Do you return grocery carts?

[bumbershoot]

I'm curious... after taking your groceries (or whatever you shopped for) to your car, do you return the cart to one of the 'designated' corral's (or to the store entrance)?

Yes. Always.

 

[avgeek81]

I always try to park near the correl so im close enough to return the cart without any hassle.

 

[kacaju]

Did anyone else grow up in NJ when the stores did not have these cart corrals??
I swear they were never around when I was growing up (I am in my mid 40's)

 

[fortwildernessishome]

I had a teen learn to drive in my car - I don't think you'd notice a cart ding. Seriously though, I've always used my car as transportation - it's never been for keeping pristine (and I'm not knocking those who try to keep their cars perfect - I'm just not one of them). When I buy a car, I buy new and then drive until it dies. I'm 50 years old and have only had 4 cars. I take it on the beach, I go 4 wheeling, I've stuck the occasional bumpersticker on it, I park in lots where people have opened their doors on it, It's been bumped, and scraped, I've moved stuff half way across the country in it, and lugged a lot of work, firewood, luggage and so on in it. I've had a kid ride their bike into it (first time without the training wheels) I don't sweat the occasional dings - I consider that part of life.
I know many feel differently - but to me it's just a car and there is nothing in it worth getting outraged over.

Me to, there are so many things to get "outraged" about and for me a car is not one of them. I've been there too, as about ten years ago my brand new car did get the infamous "cart ding". It was a bummer, but not the end of the world, it was the first of many over the years.

To answer the OP, yes, I bring my cart to the corral, but I don't get worked up about people that don't.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

Yes, except in cases of extreme rain or temperatures well into the negatives.

 

[Poohforyou]

Almost every single time I have but I will admit to not doing it every single solitary time I've shopped in my lifetime.

 

[Magix]

Yes, I always put mine in the corral. I'll even use it to push the existing carts in the corral together, just to help out the kid who has to come get them all a little bit.

One day, it was raining very hard and someone hadn't put their cart in the corral, they just sort of left it nearby. The wind was blowing, so the cart took off. I was driving up the parking aisle and watched another car (driver and passenger) just sit and wait for the cart to get out of their way, so they could park in the open space it was crossing. They didn't seem to be concerned that it might hit someone else's car. So, I was the schmuck who was nice enough to stop my car, get out in the pouring rain, run up to the cart and push it over to the corral and make sure it was in there properly. Just a little common decency, that's all. Why just sit and watch it dent someone's car?

 

[MM27]

I always return my cart. I usually park close by the cart returns. My theory is that my car is less likely to get hit by carts here because the people that actually return them get them where they belong and the people that don't return them are too lazy to make it there, so the carts won't be around.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

I like to pull all the carts out of the coral and watch the mayhem unfold.

 

[SandrA9810]

I try to, but not always, especially when the corrals are already full. Walmart and Home Depot are the biggest culprits of it.

Publix used to not have corrals in the parking lot, because it's the bagger's job to load your groceries, and then they take the cart back inside.

I was a lot worse as a teen than I am now about it. But stores also seemed to be placing them at better intervals throughout.

 

[JessicaR]

who wants to take bets on how many pages this thread goes to?
and if it gets locked?

it's not going to end well.

and yes I return my carts. most of the time.
sometimes yep in a blizzard, the parking lot not plowed, can barely get the cart thru the snow. I leave it. there i said it, I have left the cart.

Same here! I return most of the time.

 

[merryweather20]

I like to pull all the carts out of the coral and watch the mayhem unfold.

This.

Also if I see someone returning a cart I kick them in the shins.

 

[JessicaR]

This.

Also if I see someone returning a cart I kick them in the shins.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

This.

Also if I see someone returning a cart I kick them in the shins.

I usually just hide-n-wait behind a car for them to leave it but your way is more pro-active, OK I'm taking notes.
"KICK THEM IN THE SHINS"

Gotcha

 

[bunkkinsmom]

I like to pull all the carts out of the coral and watch the mayhem unfold.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!

This.

Also if I see someone returning a cart I kick them in the shins.

I taught my 4 year old to do the kicking, that way I'm off the hook.

 

[prettyblueskies]

but to me it's just a car and there is nothing in it worth getting outraged over.

No, it's nothing to get outraged over, but for those of us who lease our cars and have to pay for those scratches and dents when we turn them in, it's a little bit upsetting. Not trying to start an argument, just offering a different point of view.

 

[bookgirl]

Yes. Yes I do return my cart, BIG pet peeve of mine, up there with people who get in thier cars then sit there fussing with their hair or rearranging their purses or any other time comsuming but not important task when other people are looking for parking spaces.

 

[JessicaR]

Yes. Yes I do return my cart, BIG pet peeve of mine, up there with people who get in thier cars then sit there fussing with their hair or rearranging their purses or any other time comsuming but not important task when other people are looking for parking spaces.

So many spots so little time - move on to the next. I have never waited and watched to see what a person does when they enter their car.

 

[Poohforyou]

Yes. Yes I do return my cart, BIG pet peeve of mine, up there with people who get in thier cars then sit there fussing with their hair or rearranging their purses or any other time comsuming but not important task when other people are looking for parking spaces.

Call me passive aggressive but if someone is tailing me and then waiting for my spot and I see there are plenty of spots further out I'll play with the radio, count my change etc. It's really annoying to sense someone is breathing down my neck because they don't feel like walking an extra 10 feet.

If it is crowded and there really aren't open spaces I hustle out as quickly as I can.

 

[LilyWDW]

So many spots so little time - move on to the next. I have never waited and watched to see what a person does when they enter their car.

Better I fix my hair or make that fast phone call BEFORE I start to drive. I mean, unless people would like for me to back out of the spot while talking on the phone.

Oh, one of my biggest pet peeves in the parking lots are VULTURES. You know, those people who follow you as you walk down the aisle instead of moving on. I usually make sure to take the looooooong way, make sure everything is nicely packed in the trunk, check my voicemail, change the CD, and anything else that I just need to do before I leave...