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In regards to that last sentence in the shopping cart theory they need to add wearing a sport jacket on an airplane.

#1 would. All the others, not so much.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Cart returns did not exist prior to the past 25 years or so.

Prior to that, store employees assiduously scoured the full territory of a given parking lot to return them for customer use.

Why should shoppers accept this prolonged attempt by Big Retail to shift their responsibilities (as they have historically acknowledged them) onto the public?

Cart returns are a symptom of a decaying consumer capitalist system.

And cart narcs are agents of corporate control.

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Unless those are staged, I'm surprised that guy hasn't been on the receiving end of a fairly serious beating.

Anyone who doesn't put their cart back in the proper location should hopefully have their car either dented or scratched by a loose cart.

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Don't be a Capitalist Tool, my porcine friend.

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These stores can't find enough employees to work all of the checkout lanes and bag my damn groceries, you think I expect them to have someone to follow me and bring my cart back in?

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Aldi has the best system.

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Most grocery stores also didn’t have public restrooms, but they did have an area up front dedicated to pop bottle returns (along with an employee whose job it was to sort them). Those were the days.

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“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Grocery stores welcomed the "luxury" of public restrooms because they encourage consumers to spend more time--and presumably more money--shopping.

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It’s biased against the poor.

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“Mr. Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office.”- JD Vance
“My god, what an !diot.”- JD Vance tweet on Trump
“I’m a ‘Never Trump’ guy”- JD Vance

Cart abandonment is pretty douchey.

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It's interesting the trash dumped in grocery store parking lots from cars. Walmart customers are the worst. People also left their used pandemic wipes and rubber gloves in carts, and strewn all over the lots.

And now masks, EVERYWHERE

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In my youth we would go to the one in Mt. Prospect on Northwest Highway that also didn't have automatic doors. I would happily open the doors for people (better than following Mom around while shopping) and most people gave me the quarter for the effort after they returned their carts.

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Cause tried and true
I see the light in you
Oh, can you dig in my soul?
Could you smell my whole...
life?--Gener and Deaner

I always return them to make myself feel superior to those who dont

Honestly, at the local store I go to. i don't recall the last time I didn't see someone put one back.

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According to the You Tube comments, she was known as "Miss E Z Bones" in high school!

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Miss Bones cycled through 3 personalities in a 2 minute clip

I’d say the Fareway chain out here is better. Bagger takes you to car and helps you unload. They probably employ twice the amount of high school kids and old dudes looking for something to do as the ones with cart returns.

This reminds me of a little running joke I have with my 17-year-old daughter from back when she was learning to drive. One day when she got her permit I let her drive to the supermarket, and she saw a front spot available and I stopped her and pointed out a spot a little further back that was right next to a cart corral. I told her it would actually save her steps to give up a few spots of location for a spot next to the corral so she can put the cart in there quickly and easily (which is true). So she pulls in and parks and I grabbed her arm before she could get out, looked her right in the eye all serious and said "always, and I mean ALWAYS, park next to the cart corral. I can't stress to you how important this is. ALWAYS." So now every time we go to the store with her she always gets real serious and says that, especially to my wife who never parks near a cart corral, she parks wherever and ends up hiking around looking for somewhere to dump the cart.

That was something.

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I shagged carts and sorted the bottles when I worked in a grocery store in H.S. Getting carts when it was pouring rain was a real treat, as was going to retrieve a cart several blocks away that someone pushed home and left in the alley.

Those were the days, indeed.

It's tough being a citizen enforcer. But somebody has to do it.

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Don't stab me, bro!

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Meijer has a double lane corale for small, and big carts. Most everyone has newish cars at mine. I wouldn't dream of not putting the cart away properly.

This is great.

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We Now Know That JOE BIDEN has been COMPROMISED by CHINA! (let that sink in)

Election 2020-The Largest Fraud in the History of Mankind.

*If you believe that Biden won, you also believe that Epstein killed himself*