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[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 59 points 1 week ago (17 children)

I said for years that every second date should be to a grocery store. The first date can be as fancy and choreographed as the couple wants, but the second date needs to be to the grocery store.

You can learn just about everything you need to learn about a person from watching them at a grocery store. From how they chose a parking spot, to how they talk to employees, to how they budget, to how they prepare a list, to how healthy they eat, to how they check out, to if they return the shopping cart.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Change your mind on a product. Do they put it back where it belongs or throw it on the nearest clearly wrong shelf?

[–] 1dalm@lemmings.world 32 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Or, is the person a shopper at all? Do they act like they've never been to a grocery store in their lives?

That's useful information.

[–] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago

Or do they compulsively steal? And if so, did they remember what my favourite chocolate bar is?

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (28 children)

Never understood people who couldn't put the shopping carts in the cart return when they are done.

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[–] regedit@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

My first job at 15.5yo was the grocery store. I bagged and got carts for work when bagging could be plastic (newer), paper (common), or a combo of both (old people, usually). If you don't return your cart, fuck you! Now I live a few blocks from the same grocery store and return that shit to the inside of the store, grabbing spares sometimes if they're just sitting around in the way. It used to surprise me when someone didn't return it, then the last couple decades happened and it makes more sense. There are just some people who want to be a part of society and others who want to benefit from it while not contributing to it.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, when I walk into the store, I grab them from the handicap spots. It's the only place where I say "Okay, you get a pass," when I see carts left, and so I bring em back to the store.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You give people a pass for ditching carts in the handicapped spaces?

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ha, definitely unclear. The presumption is it's a person with a handicap who left it there. I know I've seen some older folks leave them at the end of the spaces and so I guess I'm more inclined to let slide someone who perhaps has some infirmity that makes walking difficult.

[–] Mcdolan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Interestingly I've read handicapped individuals prefer there to be a cart next to the handicap parking space. Save having to walk inside before getting a shopping cart that doubles as a walker.

Makes sense in my mind, could be bs though. I certainly haven't done a study.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Jesus Christ, I'm out here disenfranchising the disabled.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You just can't win in this thread, can you?

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 13 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I haven't seen a shopping cart without a coin slot for a very long time. Communist Europe does not have moral lessons for citizens!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Aldi's is the only chain that I specifically remember seeing those coin locked shopping carts/trolleys at here in the US. I know they are used other places, but it's been years since I was in those parts of the US and don't remember the other store chains that use them.

Almost every single store in SoCal uses shopping carts/trolleys with a "brake" on one of the wheels. If you pass outside of the IR perimeter of the store's designated property (which frequently doesn't include the outside parking spaces of their own parking lot, thereby making them a problem for all their customers,) one of the wheels locks so the cart/trolley is basically unuseable.

Many, but nowhere near most, of the carts/trolleys that don't use such technology of coin based locks, or wheel brakes end up being used by the people experiencing homelessness to cart what few possessions they have left. Most of their stuff has already been stolen by the cops and shoved into garbage trucks, or in the case of their pets, they get taken to the shelter and put down.

This isn't just true of California, but they at least try to not do this heartless crap to everyone, just the most vulnerable of us that can't remember schedules. Other states don't even give schedules. The cops and trash crews show up in the middle of the night, and your tent, all your possessions, probably all your important ID papers that you have, and your pets disappear. You now have to pay to get your pets back. All your property went into a garbage truck, was compacted, and went to the landfill. You don't get that stuff back.

Cruelty is the point in the US, and always has been.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wonder why that is. I mean that location-based brake must be way more expensive than those simple mechanical coin deposit slots.
If you don't know, the carts are chained together and you can only remove one when you put in €1 or so, and you only get that back when you chain the cart back in - it's not perfect, but good enough. Turns out people are very much willing to walk a few metres to get that back.

My guess is that American stores don't want to inconvenience their customers. The fear of losing even .01% because of introducing a system like that.

I can't really reply to your much appreciated homelessness rant; probably because I have never seen it as bad as it seems to be in at least some places in the USA. My empathy though.

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago

My local supermarket in Germany doesn't have coin slots in its carts. This was unusual for me, too, though; maybe an urban-rural-divide.

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

Then come to capitalist Europe. Because in Belgium we do have those without a coin slot.

People even propose to take them off other people after they are done, so those people don't have to bring it back to cart return and can just leave instead. While there are plenty in the in stock. It is just a nice thing to do.

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Is this one of these american things? I have never seen someone not returning the shopping cart.

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess they don't have to put a euro in?

[–] shane@feddit.nl 6 points 1 week ago

In my neighborhood the grocery stores stopped requiring a coin to get them during COVID-19 lockdowns. They kept it that way, and people put the carts back in the parking lot (although most people walk to the shops).

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

There's math behind it.

Walmart: they won't even walk the cart one spot over to the car corrall.

Target: They generally return them at least to the corrall. Target lots are usually smaller and busier.

My local grocer: They'll return them if there's a corral in the current line. If they park on the outside, they'll never return them.

If the place has a small busy lot with lots of corrals and isn't poverty level shopping, most will make it back.

If it's a giant walmart with one corrall per zipcode and people that are fed up with life, they might just let it roll down the hill into traffic.

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[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I honestly couldn't car less about shopping carts. I want people to pick up their dog's shit for fuck sake

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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Ha! Let me tell you an anecdote.

My apartment building is positioned around 7 to 10 minutes walking distance to IKEA, a huge department store and a few small grocery stores. People would be fine dragging a IKEA/department store/grocery store cart for 10 fucking minutes being loud and an ass. And of fucking course they wouldn't bring them back.

Also, some of them would bring one INSIDE OF THEIR FUCKING APARTMENT and keep it on the balcony filling it with trash. In some cases, they would bring trash inside cart out to the trashcans (we have private that open only with our key) and leave cart with their trash at the trashcans.

On average, our apartments are expensive and most of our neighbors are wealthy enough to rent these apartments. Yet, we got swines all over our apartment block...

Edit: wanted to add that this is in a major city of an EU country.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

People being shitheads is ubiquitous, eh? Very frustrating.

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[–] menas@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

according to the meme, from now I see "returning the cart" as a fascist move

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

The world sucks man

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The real test of character is whether a person not just takes the cart to the cart return, but also tidies up the coral as well so that the carts are all pushed in.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] jambudz@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

Extremely specific contrary case (I always put my cart back, it’s fun when they accordion together), but my grandma appreciates the carts near the handicap spots because then she doesn’t have to get out her walker.

[–] Tuxis@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Ugh.. This clashes for me with what actually happens in the movie. You're basically saying only a good fascist returns the shopping cart.

But we all know, only fascists won't return their shopping cart. Monsters..

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