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[Rran]

When I worked at a grocery store, my favorite part of the job (besides hiding in the fridge behind the milk to cool down) was returning the carts. There was something kind of zen about it--very straightforward, no hunting for inventory involved, you get to walk around outside, etc. I assumed other grocery stockers felt the same, but maybe not.

I'd add that a lot of these cases probably aren't ones of inconsideration; many people grocery shop with babies and leaving your kid in the car alone (even for a couple moments) is highly frowned upon. I don't think there's anything wrong with prioritizing safety and letting the store clerks do their jobs. It's not like returning carts from the parking lot is some sort of bottom-tier task for a grocery clerk.

In terms of public litmus tests, I think there are plenty of better gauges. Spitting at gas stations, littering, leaving your gum on the ground (where it basically lives permanently, assuming it doesn't ruin someone's shoe/car floor/bedroom carpet), not flushing a public toilet and/or leaving a mess on the seat, opening inventory in the store, etc.

 

[Deleted member 1159]

When I worked at a grocery store, my favorite part of the job (besides hiding in the fridge behind the milk to cool down) was returning the carts. There was something kind of zen about it--very straightforward, no hunting for inventory involved, you get to walk around outside, etc. I assumed other grocery stockers felt the same, but maybe not.

I'd add that a lot of these cases probably aren't ones of inconsideration; many people grocery shop with babies and leaving your kid in the car alone (even for a couple moments) is highly frowned upon. I don't think there's anything wrong with prioritizing safety and letting the store clerks do their jobs. It's not like returning carts from the parking lot is some sort of bottom-tier task for a grocery clerk.

In terms of public litmus tests, I think there are plenty of better gauges. Spitting at gas stations, littering, leaving your gum on the ground (where it basically lives permanently, assuming it doesn't ruin someone's shoe/car floor/bedroom carpet), not flushing a public toilet and/or leaving a mess on the seat, opening inventory in the store, etc.

I sorta agree with this because I didn’t mind getting outside and rounding up carts when I worked retail in college, but it’s still obnoxious when people leave them in parking stalls or where the wind can blow them into vehicles and such. And while I have young kids, I wouldn’t think twice about leaving them buckled in the car for what is like max 30 seconds to put a cart where it belongs.

What I find amusing is how much people freak out when that Cart Narc guy calls them out…I think I would just be like “yeah man you got me, dick move on my part…” but some people just can’t handle being in the wrong. And they’re generally bad people, and seeing bad people get upset brings me joy hah

 

[Alebrije]

In Mexico Malls or Supermarkets "hire" people to just return the shopping cars. Basically they wait that you unload the car to move it,. You can give them a tip but is not an obligation.

 

[Spaceman292]

What grinds my gears are those selfish assholes that have a full cart of stuff and don't offer to let you go ahead when they see you only got one or two things. One time I went in to a store to pick up some milk. I get to the checkout an here's this pair of mammoths with 2 fuckin carts full of geegaws an trinkets. Now anyone with any decency would've offered to let me go ahead, but of course them 2 beasts pretended they hadn't noticed me. So I stand there and watch them unload their shit onto the conveyor. That takes em a good 10 minutes. Eventually they get round to paying for it. Then the mother one goes through the inevitable ritual of the purse where she has to search through her giant bag of many pockets for another 10 minutes.

Anyway, by now it's been over 20 minutes of this shit. Then comes the kicker. Her card gets rejected. It's kid starts bellowing and making some weird, frantic cow sounds. At first I was pissed. Having to stand there for that shit for so long, but now I'm just watching these fuckin animals and grinning at them, totally entertained by their antics. The shop girl asks if they have another card, or cash. Of course not. The behemoth's pawing over her baubles in complete panic, and the other bigfoot's still making it's distress calls. At this point I calmly stepped over to the shop girl and asked her what the bill was. She said 70 bucks or something. I said can you put this milk on it and charge everything to my card? The brutes were totally silent, staring at me as I picked up my milk and walked past. Not a word of thanks or gratitude of course. Good evening ladies, I nodded and walked out.

r/ and everyone clapped

 

[Days like these...]

r/ and everyone clapped

No we didn't your time isn't more valuable than anyone else's. They got in line before you wait your turn. Stop being entitled.

 

[Fbh]

You guys are too first world.

Here they steal them so there's usually almost no carts (to be fair they also don't return the few that are left though).

