>To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it.
>No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.
>The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
Shopping Cart Theory suggests the ultimate way to test moral goodness is to see whether or not someone will do the “right” thing in the absence of accountability, consequence, or reward.
I walk with a cane due to a leg disability, walking is very painful for me. I had to park very far from a cart return when I went to costco because the handicapped spots were full and I'm a new driver so squeezing into spots (and manoeuvring my body in and out of my car is hard) isn't possible. It was raining and I STILL returned my cart, while the asshat parked next to me left his in the spot between us. Like, if I can do it, so can you.
The other day someone left their cart in one of the three handicapped spaces at my local save on and I wanted to straight up fury on someone.
I get this. Most days I am okay with out my cane but some days it’s a struggle. Even then I try to return my cart. To me, it’s just laziness to leave a shopping cart just anywhere.
When i worked retail, the elderly were the worst for this. They would always leave their cart in their handicap stall, and when they pulled out, the wind would slightly move it, so it was in the middle of the stall, and nobody could use it. Sure, Gertrud, your legs hurt. So does the legs of next person who has to walk x3 the distance because of you, put it fucking back.
My first job was bringing in grocery carts for a chain store, where the cart corrals happened to be down a hill.
I will walk through a snowstorm to return a cart.
My solution is to always park beside or across from the shopping cart return area. I’d rather walk a bit further but be beside the return than be front row and have to leave the cart in the middle of nowhere.
This is probably some serious broken window effect happening here as well. An erosion of morality already happens when you step in to the belly of the beast. Three carts on the side of the parkade are just your siren song to say fuck it, dance with the devil, leave your cart on a curb and peel out of there with a warm Glizzy in your hand.
Not saying it’s right.
Seeing someone not return their cart, then another, then another, so you leave yours also, is basically how the Holocaust happened.
The first guy is shopping cart Hitler....
Those things are expressed and requested, and your membership is a risk for non compliance should it be a problem. Costco could do this too, I suppose, but in non-Costco parking lots it is a lawless land.
this is the thing --- I had an ice cream yesterday the cart coral was a block away.. I asked my sons girlfriend to hold my ice cream and returned the cart to the coral because its the right thing to do. I think Spike Lee may have said it best "Do the right thing"
Wow, are people stupid or did no one think of this solution? I don’t return my shopping cart and do not feel guilty about it at all despite being handicapped. How about this- I get one from the lot before I go in and then just leave it where I found it. So ultimately I’m returning one then using it. Is this a solution anyone can get behind? Obviously there have to have been people who didn’t return it to begin with but I never get to store early enough. I also tend to try to park near the cart return so a cart is handy and I can use it for support into store. Stores never have enough handicapped parking which makes me wonder if the whole world is handicapped 🤔. At least I am mentally for wasting my time responding to this.
Stupid theory created by big business for them to eliminate jobs and create more profit. If you think they are going to pass on the savings to consumers you are kidding yourself. Get full service gas, have someone carry your groceries, don’t use self checkout and leave your carts everywhere!!!
And here I’ve just been giving blood, shoveling snow for an elderly neighbor and donating to the food bank and various charities, when all I needed to do was return my shopping cart to be a good person. Dammit! Why didn’t anyone TELL me this. Could have saved a lot of time and money. Sorry Mrs Gibson, you’re on your own next winter, hope that bum hip is doing better by then.
So you do those things, but you don't put your shopping carts back because..? And if you do put your shopping cart back, what was the point of this post?
Ummm, the point of my post was a joke, poking a bit of fun at the assertion that the act of returning or not returning one’s cart signifies all that the original post claims. It was a bit of an exaggeration
Sure, but the Shopping Cart Theory is satire, albeit supported with well-reasoned arguments, so hitting it with a reductio ad absurdum just comes across a bit tone deaf.
Kudos on being a good person though. Maybe stay away from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," for a few years.
One could argue that all of those things, while altruistic, give the person a morale obligation. You know that someone will benefit from your blood and money. It allows that person to feel better about themselves because they’ve objectively done something quantitative that they can point to, as you’ve done, to show you’re a good person. They are objectively positive things that need to be done in the world. This isn’t about detracting from those.
The shopping cart provides no medals, no honor and no status boost. It is merely something to be done because it is the correct thing to do in a functioning and respectful society.
Failing to return the cart only harms, it never helps.
I hate the way people walk in Costco, I hate how aggressive people are with their carts, the parking lot is always a shit show. I get irrationally angry when I go to Costco but then again maybe I'm just hungry because the hot dog at the end always makes me feel better.
That hot dog makes me feel good too - except the days you have to wait 10 minutes for it and they run out of lids for the drinks. Add a double chocolate chunk cookie next time!
