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Over here in Germany using a shopping cart "costs" between 50 Cents and 2 €. You have to put a coin in them to release the chain by which they are attached to eachother. Of course when you return the cart and close the lock you get your coin back.

Little metal plates without monetary value but still the right size are common marketing gifts by companies and organizations yet they still provide mostly the same unconscious effect of "I want my coin back".

Of course there are also people who use little gadgets to unlock the carts without putting anything in but I wouldnt know about such things...

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If everyone put them away, the person hired to put the carts back would lose their job. Plus, supermarkets may consider having more than 1 trolley area that isn't miles away from the cars parked there so they can ram more cars in there.

IninewCrow

This is a severe attack against people who don't put their carts away.

Their actions just leave a small inconvenience for other people .... their actions don't wholesale destroy the lives of entire groups of people or cause outright war, genocide, death or destruction.

themeatbridge

If the grocery store didn't have to spend money putting carts away, the same person could be working inside the store where it's warm and dry. Shitty people are preventing everyone else from better service and/or lower prices.

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Just in case you forgot the /s tag, that person's job isn't to collect the carts scattered across the parking lot, it's to move the carts from the cart area to inside the store. The right way to handle the lack of cart areas isn't to make the workers job harder, it's to complain to the store.

themeatbridge

People who don't mind making the world a little bit worse for literally everyone else if it saves them some small amount of effort are the real monsters, because they think they're not.

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I mean, ok, genocide is bad, too, I suppose.

k_rol

Obviously not as bad as genocide but it's pretty close.

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"I'm a job creator!" I yell, as I shit on the floor of the DMV. "If everyone did this they would have to hire more janitors!" The police drag me away. "I'm opening new avenues for employment in our police department!"

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You are right of course, but that's part of the joke. I think it's provokes such a viseral response because it's directly "against" the reader, not many of us can claim to be directly impacted by genocide for example, even though it's way worse.

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That's one of the things Aldi brought with them when they came over to the US. I've always thought it was a pretty cool idea, though as inflation keeps going the 25-cent lock-in becomes less and less of a motivator. Maybe a good reminder, though.

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We have these at airports in the US for luggage carts - though they don’t return any of your money if you bring the cart back they l’ve seen, so it doesn’t do much to modify behavior.

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So they can do nothing about it? Some supermarkets cut back on the number of spots so customers could do the job of car park staff without paying them cutting jobs in the process. It was deliberate.

Tesco do it, others like ASDA have the cart spots closer to the end of the car park.

I guess if you're that compliant in serving the capitalist class you can wash your dishes after you go to the restaurant. They'd love the "efficiencies"

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It's adorable if you think that extra person is going to be working in store. There is a whole science around queue lengths that they use to cut jobs or push you to self service.

I guess the person would be warmer at home with no job, but it isn't a good solution.

Daniel Quinn

So long as politicians are all painted with the same negative brush, there's no room for anyone with a genuine interest in improving things. There are some truly great, caring people in politics working hard to do the right thing. It's not their fault the public keeps voting for assholes.

MentalEdge

I've often felt that genuine politicians can't possibly have it easy.

To even get started, step one is getting in bed with social media.

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Want to know a sad irony? The cart returns are usually really far from the handicap spots. Parking is close to the store. But the returns are halfway down the aisle.

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Add data peddlers on the list.

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"I will not comply in serving the capitalist class!" I screech, as I shit on the floor of a Wendy's. "The so called "efficiencies" of a toilet only serve to annihilate the jobs once held by the noble proletariat janitors!" I yell as the police drag me out of the establishment.

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Its adorable that you think someone's being hired to only do cart work in the modern day

That's one responsibility for someone doing a shit ton of other things, usually shopping for remote orders nowadays

So yeah, they'd be inside, return the cart you massive cunt

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Well....maybe you should put your cart away lazybones. Then you won't have to worry about the Krampus getting you.