Every now and then they get a new shipment and it's nice for a couple of weeks before they get stolen again

 

[Platinumstorm]

I was in Rapid City, SD during a windstorm where I ran after a cart that was barreling towards a stranger's vehicle. I caught it just in time, and I returned it to the cart station. I don't know if someone left it there, or if it very possibly blew out of the cart station.

I consider people who don't put their carts back absolute scum.

 

[Lasha]

r/ and everyone clapped

Better candidate for /r/thathappened

 

[Spaceman292]

Better candidate for /r/thathappened

That sounds right. I've never been on reddit so I'm not sure what it's called. Either way that story is obviously dogshit.

 

[Rran]

No we didn't your time isn't more valuable than anyone else's. They got in line before you wait your turn. Stop being entitled.

"and everyone clapped" is a common internet response to express skepticism that an anecdote actually happened.

 

[pramod]

Looks fake as hell...

 

[Jsisto]

Incredibly inconsiderate people that usually have no empathy for blue collar workers. Are they the worst people in the world? No, and they can be rahabilitated if they’re open minded. But yeah….if I know someone doesn’t return the cart and they don’t have a disability or something…I instantly think less of them.

 

[Lord Panda]

Nah that's nothing.
What annoys the fuck out of me is when people take chilled food out of the chiller, change their mind and then just dump it on a shelf.
Which obviously means the store has to claim for it and chuck it.
Also generally how messy people are in stores with no respect, and sorry to say but women are the worst.
I've literally seen a shop assistant tidy a self and make it look presentable and then a person just fuck that shit up in seconds.

Yep, there’s a special level of Hell reserved for those cretins

 

[Jsisto]

Yep, there’s a special level of Hell reserved for those cretins

As a grocery store worker, you should see some of the shit people return. I’ve seen fruit returned that is so far gone it’s literally 90 percent mold with the reasoning of “I bought this yesterday and it went bad.” Seriously, are times that tough that you have to humiliate yourself like this? But the truth is some people just have no shame. and of course you just have to smile and accept it or you’re in the wrong.

 

[TheGreatMusashi]

As an adult male who was recently a bag boy at an age much later than most bag boys, I can tell you.

I worked in a very small town at almost the most northern point of America.

We ran a “full service” grocery store, meaning bag boys escort you out.

To your vehicle we ran through snow and loaded it all for you, regardless of how many dip shit fuck, fat ass teenagers, waited in the car.

The snow was thick, we loaded heating pellets and cases of water, we never faulted.

Being into my early thirties I though much about my life, it’s meaning that is.

TLDR:

Leave that shit out there. Less time for some asshole you have to talk to. You’re doing the bag boy a favor.

Nowadays, now that I’m past all that I enjoy hurdling the cart as hard as I can towards the silver goal posts. 9 out of 10 times I make it. The other time, I drive away fast.

 

[Rockondevil]

Does this count?

 

[Scotty W]

They study the noumenal world, make rules about the phenomenal world, and then pretend that the noumenal world doesn’t exist!

 

[nemiroff]

That video was great. And yes I always return the carts.

 

[Ionian]

As a kid i'd go with my sister to the underground parking in a shopping center,, the amount of people who just left their trolley after loading their car was unreal.

Great for us though, each had a pound in it. Used top call it 'trolley-hunting'. Was a lot of money in the 80's for a kid.

Straight off to buy sweets. Living the dream.

Think security ended up banning us. Were probably just jealous as kids were coining it.

 

[ReBurn]

They are in my garage, I'm keeping them

When I was younger one of my jobs was to drive around in a truck and retrieve shopping carts people took home with them. Once I found a shopping cart chop shop where someone was dismantling them and selling the metal for scrap. The guy threatened me with a gun for looking onto his property. The store called the police and he was arrested and charged with grand larceny because he had so many parts lying around it was clear he'd stolen thousands of dollars worth of them.

 

[Ionian]

When I was younger one of my jobs was to drive around in a truck and retrieve shopping carts people took home with them. Once I found a shopping cart chop shop where someone was dismantling them and selling the metal for scrap. The guy threatened me with a gun for looking onto his property. The store called the police and he was arrested and charged with grand larceny because he had so many parts lying around it was clear he'd stolen thousands of dollars worth of them.

Jesus, reminds me of some travelers hopping the wall into my back garden (old days when broken glass was used in the cement as a deterrent).

