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Music: Reggie On The Mic (Eric Carmen - All by Myself)
Aug 20, 2025 1:03 PM
ReadyGo
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587
22
Music: Reggie On The Mic (Eric Carmen - All by Myself)
VitaminJay
I will die on this fucking hill!
Qaetan
Agent Sebastian is on the case!
https://youtube.com/@cartnarcs?si=pOVx33L6Y5VjgnQR
GrumpyOldMan55
I was going to call bullshit because how would a cart know that song and then I realized it probably plays on the store's muzak all the damn time.
Saxytimes
On my way in the store I grab one and drop it off. It's something to do in this miserable world.
ProfessorHerpDerp
I want to shop at the magical places that the folks that post these get to shop at. Meanwhile I get stores with no parking lot cart returns (not just small stores: Wegmans, Kohls), stores that put the returns in one spot (supercenter here has 3x2 parking spaces taken up by cart returns, and stuck them over by the lawn/garden section). That's not lazy, I'm not gonna walk an extra 300 ft because companies are too cheap to have cart returns in logical places or even any at all.
ProfessorHerpDerp
That's not even taking it into account the workers being in the way but not wanting to help you, constantly moving product so having to search for it, blocking aisles/ changing layout so there's no "thru" aisles. Brick and mortar stores want foot traffic but then see how far they can push the envelope on making it a bad experience. Just look at it as a social contract between costumers and stores. Good store, cart returned. Bad store, depends how far the return is and how bad the experience.
Toodamagedtocare
Just put the damn cart, it isn't that difficult !
PourMeAPuppersPlease
Completely agree, it's just inconsiderate. Like people who don't tag their political posts, I hate trump and co as well but I get my news elsewhere, it takes a few seconds to tag a post.
XaoJet
The fucking idiots who defend doing that shit with "but this way the baggers who come get them have a job" is peak fuckwit. Just making extra work for someone who already doesn't get paid enough cause you to entitled or special to be bothered to walk to a cart corral? They can get fucked.
IWasGoingToMakeEspresso
These are probably the same people who never tip.
arewenotkingsandqueenstogether
It's not extra work, it is the work, and in every grocery store I've worked at it's the most covered task.
JustAnotherUsername1010
The work is getting the carts from the corral and back to the store, not hunting down every single cart in the lot because overweight narcissists feel too entitled to walk an extra 10 steps. There is literally no justification outside of dire emergencies to leave your cart out, only excuses and cope.
OranjeBeered
All the baggers/cart corralers at my local grocery store are special needs adults. https://www.pocketsfullofsun.org/
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
Bro I was straight up physically assaulted by a guy wearing a MAGA hat because I put my cart away. I knocked him on his ass and that was that, but some people are absolutely fucking INCENSED by slight acts of kindness.
itsjustplaid
I believe there is a special hell for people like this. They finally get the car of their dreams, but every time they step away from it, it gets bombarded by a group of empty runaway grocery carts.
PourMeAPuppersPlease
Completely agree, it's just inconsiderate. Like people who don't tag their political posts, I hate trump and co as well but I get my news elsewhere, it takes a few seconds to tag a post.
KipperFillets
The supermarket near me needs £1 to detach them. I've made a few quid picking up stray carts to use and finding money in them because some idiot forgot about when they just dumped it.
chiefrunswithscissors
As a former trolley boy, the only break I got from cleaning toilets or any number of other horrible jobs was when I got to go outside a wrangle stray trolleys.
AustinJolly
Lazybones Alert! Weewooweewoo
faphappyscreencappy
For me it's the ones who leave packs of ground beef in the soda machine that earn this.
wookietiddy
Taken at Costco. UN believable.
kadachi16
Last time I went to Costco, I parked my car with cars next to me. When I got out, there were two shopping carts left out right next to my car. Instant rage.
Another time I caught the guy leave it in the space in between all of the cars. I gave him one of the most dagger stares that made him open the window and say sorry in a hurry. I don’t know who raised these people, but they have a serious case of entitlement.
VitaminJay
Costco is the land of Peak Entitlement and Conspicuous Consumption.
vintagebroad
Oh no you don’t Men leave them too buddy
MatrimBloodyCauthon
I didn't speak to the family, I just grabbed the cart while they were in their car and did the most aggressive turn and huff walk back to put it away
HollerinAtTheVoid
I put two extra shopping carts back in the stall yesterday, and let me tell you….I sure feel morally superior to everyone today ;-)
doctorId
The most annoying thing is looking for a parking spot, finally seeing an empty one, then pulling halfway in to find a cart sitting there.
Sakkura
That's what shopping cart deposits are for. Getting less common now that almost nobody carries cash around though.
Traquaire
It is difficult to understand this attitude on this site. You are giving multimillion dollar corporations free labor and believe it to be good and proper. Why don't you unload the delivery vehicles, stock the shelves, and scan and bag your own items while you're at it (admittedly the last one has the advantage of not needing to engage in social interaction, so I'll let that one slide). But it is all the same ball of wax. Stick it in the return stale if available; otherwise put it out of the way.
