Same. And I'm being serious here while it could sound sarcastic:
I feel good knowing I saved the cart return guy 15 seconds. His day will not be improved because he still needs to move all the carts; and when that task ends there will be another. I understand this, but I still feel like I made the place better than I found it. Where I am, it's hot-AF outside right now, so I hope that I'm making the next indoor task sooner and my time is appreciated -- but my time is literally like <1 minute, so I know it's not a lot of anti-entropy.
My math is that, with billions of people on the planet, if even part of us tried to save someone 15 seconds every few days, we could build so much faith in humanity.
OK, so the correct thing to do in this situation is tuck the cart behind or hook the wheels over a parking barrier/curb, or if there's no other option tip the cart onto its back/handle side. Don't just leave the cart loose rolling around. I've seen a gust of wind blow a loose cart into a parked car and smash the brake light cover out.
But also, if you're physically disabled to this level how are you using the shopping cart in the first place?
I once paid 8 fucking bucks to use a cart at an airport. They give you a quarter back for returning it. I feel like they misunderstood the meaning of "deposit" but whatever, I absolutely did not return that shit and hopefully someone else saved 8 bucks.
Kinda sounds like the people around you are a problem. In my area, most places are paid but even the free ones don't have carts just left around. They're often lazily put in the shelter thing but they're in there.
Theres plastic tokens you can use in those. In Poland, in nearby leroy merlin (it's a french(?) home improvement store) they even give them out to customers.
I guess people don't carry around change all that much here.
if I put a quarter in the cart that would tell me precisely how much the value of the cart being returned is, and as such increase the likelihood of me putting it in a bush.
Legacy of good ol' small town social control that we call "the law of Jante" in Northern Europe, rule 6 I think: "You're not to think you are more important than we are."
Only someone from a nordic country could look at satire of conformity and say "Good idea!" the remarks later in the article, my lord. While I'm all for a tight binding social contract I think you should be encouraged to be weird while fulfilling it!
We even have those little plastic coins in Aus! Just had to ask at the help desk at the supermarket and they'd give you one with its own little keyring adaptor too! Really useful when you needed it!
It's completely derranged to be so annoyed at the idea of being coerced into doing something that you buy a thing, pull it apart and figure out how it works, make a tool to bypass it, and continue doing exactly the same thing but now "freerer"
I can give you knowledge of the craft of bypassing but you must swear that you shall not misuse it, nor pass it on before determining the good character of the receiver and swearing them to this same oath.
You may find in time the knowledge weighs heavily upon you, and you will be forced to confront who you truly are.
Always, because when I wear my heelys I can lift up the back of the cart and basically Tokyo drift through the parking lot and the looks I get fuel me.
I love wearing my heelys while shopping. I push the cart hard then just hold on and coast. I love when I make eye contact with a child while their parent is busy and just wheel by them. When they tell them that the lady that just went by had wheels on her shoes and they see me standing looking at beans or something, they think the kid was lying.... Gaslighting lil Timmy with heelys.
Back in the late '80s and early '90s my brother and I would run all over the parking lots while our mom was in the store, and return all the carts. We would see how big of a stack we could manage to get moving while we were at it. IIRC our record was 43 carts. We really wanted to hit 50, but I think that was just too much mass for us to handle.
I don't clear the lot anymore, but I do park out by the edge of a lot, if I brought my car, and pick up any carts on the way into the store.
It assumes a purely capitalist worldview where the only way you can personally gain from an action is via monetary reward. I know I'm preaching to the choir here on Lemmy, but being in the US I think it's still worth pointing out because it's a full-on cultural disease.
Now, if you don't mind, I need to go spend most of my evening doing things that will seemingly gain me nothing. Omg what if I spend some money on materials I need for a hobby? NeGaTiVe gAiNz?!??
It's a combination of sillytalk (also anarchist praxis), and getting to the actual essence of the anarchist axiom: food is something we all need. One of the ways to solidify is through sharing hunted and gathered food. Canteens/foodbanks are a public place folks can combine all the gathered food, cook, serve, and commune with.
I am mocking the meme of “shopping” because that is capitalist praxis. Not the [food] cart itself, but the act of shopping. Returning say cooking utensils, washing tables, cleaning the floors, that is the true equivalence of the thesis of this meme.
Not a problem 😁.
