There are no carts!!!!

[drunkenwildmage]

Couple weeks ago, and it was raining pretty hard..(Note We were parked in a handicap spot) We loaded up the back of the mini van, I rolled the cart up next to the main building, got in the van, Wife started to back up WHAMMO!!.. Someone had loaded their Vehicle and left their cart *BEHIND* our running van to the point you couldn't see it, AFTER I loaded the van and put our cart away. Maybe 30 seconds... Wife backed right into this on.

[Despina83]

A spine. *sniff* It bring tears to my eyes.

That supervisor is no longer at our store. I admire her for that instance, but she was usually a bitch and guests had some complaints about her that I agreed with. Sadly, the woman that replaced her is even bitchier.

[Chromatix]

On this side of the pond, the "deposit" is usually one or two pounds or euros - remembering that we have £2 and €2 coins in wide circulation. So the reward for putting the trolleys back is that much greater.

Of course since the quarter is your biggest universally-available coin...

[blas]

What I especially hate are the people who just leave their carts next to their vehicles and the parking lot becomes an obstacle course of carts, especially if it's windy!

Two Thursdays ago when it was -30, I put my cart away and just carried my shit outside to save those poor cart guys from having to go outside. But you wouldn't believe how many people think "Oooh noooo...cart corral is 50 feet away. We'll just leave the cart here and it will take up this perfectly good parking spot."

[AirHostess]

If there aren't any trolleys then what the hell are you meant to do? Pull some out of the magical back room?

[Peppergirl]

There's a store called Biggs here that did the quarter thing.

Unfortunately, they caved to customer whining and got rid of them.

[jedimaster91]

Aldi does that and we have several in my city. It truely makes my day when someone leaves a cart out and I get an extra quarter.

If WalMart did that, I'd make tons of money every trip.

[valhar2000]

Relying on the SC's money-grubbing; how can it fail?

[Aethian]

I actually like those...love them in fact. No dentted to hel carts and almost always in the main corral which means they are protected from the elements. Not the temp but I can deal with temp.

[Chromatix]

That's why many stores over here have coin-locks on trolleys. It has a virtuous trio of benefits:

- People who don't really need a trolley can't be bothered to get out the coin to obtain it.

- People are much more likely to put the trolleys back, to retrieve said coin.

- People get rewarded for putting back trolleys that others have left lying around.

[mattm04]

We had a woman (the woman from "The Family" that I have ranted about before) come in and stay several minutes after close, like she always does. She had several kids with her, and I don't mean little kids. She insisted on taking her cart outside with her, even though it was a blizzard outside and an employee would have to run outside in that weather and retrieve it before we could leave. She INSISTED. The supervisor argued that she had several people with her who could help her carry her bags to her car, but she wasn't having any of it. Finally the supervisor just said "No, you WILL leave that cart in the store. You are NOT taking it out there."

A spine. *sniff* It bring tears to my eyes.

[Despina83]

We had a woman (the woman from "The Family" that I have ranted about before) come in and stay several minutes after close, like she always does. She had several kids with her, and I don't mean little kids. She insisted on taking her cart outside with her, even though it was a blizzard outside and an employee would have to run outside in that weather and retrieve it before we could leave. She INSISTED. The supervisor argued that she had several people with her who could help her carry her bags to her car, but she wasn't having any of it. Finally the supervisor just said "No, you WILL leave that cart in the store. You are NOT taking it out there."

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Let me guess: the cart was left in the farthest corner from the parking lot, nowhere near one of those 'return your cart here' thingys in the lot!

Oh yeah, that's happened too.

[I_Hate_SCs]

Result: somebody has to go outside and bring the shopping cart back inside, because all the carts have to be inside the store before the all clear is given and people can leave.

Somehow I frequently got stuck being the "runner" when I used to work closing shifts.

Let me guess: the cart was left in the farthest corner from the parking lot, nowhere near one of those 'return your cart here' thingys in the lot!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

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!

Even better are the people (let's just reach deep into our Bag of Descriptive Words and call them "assholes") who:

come into the store shortly before closing....
grab a shopping cart....
continue snooping 5 or 10 minutes past the "store is closed" announcement over the PA....
finally purchase an item or items small enough to fit in a regular-size bag....
and take it out to their vehicle in their shopping cart.

Result: somebody has to go outside and bring the shopping cart back inside, because all the carts have to be inside the store before the all clear is given and people can leave.

Somehow I frequently got stuck being the "runner" when I used to work closing shifts.