AyatollahBahloni
My wife and I, when we go to the grocery store, each find an orphaned cart and take it in, thinking of the poor wights who have to go out and gather them up.
pierceeze
Why they gotta be wight
PeterHartman
Wights: good word usage
LostCaterpillar
My mother, when I explained the shopping cart theory of morality to her, said that she's seen other random people take carts in from the parking lot and said that she's therefor doing them a favor by letting them put her cart back for her.
Aside from voting dem she's the most boomer boomer I know.
BIC777
Not all heroes wear capes. Unless you wear capes when you do this, in which case, fair play.
EmeRgencyDrD
I used to round up carts at Toys R Us back in the early 90s and I loved it. I was outside and sometimes people would take our carts to the KMart way down the way. So, I could be out there for 30-40 mins and no one cared. I was the guy that brought big ticket items to your car. So, many swingsets tied to car roofs, sheesh.
arewenotkingsandqueenstogether
Oh we actually love it though. Anything is better than dealing with customers. As long as they're not blocking parking spots and are anchored, it's fine.
Bmgm4u
Sometimes those poor 'wights' want to go collect buggies. Gives them a change of pace, Still, I commend you!
justherefortheconfession
But that's their job! You're taking away they're jobs! /S
marcnoel1052
I am sure there are other things they can do to occupy their time. They are not continually gathering. It is periodically.
imguronefive
While I don't often do that, I will usually take a moment to "tidy up" the shopping cart corral. People who do shove their carts in the corral often don't push them together so they take up less space. So I try to leave the corral with more space available than when I found it, and to hopefully set a good example for the next shopper.
intothefray2
I've always been in this club but a couple times ago I thought about leaving it. When I have to check out my own groceries and then it stops me from scanning shit and I have to wait for 5 min for someone to come over to watch a video accusing me of stealing something then they can pay to have someone pickup the cart from my house for all I care. I turned that thing on it's back and left out in middle of parking lot. Sadly since I've put them up but I don't care as much.
huffnpuff72
Late on night one rolled across and empty carpark toward where I was driving through. Took a lot of restraint. In the end not wanting car repairs won.
dirque
A counterpoint: I am old. I have bad knees. I do my best to return the cart to the rack but there are days when I just can't. I spent all my energy getting the groceries and unloading them in my car. Sometimes the pain is too much. I try to place the cart so it doesn't inconvenience anyone but no one is perfect.
YoureWaifuAShit
you are part of the reason why grocery pickup exists! there is no shame in it.
Kavrae
That's why the Shopping Cart theory of ethics has a disability exception.
jimd1954
Once again from a professional to all of you know it alls: I loved to round up carts. Yor can stretch it out to 20 minutes if you are lucky. When they stopped smoking is stores you almost had to fight a smoker to go outside in the sunny weather to get away from customers and Karens. Oh yeah about bagboys: did your groceries go down when they eliminated those jobs? Mine didn't. 10 years from now you will be calling me a piece of shit because I didn't self check out.
VitaminJay
I did cart rodeo as well. It still sucked no matter how much goldbricking was done.
Also: I like self checkout, I don't want to talk to fucking morlocks.
jimd1954
It may have helped that I lived in Florida.
arewenotkingsandqueenstogether
Yeah this issue is insanely overblown. As long as they're anchored and not blocking spots, it's fine to leave them wherever - we loved collecting them. It was always a nice break from customers and time outside.
Kavrae
You enjoyed it : good for you. Your experience/preference is not universal.
rbudrick
While carts should at least be pushed safely out of the way of cars and pedestrians, the cart bays were installed 30ish years ago strictly to cut labor. My manager was psyched at the jobs and hours cut for cart collectors and regaled at the studies showing shoppers will work for free out of guilt for not "helping" the cart collectors or being seen as not a team player to other shoppers. They absolutely do not pass on the savings to you or employees. They used to have peeps in the 80s and back 1/
rbudrick
That helped you pack your groceries or whatever in the car and returned the cart for you into the store on the way back. You are getting worse service and collectively doing the labor of jobs cut. You can argue "its efficiency," or "progress," but the only one benefiting is the company. 2/2
tenkindsofawesome
I curse whoever leaves them in the parking bays to a lifetime of stepping on legos, garden rakes and pavement oysters.
jimd1954
fu
Amythyst
Metal d4s.
PourMeAPuppersPlease
Completely agree, it's just inconsiderate. Like people who don't tag their political posts, I hate trump and co as well but I get my news elsewhere, it takes a few seconds to tag a post.
philogogus
May 1000 insects infest their underpants drawer.
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
Pavement oysters?
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
Yes! Even pavement oysters! Such is the depth of their anger
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
I don't even know what they are?! 😂
redclaysmartass
"Pavement oyster" likely refers to the use of oyster shells in construction, specifically for creating durable and well-draining surfaces.
Boyachi
In wanting to be prepared, I have good calluses, enough to walk on gravel driveways. Those shell driveways are a fresher hell. It takes a whole different level of durability and/or pain nullification to walk barefoot on those.
tenkindsofawesome
I admire the effort but that's not the meaning, 'pavement oyster' refers to gross street refuse, such as chewing gum, phlegm and dog droppings.