Why do people leave their carts out in the parking lot?
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spicegirl
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BOTH!!!! years ago I had a friend who's car door was dented by a roaming cart......she got the store's insurance company to pay the damages....and got the car fixed!.......Just a thought!
Jonezie
Cathlete
Getting the store to pay for the damages...that's a great idea! Did it do much damage?
I was raised in a city in Texas going to a chain of grocery stores (still there and thriving) where EVERY person is escorted out with their very own lovely sacker, who sacks their groceries and takes them to the car (and they aren't allowed to take tips). And the sacker brings the cart back immediately. I am not exaggerating when I say I never saw a single shopping cart in a parking lot until I moved to L.A. I think it is 70% southern hospitality and 30% they don't want to be responsible for damage to cars.
Keep us posted...I despise car damage! And always wonder the same thing? Are they mean? Just don't care? What?
Jonezie
I was raised in a city in Texas going to a chain of grocery stores (still there and thriving) where EVERY person is escorted out with their very own lovely sacker, who sacks their groceries and takes them to the car (and they aren't allowed to take tips). And the sacker brings the cart back immediately. I am not exaggerating when I say I never saw a single shopping cart in a parking lot until I moved to L.A. I think it is 70% southern hospitality and 30% they don't want to be responsible for damage to cars.
Keep us posted...I despise car damage! And always wonder the same thing? Are they mean? Just don't care? What?
Jonezieunfetteredpast
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That's one thing about the Christmas season that drives me crazy! More shoppers = more carts in the Target parking lot. I think a lot of people are lazy.
juliem
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I never thought that the store would be liable for damages. I have a scratch on the door not a dent so at least it could have been worse but I just bought the car a few months ago so it bothers me more than it would otherwise. I just wonder how the person who left it there would feel if they found a cart rammed into their car. They certainly couldn't complain!
janie1234
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I have to admit because I have small children I leave the cart where it is. I'm not about to leave my kids in the car alone unattended to put a shopping cart back. It is not the fact that I'm lazy because when they are not with me I put it back. When I have them with me I will try to park near the closest cart return spot. I also always make sure that the cart is secure on a curb or something so it can't runaway. I know I should just take the kids with me to return it, . . well, . . my son has high functioning autism so he has a really bad attention span. I have to be really careful with him. A car almost backed into us while we were walking at Whole Foods twice.
I'm not about to leave my kids in the car alone unattended to put a shopping cart back. It is not the fact that I'm lazy because when they are not with me I put it back. When I have them with me I will try to park near the closest cart return spot. I also always make sure that the cart is secure on a curb or something so it can't runaway. I know I should just take the kids with me to return it, . . well, . . my son has high functioning autism so he has a really bad attention span. I have to be really careful with him. A car almost backed into us while we were walking at Whole Foods twice.
spicegirl
Cathlete
Getting the store to pay for the damages...that's a great idea! Did it do much damage?
Jonezie........Upon leaving the store with her groceries......she noticed a pretty good sized dent on the drivers side door. She just went back inside the store, ask for the store manager and filed a complaint. I am not sure of all the details, but they did fix her car! (i suppose it may be like slipping on a wet floor at Wal-Mart and then sueing for damages....) She said,.....because it happened on their property, that the insurance paid for the damages.......and she never had to file a claim with her own insurance company.......
MAYNARDSMOM
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I always park close to the cart return on purpose so that it's easier to return the cart. I hate to do it to if I am not close but I do - just good manners.
It's amazing how people seem to have little respect for business property. I see people pushing Kroger carts to the extended stay hotel across from my business. I know the carts cost a couple of hundred dollars and the store probably will not get the cart returned to them.
At my business I have had people take a bag of trash and instead of taking it with them and throwing it away they lob it on the building roofs. They leave cups, bottles, cig's all over and I even had one guy take a dookie next to the building and leave it there with a bunch of toilet paper. Or they bring their dogs and the dogs leave a pile for me to clean up.
I'm sad to get so jaded at people because so many people just show me their worse behaviour. Sorry.... I'm venting.
At my business I have had people take a bag of trash and instead of taking it with them and throwing it away they lob it on the building roofs. They leave cups, bottles, cig's all over and I even had one guy take a dookie next to the building and leave it there with a bunch of toilet paper. Or they bring their dogs and the dogs leave a pile for me to clean up.