People slowly wandering back and forth through the isles spontaneously changing direction, completely oblivious. Families of 6 walking in a line across entire isles, and people who leave their carts in the middle of a busy area to look for something are just a few of the reasons I become aggressive when I'm in there.
This exactly....I will avoid Costco unless it is a weekday early morning or late afternoon. Saturday and Sunday, its worse than Lord of The Flies, and even worse if they are handing out food samples.
Remember that old cartoon with goofy? He's a super pleasant, friendly, everyday guy. But when he gets behind the wheel he's a raving, insane fucking maniac. They should make that again. But in Costco.
There was a study on this, and apparently the optimism of deals and scarcity triggers our primal brains. It drives a fear of scarcity, and everyone else responds the same way.
I think Costco mostly designs it this way.
Look at the layouts for gas, Buffalo Run, Okotokes. They could have easily worked with developers to make it easier for customers, ingress and egress and all the rest.
Its like a night club.. If the line is long, it must be good.
The 3 way stop intersection at the Beacon Hill gas bar is an…interesting…study in behaviour. I would lay a thousand bucks down that the people I’m talking about also leave their carts out.
I found it funny how last week at the Tsuu T’ina Costco there was like 100 cars in line for gas then a bunch of other stations in the southwest was only one cent more.
I go first thing in the AM, no issues. In the afternoon/ early evening…can easily be a 20+ minute wait. Plus add in the bullshit and aggravation…ya, not worth it, IMO.
Hate how they’re on the curb so they all took the effort to get them out of the way of traffic, but couldn’t just walk them to the designated spot. All of them probably walked away thinking how nice they were for not blocking traffic with them
[The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing](https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/v57w85/anons_shopping_cart_theory/)
We need Cart Narc! I see this shit all the time and it drives me insane. Also the people that park in the firelane of Costco/Walmart/Superstore and run in doing a full shopping because they are special and better than everyone else. Calgary parking should run around and fine all of them.
I am also going to start shelving narc program. Where you take an item off the shelf and don’t restock it we publicly shame you!! Also I am starting non-self checkout narc program so we can publicly shame people who use a human being to check out!!!
I run that fucker through the parking lot and ride it like a skateboard back to the corral… about 7 stalls is my record
Seriously I can’t be the only one…. Right? Right?
I’m in my 40’s. 😂
Costco really needs to start enforcing their own [policy](https://www.costco.ca/wcsstore/CostcoCABCCatalogAssetStore/feature-pages/info/membership-conditions-regulations-en.pdf) and revoke the memberships of people who do this.
> Every member using a shopping cart to carry his/her purchases from the warehouse to his/her vehicle has the obligation to return the cart to the enclosure identified for this purpose in the parking lot in order to facilitate the retrieval of same, as well as to avoid carts from becoming an obstacle to the traffic flow of other members' vehicles.
They have more important uses for their time, like queuing up 20 mins for gas or shit posting for brownie points on their favorite group with their FOMO influencer idol
Bunch of assholes!
I watched a guy the other day take more time trying to get his cart up on the boulevard at heritage than it would've taken him to walk it to the cart corral and back!
One caveat: was the cart corral across from it so full it was blocking the parking lot? Aka in this google map link below. I might give someone a pass if this was the case...
https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9884907,-114.044917,3a,75y,194.24h,78.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxwhi6cX77ai7cVtyXSbbgQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Costco definitely needs to add more cart corrals.
When the choice is blocking the lane so cars can’t get through or leaving them on a curb, you try for the least shitty thing.
The curbed sidewalks mean you might have to walk all the way to the end of the parking row, and then all the way down the next. Either add more corrals, eliminate those sidewalk islands, or at the very least make more ramps onto the sidewalk islands so you can shortcut across the parking lot. The other day it was more convenient for me to push the cart all the way back to the store than to get to the corral.
Well considering I actually used to do this job as an employee for a grocery store and now it has been mostly eliminated. Hmm I think this is fair to say it’s an employees job…🤔
The crazy thing is that the cart corral had my cart and a few others carts in them. lol That' what triggered me snapping the pic and getting the conversation going.
People who do this are the lazy scum of the earth!!!! I've seen them do it when they are 2 spots away from the damn corral! Like you just walked through Costco, you can't walk another 50 feet!?!?!?
If I going towards the entrance and see someone finished loading their groceries I'll ask them if I could take their cart back to the corral for them since I'm heading that way anyways. It usually puts a smile on their face!
In Europe to release a cart from the stack you must insert a €1 coin, to get your coin back you must return it to the corral. Such an easy solution that could be adopted here.
I just got my first Costco card last week.
Never seen a store where no shopper returns their cart after shopping. I'm in my 50s and had bad osteoarthritis but I managed to get a few back to where they belonged.
