Carts go in the "Cart Corral,"

[jodifla]

Me too! I am always thrilled when the cart is right to the side of my car. It makes my life much easier. Hrmph! Maybe all you "cart corrallers" are really the rude lazy ones!

I have certainly pulled into spots because there was a cart right there.

 

[DaisyLynn]

The year before last my 82 year old grandpa, who walked with a cane, got hit by a stray cart in the Walmart parking lot. My cousin said it just came rolling out from between 2 cars, it was really windy that day. Grandpa fell, scraped his arm and shoulder pretty bad, and broke his nose.

This makes me so sad. I hope Grandpa is ok now.

I am a very easygoing person, but I have little patience for laziness and rude behavior.

To those who do not return carts: if you hoofed around a store long enough to fill a cart, you can hoof that cart to the cart return or if there is none, back to the store. It's not going to kill you. Get over yourself.

 

[kaytieeldr]

And "the sidewalk is slanted so the cart would just roll back into the parking lot" isn't going to cut it with most of us, either. Yes, there's a graded curb cut - but MOST of the sidewalk leading up to the store entrance is flat and even. Nothing rolls. It's designed that way intentionally.

If it wasn't flat, the doors wouldn't operate properly.

 

[disykat]

Why not lock the car doors, return the cart & unlock the car doors when you return to your car? I've done this when it was just me and my DD.

Isn't that illegal?

 

[jrmasm]

No, it's just a different way of doing things.

You're right. The rude/lazy way and the considerate way.

 

[jrmasm]

Isn't that illegal?

Probably only in the case of the parking lot that the corral was 6 miles away.

 

[LisaNJ25]

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Originally Posted by lovetoscrap View Post
I have never been to an Aldi's so I have to ask-- does paying 25 cents really prevent people from leaving the cart around? I assume they get that back when they return it? Are lazy people really so concerned about their 25 cents that they think "You know, it is raining and I have a baby with a cold that is throwing up and I am pregnant with a broken leg and there is a guy that looks like a serial killer walking towards me with a knife but DARN IT, I want my quarter back!" ?????

Maybe I am just not desperate enough but if my only motivation for returning the cart to the proper place was 25 cents I would be leaving it blocking the car next to me (if I were a lazy, inconsiderate person).

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LOL I swear the majority of those people only exists on these boards.

NO there is not a 100% return rate,, you still have some people that dont return them but it is much better than seeing dozens around the parking lot. I see many 1 or 2 at aldis most of the time none. My shopite I sometimes see more since its much bigger.

They cart guys love it when you dont return them.. they make out good. My son knows a kid who was making an extra $20 a shift in quarters. For a teen there is gas money

 

[jodifla]

Isn't that illegal?

Actually, it can be. There have been reports of parents being arrested for leaving their kids in the car and stepping away.

But kids aren't important in this conversation.

 

[mhsjax]

Apparently you haven't had to get estimates on what it will cost to replace the bumper of a week old car after someone left their cart loose in a parking lot and you also can't empathize with those who have, or I suspect you would care about it.

Publix just now got cart returns. They don't mind if you leave them, they always have someone on cart patrol. I should know, I go there almost every other day. People just put them up on the grassy part and they don't roll into cars, that is if the bagger doesn't walk you out and then take your buggy back for you. I have never seen a cart hit anyone up at my Publix and everyone that I know goes there and no one had ever been hit by one. Maybe that is why they had those little grass islands. I am not saying it doesn't happen, and it would stink and yep I would be ticked off, but there are times when nope, I am not taking my cart back. But I will make sure it isn't close to another car.

PS, now that they do have cart returns, I always put my cart in the cart return, but in the past there was no way that I would leave a baby in the car just so I could go all the way back up and inside the store to put a cart up. And lucky for me, because of where I shopped this never had to be a choice, because they always have baggers that take it out for you. One of the many reaasons I shop there and never anywhere else.

 

[luvmy3]

Actually, it can be. There have been reports of parents being arrested for leaving their kids in the car and stepping away.

But kids aren't important in this conversation.

Please post a link of a parent ever being arrested for putting their kid in the car and returing a cart. I have read reports of parents leaving their kids in the car to go shop, or even to go to work but never once have I read or heard about a parent being arrested for leaving their child in the car when they returned their shopping cart.

 

[Topper]

Publix just now got cart returns.

Publix in my area has had the cart returns for 20+ years now.

 

[mhsjax]

I find the lengths that some people want parents with small children to go to pretty ludicrous. I am not putting an infant into a car in -20 weather, unloading the groceries, then dragging the child out into the cold again.

Also, I'd NEVER leave a child in a locked car in Florida in the summer even for 30 seconds to return the cart. It's immediately like an oven in there.

Guess what! You are not entitled to have everyone else put the cart back in the well, just because you want it that way. If stores want a high percentage of their carts returned, they have the power to make it so: Just put lots of cart wells out.

In my Publix in South Florida, I never returned my cart, because there were no corrals, and everyone left their carts out if they hadn't been escorted out. But Publix baggers were very often in the habit of having bag boys take your groceries to the car. They started to phase that out a bit around the time my son was born. But they were out there all the time, and you could normally just hand the cart to them. If not, everyone just put the carts partially on th the little islands, so they wouldn't move and hit anyone's car.

In Michigan, there are a lot of corrals, my son is a lot older, so I return my cart 99.9 percent of the time.

But kids come before carts, people.