I'm sad to get so jaded at people because so many people just show me their worse behaviour. Sorry.... I'm venting.
toughYrun
Cathlete
Janie,
My 18 year old DS has Asperger's/high functioning autism. When he was younger, like elementary school age, he used to drive me crazy with worry because he didn't look when he crossed the street and while walking through parking lots. I'm happy to tell you that he has outgrown that! Though he's telling me he wants to drive now and I feel those old jitters whenever he brings it up. Perhaps someday that will happen, but he's not there yet....
Hopefully, your son will someday walk safely through parking lots too!!Sorry for the highjack....
janie1234
Cathlete
Janie,
My 18 year old DS has Asperger's/high functioning autism. When he was younger, like elementary school age, he used to drive me crazy with worry because he didn't look when he crossed the street and while walking through parking lots. I'm happy to tell you that he has outgrown that! Though he's telling me he wants to drive now and I feel those old jitters whenever he brings it up. Perhaps someday that will happen, but he's not there yet....
Sorry for the highjack....
He's a lot more careful now, . .but he likes to read and when he gets into a book he will not put it down. I can't say I blame him, . .he probably got the habbit from me. We'll be walking to school, . he'll be reading his book, he'll be in the bathroom reading his book, his teacher even tells me that he finishes his work super fast and correct the first time just so that he can have free reading time. We'll be going grocery shopping and he'll be walking in the parking lot reading his book. I make him leave his book in the car now but when we're walking to the store his mind will be on what he just read that he won't be paying attention.
JeanneMarie
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Those of you with young children that you don't want to leave in the car while you return the cart, could you not just lock the car doors while you run the cart over to the cart corral? My DS is grown now, and of course I would never have left him locked in a car under any other circumstance when he was little, but the cart corral is usually just 30 seconds away and the car would never be out of your line of sight. Of course this only works if they are buckled into their car seats.
Just a thought!
If I see a cart just sitting outside by itself near where I'm parked, I usually walk it back into the store as I'm going in and use it myself. It helps cut down on those runaway carts, and it helps the store workers have one less cart to bring back inside.
Just a thought!
If I see a cart just sitting outside by itself near where I'm parked, I usually walk it back into the store as I'm going in and use it myself. It helps cut down on those runaway carts, and it helps the store workers have one less cart to bring back inside.
kathryn
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IMO, common courtesy is a rare commodity now days, having been replaced by self-centeredness and lack of consideration for others (as well as laziness).
kathryn
Cathlete
Many stores have disclaimers posted saying they are NOT liable for damage, so I don't think many would pay for repairs.
Sometimes those small damages (scratches, dings, little dents) are more annoying than big ones, because they aren't worth paying for, but they are so annoying!
My brand new (my first!) Prius got a ding in the front door after I'd had it only 2 or 3 weeks! I was so p!$$@d when I saw it...and I can't help but see it ever time I come around to my door.
Aquajock
Cathlete
What I want to know is: why do people leave carts from one megastore in an entirely DIFFERENT parking lot? In my neighborhood we have a huge Rainbow Foods grocery store on one side of the street and a Target Superstore on the other side of the street, and there has been a Target cart stuck in a snow bank in the Rainbow parking lot for over a month now!
A-Jock
A-Jock
Worknprogress
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A chain of grocery stores in our area have a couple of designated spots for parents with small children. They are the first couple in the row but it doesn't help because there is no cart return nearby! Returning the cart all the way to the store is closer - what good is that????
I am like others. If both boys were shopping with me I would park near the cart return. Sometimes it is a couple of spaces over so I buckle my kids in, lock the door and quickly put my cart in the return area. Even if I have to drive to the farther cart return so I can park closely with my children I will do that and hike it to the store rather than leave a cart out that could possibly damage someone else's property.
I am like others. If both boys were shopping with me I would park near the cart return. Sometimes it is a couple of spaces over so I buckle my kids in, lock the door and quickly put my cart in the return area. Even if I have to drive to the farther cart return so I can park closely with my children I will do that and hike it to the store rather than leave a cart out that could possibly damage someone else's property.