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The social contract (startrek.website)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/justpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You gain the knowledge that you didn’t make a retail worker’s day even shittier.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I've done cart balancing enough times to say it's really not a big deal. I'd rather collect stray carts than distribute the ones sticking out over three parking lot lanes to emptier cart sheds. I also used to feel bad for staff etc, our manager did carts a lot, other stuff etc again, but when I really think about it, fuck supermarkets.

    As far as being a nice person or whatever, I will hand over the cart to someone arriving as I'm leaving. I will not take their coin because I use a shim that cannot be retained by the lock to unlock the cart rather than a coin.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    As someone who's had the job of bringing carts in before... why are you redistributing them instead of bringing them inside? Was that just the policy at whatever store you worked at.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    There was no inside place for them, just the parking lot sheds.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, I see. My experience is with a store that didn’t have enough carts, or a big enough parking lot, to justify sheds. The carts were all lined up at the front of the store, and that was it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I guess a lot of stores have different methods. I can't remember which but one had this crazy cart wash and dispensing machine. Ours were an afterthought and placed in the parking lot. A few times the whole stack would lose hold on the end chain in the shed and cars have been hit by runaway cart trains.

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