Stop treating our shopping carts like your personal dumpster

[Monterey Jack]

Doing carts on a late shift tonight (4:00 to 9:00 PM), and shortly before leaving, found a cart piled high with:

-Two GIGANTIC paper sacks from McDonalds filled with food (judging by the weight)

-Eight(!) plastic water bottles, ranging from empty to almost half-full.

-A Mickey D's coffee cup...also half-filled with water(?).

-Assorted crumpled balls of paper.

Now, this was far from the worst, messiest or weirdest thing I've ever found in one of our carriages (weirdest thing was a guitar. I'm still trying to figure that one out...), but still...if you want to throw some shit out, PLEASE put it in one of our trash receptacles. Would you like it if I went to your house and starting throwing trash on your lawn?

[Food Lady]

This is why we lose our cart attendants all the time. They have the suckiest job and work so hard for a pittance.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Until you've found a USED DIAPER in your shopping carts, you haven't seen anything yet.

[Argabarga]

Crap like that is why the occasional candy wrapper or abandoned Starbucks cup doesn't even faze me anymore.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Until you've found a USED DIAPER in your shopping carts, you haven't seen anything yet.

Crap like that is why the occasional candy wrapper or abandoned Starbucks cup doesn't even faze me anymore.

Haaaa. I see what you did there.

[xxscooterxx]

I was pushing carts in one day and this old man walks up and blows his nose and tosses the dirty kleenex in my cart. I went the hell off.

[Despina83]

It always disgusts me to see carts full of trash parked NEXT to the damn trash can! People just leave it for the greeter to pick out and throw away. Disgusting laziness.

[Monterey Jack]

It always disgusts me to see carts full of trash parked NEXT to the damn trash can! People just leave it for the greeter to pick out and throw away. Disgusting laziness.

Just as bad as seeing a customer leave a cart between their car and the one next to them (or, worse, in the empty space next to them) instead of turning around and walking twelve feet to the nearest cart corral and leaving it there. And then they get pissed off when it's windy and a cart gets blown into the side of their precious car.

[notalwaysright]

One day I pulled into the parking lot way before we opened (maybe 6-7AM) and of course the lot is deserted... Except for 4 fast food soda cups, placed in a rough square shape, plus a paper bag. My guess is they parked and ate, then all opened their doors and set their garbage down and drove off. Littering really annoys me. It shows a really basic selfishness which makes me judge-y and mean.

[wolfie]

Just as bad as seeing a customer leave a cart between their car and the one next to them (or, worse, in the empty space next to them) instead of turning around and walking twelve feet to the nearest cart corral and leaving it there.

Worse still are the "people" who, when they've finished with the cart, don't just leave it - they give it a shove to get it out of THEIR way, causing it to roll and hit someone else's car.

My experience is that the handicap spaces tend to attract more carts than regular spaces do - and the people who need those spaces don't have the option of taking a different space, while being restricted in their ability to clear the carts out of the space.

[Seanette]

Just as bad as seeing a customer leave a cart between their car and the one next to them (or, worse, in the empty space next to them) instead of turning around and walking twelve feet to the nearest cart corral and leaving it there. And then they get pissed off when it's windy and a cart gets blown into the side of their precious car.

I once found a cart parked BEHIND my car when I emerged from a store. Grrrrr.

[wolfie]

I once found a cart parked BEHIND my car when I emerged from a store. Grrrrr.

Of course - the lazy bastard didn't want to walk all the way to the cart corral, so they simply moved it far enough that it was out of THEIR way. After all, THEY are the only person who matters. [/sarcasm]

[prjkt]

Of course - the lazy bastard didn't want to walk all the way to the cart corral, so they simply moved it far enough that it was out of THEIR way. After all, THEY are the only person who matters. [/sarcasm]

Saw someone do that to my car as I was walking back to it

Didn't say anything, just pushed it back behind their car before they could drive off, got in the car, looked at the driver, smirked, and drove off (I'd reversed into the spot, no need to reverse out)

[carryonnow]

I have always wondered what state lottery agencies up on lottery tickets that causes them to be magnetically attracted to the pavement in convenience store parking lots. I mean seriously, I 10 T E N trash barrels outside yet lottery ticket committed suicide regularly on my pavement.

I have also wondered why on God's green earth I need to dispose of a perfect stranger's car battery or rusted wheel rim...it is was gas station NOT a junk yard.

and while I am ranting about parking lot finds, nothing and I mean NOTHING is more gross than the smell of lobster bait juice dumped on your parking lot as the end of July....I am telling you that you haven't lived until you have experienced that.

[Argabarga]

and while I am ranting about parking lot finds, nothing and I mean NOTHING is more gross than the smell of lobster bait juice dumped on your parking lot as the end of July....I am telling you that you haven't lived wished for death's embrace until you have experienced that.

Fixed that for ya. On a less-gross note, people who decide as they're moving out to dump the contents of a moldy old fish tank in the parking lot, in a hot summer environment, are going to be at the top of my "kill on sight" list once I figure out this whole world-domination thing.