Robbed an old copper boiler tank. Was watching (very small) and no one about to tell. Scared the fuck outta me.

Dunno the value but someone cutting up shopping trolleys just reminded me. Scrap metal but jesus shopping trolleys can't be worth much, even to a pikey.

 

[AJUMP23]

Guy is going to end up dead in a cart rack some day.

 

[daffyduck]

If that's the hill he wants to die on, it's his choice. There are bigger things in the world to be concerned about.

 

[TheGrat1]

Oh carts are a rookie's game/ The worst is when people take the store-provided mobility scooters and then drive them out of the store all the way to the edge of the lot where the wheels will lock up and force them get off. Even that system is not foolproof and I have seen security guys riding them back down the sidewalk hundreds of feet away from the store. Those people clearly did not need the scooter to get into the store but they sure as hell needed to ride it as far away as they could (at least in their minds).

If I were a dictator I would force every able person to work one year in retail and one year in a restaurant to try and teach them some fucking empathy.

I always park near the drop off spots.

I do not do that because:

A few weeks ago I got in my car after picking up some items at the store. As I start to back up I hear a loud thumping.

I jump out and walk around my car to see a cart pinned sideways between my car and the actual cart return.

The cart return was two feet away but instead they turned the buggy sideways so it wouldn’t roll away.

Now I’ve got a scratch and 6 scuff marks down my door….

I do not want that happening to me. Carts are a hazard. Parking near the return is not playing the odds.

 

[nush]

As a kid i'd go with my sister to the underground parking in a shopping center,, the amount of people who just left their trolley after loading their car was unreal.

Great for us though, each had a pound in it. Used top call it 'trolley-hunting'. Was a lot of money in the 80's for a kid.

Straight off to buy sweets. Living the dream.

Think security ended up banning us. Were probably just jealous as kids were coining it.

I used to do that too, I remember the Co-Op used to have a promotion like McDonalds Monopoly. Two parts of a voucher if you found a match you got something, sometimes credit sometimes snacks. Most people would just throw those tickets in the trolley so we'd collect loads and get easy matches. That and we also found some people would forget an item in the bottom of the trolley when packing the car, big of a mixed bag if it was anything useful though.

 

[Warnen]

Oh carts are a rookie's game/ The worst is when people take the store-provided mobility scooters and then drive them out of the store all the way to the edge of the lot where the wheels will lock up and force them get off. Even that system is not foolproof and I have seen security guys riding them back down the sidewalk hundreds of feet away from the store. Those people clearly did not need the scooter to get into the store but they sure as hell needed to ride it as far away as they could (at least in their minds).

If I were a dictator I would force every able person to work one year in retail and one year in a restaurant to try and teach them some fucking empathy.

I do not do that because:

I do not want that happening to me. Carts are a hazard. Parking near the return is not playing the odds.

Yeah I don’t park next to it just near them, even a row over still close enough.

 

[Ionian]

I used to do that too, I remember the Co-Op used to have a promotion like McDonalds Monopoly. Two parts of a voucher if you found a match you got something, sometimes credit sometimes snacks. Most people would just throw those tickets in the trolley so we'd collect loads and get easy matches. That and we also found some people would forget an item in the bottom of the trolley when packing the car, big of a mixed bag if it was anything useful though.

A fellow trolley-hunter! (Those were the days man, you quickly learn the best days. Usually weekends for obvious reasons).

 

[nush]

A fellow trolley-hunter! (Those were the days man, you quickly learn the best days. Usually weekends for obvious reasons).

Car park barrier outside on a snowy day during the evening rush hour when everyone just wants to get home in the warm. If they dropped their ten pence when trying to put it in the barrier they were not getting out of the car to dig through the slush to find it when there was a queue of cars behind them, they'd just put another in. Teenage me would go at 6:30 and dig out all those ten pence coins that were impacted in the ice.

Snowy days were always the best for being able to make money on the streets as a kid if you had an entrepreneurial spirit.

 

[chromhound]

They're the worst

 

[TylerD]

Guy is going to end up dead in a cart rack some day.

Lazy Bones' wife: "What are you going to do?"

Agent Sebastian: "Block your attack."

Lazy Bones' wife: "What are you going to do?"

Agent Sebastian: "Block your attack."

Lazy Bones' wife: "What are you going to do?"

Agent Sebastian: "Block your attack."

lol

Agent Sebastian was on Dr. Phil last year -