Do you walk behind or beside a shopping cart in the store?

debodun said:
Stores shouldn't have displays that stick out in the aisles, either. The market I usually patronize has so many the aisles are like ski slaloms. I've never purchased anything from one of those anyway. Where I used to work, those would be an OSHA violation.
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The stores here do that and it is so irritating. They even cover items on the shelves with those displays! It also makes it hard for shopping carts to pass one another ARRRG!
 
Jules said:
They prefer the large carts here. Most stores have coin ($1) locks. You get the money back when it’s returned. If nothing else, it gets the carts returned to the cart stalls.
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yes almost all of our stores have coin slots in trolleys as well... prevents them being left all over the car park
 

I have a somewhat unusual problem with shopping trolley carts. People keep absent-mindedly wandering off with mine, having left theirs near the shelf they were perusing, reaching back and grasping the wrong trolley bar. I've lost count of the times I've literally reached up to get something and in the blink of an eye have turned back to my trolley to find it's not there, and looking around see someone shlubbing along with it utterly oblivious to the fact that it isn't their trolley :LOL: I sort of sidle up to them and very politely say, "Excuse me, I believe you have my trolley." They give a start of surprise then looked down, then back at me with an expression of total bewilderment before profusely apologising and letting go before scurrying back for their own trolley. So many times...
 
There was a Goodwill cart at my workplace since it backs up to a gulch a lot of homeless were living in. They have since been removed. They just went elsewhere. I called Goodwill. The cart disappeared in a few days but I don't know if they picked it up or another homeless person took it.

I'd not be happy getting one of those carts if returned. Yuck.
 
dseag2 said:
What about people who block the aisle because their shopping cart is on one side and they are on the other side trying to figure out what to buy? I moved someone's shopping cart the other day. She said "I would have moved it for you" and I was thinking "Well, why didn't you?"
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Haha, that's me! I get sidetracked and forget I have a cart, and then I'll notice someone is trying to pass through and I rush to move it. It happens to me all the time. Otherwise, if I'm not buying anything in an aisle, I'll typically be behind the cart moving along.
 

I heard tell the best payback to inconsiderate isle blocking reprobates in WackMart is to pull the little white anti-theft strips off merchandise and stick them on the offenders carts. Works every time.
 
Judycat said:
I am disturbed by people picking up items and smelling them, then putting them back. Especially, men with long beards who pass the items over to the family to smell. These people practically live at the store, so I'm told. They also stare at other shoppers. OT, I know haha. Still it makes people dragging carts around the wrong way seem minor.
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Years ago, stores would offer little treats in the back or in the corners of aisle. Sometimes they'd cook something and offer it to passersby. I remember seeing certain people shop just to eat. Their cart was empty. Honestly, I didn't realize it until I went to a nearby grocery store to pick up something I couldn't find in the first store, and there were these same people doing the same thing at the next store, walking around eating. Don't see that anymore in stores.
 
palides2021 said:
Years ago, stores would offer little treats in the back or in the corners of aisle. Sometimes they'd cook something and offer it to passersby. I remember seeing certain people shop just to eat. Their cart was empty. Honestly, I didn't realize it until I went to a nearby grocery store to pick up something I couldn't find in the first store, and there were these same people doing the same thing at the next store, walking around eating. Don't see that anymore in stores.
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Yes they were called in-store demonstrators. I did that for a while back in the 90s when the kids went to school. I'm guessing Covid pretty much put an end to that.
 
palides2021 said:
The other day, I was at Walmart, and the guy was seated in one of these and he and his wife were shopping. At one point, his wife said, "Honey, can you get up and reach over there, I can't reach that?" And this item was on a shelf above her head. So I saw him stand up, reach up and get it for her, then sit down. I was surprised.
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I've seen that many times. I think that not all people in Mobile chairs or scooters are unable to stand or walk.. I think they just can;t walk for very far... that's not to say there's not many who use scooters to be lazy..there's loads who do that here.. but the geuinely diabled person,I feel very often can stand or walk for long periods possibly, so it's no suprise to see them stand up and fetch something high on the shelf if they need to..
 
hollydolly said:
I've seen that many times. I think that not all people in Mobile chairs or scooters are unable to stand or walk.. I think they just can;t walk for very far... that's not to say there's not many who use scooters to be lazy..there's loads who do that here.. but the geuinely diabled person,I feel very often can stand or walk for long periods possibly, so it's no suprise to see them stand up and fetch something high on the shelf if they need to..
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Agreed. Many painful or life threatening conditions aren't obvious to the casual observer.
 
I walk behind my wife. I find I am doing more of this than anytime before. I recognize she is more adapt to leading than I am due to failing health and low cognitive skills. My wife takes care of me and it is easy to slip into dependency. I’m aware of this, hopefully after TMS treatments and physical therapy I will regain abilities lost.
 
To support my back, I'm pushing the cart. Daughter drags our two empty trolleys which will take Groceries later on. Sometimes we just take the small baskets on wheels for small pick up.
 
walking behind the shopping cart is the only way I know .....

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I walk behind the cart so I can lean on it if necessary. Since I usually don't buy a lot at one time I prefer the small carts. They make it so much easier to navigate around others.
 
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