I used to work as a cart pusher for a really big store. Everyone else there and I really didn't mind if carts weren't returned because we did big sweeps across the parking lot with the cart pushing machine so it wasn't a big deal. I do return it though if I'm close to a cart return area or if I'm at the smaller grocery store I go to sometimes
But you don't return it if it is "too far"?
Yeah, when I have frozen vegetables, milk, and other shit that's already been out of the refrigerator for 30 minutes because the store's shitty checkout lines I am not parking that shit in a 130°F car for 5 minutes while I walk the cart 100 yards back to the store. I think a lot of people who don't understand not returning carts live somewhere with parking lots small enough to toss a baseball across.
2 things:
Large parking lots have cart corrals all over the place.
How can it take 5 minutes to walk 100 yards and back?
Easy solution: Park next to the shopping cart corral.
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