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No one historically shit on floors in supermarkets. They did historically have more cart spots, but decided to save money and cut jobs. The assumption is people will start doing the work for them.

They were very much right.

They put on self-service tills in the hope that folk would do it free. When they used to hire 30 checkout staff, they now hire 2 per 12 tills, so they save on 20 checkout staff per shift. Of course they weren't redeployed to shelf stacking, as they already had shelf stackers. They just went to the job centre.

If you are happy being complicit in the losses of jobs, go ahead. Persuade yourself you're moral and descent. You can either clap on the AI job losses as they hunt "productivity".

Supermarkets have jobs to keep the car park clear, and if it only needs 1, they'll hire one. If it needs half a shift, that person goes inside half the shift, but now they need less shelf stackers as they're over subscribed, so they can remove one head count off that.
If a supermarket has a cart spot near my car, I'll use it. If I have to walk 5 mins out my way to the entrance, it'll be placed neatly to the side joined to other abandoned carts not filling spaces and not blocking access to folk getting past.

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So you think if the cart guy helped out the full time in the remote orders they wouldn't reduce a head count from that role? You know very little about how businesses run.

You could call me a cunt, but you're either naive or don't give a fuck about anything other than having acres of space for your SUV.

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As someone who has done this job, I promise you, there's always another task to accomplish. Normally the cart fetchers are also the store's defacto janitorial staff, and there's plenty of cleaning to be done at a grocery store. You are ignorant in this arena.

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Why do you think there is always another job to accomplish? Do you think that work magically appeared out of nowhere? Do you think your colleagues are slacking or do you think they had removed a head count from the cleaning staff because the cart staff will now do that role?

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Dude there's never fucking been a role that was just cart fetching what gives you this weird ass idea

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Many of my landlords were pretty decent people who actually cared about their tenants tho.

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Putting a quarter into a cart is a thing in Canada but it's only ever at the low income grocery stores. The ritzier stores use a locking mechanism to lock the wheels if they leave the parking lot.

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I dunno about nowadays but where I'm from Cart Boy was totally a single function job in retail stores. You'd be hired just to gather carts. My friend liked it when people left them further away cuz they'd have an excuse to dawdle a bit and not interact as much with annoying customers.

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Funny I never see such hatred for people who leave their garbage on movie theatre seats or not clearing their trays at fast food places.
Some people have disabilities and sometimes it's just tough enough to shop and they are too tired or worn out by the end of their monthly shopping trip to bring the cart to the cart shed. I feel like everyone shitting on people leaving carts out of the cart shed are fully able bodied healthy young people who will one day do the thing they are complaining about, and realise they were being wieners about it. It's not the end of the world to leave your cart 10 metres from the shed.

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I mean, most people are digesting animals, unless they're vegan.

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Didn't someone make an audio file that can lock/unlock them at will?

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Forgot the health insurance company CEOs.

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Is that why they stole their money?

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Stole whose money? My money? My stove broke, they replaced it, pest issue, they paid for the exterminator, roof leaking, they paid for it to be fixed, many other examples but you get the idea. I didn't pay utilities in some places. I've had bad landlords and I moved house because of them and didn't do them any favours when I left. The good ones I made sure I was a good tenant for.
I think a lot of renters don't understand how expensive owning a place is with upkeep. We wouldn't be able to replace a furnace or roof repair and all that jazz in our income bracket.

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Landlords buy an essential good just so they can squeeze money out of their renters. Housing should never be seen as an investment, yet these parasites do.

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Just get your lazy ass to walk a couple of meters. Jesus Christ. This is another of these issues only present in America yet americans pretend like it isnt their fault.

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Fuck off and walk a couple of meters. Seriously as a non american this level of egoism is unfathomable for me

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Are you suggesting landlords make zero profit off of the property?

The money we put in is more than the cost of the exterminator, roof not-leaking, many other examples but you get the idea.

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No wonder coal as a fossil fuel isn’t going away. The rich folk get so much during Christmas!

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I am offended on behalf of the good people I know who made it so we could have housing when we can't afford a mortgage or the housing upkeep costs. They were investments to them sure but they cared about their tenants. Call in the middle of the evening because the toilet wasn't working and they came quickly with a brand new toilet. Couldn't make that months rent till the middle of the month , no problem, pay when you can type thing.
Every single landlord aren't the devils you want them to be.
I agree some of them are bad because I've had that experience too. I think maybe you should be kre angry with the banks and the giant conglomerates who pay you shitt wages making you too poor to afford a mortgage or the upkeep for home ownership.
I am not willing to lump all landlords in the same shit pile. I've seen second hand what being house poor is like. House is falling apart because they can't afford to maintain it. Wearing winter coats inside because the furnace broke and can't afford to fix it, not having a working toilet and shitting in a bucket with a trash bag.
Also imagine having to buy a new house everytime you moved to a new town or different area of a big city. Renting a home or an apartment has a place in society.