Recall too, banter/shitposting/sillytalk is also anarchist praxis. Free speech and press, especially in mockery of hierarchies is part of intersecting and solidarity. 🖕 food brokers (Grocery stores).
Ugh, I rolled my ankle a couple weeks ago and still needed to do shopping that day. I was leaning on the cart to stabilize myself. I really did not want to have to walk the cart back to its corral at the end, because walking hurt like hell. But these memes, man, these memes guilted me into doing it anyway.
There are people who I dislike far more than those who don't return the shopping cart. The people who walk past 10 carts to get into the store and grab a cart are the worst.
Back when this cart return shaming was all the rage, I suggested that people do this--take a stray cart from the lot on the way in--and I was buried. I still don't know why, no one would tell me.
I respectfully disagree, once as I was leaving Walmart I saw a women walking with her shopping cart, grab the bags out as it was rolling and just walked away, leaving the cart flying through the parking lot towards someone's car, I literally ran after it and grabbed it. I was a kid when this happened, and I almost tore that lady's head off, even as a kid I knew that was wrong and was appalled by this adult woman's blatant selfishness and carelessness.
In my opinion this is the worst, although it's a rare creature to be this terrible.
There will always be assholes that the collective must contend with. We should not divert the entire conversation to the assholes. There would be far fewer carts in the parking lot and less work for everyone if folks would just grab a cart or two and take them in with them as they go.
usually, but if there's any reason, even one far short of an emergency, it's a coin toss.
if we lived in a different society, like an actual anarchist or communist society, I'm sure i would act differently. but I'm not sure we'd have shopping carts and grocery stores.
I've asked people before and what I get most often is "🤷 it's their job, let them do it, I'm not going to work for free". If I can return mine in active labor, you can return yours you lazy fuck.
On one hand, prices are going up so why should I do the work of the people who work there?
On the other, I'm practical. I park next to the cart corral, reducing my chances of getting my door dinged by half, and then when I'm done with the cart, I put it back in the corral because it's the most convenient place to put it.
People who go out of their way to return the cart may be eligible for sainthood, but I do it because it makes sense, and I sorta set up the situation where it makes sense. We all win that way.
I avoid parking by the cart corral because I have this fear of people shoving carts in the general direction of the opening and hitting my car instead.
I mean, you're the one shopping at the corpo-capitalist shithole store. You already gave them your money. Why create a hazard for other shoppers and more work for the wage slave?
Cart retrieval doesn't add up to a significant hourly need compared to stocking, pricing, register, go backs, etc. There's generally enough work to do that you're always at least a little behind. No one's getting fired because everyone returned their carts to the corral.
that's not true. they may keep an extra front-end employee on hand to ensure they have enough employees to cover cart retrieval.
these days, supermarkets chug along with a bare-bones staff compared to 20 years ago.
back then it would have been unheard of to make any customer wait in line for more than a few minutes , but now it's the norm.
give it 5-10 years, and it'll be customary for customers to return their carts unless they want the parking lot to be a postapocalyptic free for all.
and the scary thing is that people will just accept and adapt based on the tropes of american culture.. discourse will change from this argument to 'if you didn't want your car to be dinged then you shoulda returned all the carts within 2 miles.'
Not even if they didn't. It's like an hour of labor over the course of a day tops, for a store that has two dozen full time employees working every day. That's like 200 daily man-hours minimum for a mid-sized store. Cart retrieval is ½% of labor at most. It's a rounding error. Clocking in early and clocking out late account for more hours than are spent retrieving carts.
95 Comments
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 92 pts · 2d
I want to live in a world where people return the shopping carts, therefore I do it myself. If you don't, you're an antisocial prick.
Lodespawn@aussie.zone · 34 pts · 2d
Sometimes I even fix the shit show of random carts in random return lanes so everything fits all neat.
korazail@eviltoast.org · 10 pts · 1d
Same. And I'm being serious here while it could sound sarcastic:
I feel good knowing I saved the cart return guy 15 seconds. His day will not be improved because he still needs to move all the carts; and when that task ends there will be another. I understand this, but I still feel like I made the place better than I found it. Where I am, it's hot-AF outside right now, so I hope that I'm making the next indoor task sooner and my time is appreciated -- but my time is literally like <1 minute, so I know it's not a lot of anti-entropy.
