Shopping Cart Archery (Do you return your cart?)
By Amber
@AmbiePam (111703)
United States
February 1, 2026 11:40am CST
Are you one of those people who leaves their shopping carts in the parking lot without putting it in the place designated for them? I hate when people do that.
Germany had the Shopping Cart Archery Championship. They stand far away, carefully aim, and then push the cart towards the metal bars designated for the cart return. That’s a real thing. I love weird things, but wow.
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@MarieCoyle (54150)
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18m
I do the same thing. If there is a stray cart nearby me I just snare it for myself and it saves work for someone. Probably saves a door ding or two for a car, too.
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@RasmaSandra (93692)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3h
When I did go out shopping, I always put the cart back besides I had to get my change back,
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@MarieCoyle (54150)
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8h
I try very hard to park close to one of the cart corrals. Since I am what some people call an ''old crip'' it helps me to return the cart. In all the times I can remember of living here, I left my cart one time--while I was in the store, it sleeted and the parking lot was a complete sheet of ice. I was scared to try to walk without the cart, there was no one around to ask for help, and I did not want to fall.
The archery thing for the carts is very, very strange!
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@MarieCoyle (54150)
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7h
@AmbiePam
I just didn't feel I had a choice, unless I wanted to end up falling. I hate it when people leave their carts just everywhere and then it's windy...and the carts sail through the parking lots, smacking cars. Ugh.
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@Dreamerby (9904)
• Calcutta, India
7h
No. I haven't had this problem. How is your day Amber?
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@snowy22315 (202226)
• United States
7h
Unless the weather is terrible, I take it back..or give it someone just getting there who needs a cart.
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@DaddyEvil (166754)
• United States
6h
I put our cart in the designated cart stall when we're done with it. Sometimes, if the cart is rolling well, I take careful aim at the cart stall and give the cart a hard push so it inserts itself in the cart stall. 
Sometimes, when we park, Pretty and I will round up loose carts that are close to our car and take them all back to the stall before we choose one and push it inside to use while we shop. I hate it when people leave them loose out in the parking lot.

Sometimes, when we park, Pretty and I will round up loose carts that are close to our car and take them all back to the stall before we choose one and push it inside to use while we shop. I hate it when people leave them loose out in the parking lot. @thislittlepennyearns (66208)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
6h
I put them away. Because I've worked in retail and I hated the people who left them out in the parking lot.
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