The affordability crisis took care of thay for me. I put my cereal and sour cream and can of soup in the basket, check my credit care balance, pay my $50, and leave without needing a bag
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2026
293 points (100.0% liked)
Memes
17559 readers
973 users here now
Post memes here.
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.
- Wait at least 2 months before reposting
- No explicitly political content (about political figures, political events, elections and so on), !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca can be better place for that
- Use NSFW marking accordingly
Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
- Odota ainakin 2 kuukautta ennen meemin postaamista uudelleen
- Ei selkeän poliittista sisältöä (poliitikoista, poliittisista tapahtumista, vaaleista jne) parempi paikka esim. !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
- Merkitse K18-sisältö tarpeen mukaan
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Theres usually an empty boxe somewhere.
My preferred local one does. I love it.
These are the kinds of systemic changes that working class families can feel!
Lowe's does this and it's quite clever. Maybe you came for one thing and saw some other stuff. Having a cart right there makes that extra sale where otherwise you may be too lazy to go get a cart.
It's also nice for the employees not to have to return every cart to the front of a large store. I always filled those places when I ended up with an empty cart.
Some do.
They do – – they are the carts abandoned by those people who have the “oh, I guess I didn’t need a whole cart for this one thing“ moments
I basically never see abandoned carts, but I have returned to where I parked my cart to find it gone. I'm sure no one is taking it maliciously, but I am always just an aisle over and I parked it there because the aisle I need is jam packed with shoppers already.
The unwritten rules of the cart
I believe, that would only really be a thing in the US? In most other countries, we have coin locks on the shopping carts, so you can only get them from the corral by inserting a coin into the shopping cart, and you only get your coin back when you return the shopping cart to the corral...
Never seen a coin lock in NZ.
We're not "most other countries", though. Sample size one.
Yeah, I might specifically remember the US not usually having them, because they invented/popularized shopping carts, which always feels kind of backwards that they're using a simpler version.
Wikipedia has at least some info on the distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart#Deposits
(And I can confirm that here in Germany, you practically cannot find shopping carts without coin locks. I'm not sure, if I've ever seen one TBH.)
To increase your sample size, these seem to be rare where I am in western Canada. The only store I can think of that used to have them removed them at least a decade ago.
A lot of places don't offer baskets anymore, it makes me sad
I just always take a basket at this point. Pretty much as soon as you've got more than one item, it starts getting awkward to hold. And the chance is pretty low that I won't find something else to take. Even if I specifically go to the shops for one item, chances are I actually want two of them, because evidently I've run out.
I would settle for, "stores should have baskets". I assume people steal them because the store has the basket racks, but they are empty. Desperately foraging around the checkout lines like some kind of basket goblin yields nothing.
I suspect they want people to use carts because they believe it will increase the number of products you buy
Always grab a basket when you enter
When you get to the middle if you don't need the basket, leave it
??
Win?
My strategy is to bring my own reusable bag and shove the loose items in there. Only problem is remembering to bring the damn thing in.
Stores around me (west Tennessee) do this.
More like. I came here for 1 thing and suddenly am holding 4 in my hands
There are always baskets near the checkout lines.