My math is that, with billions of people on the planet, if even part of us tried to save someone 15 seconds every few days, we could build so much faith in humanity.
magikmw@piefed.social · 5 pts · 2d
There's no scripture about shopping carts therfore there's no eternal damnation looming over you if you don't put them back. Take that atheists!
trebach@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1d
I give the people in the handicapped spots a pass. They might not physically be able to go to the cart return and back.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Or they may be totally capable but it will burn up their energy reserves for the day and have more stuff to get done.
Best not to judge, as you said.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 14h
OK, so the correct thing to do in this situation is tuck the cart behind or hook the wheels over a parking barrier/curb, or if there's no other option tip the cart onto its back/handle side. Don't just leave the cart loose rolling around. I've seen a gust of wind blow a loose cart into a parked car and smash the brake light cover out.
But also, if you're physically disabled to this level how are you using the shopping cart in the first place?
plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works · -19 pts · 2d
What does returning a cart have to do with being social?
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 2d
Not the previous poster, but it acknowledges one's participation in collective behavior for mutual benefit.
bss03@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 1d
Social as in "building or maintaining society".
Not social as In "socializing in order to enter high society".
everett@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2d
(As in "society.")
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 2d
Leaving a stray cart in the parking lot is very antisocial behavior.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 2d
This is Aldi, I get my quarter back.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2d
I once paid 8 fucking bucks to use a cart at an airport. They give you a quarter back for returning it. I feel like they misunderstood the meaning of "deposit" but whatever, I absolutely did not return that shit and hopefully someone else saved 8 bucks.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 2d
That's just forced incentive to take it back.
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
And it works. I’ve never seen an Aldi with a parking lot strewn with carts.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2d
Sometimes I don’t even make it back to the cart area before someone comes up to me with a quarter to trade for the cart.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 2d
Kinda sounds like the people around you are a problem. In my area, most places are paid but even the free ones don't have carts just left around. They're often lazily put in the shelter thing but they're in there.
magikmw@piefed.social · 1 pts · 2d
Theres plastic tokens you can use in those. In Poland, in nearby leroy merlin (it's a french(?) home improvement store) they even give them out to customers.
I guess people don't carry around change all that much here.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 2d
if I put a quarter in the cart that would tell me precisely how much the value of the cart being returned is, and as such increase the likelihood of me putting it in a bush.
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Thats just mean :<
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
So you’re just a trash human and openly admitting it? Congrats, I guess?
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -2 pts · 1d
Of something tells me the exact price for a service I will either take full advantage of it or not use it at all
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
So you’re antisocial trash, got it.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 1d
as soon as they offer a way to make something a transaction they shouldn't be suprised when people treat it as such
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1d
Need an extra shovel to keep digging that hole buddy? Neolibs can go stay on Reddit.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 1d
nah, I've already got my own excavator
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 2d
We have these coin lock trollies here.
I made a tool that bypasses the coin lock so I know that every time I return my trolley I am motivated purely by social concern and not self interest.
I am 100% serious, I wish I knew what was wrong with me.
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 11 pts · 2d
They hand out free plastic tokens for the trollies at the registers here in Lidl's in Denmark, and people still put their trolly back.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2d
Yes yes, everything is better in denmark except the food. We are very tired of hearing this :p
RedSnt@feddit.dk · 5 pts · 2d
Legacy of good ol' small town social control that we call "the law of Jante" in Northern Europe, rule 6 I think: "You're not to think you are more important than we are."
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 2d
Only someone from a nordic country could look at satire of conformity and say "Good idea!" the remarks later in the article, my lord. While I'm all for a tight binding social contract I think you should be encouraged to be weird while fulfilling it!
dockedatthewrongworf@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2d
We even have those little plastic coins in Aus! Just had to ask at the help desk at the supermarket and they'd give you one with its own little keyring adaptor too! Really useful when you needed it!
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
This man invented a machine to prove his morality.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1d
Not a man. The sexism of assuming everyone is sucks
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
In that case, allow me to fix that last line for you:
Be the change and all that. Keep being socially conscious - we need that more than ever right now.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
It's completely derranged to be so annoyed at the idea of being coerced into doing something that you buy a thing, pull it apart and figure out how it works, make a tool to bypass it, and continue doing exactly the same thing but now "freerer"
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
I routinely take the cart back and forget to take the coin back.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2d
I can give you knowledge of the craft of bypassing but you must swear that you shall not misuse it, nor pass it on before determining the good character of the receiver and swearing them to this same oath.