Don''t you love Publix. And you are right, no way in Fl heat would you leave a child in the car. They would be after you and throw you in Jail. But hey, at least you would be well on your way into not raising a snowflake , because we all know that a 2 month old is perfectly capable of staying in a locked car, while, me, the mom, actually takes my buggy back into the store,(like you said Publix doesn't have corals, or didn't) while the car is running because if Fl in 97 degree heat with 100% humidity, there is no way I would leave my child in a car that wasn't running.

 

[luvmy3]

Don''t you love Publix. And you are right, no way in Fl heat would you leave a child in the car. They would be after you and throw you in Jail. But hey, at least you would be well on your way into not raising a snowflake , because we all know that a 2 month old is perfectly capable of staying in a locked car, while, me, the mom, actually takes my buggy back into the store,(like you said Publix doesn't have corals, or didn't) while the car is running because if Fl in 97 degree heat with 100% humidity, there is no way I would leave my child in a car that wasn't running.

A 2 month old is perfectly capable of sitting in their carrier in teh cart as you push the cart back to the corral and when you get there you can actually lift teh carrier out and carry it back to your car. I know its a novel idea to actually take your child with you and carry them back to your car, but I assure you it can be done and in any kind of weather. Did you not read the testimonies of us many mothers here who have accomplished this task many times over? Who knew we were something special, maybe even Super Moms

 

[KimR]

A 2 month old is perfectly capable of sitting in their carrier in teh cart as you push the cart back to the corral and when you get there you can actually lift teh carrier out and carry it back to your car. I know its a novel idea to actually take your child with you and carry them back to your car, but I assure you it can be done and in any kind of weather. Did you not read the testimonies of us many mothers here who have accomplished this task many times over? Who knew we were something special, maybe even Super Moms

This is what I always did. I don't understand why the concept is so diffucult. How do these people who claim they can't return their carts perform other errands that don't involve grocery carts? For that matter, How do they get the cart in the first place?

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

My DH used to love it when the stores in the area had the quarter bit for the carts. He used to send me in and then would go around the parking lot rounding up the carts and returning them. He always made a dollar or two.
Of course, that was many, many years ago when he was much younger and healthier!
But he was always like a kid in the candy store. He would come in and show me his quarters. Then he would let my DSD's hit the gum machine in the front of the store with the quarters! I always considered it a win-win! Oh yeah, and my DSD's used to fight over who returned the cart because whomever returned it got to keep the quarter!!

We need the quarter bit back again.

 

[jodifla]

Please post a link of a parent ever being arrested for putting their kid in the car and returing a cart. I have read reports of parents leaving their kids in the car to go shop, or even to go to work but never once have I read or heard about a parent being arrested for leaving their child in the car when they returned their shopping cart.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23594474/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/

Mom faces trial for leaving toddler in car

CHICAGO — Treffly Coyne was out of her car for just minutes and no more than 10 yards away.

But that was long and far enough to land her in court after a police officer spotted her sleeping 2-year-old daughter alone in the vehicle; Coyne had taken her two older daughters to pour $8.29 in coins into a Salvation Army kettle.

 

[jodifla]

Publix just now got cart returns. They don't mind if you leave them, they always have someone on cart patrol. I should know, I go there almost every other day. People just put them up on the grassy part and they don't roll into cars, that is if the bagger doesn't walk you out and then take your buggy back for you. I have never seen a cart hit anyone up at my Publix and everyone that I know goes there and no one had ever been hit by one. Maybe that is why they had those little grass islands. I am not saying it doesn't happen, and it would stink and yep I would be ticked off, but there are times when nope, I am not taking my cart back. But I will make sure it isn't close to another car.

PS, now that they do have cart returns, I always put my cart in the cart return, but in the past there was no way that I would leave a baby in the car just so I could go all the way back up and inside the store to put a cart up. And lucky for me, because of where I shopped this never had to be a choice, because they always have baggers that take it out for you. One of the many reaasons I shop there and never anywhere else.

Right....this was the way everyone did it at my Publix when there were no corrals. It's interesting that Northerners come to Florida and immediately insist everyone must do things THEIR way, or you are rude and lazy.

When in Rome, folks.....

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Arguing about returning carts. Now I've seen everything here.

 

[mhsjax]

A 2 month old is perfectly capable of sitting in their carrier in teh cart as you push the cart back to the corral and when you get there you can actually lift teh carrier out and carry it back to your car. I know its a novel idea to actually take your child with you and carry them back to your car, but I assure you it can be done and in any kind of weather. Did you not read the testimonies of us many mothers here who have accomplished this task many times over? Who knew we were something special, maybe even Super Moms

Doesn't really matter, my kids are all big now, the youngest being 10. And no I didn't carry them back and forth and wouldn't now. Sorry. And sorry, but I consider myself a super mom, because at that time we had 3 under the age of 4, HD worked every weekend and every night, except for his 2 nights off. I was tired, and I did everything, not that I owe you an explanation. I hauled all of those kids to the grocery store, I cooked every night and bathed them every night, all by super mom self. So sorry, but if I didn't return my buggy, it was no skin off my back and the employees at Publix never minded as I watched many people try and return them and the baggers told them just leave it there we will get it. OH and FWIW, I always left mine up on a curb, just as everyone else did, so it wouldn't hit a car. There were and is always at least 2 teenage guys out in the parking lot rounding up carts. It is just the way PUblix rolls around here in my area.

 

[mhsjax]

Right....this was the way everyone did it at my Publix when there were no corrals. It's interesting that Northerners come to Florida and immediately insist everyone must do things THEIR way, or you are rude and lazy.

When in Rome, folks.....

Oh, girl don't even get me started on the up north thing. I will get major points for that. lol

But you know, we are stupid and slow and lazy down here in the south. lol