There’s an entire subset of the population that didn’t want to wash their hands during the pandemic, the bar is much lower than this.

(I might suggest that making good alt-texts on Lemmy may be another good example. Yes, I transcribed that whole screenshot into the alt-text by clicky-clacking.)

Not true. I gain 1 €, 50 ¢, or at least a nice plastic token.

I put the cart away cause it's fun to get a running start and then hopping on and riding it across the parking lot

Pick up speed, hop on and skate that mf to the cart storage. Personal gain unlocked.

I have a fat backpack that will carry all the groceries I will need for a week. I'll use the cart to putter about the store, but once all the groceries are in the backpack at the register, I'm walking to the car sans cart.

No, because I don't have a cart. I cycled to the shop and everything we need for the week fits in a basket.

Saw a guy leave his cart right on the divider. Grabbed his to put away, while putting away my own, and made eye contact with him the whole time.

The shame was just dripping out of him. It was wonderful.

ALDI solved this with the carts that take a coin. If someone doesn't want to return it, and leaves it in the parking lot, someone else will return it to get the coin.

Yes, every single time and fuck people who don't

This is why people need an imaginary sky daddy to tell them to return the cart.

I don't have a car, so if I can't carry it myself I'm not getting it.. There is no cart.

Depends, there’s this place I go to where I have to circle around all the cars to bring it to the front of the supermarket. They could put a corral somewhere back there but they don’t because they would lose some parking space. I never return the cart in this store.

You’re welcome.

I'll do you one further, do you take a cart from the corral on the way in if you know you need a cart?

Either be a human leech or return the cart.

It's not a hard choice.

I just like to ride the cart through the parkinglot and try to aim the cart into the cart corral and jump off last second. I made it into a game, im sure people look at me funny.

You gain a world where people don't see you do shitty things and then get ideas.

It's dumb to say that good things that help everybody are nothing, in part because it's a lie.

I pushed carts at a retail store in highschool. I always appreciated when people returned their carts.. not so much for my convenience, but out of respect for people's cars. I've definitely seen a few slam into cars after people just leave them wherever.

Elderly folks or people with mobility issues I totally get. You're cool, do what you need to do. But the lazy entitled ones drive me nuts.

In case someone wants to watch some cart narcs, here's one with a lazy bones.

Chaotic Good perspective:

If it's a nice day out, I put the cart as far away from the store as possible, like waaaaay out in left field. It gives the poor kid pushing carts more time away from the watchful eye of management and more time outside instead of stuck in a cold grocery store with repeating music.

Source: I was that poor kid and loved it when I had to spend more time away from my supervisor.

i prop the wheels up so it doesn’t roll or take up any parking spaces, and leave it out there because i’ve actually worked at places like that and going outside for something is the best part of the shift….
if it’s raining or 80 degrees then i’ll put it in the cart corral….
the whole “it’s soooo rude and evil to not save money for corporations” is made up by: corporations

I do.

I put it in the corral always but sometimes I flip it over too. I want them to believe I returned the cart so hard it flipped over.

I don't usually return it to the front of the store. But no matter where I'm parked in the lot, it never goes to a far-away corral, either the closest corral to the storefront, or better. I try to help out just a little.

For me it's all about how many carts there are. One or two yeah sure but if there are like dozens then im not cleaning up. Maybe the right ethical answer is emergent not inherit.