No shopping carts? Right....

[jjc927]

A woman comes up to me asks me where she can get a shopping cart. I ask her if she means the cart that you push or a red basket since I know that occasionally the baskets will not be by the door because they're all being used or have been put by registers or the Uscan. She tells me she means the cart you push.
Me: There weren't any carts outside of the store?
Woman: Nope, I didn't see any.

The woman then looks at the red baskets stacked by the candy display and decides to just use that. I turn around after she leaves, and what do I see? A ton of shopping carts outside the window! How this woman managed to not see a single cart I cannot comprehend.

[Mytical]

Because they were more then 1" from her precious self?

Just a guess.

[Mnemjian]

Because they were more then 1" from her precious self?

Just a guess.

That was my guess too That or because nobody handed her one after opening her car door for her...

[Shalom]

To be fair, maybe she was just so used to scrounging carts from the ones scattered around the parking lot that she didn't recognize them when they were all stacked together. Or maybe she didn't see any in the corrals and never thought to look against the wall.

Yeah, maybe not so intelligent, but I wouldn't necessarily decide she's so self-centered as to assume they don't exist if she's not given one. To paraphrase an old rule, never attribute to EW-dom what can be adequately explained by inattentiveness...

[Zellie Crescent]

Last week I had some lady ask me if a cart left by my frozen case was mine and if she can use it, she asked me when I was in full uniform working behind the fresh fish case.

[poisoned_flowers]

Last week I had some lady ask me if a cart left by my frozen case was mine and if she can use it, she asked me when I was in full uniform working behind the fresh fish case.

Ok, in her defence, in the grocery store I worked at, the stockers often used the carts when doing returns, so it's not that far-fetched. And at least she was polite about it.

[HawaiianShirts]

I have observed that other shoppers (at least where I've shopped) have some strange aversion to taking empty carts that are not in the designated cart availability area.

Now, if I'm going grocery shopping, and I see an abandoned cart in the lot, I might grab it and use it. I could not begin to count the number of other people I've watched walk right past dozens of carts in the lot to pick one up inside the store.

It's like they think the carts are somehow not "ready" for shopping use until they're all lined up in the cart storage place at the front of the store. I'm waiting for the day when there are no empty carts in the store and some customer, instead of getting one from the lot, insists on waiting for the employees to bring in a "fresh batch" of carts.

So, jjc927, perhaps she saw the carts but avoided them because they hadn't been fully reprocessed and prepared (it's anyone's guess what that involves) for new customers yet...

[/HawaiianShirts's weird sociology hypothesis]

[EricKei]

Heh. Maybe they think the ones in the long stacked rows have been *chortle* sanitized or something >_> Wet-naps exist for a reason, and some grocery stores even have dispensers for them right near the cart rack!

[downforit2008]

Maybe the carts that she passed weren't "pretty" enough for her. Pushing carts as part of my job, I see a bunch of idiot customers all the time rummaging through the entire cart bay, trying to pick out the "perfect" cart for them out of more than 300 possibilities. I keep wanting to say, "Damn, just take a stupid cart already. They're all the same anyway!" But they keep doing it all the time, leaving me clueless as to what is exactly going through their head.