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Stop giving away free labour to large grocery stores! They want to merge and jack up prices and somehow we are bad if we don't bring the carts in so they don't need to hire someone to do it?

Third option. I park out by an abandoned cart take it inside and use it. Then, like my mother taught me I put it back where I found it.

Am I an animal? An absolute savage? If I then returned the cart after finding it abandoned, then using it, does that make me double good?

If your litmus test involves doing free labor for a corporation you're already fucked

I'm going to start recording people not putting their carts away. Endless content for my future channel.

counter argument: it is someone else's job to put the cart away.

Nope, I don't buy it.

• An estimated one out of every 500 Americans is homeless
• Unarmed noncombatant civilian women and children are being bombed, shot, and starved to death.
• There has been a nearly 70% reduction in wild vertebrates worldwide since 1970
• The leading cause of death among children and teens in america is firearms

Privileged westerners could do something about these things, but they are sipping their pumpkin spice lattes and congratulating each other for putting their shopping carts back because, you know, it's the ultimate test of moral righteousness. Ugh.

Well the discussion started off ok before ending in a rabies infested rant against humanity! Talk about going off the rails!

Anyhow, many people return the trolley so they don't look bad/feel guilty. That doesn't necessarily make them 'good' or 'civilised' and therefore fit into the 'being forced' category through peer pressure. Does that make them 'animals' and 'savages' too?

Wrong. The correct act is to put the cart out of the way of others, but not in the corral.

You then help provide a job to a person that capitalism wants to take away. They want your free labor. And then they provide less and less corals to save those extra pennies, knowing that you'll walk. Fuck them.

People always crow about this shit, "oh the poor workers having to retrieve carts","oh its so bad and lazy", and then you point out that some workers like the time they get to spend outside walking and suddenly under the scooby do mask its just some guy that doesn't want his car dinged by rogue carts.

Keep downvoting it gives me strength. Let your cart hate flow through you. Think of me next time you see a feral cart in the wild, it was ME, I PUT THAT CART THERE, I BLEW THE WIND THAT SENT IT ROLLING TOWARDS YOUR PARKED CAR. Watch out here it comes! 🛒 💨

Costco is the only place I don't always return carts, since around here the cart returns can get very far away, but curbs you can tuck them away on are everywhere. That, and they have staff just for gathering carts constantly.