Do you dump the trolley or put it back?

[Dorobie]

My bro has come up with a theory that as there is no law to put your supermarket trolley back where it belongs after use... if you do put it back you are a genuinely nice person. And if you don’t and just leave it anywhere, then you’re a dick.

I agree!

I always put it back and push any stray ones together too!

@Oceangirl82

if everyone put their trolleys back would it mean less jobs? I know some of the bigger supermarkets employ trolley collectors especially at weekends.

At ours the trolley collectors still need to get them from the bays around the car park so why would that affect employment?

Maybe that’s where he got it from @Livpool! I’ve never seen McIntyre.

Oh possibly @CatBatCat... I’m going to check that thread out

Actually, my friends adult son who has learning difficulties is employed by Asda purely as a trolley collector. He's paid above minimum wage, loves his job, the customers love him too. Hell quite often pop up next to a car and take the trolley back (no coins here). For him, it's a proper job.

@Oceangirl82

I think of it as helping the staff and customers. The trolly collectors still have to collect the trollies from the four corners of the car park and so trollies get back to the store faster. Let’s be honest most of us get a trolly from right outside the store - and not from the trolly park in the car park! So trollies being returned their quicker is a good thing for customers as well.
Also it stops mine and other peeps cars being dinged by stray trollies.
Selfishly I do like things to be tidy.

I normally put it back in the bay. However... if I'm parked in the parent and child space, which at my local supermarket is quite far from the trolley bay, I sometimes leave it there. Because I know how hard it is juggling kids out of the car, over to the trolley bay. So by trying to be helpful, perhaps I'm a dick.

I always put it back in a trolley park. I hate it when people just leave them in a parking space as I feel the wind is going to take it to my car! 😂

Absolutely boils my piss when people don't put the trolley back. There's no excuse aside from being extremely lazy/selfish, especially given if the wind picks up it will potentially bounce off someone's car

I don't. I'm always completely knackered after traipsing around the supermarket, then loading the shopping into the car, I just leave somewhere close by but safe (not in a parking spot). But then, I am doing it all on one leg so I feel like I'm justified!

Always always put it back in a trolley park. Unless I'm in a real rush, I will also sort the trolleys in the trolley park so they are all stacked nicely in to each other in the right lines. So more people can fit their trolleys in

@Oceangirl82

"if everyone put their trolleys back would it mean less jobs? I know some of the bigger supermarkets employ trolley collectors especially at weekends."

Congratulations I think you have found the worlds thinnest argument.

Should we all start dropping litter to create jobs too? And how about an increase in crime?

Shopping cart theory...

In my local "big" supermarket, the parent & child section is in a separate car park to the main car park (imagine main huge car park on right of store, small parent & child/disabled to the left), and the trolley bays are spread evenly through the main car park, but NONE in the p&c one - closest trolley bay is by the store.

I'm always SO SO grateful to the trolley abandoners 😂 I have three kids under 5, and trying to walk/carry them to the trolley bay is a pain. Finding a stray trolley in the p&c car park makes my day. So for the trolley abandoning degenerates at my store - I love you. Thanks.

jassa090

No congratulations necessary, just an observation!

I only put it back if I'm close by the trolly park or if I have money in it Haha! Most of the time I have DD with me and don't want to leave her in the car while I'm walking half way across the carpark to put it back.

I like to think I'm a nice person and worked in a supermarket for 5 years where we had designated trolly collectors.

There is an Unspoken Rule in my local M&S that trolleys used by blue badge holders are to stay near the blue badge bays. They are not to be returned. Don’t ask me why. I didn’t realise about The Rule the first few times of parking there when I first got my bb. I know now. In all other places I return the trolley.

This is really interesting. I put them back nowadays but when I had small kids I used to leave the trollies with kids seats in near the parent and child spaces as they seemed to be the done thing and quite a walk from the spaces to the store unusually. It never occurred to me I was being anything other than helpful for the next person with small kids

@Dhalandchips
I don't. I'm always completely knackered after traipsing around the supermarket, then loading the shopping into the car, I just leave somewhere close by but safe (not in a parking spot). But then, I am doing it all on one leg so I feel like I'm justified!
Completely knackered?? Utter laziness! It takes a couple of minutes at the most and a short walk to put it in a bay. Talk about lazy and entitled.

I put it back. Why leave it where it could roll about and damage cars?
Plus the people who work there are meant to get them from the trolley bays, not from all around the car park.

This theory has been doing the rounds on social media for a while. I completely agree with it. Put your trolley back! It takes a few seconds. Why would you just leave it rolling about!

@twoglassesofprosecco

I normally put it back in the bay. However... if I'm parked in the parent and child space, which at my local supermarket is quite far from the trolley bay, I sometimes leave it there. Because I know how hard it is juggling kids out of the car, over to the trolley bay. So by trying to be helpful, perhaps I'm a dick.

Thats pretty much the convention at the sainsbury near me! Its so much easier to have a trolley right there than having to walk across the car park to find one.

There are bollards you can kind of wedge the trolley into so it won't roll off, and none of the staff ever collect the trolleys so I'm assuming there's not a problem leaving them there

Always put my trolley back. Wouldn’t even cross my mind to drive off without having done so.

‘Your bro’ didn’t come up with the theory, it was on social media a few days ago as a blog post.

I have never abandoned my trolley in a car park but I have in a supermarket, 3 times, once when I was pg with ds1 and he decided to do gymnastics in utero resulting in me peeing myself
Once when my bank card was declined due to insufficient funds, that one was upsetting too, ds1 was 4 at the time and crying because he was worried we couldn't afford any food, had to borrow money off family to get us through.
The final one was a phone call from my sister saying my granddad was about to die, I just fled the shop and drove straight there

I’m disabled. I leave the trolley at the front of the walkway to the side (when I go to Tesco’s) because it’s too far for me to walk back with the trolley if I’ve walked all round the store. The trolley bays next to the store that I would usually use are currently closed due to Covid and the nearest one is too far for me to walk by the time I’ve collected a trolley and stood in the queue and walked all round the store.

I’m upset to think that makes me a dick.

In Lidl, where the trolley bay is next to the disabled spaces, I leave it back.