You may find in time the knowledge weighs heavily upon you, and you will be forced to confront who you truly are.
(trolleys are srs biznus)
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d
Fuckin' Uncle Ben up in here with his trolley problem.
A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
You can also use the round side of a key to bypass it.
Stonewyvvern@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 2d
Return your cart and another that's nearby. Sacrifice a little extra time to...
Slow the Decay.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 1d
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 2d
Always, because when I wear my heelys I can lift up the back of the cart and basically Tokyo drift through the parking lot and the looks I get fuel me.
Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2d
Just be careful if there are women around, you don’t want to hydroplane
AsheHole@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I love wearing my heelys while shopping. I push the cart hard then just hold on and coast. I love when I make eye contact with a child while their parent is busy and just wheel by them. When they tell them that the lady that just went by had wheels on her shoes and they see me standing looking at beans or something, they think the kid was lying.... Gaslighting lil Timmy with heelys.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 2d
I gain the satisfaction of being a conscientious member of society.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 2d
magikmw@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2d
The irony of using Walter White gif as a reaction is not lost on me.
TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2d
Yes, I return mine because I hate the chaos. I even got in a heated verbal altercation over someone putting theirs on the curb recently.
Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1d
Steal the carts and sell them back to the store for a finders fee.
AsheHole@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
WakeUpSmashPots@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 1d
Gain nothing? How about self respect...
saltesc@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
Always. Lazy sociopaths don't. The same people that don't use indicators, leave pee on the seat, and jump queues.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
Back in the late '80s and early '90s my brother and I would run all over the parking lots while our mom was in the store, and return all the carts. We would see how big of a stack we could manage to get moving while we were at it. IIRC our record was 43 carts. We really wanted to hit 50, but I think that was just too much mass for us to handle.
I don't clear the lot anymore, but I do park out by the edge of a lot, if I brought my car, and pick up any carts on the way into the store.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 1d
Depends whether there’s any Teslas nearby that need blocking in
Zink@programming.dev · 8 pts · 1d
I call begging the question!
It assumes a purely capitalist worldview where the only way you can personally gain from an action is via monetary reward. I know I'm preaching to the choir here on Lemmy, but being in the US I think it's still worth pointing out because it's a full-on cultural disease.
Now, if you don't mind, I need to go spend most of my evening doing things that will seemingly gain me nothing. Omg what if I spend some money on materials I need for a hobby? NeGaTiVe gAiNz?!??
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 2d
As long as theres a reasonably distanced corral, yes.
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 2d
This is my go to “joke” test for self governance. That and zipper merges, but I hate cars enough to not really care about that one.
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 14h
I will accept this burden.
kibiz0r@midwest.social · 6 pts · 2d
Oh really?
Ilixtze@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2d
Nothing in return? NEIN! I'm doing it for the grand prize! The German Shopping Cart Return Championships
forbiddencherry@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 2d
If there's a cart corral on the same aisle within visual distance, then yes. Otherwise I just find another loose cart and push mine there.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Better praxis
Disable the perimeter wheel lock sensor and then put it back.
commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d
Why return it? Just bring it home
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1d
They have wheel locks that aren't hard to defeat, but most don't understand how they work, so difficult.
waltersf@bookwyr.me · 4 pts · 2d
You shop‽ I thought we all go to the canteen, and cook for everyone!!
2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2d
I sincerely can't tell whether this is a troll or not
waltersf@bookwyr.me · 7 pts · 2d
It's a combination of sillytalk (also anarchist praxis), and getting to the actual essence of the anarchist axiom: food is something we all need. One of the ways to solidify is through sharing hunted and gathered food. Canteens/foodbanks are a public place folks can combine all the gathered food, cook, serve, and commune with.
I am mocking the meme of “shopping” because that is capitalist praxis. Not the [food] cart itself, but the act of shopping. Returning say cooking utensils, washing tables, cleaning the floors, that is the true equivalence of the thesis of this meme.
2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2d
Thanks, that was both helpful and informative. I have difficulty parsing written communication sometimes ^^"
waltersf@bookwyr.me · 5 pts · 2d
Not a problem 😁.
Recall too, banter/shitposting/sillytalk is also anarchist praxis. Free speech and press, especially in mockery of hierarchies is part of intersecting and solidarity. 🖕 food brokers (Grocery stores).