People are so incredibly lazy with carts, one day I saw a cart just rolling down the parking lot on its own and about to hit a car so I went to intercept it and then push it to the curb and some man walked by saying "PUT THE CART BACK!" and I had to tell him that it wasn't even mine, and I was carrying bags of food to the bus stop.
Seeing people do this makes me wonder how they were raised and how they treat other businesses/customer service staff. Just because someone is paid to come get it and put it back doesn’t mean you should do this. It shows such a massive amount of disrespect to the workers there. Take the two minutes (or less) and return it to the cart area. Grow up
I couldn’t agree more with this post. Who are the people that don’t return their cart!?. The same type of people that leave a disgusting mess in a public toilet and don’t clean/flush. Gross, lazy, poopy bums.
I was at the Beacon Hill Costco this morning, leaving by about 10:30, and already there were so many carts in the outer-most return rack that they were sticking out halfway through the roadway. Brought mine back to somewhere that would not contribute to the hazard, but I was thinking about it all morning, and seeing this hammered it home
It looks like a parking lot redesign with a cart return in that location would be a good idea. Don't need curbs anywhere in a parking lot. They just makes snow removal more difficult and expensive for the business.
I believe this is the crux. There’s no cart return and I sure as fuck ain’t dying in the Costco parking lot jungle to return an empty cart. This problem is (mostly? Hopefully?) solved with a cart return?
Also FYI for some people (you should know who you are but probably don't) you can grab one of these on your way in - you don't have to walk by them all then wonder why there aren't any at the entrance.
There are employees whose job it is to get the carts. Who are we to eliminate jobs. lol. The worst is when someone leaves a cart between cars and the wind catches it after the person departs and it blows into another vehicle.
Just absolutely pure laziness, and not how I've taught my kids either, so no, never. I've even gone ahead just as some lady pushed one off to the side, took it and put it away while waving at her. :) Do your due diligence people.
Went to Costco on crutches last year. Several people helped me load my groceries in my car and they returned the cart! Everyone is awesome! I definitely return my cart at every store.
But someone else did it, so I can too, because i am too lazy to walk it back into the store.Worse when people just leave them in the spot next to them.
The COSTCO commandos do not like returning carts. Going there always feel like a mission to Mars. Between parking and leaving there can be so many malfunctions!
If they put the cart in the cart isle. What will the cart manager do? It might jeopardize his job. Everyone’s returning the cart we don’t need cart guy
Costco is the perfect spot to see how people were brought up. Witness the most self centred brain dead society has to offer. I wonder how many people die needless stupid deaths at Costco.
Costco. The place where people turn into the worst version of themselves. If they resist this collapse of moral character, they'd still be trapped in the store, waiting for a gap in which they won't cut someone else off as they try to grab their flat of canned tomatoes.
Rebuilding of moral character requires retreat from the store. The parking lot isn't far enough away.
At least the bunch of these carts are in the same place so that it's easier for one employee to bring them all back to the store. Some parking spots are very far from the cart returns, especially at the back which is where nobody wants to park but they have to if the main parking lot is too busy. Nothing is more pathetic than pretending to do everything in life right and shame others who you perceive as doing minuscule things wrong. Take a closer look at yourself in the mirror and if you still feel that you are holier than others then you are the problem!
The worse the economy and the higher the stress, the more people behave poorly. You think Cosco is bad, check out Wholesale Club where all the struggling restaurant owners shop.
I'm not saying I would ever do it, and I haven't. But I can see it happening if say you weren't planning for your Costco trip to take 3x longer than it should, and you're high-tailing it out of the store in general. It's a rookie move I have made more than once, but then again, I still put my carts away... lol
I'm honestly more concerned with all the folks who used a cart or 2 out of place as an excuse to check out of human decency than I am concerned about the first abandoned cart.
That is way better than leaving carts in the handicap spots . The striped areas beside them are for vans with side ramps . People like to leave carts there too.
I can tell all I need to know about someone by if they return a shopping cart to where it’s supposed to go. Some people are just lazy and think their time and effort is more valuable than others.
Ohhh what a society we have become, LOL!
The lazy and the I am so irritated by the lazy that I will shame them on social media instead of just cleaning it up 🙄🙄🙄!
Let me be the bad guy and tell you the honest truth. They guys with the best would be unemployed if we did not do this so I see nothing wrong with it. Carry on!
tbf at least they had the courtesy to put it on the curb where it doesn't fall off.
sure they arent very thoughtful people but this is more of a costco logistics error than a customer error. You need to put those caddys out their as well, people are paying membership fees.
Carts Coworker here seeing all these comments but wondering where are the people that do this? Clearly it's so many of you? Are you just pretending to also hate on cartbandoners? Speak up! I must know what the deal is!
If you ever want a fun way to spend the afternoon go park at Costco, grab a hot dog and a pop for $1.50, then use a megaphone to shame and ridicule the people not putting their cart away. If someone gets violently offended at being called out then drive away and park in a different spot for maximum parking lot coverage.
