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In addition to store patrons not corraling their shopping carts, there's a much bigger problem. There are people (possibly teenagers and/or kids) who abuse shopping carts to the point where they either hope that good upstanding folks don't find them at all, or "proudly" put them on display in street medians and corners where they definitely don't belong. I've seen shopping carts that belonged to one store end up across the street in another store's parking lot. It's becoming a much bigger problem more than ever.
BTW, did you know that in several countries you have to put a coin in a slot system to get the cart? Which means you have to take it back to the corral to get your money back!
I put my cart away I always have. It doesn't take much effort on my part to do that. Its just common courtesy, and usually some poor kid has to go rounding all these carts up in the parking lot. After that the kid has to push all those carts thru the lot and into the store. I see it at Target all the time.
I think what you are seeing is just how many inconsiderate people there are in society. I don't think it just stops with the carts, its a personality trait. I bet many of these type people would go to a gym pile up the weights on a bench, and not remove them after they finished. The type that we will see in the theaters texting. You know the ones with the light constantly going on and off on thier cell phone. My favorite one that I would like to tell them off is when I see this. They sit in handicapped or senior seating on public transit. Someone comes on the bus or train and they sit there knowing damn well the person needs the seat. Actually I have told someone to please get up for the person on that one.
I don't think its a Denver thing, I think it happens all over, but I do think some areas of the country are more considerate than others.
In CA at Costco so many people left carts all over the parking lot. I would always grab the first two that I encountered on my way in to the store; one to use, one to return. One day I suggested to someone near me that they grab one of the carts they were passing rather than wait until they got up to the door. Got a nasty reply. When we got to the front of the store there were no carts available, he had to turn around and go out to the parking lot to get one because I certainly was not going to give him the extra one I brought up with me. HA!
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I'm not from your area, but I do put my cart in the one of those corrals. I always park not very far from one. It's the right thing to do, really. And no one will get into an accident either.
BE KIND & BE WISE...PUT CARTS IN THE CORRALS...THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR!! DUH!!!
We always bring our cards back to either the corral, or the front of the store where other carts are lined up. Leaving them in the parking lot is just lazy and inconsiderate of others. We wouldn't do that.
Not putting your shopping cart back is just laziness, plain and simple.
Making excuses about this, going to far as to argue that doing so creates jobs is simply denial. Using this logic we should all just toss every bit of trash we have on the ground every day as this will create tens of thousands of low paying jobs!
Personally, I believe which side of this practice you fall on says a lot about you as a person and how you were raised.
Couldn't have said it better myself.....Completely agree
Not putting your shopping cart back is just laziness, plain and simple.
Making excuses about this, going to far as to argue that doing so creates jobs is simply denial. Using this logic we should all just toss every bit of trash we have on the ground every day as this will create tens of thousands of low paying jobs!
Personally, I believe which side of this practice you fall on says a lot about you as a person and how you were raised.
Excellent post, could not agree with you more
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