking back cart to playpen, I'm just doing what I always do.
I know it's not a playpen but that's what I've called it since I was in my single digit yrs.
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To be honest, a lot of us who do this (including me) are just OCD and things that are not where they're supposed to be simply drive us crazy. Everywhere I go, I straighten things up, clean them up, or put things where they belong for no other reason than I have a compulsive need to do so. It's not necessarily social responsibility or ethical behavior... it's just what people with our affliction have to do to stay sane (if you call people with OCD sane!)
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How do people cope with a weeks shopping if no trolley ?
I meant that they aren't using the lock boxes. They are still using shopping carts/trolleys, but they aren't locking them.
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Follow the State's directives issued. Everyone join hands to fight epidemics, limit moving out in the house to keep the cleanest living environment. fireboy and watergirl
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I have an thought of an option that I don't think has been noted here. Often the carts left at the disabled labeled parking spots are left there both as many of the handicapped users get in the car and leave not being able to return the cart and then walk unassisted back to their car, and also for the next user to have ready access to the cart to hang on to. In other words, the carts act as substitute canes/sticks or walkers.