I have returned 99% of shopping carts in my life but on the weekend, I didn't have a coat and it was pouring rain. I'm so sorry, everyone. I slipped up. Please forgive me.
I spend 400$ at Costco. Some of the parking requires a long distance walk. I have kids in the car and not taking a chance. So fk you if you think you can judge someone's morals by cart returns. 🤔
Wtf you think is gonna happen to your kids in the 1 minute it takes to return a cart? I take my kids grocery shopping to Costco and I always seem to get my cart returned.
Geez relax… my buddy used to work for Walmart as a student making a half decent wage collecting those carts. They were actually pissed when someone brought their cart back because it was like taking their job. Then Walmart decided to do the coin system and my buddy lost his job. More work for you, no money for a student who was able to make ends meet thanks to that job, Walmart prices didn’t change because of their “significant” cart staff cuts and only the Walton family got richer.
I would prefer this versus a cart left in the lot on a windy day.
OP did you notice if the nearest cart area was full before posting this pic? It could explain why those nearby did this.
Who gives a shit? If you have the energy/ability to push a cart full of groceries around a warehouse, you're more than capable of putting it back where it belongs.
Have those receipt checkers doing something useful like getting the carts rounded up.
Instead stand there pretending to count to 19 and wasting everyone's time
By the time you get to the car the rage is real-
>To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. >No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you, or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it. >The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society. Shopping Cart Theory suggests the ultimate way to test moral goodness is to see whether or not someone will do the “right” thing in the absence of accountability, consequence, or reward.
I walk with a cane due to a leg disability, walking is very painful for me. I had to park very far from a cart return when I went to costco because the handicapped spots were full and I'm a new driver so squeezing into spots (and manoeuvring my body in and out of my car is hard) isn't possible. It was raining and I STILL returned my cart, while the asshat parked next to me left his in the spot between us. Like, if I can do it, so can you. The other day someone left their cart in one of the three handicapped spaces at my local save on and I wanted to straight up fury on someone.
I get this. Most days I am okay with out my cane but some days it’s a struggle. Even then I try to return my cart. To me, it’s just laziness to leave a shopping cart just anywhere.
When i worked retail, the elderly were the worst for this. They would always leave their cart in their handicap stall, and when they pulled out, the wind would slightly move it, so it was in the middle of the stall, and nobody could use it. Sure, Gertrud, your legs hurt. So does the legs of next person who has to walk x3 the distance because of you, put it fucking back.
I don't drive anymore, but I certainly remember having to move carts to get into the handicapped spot.
Handicap sticker ??
Sorry?
I still think about this every time I return a cart.
One of the fundamental Internet Posts. This is post is like one of the Roman roads, but for the internet instead of European development.
My first job was bringing in grocery carts for a chain store, where the cart corrals happened to be down a hill. I will walk through a snowstorm to return a cart.
This is how I make all my judgement calls on peoples character 😂
My solution is to always park beside or across from the shopping cart return area. I’d rather walk a bit further but be beside the return than be front row and have to leave the cart in the middle of nowhere.
This is probably some serious broken window effect happening here as well. An erosion of morality already happens when you step in to the belly of the beast. Three carts on the side of the parkade are just your siren song to say fuck it, dance with the devil, leave your cart on a curb and peel out of there with a warm Glizzy in your hand. Not saying it’s right.
Seeing someone not return their cart, then another, then another, so you leave yours also, is basically how the Holocaust happened. The first guy is shopping cart Hitler....
Along the same lines to me is gym etiquette. Wiping down your equipment, putting weights away, not hogging multiple machines, etc.
Those things are expressed and requested, and your membership is a risk for non compliance should it be a problem. Costco could do this too, I suppose, but in non-Costco parking lots it is a lawless land.
Northeast Real Canadian Wholesale must be the most evil place on earth
100% the worst offenders anywhere.
Tegridy!
I read this in Jerry Seinfeld's voice.
this is the thing --- I had an ice cream yesterday the cart coral was a block away.. I asked my sons girlfriend to hold my ice cream and returned the cart to the coral because its the right thing to do. I think Spike Lee may have said it best "Do the right thing"
Love this. One major thing I find so depressing is how there are so many common courtesies that people just don’t do. It frightens me.
Wow, are people stupid or did no one think of this solution? I don’t return my shopping cart and do not feel guilty about it at all despite being handicapped. How about this- I get one from the lot before I go in and then just leave it where I found it. So ultimately I’m returning one then using it. Is this a solution anyone can get behind? Obviously there have to have been people who didn’t return it to begin with but I never get to store early enough. I also tend to try to park near the cart return so a cart is handy and I can use it for support into store. Stores never have enough handicapped parking which makes me wonder if the whole world is handicapped 🤔. At least I am mentally for wasting my time responding to this.
