Shopping Carts -- Do you return them?

It depends if I go to the store and I have my 4 year old daughter with me I will just push the car up above the car as I am not going to leaver her in the car while I go put the cart away unless the cart corral is right beside my car.
If I have gone to the store alone and I am not in a hurry I will push the cart over to the corral unless it is really cold outside then I will leave it in front of the car.

I always return my cart, even if I have to go back to the front of the store to do it. It is so annoying to move a cart out of a parking space before you park. If you park next to one, the person parking next to you could bump the cart and damage your vehicle, so I try parking well away from any loose carts, whenever possible.

I never just leave my cart randomly in the lot. I either place it in the nearest cart corral, take it back to the store or give pass it along to the employees who are out there retrieving carts. They're usually more than happy to take it off my hands.

I too try to park close to a corral so I can easily return the cart
It just makes the cart fetchers job easier especially when its cold or rainy outside
There have been a couple of times that the store was super busy and I had to park way out in the back 40 and I had the kids with me
I dont like leaving my kids in the van while I walk halway across the parking lot to return the cart
So I push the cart out of the way up against a light or a up on a curb so that its not out in the way of other cars.
It always bugs me,ok it pisses me off, when I come out of the store to find that someone has just pushed a cart into the side of my van
GRRRR~!!

Not always, sometimes we do, many times we don't if its bad weather, or cold I try to find a spot where they won't roll into another car

Or I make one of my kids walk it back.

Its an annoying thing to have to try to walk a cart someplace when you've got kids in the car and even with the car in sight, I always think the worst.

Mooch

I can not stand it when people leave their carts out in the parking lot. Even though someone gets paid to collect them, there is a corral for the carts for a reason. I work at a place where people constantly leave their trash on the counter, etc, and think im going to pick up after them. There are employees and there are mothers, im sure i can bet that the person that collects carts at the store isn't your mother. Why not make it easier for them? Wouldnt you want it made easier for you?

I always return my cart to the corral and if I spot another one along the way I'll take it too. I hate the way people just leave them in the parking lot in the way.

Yes, I return shopping carts. It depends. When I put the groceries to the car by myself, I return it to the nearest cart corral in the parking lot. When there's an assistant from the grocery store helping us out in putting the groceries, we leave the cart with the assistant for its return. There are stores in the Philippines that have no cart corrals and when out in the parking lot, I leave it somewhere that there are a lot of other carts are in, where it is safe away from bumping into other vehicles.

I always put the cart back in the corral. It drives me nuts when people put the cart somewhere near the corral, but don't take the time to put it inside... and then the wind picks up and the cart goes rolling across the parking lot and perhaps hits a car or something... Lol... it's funny to think of, but it's just kinda one of those things to me... if you're going to take the time to put it 'anywhere' might as well put it where it goes, it'll take just as much energy to do that than to leave it some random place... Lol.
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Yes. I always try to return the cart and have taught my daughter to do the same. If we're parked close I let her take it back. If we're far away we both take it back. Occasionally my physical health gets the way of this good deed, in which case I'll try to angle the cart in a way that it won't roll.