Grocery store vent!

[delilah]

Those "cart people" aren't really paid to get carts. They are supposed to be bagging your groceries but as long as there are people in this world who think they are above common courtesy and don't give a rats butt about other peoples property we'll have to wait longer in lines while the courtesy clerks are out there getting carts instead of bagging groceries.

The grocery store I go to has people who just get carts. There are no baggers. The bags are on a revolving platform, and the checker bags the groceries as they are checked.

I try not to park too close to the cart returns, since I am more afraid of getting my car hit by somebody who "almost" returned their cart to the right spot. Not sure if the scratches on my car are from a cart, though. I don't think so, it looks more like my cat was jumping on the hood, or, the person parking next to me at work was clumsy or vindictive with their key.

 

[delilah]

we say carriages to and the kids ones that look like cars are called bean carts

The natives in Gainesville, Florida call them "buggies". One time at the store, an old lady yelled at me for taking her "buggy". I thought the empty cart I'd taken was mine. If it wasn't mine, actually, somebody else had taken mine. I was afraid she thought I'd taken a stroller with her child in it. She so frightened me that I let her have my cart, and went back to the front of the store to get it.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

The natives in Gainesville, Florida call them "buggies". One time at the store, an old lady yelled at me for taking her "buggy". I thought the empty cart I'd taken was mine. If it wasn't mine, actually, somebody else had taken mine. I was afraid she thought I'd taken a stroller with her child in it. She so frightened me that I let her have my cart, and went back to the front of the store to get it.

Really? I don't remember hearing buggies when I lived in Gainesville. I guess I wasn't around any Gainesville natives.

 

[Alicnwondrln]

we have carryouts just for carriages and bottleroom stuff like that
we have baggers adn then we have checkers

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

A few years ago, I was walking out to my car at at hardware store and there was a woman who was parked right next to my car, unloading some stuff. She turned to get some more stuff out of her cart and it started rolling into my car. Rather than stopping it, she just let it hit my cark, while watching it! Didn't hurt it, but how rude! I walked up, stared right at her without saying a word, grabbed the cart and gave it a really hard push back to her.

It is a pain when you have an infant and you have to unload groceries. I live where it's really cold and had to put the baby in the car first, then unload the groceries. I confess, rather than get the baby back out and return the cart to the corral, I've left the cart abandoned. Yes, I could've left the baby in the car unattended, but I've heard too many horror stories from people like, "I only turned around for a second" and some tragic accident happened.

I apologize for my past actions-but it was not laziness. It was out of concern for my babies. Especially once I had more than one, it became a real pain to take the cart back. Now that they're bigger, they come with me and I always put it back.

 

[tiggersmom2]

We were at Wal Mart a few weeks ago and saw people just abandoning carts all over the parking lot, as we went in. And Wal Mart here has TONS of corral options. It drives DH nuts--he hates WM anyway, and cart abandoners especially...so immediately went to about Defcon 2.

I parked 2 parking places over from a corral but when we came out, this woman next to us just abandoned her cart right up on my car instead of in the corral, and was skulking away. DH walked up to her and grabbed the cart and said "Good God, lady, it's just another 5 feet!" She just gaped at him. I was embarassed but her cart was touching my car. No excuse for her, the cart corral was RIGHT THERE and yes, she was by herself. Just lazy and thoughtless.

Well, that is because Wal-Mart is home to all the welfare and low-income shoppers....you should have gone to Target.

 

[ChristmasElf]

Most of the grocery stores here (with the exception of SuperTarget or Walmart SuperStores) take the groceries out to the car for you. I have had to occasionally strong arm the cart away from the bagger/cart carry outer guy when the store was busy just because I occasionally just want to do it myself.

 

[DisnyMama]

I have gone to Costco a number of times to return to my car and find that someone parked their empty cart directly behind my car. The Costco carts are wider than regular store carts so they don't just fit in between the cars and since people are too lazy to return them to the corrals they sometimes just leave them behind another persons vehicle. HOW RUUUDE!!

