More like I underestimated how much stuff I'm grabbing.
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It’s amazing how many grocery stores I’ve been in where this isn’t a thing.
Plenty do
Some do.
That's a surprise. Feel like taking up the floor space for it isnt maxiziming profits.
Also a dedicated lane for leaving your groceries while you go pick up the reusable carrier bags you left in the car.
Many actually do! There are some stores that position baskets inside the shopping space just for this case. Easy way to make an additional sale.
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
Get a cart and a hand basket. Or, put an item in your empty cart and remove it when you return.
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.)
I've never seen it except for in Lidl here in Estonia. Most people return their carts anyway.
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I’ve never seen this happen, I live in the US. I see abandoned carts in the parking lot not far from the return area all the time, but not just randomly in the store.
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Pretty common to find an unused cart in the middle of the store 'round here. Not because the store put 'em there, tho. Well, sometimes it is. But not for the customers.
I normally take one of the pre-filled carts. Their suggestions are usually a pretty good starting place.
Why not just take a couple more steps and go to the beginning of the store to take a basket?
Here in Japan it's common everywhere I shop that's more than a tiny specialty store. I seem to remember seeing it at least sometimes in the US when I still lived there.
I was about to say that here in Hawai'i it's fairly common, but I realized when I saw your comment that it's likely the Japanese influence here (I tend to see this most commonly at Don Quijote and Times, which is owned by the same Japanese parent company)
I wonder what Times in Hawai’i is; it's a rent-a-car service here, heh. I imagine it's called something different here. I don't remember seeing it, but I haven't been to Hawai’i since 2015ish.
That said, I doubt it's Japan, but rather making it more convenient for consumers to spend more than they intended by making it easier to have a basket handy.
That's funny. Here Times is a local Hawai'i grocery store chain. Pretty good poke.
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.
Most stores I go to have stacks of baskets scattered everywhere for presumably that very reason.
"I only came in for two items."
And now I have a stack of items leaning against my chest and a 2L bottle hanging on each thumb.
Just do what everyone else does and steal someone else's cart.
Ohh hey, free baby!
And they say spotting Psychopaths is difficult.
But what if they didn't put anything I like in their cart?
Toss that shit out, these assholes keep putting stuff I don't want in the carts I take from them.
ikea has those yellow bags dotted around
A lot of places don't offer baskets anymore, it makes me sad
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
unfortunately for them, it makes me buy less and it makes me more likely to choose somewhere else to shop
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.
My preferred local one does. I love it.
Carts are provided (and comically oversized today) because it gets people to buy more than if they looked full earlier:
https://proceedings.emac-online.org/pdfs/A2024-119348.pdf
(there are much older studies than that confirming the same thing)
Still, right tool/right job
Yep.
I hate that removing the smaller carts means I have to drag around a big cart.
I work from a shopping list - I don't buy what's not on the list.
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
So, is the sour cream for the cereal, the soup, or just for eating out of the container with a spoon?
There's beans and tortillas from the food bank in the pantry 😄
More like. I came here for 1 thing and suddenly am holding 4 in my hands
These are the kinds of systemic changes that working class families can feel!
Funny, just yesterday I had seen that in a big drug store for the first time (consciously) and was impressed of that business smartness.
Publix has this. I always appreciate it.
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