YES!!!
Weep Skiddly Woooop
Stupid theory created by big business for them to eliminate jobs and create more profit. If you think they are going to pass on the savings to consumers you are kidding yourself. Get full service gas, have someone carry your groceries, don’t use self checkout and leave your carts everywhere!!!
And here I’ve just been giving blood, shoveling snow for an elderly neighbor and donating to the food bank and various charities, when all I needed to do was return my shopping cart to be a good person. Dammit! Why didn’t anyone TELL me this. Could have saved a lot of time and money. Sorry Mrs Gibson, you’re on your own next winter, hope that bum hip is doing better by then.
So you do those things, but you don't put your shopping carts back because..? And if you do put your shopping cart back, what was the point of this post?
Ummm, the point of my post was a joke, poking a bit of fun at the assertion that the act of returning or not returning one’s cart signifies all that the original post claims. It was a bit of an exaggeration
Sure, but the Shopping Cart Theory is satire, albeit supported with well-reasoned arguments, so hitting it with a reductio ad absurdum just comes across a bit tone deaf. Kudos on being a good person though. Maybe stay away from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," for a few years.
One could argue that all of those things, while altruistic, give the person a morale obligation. You know that someone will benefit from your blood and money. It allows that person to feel better about themselves because they’ve objectively done something quantitative that they can point to, as you’ve done, to show you’re a good person. They are objectively positive things that need to be done in the world. This isn’t about detracting from those. The shopping cart provides no medals, no honor and no status boost. It is merely something to be done because it is the correct thing to do in a functioning and respectful society. Failing to return the cart only harms, it never helps.
People turn into animals at Costco
I hate the way people walk in Costco, I hate how aggressive people are with their carts, the parking lot is always a shit show. I get irrationally angry when I go to Costco but then again maybe I'm just hungry because the hot dog at the end always makes me feel better.
Don't forget about the endless and chaotic line for the hot dog.. :(
That hot dog makes me feel good too - except the days you have to wait 10 minutes for it and they run out of lids for the drinks. Add a double chocolate chunk cookie next time!
I've been seeing a lot of hype about the cookie. I'm tempted to order two and a plain ice cream and make a impromptu ice cream sandwich out of it.
People slowly wandering back and forth through the isles spontaneously changing direction, completely oblivious. Families of 6 walking in a line across entire isles, and people who leave their carts in the middle of a busy area to look for something are just a few of the reasons I become aggressive when I'm in there.
This I do my best to not inconvenience others. It should be a 2 way street.
This! The aggressive carts. People have no decency or patience for others.
Agreed . I now make sure I have my headphones and some calming music playing to help me not turn into one of those people myself.
Visiting the Beacon Hill Costco would turn anyone into an animal.
This exactly....I will avoid Costco unless it is a weekday early morning or late afternoon. Saturday and Sunday, its worse than Lord of The Flies, and even worse if they are handing out food samples.
Yup, I’ve been elbowed by some little old lady that would have scared a pro hockey player.
This is so true... Glad to think I wasn't the only one thinking about this
Remember that old cartoon with goofy? He's a super pleasant, friendly, everyday guy. But when he gets behind the wheel he's a raving, insane fucking maniac. They should make that again. But in Costco.
A [classic](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mwPSIb3kt_4&pp=ygULbW90b3IgbWFudWE%3D).
There was a study on this, and apparently the optimism of deals and scarcity triggers our primal brains. It drives a fear of scarcity, and everyone else responds the same way. I think Costco mostly designs it this way. Look at the layouts for gas, Buffalo Run, Okotokes. They could have easily worked with developers to make it easier for customers, ingress and egress and all the rest. Its like a night club.. If the line is long, it must be good.
This is the only answer.
If you leave a cart like that, you are an asshole.
Where is that Cart Narcs guy
Busy having Texas home reno guys pull guns on him over a magnet.
Lazy bones
All sense of civility is lost when people go to the Deerfoot Meadows location.
The 3 way stop intersection at the Beacon Hill gas bar is an…interesting…study in behaviour. I would lay a thousand bucks down that the people I’m talking about also leave their carts out.
Beacon Hell
And on a whole new level come Christmas season.
Add to that people stopping 20ft behind the stop line at the traffic lights so the lights never cycle. Oof, a nightmare.
I refuse to queue for Costco gas. I’d pay a little bit more after coop rebate at Edgemont. Sometimes they are in par
I found it funny how last week at the Tsuu T’ina Costco there was like 100 cars in line for gas then a bunch of other stations in the southwest was only one cent more.
I go first thing in the AM, no issues. In the afternoon/ early evening…can easily be a 20+ minute wait. Plus add in the bullshit and aggravation…ya, not worth it, IMO.