 

[shortbun]

Right now I have two corners of my van scratched because peope don't know how to drive in and out of parking spaces!!!! They cut too soon. I had a big dent from someone swinging their door open hard too. No scratches yet from errant carts but I'm sure that will happen some day. Ahhh life! My expectations of others are low. The cart issue has been beat to death on this board; it made me laugh when I read the first post. I haven't read the whole thread. Are people arguing passionately yet?

 

[Huggles]

Where I live in the UK, most shops have trolleys which require the use of a pound coin (one pound = $1.77). You get it back when you return the trolley. Rather than have to look for a pound coin each time, charities now sell keyrings which have a 'pound substitute' on them,. Its just a circle of metal which has the same weight and dimension as a pound coin, but is of no actual worth. You always have it to hand ( on your keyring) and when you buy it the money goes to charity. Seems to work as there are few abandoned trolleys at the stores which operate the charging scheme.

 

[debbiedoo]

Really? I don't remember hearing buggies when I lived in Gainesville. I guess I wasn't around any Gainesville natives.

I am from Vero Beach and we called them buggies also


one of the pet peeves at the grocery store. I try to park far away from the corrals and if posible go as late as I possibly can when not so busy, or early in the morning.

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

We had a store by me that had the quarter thing. It was great. I would go shopping and my DH would walk around the parking lot rounding up the carts that people were too lazy to get their quarters back. He usually made about 2.00 a trip.
Killed 2 birds with one stone. Carts got put back and DH was entertained!

 

[Tiffann4k]

Uhhh NO... we have to pay a quarter to get a cart at at my local store. You get your quarter back when you return it to the proper place.

I think all stores should do this. Our Aldi's does this and I love it!

oh my goodness, you have to pay to use a cart!

Good grief!!! What if you don't have any cash/coins? Do they have change for a dollar?

I always keep a quarter in my car just specifically for that particular store, its really not that hard to do & you do get your quarter back, so you dont pay for the cart you rent the cart

 

[Tiffann4k]

Then stay home til you can get a sitter.

Not all of us need sitters so we can go shopping

 

[skiwee1]

Not all of us need sitters so we can go shopping

The ones that can't return a cart due to having the kids with them do. I have 3 kids yet never had a problem returning a cart. It's just a lazy excuse.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

It really doesn't have much to do with this conversation

Well, it does have something to do with the conversation and even if it didn't, that never stopped me before--me, the queen of random thoughts!

 

[OhMari]

This is exactly the reason why I am totally anal about where I park. People just don't seem to have any respect for other people's property any more. Twice I have had to have panels resprayed due to other people's lack of consideration and care. Total bill? Around $1,500... I finally got around to getting a protected no claims insurance so at least next time I won't have to pay for it... Still, you'd think people would have the common bloody courtesy to make sure they don't damage other people's property?!?

Charlotte

I was going to put the cost of my nice long shopping cart scratch here. Mine cost $1500 too. Because the scratch went down to the bear medal. My husband figured someone walked by the our Blue Tahoo with the cart and connected with it because it was from front to back. We had a $500 deductible, but my husband is in the business so he didn't pay himself for the labor.

 

[OhMari]

Well, that is because Wal-Mart is home to all the welfare and low-income shoppers....you should have gone to Target.

When I proved to my husband that we save over $50 a week buying supplies and some food items at Walmart-I don't qualify as a Welfare recepient-but I am pretty damn close to a low-income shopper.

 

[goodeats]

My goodness aren't some of us so high and mighty!

If I had a newborn, and couldn't get my mother to babysit, there's no way I'd leave them in the car while I returned the cart. Puh-lease, my baby certainly comes before your car.

Goodeats - Who admits to sometimes leaving carts on the grass or between the curbstops

 

[Shelby5514]

What drives me nuts is when someone does return the cart to the corral but instead of nesting it with the others, to allow the maximum number of carts to be contained, they just shove the cart and it gets turned sideways and you end up with carts spilling out of the corral. DH thinks I'm crazy but I always nest all the carts in the corral when I return mine. Yes, I'm a cronic cart nester!