Do you think it's rude to leave shopping carts by the car and then leave??

Question

I do, and more than that, it can be dangerous. At a busy store (like Walmart), esp at a busy time of year (Christmas, back to school) space is tight in the parking lot and there are always lots of people milling around. Any further obstacles and blind spots make things just that much worse.

I try to take an orphaned cart with me out of the parking lot as I enter the store.

What do you all think, am I being oversensitive? After all, they have people to bring the carts in don't they?

Answer 1

I made it my New Year's Resolution one year (to return the cart). Decided I 'had been' setting my standards too high. Happy to say it is the ONLY resolution I have EVER kept. This also heightened my "sensitivity". I have pulled into a spot tapping a 'stray/orphaned' cart and watched it roll into another car! And I felt Guilty! Yes, I do think it's rude. Burst'g MY bubble with guilt! Did you know shop-rite delivers???

Answer 2

I feel the same way. I also can't stand when the cart corral is like two parking stalls away and they still leave the cart in another stall. I usually take the orphaned carts with me , even two or three. And when I park next to them I move them all. Usually when I go to Walmart the cart people are just sitting around doing nothing it seems when they could be out rounding up carts. Kind of sad they have to have a job that takes care of other people's laziness. The only time I leave a cart is when lots of people have obviously made their own cart corral in a parking stall with ten or so other carts. I don't think you are being oversensitive at all!

Answer 3

It's rude and dangerous. A few years ago, I saw a person at the supermarket parking lot, reverse from his spot. There was a stray cart left and there was a lady loading her groceries in the lot as well. While this lady was loading her car, the car backed up, hit the stray cart and then the lady's cart and pinned her in between two carts and her car! What a freakish accident! I'll never forget her scream and the look of horror on faces of people in the parking lot. Because of that, I make it a point to return as many carts as I can that are around my parked car.

Answer 4

You could be taking soneone's JOB!!! ever think about THAT? IO don't leave carts IN the parking space but sometimes I do leave them ion the parking lot. I try to return them tothe cart corral and if I am at the grocery (Ishop at a small indepent) I ALWAYS grab one from the ;ot and return it. Walmart is a different animal..they have plenty employees they pay (and who need the job) of wrangling carts. Oh, BTW...are you aware there is a war going on and Americans soldiers are dying in the Middle East?...just to give you something real to be "sensitive" about.

Answer 5

It's rude. And it's lazy.

Those people who hold up the rest of traffic while they wait for that close spot (even though there are many more spots only steps away) are the ones that leave the carts everywhere. They should get a little exercise and work off those Ho-Ho's they just bought by taking the cart back.

Answer 6

In my opinion, people who do that just lack manners. It's a pain to just have to stop the car, get off, and move the cart so I can park my car in that space. I mean, some stores do have places reserved where you can put the cart in and the employee will bring them all in later, but some people just get too lazy to walk a few steps to do that. However, most stores are getting better at hiring employees to bring those abandoned carts in.

Answer 7

it is dangerous to leave a cart out in the parking lot and not in a buggy corral...and one cart was picking up speed in a parking lot this weekend and came out from between two cars as I was passing behind them and I was lucky to have room to swerve and speed up to dodge the cart but it would have done considerable damage to my car and my child who was sitting on that side with the window down. I try to always park next to a corral and put my cart there or walk it back to the front of the store.

Answer 8

I don't like parking near orphaned carts. I can just imagine that sucker getting rammed into my car as soon as I step foot in the store. I always try to take my cart to the cart bays. And at Wal-Mart and most stores I know they PAY people to get those carts. People are just lazy and rude - probably because they are exhausted from leaving Wal-Mart. Ugh.

Answer 9

Yes I think its rude...I worked at a grocery store for two years and my biggest complaint is that people were too lazy to take their carts to the designated places two feet from their cars! Then I had to go out there in the middle of July and round up eight carts at a time and push them to the front of the store! It was hot and those carts are heavy when you push that many at a time! It's absolute laziness from people!

Answer 10

I agree with you that people should put the carts away. After all, they have those little racks that you can put them in so you don't have to go all the way back to the store.

My least favorite is when the cart is taking up part of a parking space so I can't get my car in there.

Thanks for taking a cart in with you.

Answer 11

some people leave their carts by their car because they are afraid of being mugged. they just want to quickly get into their car and go home. i take the orphaned carts too, and am glad they are close by. i don't think you are being oversensitive, because i think you are coming from a different point of view. i take my cart to the area that carts are stored, unless it's very late, or very early, and i'm afraid to be out there alone.