The other day, I am pulling into the Kroger parking lot to make a quick milk (and ice cream even though it was not on the list) run for my wife. In my search for that up close spot that is 5 feet away from that spot that is just too far away, I go down my favorite isle to find a parking spot right towards the front! It’s my lucky day! I don’t have to exert the extra energy that it takes to walk 20 feet thanks to this incredibly close white line, rectangle home for my truck. I turn the corner and what do I find? A grocery cart sitting in the middle of the parking spot.
You have to be freaking kidding me? What is it about people that make them believe that this kind of behavior in a modern society is acceptable? Why do they think that they are so incredibly awesome that the rules of normal grocery cart usage does not apply to them? Do they really think it is ok to leave their empty grocery cart in a parking spot and drive away when the kind people at Kroger have made a metal enclosure built for grocery cart containment just 15 feet away from your parking spot? To make matters worse…the grocery store has made MULTIPLE stations that their sole purpose is to contain these roll-able, car denting, space taking carts so that you do not have to make your lazy ass walk too far away from your motor vehicle.
Remember the days when there wasn’t a metal containment area and you had to walk the cart all the way back into the store? I swear that we have more rogue carts now than we did then and this is all on the heals of trying to make cart return an easier process. I really have a hard time believing that the general population is still that selfish. What goes through the head of a typical consumer as they leave their empty cart in a parking spot. Are they just too lazy to walk? Do they think they are above the rules? Or do they just not care?
I hope that karma steps in and every time they leave a grocery cart in a parking lot their next trip to the grocery store is going to include a rogue cart leaving a huge scratch and dent on their car. Sooner or later…they would have to get annoyed enough and put 2 and 2 together. We could change the behavior of one selfish ass one dent at a time until their beautiful BMW looks like a beater.
People are freakin’ lazy. This aggravates the cr@p out of me too. I think there’s an “I’m too good to put my cart away, the cart guy can do it for me” attitude at play here. It’s sad to see people with such superiority complexes.
Ha ha. In high school I worked for a local supermarket and had the delightful duty of going out into the parking lot at closing to round up all the strays. I learned to intensely dislike the sluggards that couldn’t be bothered to push their carts into the cart corals. I’m with you on this one Robb.
I leave the cart in the middle of the parking lot assuming another customer will grab it and use it. It’s for their own convenience, really. And this has to be better than making some 16 year-old kid push a long line of carts back to the store entrance, doesn’t it?
Besides, if I have to push the cart all the way to the cart containment area, or the actual entrance to the store, it’s adding an extra 30-60 seconds to my grocery store trip.
-mjt
I usually try to do the push push ride push push ride the cart as fast as possible into the line of corraled carts… I ma frankly pleasantly surprised at the abuse they can take… Whoever designs and builds the carts probably cut their engineering teeth at Volvo
Well I kind of like the carts in my spot and I look for them because it is hard to carry a toddler everywhere. It is nice to just take them from the car to the cart and push them right in. Also, sometimes I get weird people that ask for money and I just rather load my kid up and get out of the lot and leave the cart. I always returned my cart, but now that I have a toddler things are always unexpected.
People can be so inconsiderate!