2hundredpancakes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2d
I like your style! ~
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Is it a co-op?
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Ugh, I rolled my ankle a couple weeks ago and still needed to do shopping that day. I was leaning on the cart to stabilize myself. I really did not want to have to walk the cart back to its corral at the end, because walking hurt like hell. But these memes, man, these memes guilted me into doing it anyway.
echo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2d
There are people who I dislike far more than those who don't return the shopping cart. The people who walk past 10 carts to get into the store and grab a cart are the worst.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d
Back when this cart return shaming was all the rage, I suggested that people do this--take a stray cart from the lot on the way in--and I was buried. I still don't know why, no one would tell me.
echo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
Doesn't look like my comment is going to fare any better...
WakeUpSmashPots@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1d
I respectfully disagree, once as I was leaving Walmart I saw a women walking with her shopping cart, grab the bags out as it was rolling and just walked away, leaving the cart flying through the parking lot towards someone's car, I literally ran after it and grabbed it. I was a kid when this happened, and I almost tore that lady's head off, even as a kid I knew that was wrong and was appalled by this adult woman's blatant selfishness and carelessness.
In my opinion this is the worst, although it's a rare creature to be this terrible.
echo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
There will always be assholes that the collective must contend with. We should not divert the entire conversation to the assholes. There would be far fewer carts in the parking lot and less work for everyone if folks would just grab a cart or two and take them in with them as they go.
tar@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 13h
usually, but if there's any reason, even one far short of an emergency, it's a coin toss.
if we lived in a different society, like an actual anarchist or communist society, I'm sure i would act differently. but I'm not sure we'd have shopping carts and grocery stores.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
What if there were five shopping carts together in the next aisle. Which would you return?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d
All of them
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 2d
I've asked people before and what I get most often is "🤷 it's their job, let them do it, I'm not going to work for free". If I can return mine in active labor, you can return yours you lazy fuck.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 2d
On one hand, prices are going up so why should I do the work of the people who work there?
On the other, I'm practical. I park next to the cart corral, reducing my chances of getting my door dinged by half, and then when I'm done with the cart, I put it back in the corral because it's the most convenient place to put it.
People who go out of their way to return the cart may be eligible for sainthood, but I do it because it makes sense, and I sorta set up the situation where it makes sense. We all win that way.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 1d
I avoid parking by the cart corral because I have this fear of people shoving carts in the general direction of the opening and hitting my car instead.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · -12 pts · 2d
My duty to perform free labor for some corpo-capitalist shithole store?
They should thank me for not setting the cart on fire on my way out.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d
I mean, you're the one shopping at the corpo-capitalist shithole store. You already gave them your money. Why create a hazard for other shoppers and more work for the wage slave?
CannonFodder@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2d
If the wage slave has no work, they will be fired.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2d
No one clocks in as a "Cart Retriever". It's one of many tasks the wage slave rotates between. There are always other tasks.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · -4 pts · 2d
If there are fewer tasks, the store will require fewer wage slaves and will fire some.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
Cart retrieval doesn't add up to a significant hourly need compared to stocking, pricing, register, go backs, etc. There's generally enough work to do that you're always at least a little behind. No one's getting fired because everyone returned their carts to the corral.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1d
that's not true. they may keep an extra front-end employee on hand to ensure they have enough employees to cover cart retrieval.
these days, supermarkets chug along with a bare-bones staff compared to 20 years ago.
back then it would have been unheard of to make any customer wait in line for more than a few minutes , but now it's the norm.
give it 5-10 years, and it'll be customary for customers to return their carts unless they want the parking lot to be a postapocalyptic free for all.
and the scary thing is that people will just accept and adapt based on the tropes of american culture.. discourse will change from this argument to 'if you didn't want your car to be dinged then you shoulda returned all the carts within 2 miles.'
OwOarchist@pawb.social · -6 pts · 2d
Not when good little capitalist serfs keep bringing the carts back on their own it doesn't!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
Not even if they didn't. It's like an hour of labor over the course of a day tops, for a store that has two dozen full time employees working every day. That's like 200 daily man-hours minimum for a mid-sized store. Cart retrieval is ½% of labor at most. It's a rounding error. Clocking in early and clocking out late account for more hours than are spent retrieving carts.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · -1 pts · 2d
Certainly not very often. But sometimes there's stuff I can't feasibly make for myself or steal, so...