When I was 15 I worked in a supermarket. I loved cart duty. I got to leave the annoying bagging area with annoying whiney customers.
I got to go outside and kinda work at my own pace. Got to talk to the weird produce guy smoking under the awning. Got to sneak over to the gas station for a drink.
Basically it’s like a mini vacation, cart duty. And when I was a kid we had those heavy lead carts, not those super light space age carts you have nowadays.
I put carts away a lot too, but sometimes I just leave em on a grass island or something.
It’s gonna be alright.
And no, I don’t leave food and garbage around when I go to the movies. (I see that accusation coming 10 billion miles away)
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The adult response is to return the carts to the corral.
Straight to jail
Please stop this.
Same here OP! I loved cart duty just to get out of the store for a while.
This is not the justification you think it is, most places add this on top of people’s existing responsibilities.
Sometimes I take those ‚lost’ carts back 😂 I can’t help myself, it’s the German in me. In Germany you always have to put a coin in your cart and therefore everyone always returns it.
I loved going out for cart duty, but I promise you, people will be out there long enough without having to go grab the cart you didn’t put back. I HATED when people leave them all over the place- we have a weird parking lot set up so I often had to put more effort into moving the carts up and down the curbs. Especially hated it when people saw me outside dealing with carts and still left them. Don’t do this please I promise you people enjoy getting away enough without you leaving them all over the place 🙏
When I was in high school working at a local market I loved cart duty! I worked at my own pace, and friends stop by and shoot the shit. We had a roof top parking area that nobody ever checked on and my friends would meet me up there and we would hang out and drink beer and smoke, it was awesome. When it was nice out during the warm months I would work on my tan. Loved it.
But now I hate MFers that leave their cart in the parking area because I have a car that I don’t want to get dinged.
I also loved cart duty as a teenager working grocery stores. I assume others do too
I see a lot of cart retrievers working miserably in the rain, snow, heat and cold because someone decided to be lazy.
I love this! I always feel a bit guilty and lazy when I don’t put the buggy back! Its very sweet to think there’s a kiddo out there who sees it as an opportunity 😂
We were often so short staffed at my last grocery job that I would have to run back and forth between pushing in rows of carts and the customer service counter. They don’t hire cart pushers or sackers any more for most places, they just expect the rest of staff to figure it out. It used to be fine but the world isn’t like it used to be.
Seek help immediately.
This post is gonna be hanging on the wall in your room in HELL
There’s definitely people who like cart duty, but I have a friend who’s kind of small and honestly weak (she doesn’t get a lot of exercise and has various health issues) and she gets put on cart duty in the rain a lot, so I err on the side of putting my cart back. Plenty of carts out even without me adding to it.
I only leave it if I have young children in the car while I am loading it up. Sorry but if the cart return area is more than 2 spots away, I am not leaving my kids unattended to put it back.
I worked on the floor in Walmart before moving into the pharmacy, and I seriously enjoyed picking up the random items people would leave in my department and putting them in their proper place. I think about this and having heard other people express the sane sentiment as you anytime I feel like a lazy pos for leaving an item where it doesn’t go or not putting a cart back. That random thing just might make someone’s day lol.
I am handicapped and one grocery store I shop at has the cart returns at the center of each aisle so I leave it in front of my car by the handicap sign. A store employee told me this was acceptable. One of the others it is three spots down to the cart return so I put it away there.
i hated cart duty, especially during the pandemic where i had to sanitize every single one
It’s like you’re using rose colored glasses to justify your current shit behavior. It’s no different than littering or leaving your mcdonalds trash at the table.
That’s been the case for all but the busiest stores my whole life
You monster!