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What if you take them home to burn leaves in?

Likewise if you're a smoker - you should go directly to jail.

Plot twist: I don't use a shopping cart. (I always use the textile shopping bag that I bring from home.)

Seems legit

I agree that people should put the carts where they go, but this whole "I'm a better human because I put carts back" thing just reeks of unredeemable people scouring their existence for a single redeeming property.

nah fuck that shit. there are staff paid to do it and if the store can't afford that staff they are fucking lying. they have earned this with the price fixing and gouging and I'm not giving them any more of my time than absolutely necessary.

in addititon when I had that job myself, more often than not people put them away wrong and I had to redo everything. I've gotten called to the office more than once because shoppers that put the carts away didn't lock them somewhere along the stack and the whole thing rolled across the lot and smashed in to someone's car. Collecting lose carts is way easier than pulling them alll apart and putting them back after finding the two near the middle beginning of the chain and not being able to get them back together without doing it one by one in the stupidly hilly lot.

This is only true in the US. In Europe if you don't return the cart you can be sure people will give you looks and think about you as an asshole

"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..."

Hmmmm, I wonder if this is always true. Maybe somewhere there is someone who does not let such things stand.

Yass and when I'm walking into the store I always offer to take a cart for someone walking theirs back, if such a person is within hailing distance.

I think it's similar to weights in a gym. Leaving them on the barbell is a jerk move. Returning them to their correct staging location is the ethically correct thing to do. Whenever I see them left on the barbell, I imagine a fantasy where the person has a team of horn players follow them around and play for them to announce their superiority.