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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

fucking ALWAYS.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I don't take the cart out of the store anymore. I really can't afford that many groceries.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Narrator: They aren't.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I‘m German. It’s in my DNA.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (9 children)

This is such a weak post. You really wanna be a good steward of carts? Get one from the corral on the way in instead of using one from the inside. Especially if it's not out of the way. Make the cart retriever's job even easier. Especially on super hot/cold days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is the way.

Also, by taking a cart from the corral and bringing it in with you, you’re actively modeling a virtuous behavior you hope people emulate, which does more to correct the problem than whining online about it.

But it does make me wonder about us sometimes. How did we get this way? How did “Fuck everybody else; got mine” become the default way Americans think? Am I the weird one for being raised to be thoughtful about these kinds of choices?

I don’t claim to be perfect. I’ve had bad days when I take advantage that permissiveness-inconsiderateness that I see around me all the time, but I always know that it’s wrong, and that I’m doing an inconsiderate thing, but that my frustration affords me the grace to be selfish about this one thing.

One of the Academy Award nominated short films this year is Instruments of a Beating Heart, about a class of Japanese first-grade students preparing to perform Ode to Joy for the new first year students that will take their places. It’s primarily about the struggle of one girl, but set against the backdrop of Japanese grade school life, student responsibility and expectation-setting for young humans experiencing their first non-familial social environments. It made me think “Well, at least these kids are going to be alright.”

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I do this, not because I'm courteous but because if I take one from the outdoor corrals I don't have to wait behind three grannies slowly selecting carts from the inside corral.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

One time I didn’t return the cart at Aldi.

I still think about that a decade later.

Because that haunts me I always put the cart back no matter what


For those that don’t know you have to put a quarter in to use a cart and you get it back when you put it away which means there are never stray carts anywhere. People want their money back.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

This is why I always try and find a parking spot closest to a cart corral. People go crazy trying to get a spot closest to the front of the store, but ultimately your last stop before getting in your car should be at the cart corral. Yes, sometimes this means parking further away from the front door, but I have functioning legs and walking an extra 30 feet isn't a problem.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

I bring it back to the store, like a proper child of the light.

EDIT - ProTip: Leave your reusable bags in your car. When you checkout tell them you don't need bags and to just put the groceries back in the cart. You can bag the stuff at your own pace once you are back at your vehicle. No self bagging stress, no "I forgot the bags stress, no extra work for the cashier, no need for a bagger, and you help the queue move faster.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (12 children)

That time Cart Narcs got a gun pulled on them in Texas:

https://youtu.be/h8d_XYd1dac

Assholes have guns and that's all they need to think they're right.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

It's a wonderful test for if someone is an ass.

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