• Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      I watched someone in a Costco parking lot shove his cart onto one of those berms at the end of a row, very obviously about to walk away from it. I was already frustrated, so I walked over and basically yanked it from him, saying something to the effect of “no don’t worry I’ll get it” in a very “you’re part of the problem” tone.

      It felt nice, I’m not gonna lie.

      Edit: looks like the idiots who this meme is directed at are out in force lol

      • frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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        1 month ago

        Sounds like the other guy didn’t have to do Costco’s job, and you got to feel smug and superior without any real reason. Win win win

        • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 month ago

          Maybe don’t be an asshole by lodging it on a berm behind another car and just walk the extra 20 feet to put your fucking cart in the corral.

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            1 month ago

            Oh I didn’t do that. You’re confusing me with the person you met in the Costco parking lot. But I am not them!

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            1 month ago

            Can you explain why you believe this analogy is valid? I don’t think you can, but I’d absolutely love to see you try.

            • TheresNodiee@lemm.ee
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              1 month ago

              What a wild sentiment haha. Guy’s so insecure that he thinks using a SHOPPING CART will make him less manly.

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                  1 month ago

                  Ohhhhh so you literally mean that people who use shopping carts are in relationships where their SO is having sex with someone else behind their backs?

                  Right. Of course that’s what you meant. Well obviously that would be a MUCH more normal thing to believe.

        • wowwoweowza@lemmy.world
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          1 month ago

          Of all the things to get your panties in a twist about. Oh, world’s on fire, I’m going to make cart etiquette a big thing.

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            1 month ago

            Yeah, etiquette is important. I’ll tell you off for queue jumping too, if you like. Did your parents not teach you to pick up after yourself? Do you need to be sent back to kindergarten?

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              1 month ago

              We’re all on the same side here — on Lemmy and the Fediverse.

              This is something I care about.

              I want people to abandon corporate social media and I want them to support and use Federared options run by cool people.

              That’s you.

              That you spend your time worrying about carts is not really relevant to what connects us.

              I just want to let you know that I can be courteous and professional and interested and interesting and still believe that carts are not a big deal.

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                1 month ago

                The topic of this post, on the memes community, is shopping carts. I think it is an okay place to share our opinions about lazy people.

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                  1 month ago

                  My choice not to return those is a political decision to make corporations pay for their privilege.

          • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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            1 month ago

            Exactly, the world is on fire and www are verging ww3. People that can’t do the bare minimum can’t be trusted in current times.

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      2 months ago

      There’s always one.

      Confirmed, it seems one did. Sigh.

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      2 months ago

      My husband wouldn’t put the cart away.

      But he has cerebral palsy which made walking back to the car without the cart for stability difficult when he was shopping alone. He actively liked if someone left a cart in the handicapped hatch mark area because then it would be close so he could grab that going into the store and be balanced against it.

      He did know it wasn’t ideal though, and I’d take the carts back when I started shopping with him.

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    2 months ago

    Why is this practice promoted?

    It’s someone’s job and they make their money grabbing those carts, aren’t we taking that away from them if all is perfectly arranged and they can just collect the carts in 2 minutes? This concept seems to only benefit the business in saving labor?

    Coincidentally, I was checking out two days ago at a Costco and the manager came up to my cashier and said, “close up after this one, I’m going to send you home early okay?” The cashier said, “yeah, I guess…” But you could tell they clearly didn’t want to leave early. If there were a bunch of carts in the parking lot at that point, feels like that person might get an extra 30 mins or so on the clock… Why aren’t we supporting that? Manager would say, " let’s close you down after this one, and then please do a lap in the parking lot to grab carts before you go"

    Us carefully putting the carts away as customers is just free labor that the corporation benefits from… Period. How does this help the worker making an hourly wage?

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      2 months ago

      As someone who has previously put carts away for a job. No, not only does leaving carts out make it more annoying to pick up it can also damage other people’s vehicles, and take up parking spots. Carts roll around or are difficult to see and can get hit. This is the equivalent of saying to just knock stuff off the shelf as you walk through the store, an employee would have to pick that up and it would just cost the company money.

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        I don’t think this comment actually responds to my points. I’ve worked many hourly retail and restaurant jobs myself. In many there was a regular struggle to hit minimum hours per week to qualify for benefits and managers were instructed to cut people during perceived slow times - none of this considering that I sat in an hour traffic to show up for my scheduled 8 hour shift that I need to meet to make my rent.

        I was happy when gobacks piled up, shelves needed to be faced, tables needed to be bused and yes, to carts needed to be collected. When that was the case, I typically made my hours in those common, “we’re going to need to cut someone” moments.

        Again, this entire conversation seems biased to the business owner, the corporation’s labor cost, and not the employee. Saying “all the carts are going to hit cars” is a false premise, in my opinion. And what I’m arguing for is the “good trouble” version of this. Place the carts safely away and maybe near the corral, but not in the corral.

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          28 days ago

          Near the corral doesn’t take a lot more time to pick up from in the corral. I agree that leaving then in the corral is fine, someone still has to pick them up from there. But leaving the cart randomly outside has the potential to cause issues for others, completely ignoring the business owner.

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            28 days ago

            As stated previously, doesn’t seem you’ve ever worked an hourly job where management was actively working against that 29 hour threshold and sending people home early from scheduled shifts to make you avoid qualifying for expanded employees benefits.

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              25 days ago

              I definitely have and that doesn’t change the fact that I’d rather not risk damaging others property for an extra 15 minutes of work.