There are no carts!!!!

[Nashida]

I still have trouble understanding why customers leave the carts on the islands in the parking lot. Those things are almost a foot high in the lot at Big Yank, and they're just so much fun to get down from there...:eyeroll:

[Shamus]

About as hard as it is putting them back, I'm afraid. People will leave their carts in front of my register, creating a sizable roadblock for the rest of the line, and the corral is no less than five feet away from my register - literally that close. I cannot for the life of me understand why they can push the cart all over the store but cannot be the slightest bit considerate to the people around them and push it an additional five feet.

[Bright_Star]

I just love how customers complain about carts being wet when it's raining, when the carts are cold cause it's cold outside & there's snow on the carts cause it's snowing!
Sometimes I'm at the door covering a door greeter's breaks or lunches & get customers who want ME to get a cart for THEM. I tell them I can't move from the door but they can get one just outside the doors. They just glare at me. I mean, how how hard is it to go get a cart yourself?

[I_Hate_SCs]

This happened a while ago during a very hot and miserable summer day. We were out of shopping carts for the first time since I started working there; I mean every single damn cart in both cartwells and the parking lot return thingys were in use, including the ones that usually end up in the woods beside the parking lot due to SC's carelessness and disregard for other's property. The store was so busy that I could barely walk an inch without bumping into someone or being called somewhere for customer help. This one particular SC I encountered this day made my brain-to-mouth filter fail completely:

SC: There are no carts!
Me: I know; I never seen anything like it.
SC: This is unacceptable. I'll have none of it!
Me: Um, okay, well if you wait at the other end of the checkout lanes I'm sure there will be someone who will give you their cart when they are done in a second or so.
SC: I will not!
Me: Well I'm sure someone left a cart on an aisle nearby that you could take.
SC: I'm sure your store will lose customers when you can't even give them DAMN carts to shop with!
Me: Well, actually, the lack of carts means the store is doing unbelievably well in sales today; probably the best in a few years since I never saw all carts being used. Check out the amount of people around you! (yes, I actually said that!)
SC: Well; I never! :walks away:

And to make it even better: the SC had only 2 items in her hands: a bottle of some medicine and a stapler, so she could've gotten a basket, or, gasp, carry the crap herself!