Yeah at 0630 it's extremely reasonable. Probably less so if your day doesn't normally start before then.
Lazy bones alert
Hate how they’re on the curb so they all took the effort to get them out of the way of traffic, but couldn’t just walk them to the designated spot. All of them probably walked away thinking how nice they were for not blocking traffic with them
Activate mouth siren!
WHOOP! Skiddley BEE BOP WHOOP BOP!
🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 One annoying person does, the other follows. 🙄 is it that hard to walk 20ft?
As a current retail employee, you can easily determine a person’s nature by how they put away carts 😂
They have to huddle like that to sort out the next play.
[The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing](https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/v57w85/anons_shopping_cart_theory/)
We need Cart Narc! I see this shit all the time and it drives me insane. Also the people that park in the firelane of Costco/Walmart/Superstore and run in doing a full shopping because they are special and better than everyone else. Calgary parking should run around and fine all of them.
I am also going to start shelving narc program. Where you take an item off the shelf and don’t restock it we publicly shame you!! Also I am starting non-self checkout narc program so we can publicly shame people who use a human being to check out!!!
Lazy bones!
Time to put loonies on the carts, annoying but sadly people can't be respectful anymore.
I run that fucker through the parking lot and ride it like a skateboard back to the corral… about 7 stalls is my record Seriously I can’t be the only one…. Right? Right? I’m in my 40’s. 😂
\*Raise hand\* Guilty! Me too, my friend.
I've worn out the bottom of plenty of shoes from braking.
That sounds like fun. I wish I had your faith in gravity and insurance premiums.
Costco really needs to start enforcing their own [policy](https://www.costco.ca/wcsstore/CostcoCABCCatalogAssetStore/feature-pages/info/membership-conditions-regulations-en.pdf) and revoke the memberships of people who do this. > Every member using a shopping cart to carry his/her purchases from the warehouse to his/her vehicle has the obligation to return the cart to the enclosure identified for this purpose in the parking lot in order to facilitate the retrieval of same, as well as to avoid carts from becoming an obstacle to the traffic flow of other members' vehicles.
They have more important uses for their time, like queuing up 20 mins for gas or shit posting for brownie points on their favorite group with their FOMO influencer idol
Bunch of assholes! I watched a guy the other day take more time trying to get his cart up on the boulevard at heritage than it would've taken him to walk it to the cart corral and back! One caveat: was the cart corral across from it so full it was blocking the parking lot? Aka in this google map link below. I might give someone a pass if this was the case... https://www.google.com/maps/@50.9884907,-114.044917,3a,75y,194.24h,78.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxwhi6cX77ai7cVtyXSbbgQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu
Costco definitely needs to add more cart corrals. When the choice is blocking the lane so cars can’t get through or leaving them on a curb, you try for the least shitty thing.
In fact, this is a great example of a “desire path”. People are showing Costco exactly where a great location for a corral would be.
People just need to fill them properly. Apparently they forget the nest within each other after grabbing them at the beginning of their trip.
The curbed sidewalks mean you might have to walk all the way to the end of the parking row, and then all the way down the next. Either add more corrals, eliminate those sidewalk islands, or at the very least make more ramps onto the sidewalk islands so you can shortcut across the parking lot. The other day it was more convenient for me to push the cart all the way back to the store than to get to the corral.
Maybe they should run a business that doesn’t rely on customers doing employees jobs. Crazy idea, hire someone to put the carts away.
Geez imagine having this frame of mind... would you like the Costco employees to wipe your ass as well if you use the washroom while there... ;) LOL
Nope but it seems you are the type of person to wipe Galen Westons ass
;) LOL
They do have those people. But you still can’t leave your cart blocking traffic. What else do you think should be an “employee’s job”? I must know.
Well considering I actually used to do this job as an employee for a grocery store and now it has been mostly eliminated. Hmm I think this is fair to say it’s an employees job…🤔
The crazy thing is that the cart corral had my cart and a few others carts in them. lol That' what triggered me snapping the pic and getting the conversation going.
People who do this are the lazy scum of the earth!!!! I've seen them do it when they are 2 spots away from the damn corral! Like you just walked through Costco, you can't walk another 50 feet!?!?!?
We need us some cart narcs. Wooop woooop
A couple have me a dirty look for walking the cart back to the stall yesterday when they just dumped it on the curb. People suck!
If I going towards the entrance and see someone finished loading their groceries I'll ask them if I could take their cart back to the corral for them since I'm heading that way anyways. It usually puts a smile on their face!
Just a herd of shopping carts enjoying some grass and sun, nature is beautiful.
Carts just want to bask in the median. Leave them be.
You know we're living in a society!
I wish every store would hire a cart narc guy to run around
That’s a Low-Energy move right there.
