I commend those shoppers who return their carts to the cart area. I shouldn't have to, because it's the decent thing to do. But you know how people are these days.
Sometimes, people THINK they are helping, but they're really not. Like those who push their carts back to the front of 10Box.
Look at that. So many shoppers have returned their carts. But they've overdone it! They did not simply put the cart in the striped area designated for cart return. They went too far! They parked all those carts on the SIDEWALK! All the customers who parked to the right side of T-Hoe have no way to get to the door, or back to their car. They must go out into the driving area behind T-Hoe!
Heh, heh! How convenient that while I was inside, all the previous cars left, leaving me with a plethora of parking spaces from which I might have chosen!
Anyhoo... that wide striped area beside T-Hoe is where the carts belong. To collect there, until there are enough to be pushed inside the garage door. No need to push those carts up against the garage door, because that will hinder the worker when trying to get them inside. When a worker gathers carts from the corrals out in the regular parking lot, they bring them up and leave them with their front wheels on that crack between the blacktop and the concrete sidewalk.
These "helpers" are actually "hinderers." They block the sidewalk so people can't safely move from auto to store and back. They make the workers work harder to move all those carts back away from the building, and stack them into each other before pushing them inside.
Still, it's better than the cart I saw upon leaving, out in the middle of a parking space.
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Our grocery store has 2 types of carts. The standard grocery cart and the cart for small shopping, that are of a somewhat upright position. I have no problem with the options. Makes perfect sense to me. They also have their cart corrals set up to take regular carts on one side and the somewhat upright carts on the other side. I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. Even with pictures some people just don't understand there are two options for putting their carts in the corral. Naturally, you end up with a couple of uprights in the regular cart side which takes up quite a bit of space and now making people just bring the carts "near" the corral because the others are now protruding out of the corral due to the mixture of said carts. You can't put a regular cart in the somewhat upright side because they are narrower overall, as is the corral designed to hold that size without wasted space. Despite the efforts to simplify a process, failure is eminent, especially on busy shopping days. In my younger years I would have sorted it out, just to be nice but now my husband does most of the shopping and I just hear the stories. Ranee
Rae,
That does not surprise me at all, heh, heh! Country Mart has some of those little carts. They are fine for me to grab one if it's left on the side of the store by the handicap spaces, to use as a walker for going inside. But I switch to a big cart in the vestibule. I tried shopping with the little cart one time, but I overcrowded the top section, because I didn't want to put stuff in the lower section. It's awkward to try and get Farmer H's Diet Mountain Dew six-packs off the bottom.
Country Mart only has one kind of cart corral, and none at all along the building where I park. They only have a limited number of the small carts. I suppose the people who use them there just pick up their stuff and carry it to their car, rather than pushing the small carts into the main lot. I've never seen the small carts in the corral when driving through the lot.
We also have two sizes of carts, but they are the same shape, just with a less deep basket for the small shoppers and for the elderly who can't reach way down into the regular depth cart. Our cart corrals have rails to keep the carts in place and generally people are good about putting them in there before they drive away.
River,
The Dollar Store used to be next to Save A Lot. They had a smaller version of a regular cart. Theirs were bright yellow. People were always putting them in the corral with the regular Save A Lot carts. It was a mess.
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