Shopping carts in the parking lot.
@Scrapper88 (5957)
United States
September 28, 2017 8:36pm CST
About every time I would go to WalMart; I would notice that a lot of people would leave their shopping cart all over the parking lot. By people doing this; a WalMart worker now has to go out and gather up all the shopping carts.
At all of the WalMarts that I have been to; there would be certain places where you can put the shopping carts. I always take my shopping cart to one of these places.
If everybody would take their shopping carts to one of these places; it would be less work for the workers. I have also heard that some people would hit the shopping carts and cause damage to their cars.
Do you leave your shopping carts anywhere in the parking lot?
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@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
29 Sep 17
I always take mine to the corral even when snow is on the ground. I had someone I knew tell me that his dad always told him to take a cart out and leave it there even if one wasn't really needed. Supposedly that would ensure people got a job. I think that if people only used what was needed those guys and gals that bring them in could try to get a job in the store instead.
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
29 Sep 17
You are very considerate. I think some people just think it is much more convenient to carry their stuffs by the shopping cart to their cars. And when I watch the movie, it seems that the people don't have a habit to put the shopping carts back.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
29 Sep 17
Not if there is a cart parking spot anywhere near me, I will walk quite aways but sometimes when I park on the side of the building it isn't really possible.
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@Plethos (13560)
• United States
29 Sep 17
one thing to help curb the problem would be if the store itself had employees go out more routinely to retrieve the carts. i know a lot of businesses dont send anyone out until they are almost out of carts, but by then, they are all over the parking lot and the return stalls are full.
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@Marilynda1225 (79592)
• United States
29 Sep 17
I always return my cart and it drives me crazy when people don't.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Sep 17
Good advice. No. I always return my cart back inside the store, and put it right back where I got it.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Sep 17
@Scrapper88 , good thing to do. I learned a long time ago about the importance of keeping the parking lot clean and free of carts because I once worked for Kroger.
How to be a good employee and pick up carts. Featuring the kroger store in the woodlands texas. PARODY.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Sep 17
I recommend this link to anyone who works at a grocery store as a courtesy clerk who deals with bringing in shopping carts as part of their job detail.
This is an introductory video for the C3 Caster-lift Shopping Cart Safety Rope for manual shopping cart retrieval. Designed with the shopping cart attendant ...
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@Scrapper88 (5957)
• United States
30 Sep 17
A lot of the time; I will return the shopping cart to the store too,
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@amal06 (250)
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29 Sep 17
Seems like all the Walmarts are having this issue. There is a specific designated spot in the parking lot to leave the carts but people are too lazy to walk just a few extra steps. And then someone leaves a cart elsewhere and others start following that procedure. The Walmart I visit had deputed an employee to actually take carts from people after they load their stuff into their cars.
I liked a procedure I saw in Dubai. You insert a 1 dirham coin in a slot of the cart and you can retrieve it only when you leave the Cart at the designated place.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
30 Sep 17
I talked to a guy at Walmart and he told me they walk off with not only shopping carts to take to their apartments but they also ride off with those Amigo-carts, those ones that run off electricity for old folk to ride who can't walk well to shop.
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@lookatdesktop (27129)
• Dallas, Texas
2 Oct 17
@amal06 , It is just awful and yes, very disgusting. 