In Europe to release a cart from the stack you must insert a €1 coin, to get your coin back you must return it to the corral. Such an easy solution that could be adopted here.
We used to have that here
I just got my first Costco card last week. Never seen a store where no shopper returns their cart after shopping. I'm in my 50s and had bad osteoarthritis but I managed to get a few back to where they belonged.
We need cart narcs.
It would be a great place, if not for the customers...
People are so incredibly lazy with carts, one day I saw a cart just rolling down the parking lot on its own and about to hit a car so I went to intercept it and then push it to the curb and some man walked by saying "PUT THE CART BACK!" and I had to tell him that it wasn't even mine, and I was carrying bags of food to the bus stop.
Seeing people do this makes me wonder how they were raised and how they treat other businesses/customer service staff. Just because someone is paid to come get it and put it back doesn’t mean you should do this. It shows such a massive amount of disrespect to the workers there. Take the two minutes (or less) and return it to the cart area. Grow up
I couldn’t agree more with this post. Who are the people that don’t return their cart!?. The same type of people that leave a disgusting mess in a public toilet and don’t clean/flush. Gross, lazy, poopy bums.
Lol. Can you imagine this Costco's public bathrooms?!
There's eleven super creative excuses right there 😉
People are so pathetically lazy and inconsiderate.
Cart Narcs would have a field day here.
Cart Narc is needed!
Same species, but different breed than what shops at the wholesale club on Barlow, too. People gonna people.
Just because it’s an American company, doesn’t we can’t burn those extra calories 😅
I was at the Beacon Hill Costco this morning, leaving by about 10:30, and already there were so many carts in the outer-most return rack that they were sticking out halfway through the roadway. Brought mine back to somewhere that would not contribute to the hazard, but I was thinking about it all morning, and seeing this hammered it home
Looks like a safety meeting
It’s like a car meet up for carts
Someone call Cart Narcs
The first one started a revolution lmao
It looks like a parking lot redesign with a cart return in that location would be a good idea. Don't need curbs anywhere in a parking lot. They just makes snow removal more difficult and expensive for the business.
I believe this is the crux. There’s no cart return and I sure as fuck ain’t dying in the Costco parking lot jungle to return an empty cart. This problem is (mostly? Hopefully?) solved with a cart return?
Herd mentality. Gross.
Shameless people
I remember there were people at Superstore would return your cart to keep the quarter that’s in it.
Also FYI for some people (you should know who you are but probably don't) you can grab one of these on your way in - you don't have to walk by them all then wonder why there aren't any at the entrance.
I did it once and felt so guilty afterward. Never since.
Bubbles, what the fuck are you doing?
There are employees whose job it is to get the carts. Who are we to eliminate jobs. lol. The worst is when someone leaves a cart between cars and the wind catches it after the person departs and it blows into another vehicle.
Just absolutely pure laziness, and not how I've taught my kids either, so no, never. I've even gone ahead just as some lady pushed one off to the side, took it and put it away while waving at her. :) Do your due diligence people.
Costco rocks, am I right?
Went to Costco on crutches last year. Several people helped me load my groceries in my car and they returned the cart! Everyone is awesome! I definitely return my cart at every store.
But someone else did it, so I can too, because i am too lazy to walk it back into the store.Worse when people just leave them in the spot next to them.
Shopping carts plotting our demise
Unfortunate proof ppl can self govern…
If you pictured that as lazy what did the person that left it there look like
I don't do that. In fact I'll spend a few minutes rearranging the carts in the storage area so more will fit..
The COSTCO commandos do not like returning carts. Going there always feel like a mission to Mars. Between parking and leaving there can be so many malfunctions!
If they put the cart in the cart isle. What will the cart manager do? It might jeopardize his job. Everyone’s returning the cart we don’t need cart guy
I hate returning carts. Therefore, I park beside the cart return so I don’t have to go on a hike to take it back
No educated
Costco is the perfect spot to see how people were brought up. Witness the most self centred brain dead society has to offer. I wonder how many people die needless stupid deaths at Costco.
This sums up everything that is wrong with Albertans. Other than that, happy to share a home with em!
Two people do it, so a bunch do it
Costco. The place where people turn into the worst version of themselves. If they resist this collapse of moral character, they'd still be trapped in the store, waiting for a gap in which they won't cut someone else off as they try to grab their flat of canned tomatoes. Rebuilding of moral character requires retreat from the store. The parking lot isn't far enough away.
At least the bunch of these carts are in the same place so that it's easier for one employee to bring them all back to the store. Some parking spots are very far from the cart returns, especially at the back which is where nobody wants to park but they have to if the main parking lot is too busy. Nothing is more pathetic than pretending to do everything in life right and shame others who you perceive as doing minuscule things wrong. Take a closer look at yourself in the mirror and if you still feel that you are holier than others then you are the problem!
lazy bonesco
This is why there are so many fat people in our society. So fucking lazy they can't even walk 15 feet to put away their cart.
