• Buglefingers@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Whenever I return to my car without a cart (vast majority of the time) I will find a random cart not returned and return it. Cause fuck you, that shit’s going back despite your best efforts (or lack of any)

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      I swear this is a regional thing. Where I live now, it is extremely rare to see a cart outside the return. But I’ve lived in other places where it seemed like no one returned their cart, ever.

      I think it’s a peer pressure thing - once it’s the norm, everyone just does it. But if people started breaking that, I’d suddenly start seeing carts all over the lot.

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    5 days ago

    I normally return them all the way back into the store. Maybe I will be allowed into the upgraded “good place” without all of the forking censorship.

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      I don’t feel like I live in an area with particularly great people but it’s pretty rare not to see someone return the cart either inside or to the corral. Regional cultures, I guess.

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    Where I live, you have to put a coin into the shopping carts and you only get it back when you return it. Is this not a thing in, uh, Portugal? Brazil? Wherever the comic author lives…?

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          I heard from a guy living near DC, that a normal (i guess one pound?) bag of low quality ground coffee costs 20$. At this rate you have to have the cards take Benjamins to force people to return them.

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          I don’t care about the quarter, but in a different way. If I see someone getting out of their car, I say “You need a cart?”

          Shit, I’d rather give it to them, than walk across the parking lot. Now if I don’t see anyone, THEN I’ll take it back. But I’d rather just give the cart to someone who needs it anyways. Screw the quarter! Oh no! I’m missing out on…30 seconds of earned income!!!