I would choose that the perpetrator can no longer walk by an out of place trolley without putting it back properly regardless of whether they have used it or not
Every shopping cart they use will have screwed up wheels, but only for them. If they try to push it, the front wheels will lock up, they will only want to turn right, they will wobble and be off balance, etc. The cart will technically be useable, but it will basically take more effort to push it than if it didn’t even have wheels at all. The same cart for anyone else will work perfectly fine. If they try to use a basket, the handle will break but again, only for them. If they try to bring a bag from home, the bottom will rip in it, etc. Oh…and the whole time this is happening, they will have an internal monologue voice-over in their head repeatedly telling them WHY this is happening.
For a first time offender, this will last for their next few shopping trips. Second time offenders, the effect will last for months. Third strike and they’re out, they’ll be hand carrying groceries for life.
(I should never get godlike powers. because I’d get creative with them…)
They will be assaulted by an autonomous carriage at random times while at the supermarket. It will just come barreling out of nowhere, slamming into the perp with sufficient force to knock them down. There will be no pattern to the attacks—nothing for three months, then WHAM, right on their ass in the produce section.
The fusillade of shopping cart smackdowns will continue until they access the store’s loudspeaker and make the following announcement: “Attention, (name of store) shoppers: I have committed the sin of not returning my carriage to its proper place. For this I am heartfully sorry. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” The curse shall then be lifted.
I used to work at a grocery store and this was horrible. So many people would complain that their car was hit by a cart. We had so many cart returns too and people who went out to clean out the cart returns every time they were half full, so I know they were never full.
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Copy of the original post in case of edits: You’re given the power to come up with a magical punishment for the awful douchebag.
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Hung drawn and quartered, using trolleys to pull them apart.
I would choose that the perpetrator can no longer walk by an out of place trolley without putting it back properly regardless of whether they have used it or not
Shopping carts they see in the middle of the parking lot without being in use, will magically put themselves away
Every shopping cart they use will have screwed up wheels, but only for them. If they try to push it, the front wheels will lock up, they will only want to turn right, they will wobble and be off balance, etc. The cart will technically be useable, but it will basically take more effort to push it than if it didn’t even have wheels at all. The same cart for anyone else will work perfectly fine. If they try to use a basket, the handle will break but again, only for them. If they try to bring a bag from home, the bottom will rip in it, etc. Oh…and the whole time this is happening, they will have an internal monologue voice-over in their head repeatedly telling them WHY this is happening.
For a first time offender, this will last for their next few shopping trips. Second time offenders, the effect will last for months. Third strike and they’re out, they’ll be hand carrying groceries for life.
(I should never get godlike powers. because I’d get creative with them…)
Their cart magically teleports behind their vehicle until they return it to the proper area.
Hemorrhoids
They will be assaulted by an autonomous carriage at random times while at the supermarket. It will just come barreling out of nowhere, slamming into the perp with sufficient force to knock them down. There will be no pattern to the attacks—nothing for three months, then WHAM, right on their ass in the produce section.
The fusillade of shopping cart smackdowns will continue until they access the store’s loudspeaker and make the following announcement: “Attention, (name of store) shoppers: I have committed the sin of not returning my carriage to its proper place. For this I am heartfully sorry. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” The curse shall then be lifted.
They cannot leave until all shopping cards are put away properly.
Every time they visit a grocery store, the offender’s car is struck by a rogue cart that wasn’t put away.
For the rest of the person’s life
I used to work at a grocery store and this was horrible. So many people would complain that their car was hit by a cart. We had so many cart returns too and people who went out to clean out the cart returns every time they were half full, so I know they were never full.