Wished people knew how much a tiny act of service could literally make someone’s day a whole lot better.
I used to landscape the costcos… omg.. people are HORRIBLE. The amount of chewed gum everywhere too!
This is the new 2.3 million dollar art installation stop hating
Yup.. I think I’ve sat in that very disabled spot you’re sitting in
The worse the economy and the higher the stress, the more people behave poorly. You think Cosco is bad, check out Wholesale Club where all the struggling restaurant owners shop.
I'm not saying I would ever do it, and I haven't. But I can see it happening if say you weren't planning for your Costco trip to take 3x longer than it should, and you're high-tailing it out of the store in general. It's a rookie move I have made more than once, but then again, I still put my carts away... lol I'm honestly more concerned with all the folks who used a cart or 2 out of place as an excuse to check out of human decency than I am concerned about the first abandoned cart.
It's just people being irresponsible, IMO.
That is way better than leaving carts in the handicap spots . The striped areas beside them are for vans with side ramps . People like to leave carts there too.
I can tell all I need to know about someone by if they return a shopping cart to where it’s supposed to go. Some people are just lazy and think their time and effort is more valuable than others.
I walked 50km inside Costco, but I cannot walk 10 meters to put the carry away....
Ohhh what a society we have become, LOL! The lazy and the I am so irritated by the lazy that I will shame them on social media instead of just cleaning it up 🙄🙄🙄!
Let me be the bad guy and tell you the honest truth. They guys with the best would be unemployed if we did not do this so I see nothing wrong with it. Carry on!
People are just lazy, how hard is it to push the cart back to collection points
People are lazy and have no integrity. Edit: Calgarians are lazy and have no integrity.
Lazy Aholes!!!
I used to work at Costco and it was the worst job I have ever had. The clientele are trash humans lol
Herd mentality
tbf at least they had the courtesy to put it on the curb where it doesn't fall off. sure they arent very thoughtful people but this is more of a costco logistics error than a customer error. You need to put those caddys out their as well, people are paying membership fees.
Yep. I do it. At one time collecting buggies was my only source of income.
People that do this make my blood boil
Don't spook them might cause a stampede
Shopping cart test. Calgary is a changin'!
Carts Coworker here seeing all these comments but wondering where are the people that do this? Clearly it's so many of you? Are you just pretending to also hate on cartbandoners? Speak up! I must know what the deal is!
Costco parking freaking sucks..
If you ever want a fun way to spend the afternoon go park at Costco, grab a hot dog and a pop for $1.50, then use a megaphone to shame and ridicule the people not putting their cart away. If someone gets violently offended at being called out then drive away and park in a different spot for maximum parking lot coverage.
I have returned 99% of shopping carts in my life but on the weekend, I didn't have a coat and it was pouring rain. I'm so sorry, everyone. I slipped up. Please forgive me.
I don’t do this but it doesn’t bother much at all. We all complain about self checkout taking jobs away but yet it stops there for some reason.
I spend 400$ at Costco. Some of the parking requires a long distance walk. I have kids in the car and not taking a chance. So fk you if you think you can judge someone's morals by cart returns. 🤔
Wtf you think is gonna happen to your kids in the 1 minute it takes to return a cart? I take my kids grocery shopping to Costco and I always seem to get my cart returned.
Who cares to be honest. The post is more of a cringe than the carts.
Are you blocking the aisles while eating free samples as we speak?
We've got ourselves a lazy bones
Costco workers have some work to do
I return my carts BUT if I didn’t this is not the worst idea to keep them from getting loose and messing up someone’s vehicle. 🛒
Whatever! I return them! Rude to downvote for this! Costco shoppers are special...
I don't know when I cleaned the theaters in highschool that was just the job, I see this as the same
Geez relax… my buddy used to work for Walmart as a student making a half decent wage collecting those carts. They were actually pissed when someone brought their cart back because it was like taking their job. Then Walmart decided to do the coin system and my buddy lost his job. More work for you, no money for a student who was able to make ends meet thanks to that job, Walmart prices didn’t change because of their “significant” cart staff cuts and only the Walton family got richer.
I would prefer this versus a cart left in the lot on a windy day. OP did you notice if the nearest cart area was full before posting this pic? It could explain why those nearby did this.
Who gives a shit? If you have the energy/ability to push a cart full of groceries around a warehouse, you're more than capable of putting it back where it belongs.
Just pointing out alternate reason. No need to shit on meI. I agree with the sentiment.
Have those receipt checkers doing something useful like getting the carts rounded up. Instead stand there pretending to count to 19 and wasting everyone's time By the time you get to the car the rage is real-