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!

God I hope some of you never become disabled. You really don’t have a clue.

i do because some of our car park is on a slant would you believe

I wouldn’t dream of not putting my trolley back into the trolley park! People who don’t return the trolley are the same sort of people who don’t clear their table in McDonalds.

Trust me, I’ve met some right dicks who put the trolleys back, although it’s a dick move not to.

I put it back doesn’t mean I’m a genuinely nice person, just means I put it back because I’d feel bad that someone else has to go fetch it otherwise.

I always put mine back in the trolley bay - think of the retail employees who have to come and collect all the abandoned trolleys that are lying all over the car park because lazy twats can’t be arsed to take two seconds out of their time to put it back!

I usually put the trolley back, but sometimes I’m in so much pain I just can’t manage it so it gets left where it can’t roll away.

I don't if I go to Asda, as there's a big council car park right next to it, for which you have to queue for a ticket and then pay. I think it's very cheeky for a massive supermarket not to also provide a free car park for their customers or otherwise to refund your parking cost on an adjacent council car park when you make at least a modest purchase.

I (and many others) park free on surrounding roads and then leave the trolleys wedged against the railings - no danger of them rolling away. I figure that the considerable sum they save on not providing free parking for customers spending a lot of money with them every week can be partially spent on employing people to fetch the trolleys from slightly further afield.

I don't see why the job of a trolley collector should strictly be limited to the council owned car park next to the store and not also include the council owned streets (surrounding the park, not outside anybody's house).

As I said, if they provided a customer car park, I would park there, unload, return my trolley to the nearest bay and then drive away, as I do at all the other supermarkets that do provide parking. Why should I validate their decision to expect customers to pay to park by making two return trips, just to return the trolley to another bit of council-owned land? If you're a big enough shop to need/expect trolley bays to be installed in the council car park, you're big enough to pay for customers' parking as well. If not, you can employ more trolley collectors to go further afield.

If you cannot take your trolley back due to medical reasons, that’s fine.

But those people who don’t take it back because they say “it keeps people in a job” (no, it doesn’t, their job isn’t to go round the car park picking up after lazy arseholes like you, it’s to organise and take back the trolleys already in a trolley bay) are dicks.

It's the same with fast food trays and tidying up after you etc. it's just common curtesy to adios your own rubbish and take your trolley back if you can! All this ' it keeps people in jobs ' stuff is just shorthand for ' cba ' for some anyway!

How can one not take their trolley back because of medical reasons yet can go shopping? If that sounds offensive, it isn’t meant to be, I’m just curious

I always chose my parking space to be convenient to a trolley bay. My DP has strong feelings about trolleys being put back properly cause one of his student jobs was collecting trolleys and it’s bad enough without having to collect the random ones people abandon.

@mummabear1967

How can one not take their trolley back because of medical reasons yet can go shopping? If that sounds offensive, it isn’t meant to be, I’m just curious

When I get to the shop I’m in less pain. Because I haven’t walked all the way round the shop.

I walk round leaning on the trolley (I normally walk with crutches).

By the time I unload the trolley to the car I’m in pain and I wouldn’t be able to walk back to the car from the Far trolley bay in tescos.

mummabear. I use a stick to walk and have psoriatic arthritis, osteoarthritis EDS and a couple of other auto immune diseases just for fun! The shop wears you out and the movement of bone on bone in my hip becomes overwhelming after a while. I generally shop online but now and then I have the urge to pick my own food, or see offers. So off I trot. It’s generally not a great move!

Not read the thread, but I always put the trolley back where I got it from. Why would you not?

those people who don’t take it back because they say “it keeps people in a job.

They really fuck me off. Lazy twats of the highest order. OK. if you have a disability, fair enough.If it's because you think people are paid to clear up after you.... then

I like it when people don’t put it back. At our sainsburys it’s very helpful as the place they usually get dumped is the walkway and people just pick them from there and use them.

I take my trolley back almost all the time. The only time I don't is the local Tesco baby and parent spaces, I used to always take it back but found that nobody else did and I realised just how handy getting out of the car and having a trolley with seat in it literally right there actually was. So now I leave it there for the next person. They don't block the path, they aren't in any spaces and they aren't in the way of cars. I'd also take it back if there already was a trolley adjacent to my spot. I've actually seen staff collect all the trolleys in the whole car park but leave the ones by the parent and child spaces so I think it's become an unwritten rule!

Exactly Emmagen I can’t remember the last time I had to take one back, usually someone is walking down the path and asks me for it. Or you hand it straight to someone else and drive away. Or had to collect one myself, there’s one waiting for me on the walkway.

Tesco isn’t the same, I always take it back there but they have a lot more trolley parks than sainsburys.

For those saying it's not someones job to tidy up after the lazy ones, the trolley collector in my tesco told me not to take my trolley back. I dont know if it was because I have kids but he met me half way back to the trolley bay and said next time just leave it at parent and child parking as that's what hes here for. Although that was ages ago, I never actually use a trolley in the shop now, I get deliveries and if I need anything it's just enough for a basket

I put it back

UNLESS somebody with a pound coin in their hand asks if they can take the trolley , which I always agree too .

Years ago I saw someone unload their shopping into their car and just leave the trolly behind. It was a windy day and the trolly got blown about 50m into the side of another parked car causing a fair bit of damage.

Tbh don’t think there’s an excuse for not leaving a trolley back. It’s just utter laziness.

If it's because you think people are paid to clear up after you.... then angry

But trolley collectors are paid for that very job - to collect trolleys from the vicinity of the supermarket. They're the supermarket equivalent of glass collectors in a pub - you can put it back on the bar, but they really don't mind taking them from your table or the top of the fruit machine.

In most supermarkets, trolleys aren't collected back from the trolley parks - they're just left there for more customers to help themselves, so no collectors needed at all, like at Aldi. As a couple of PPs have said, it's a useful job that's also ideal for people with learning difficulties to do, to earn themselves some money independently and feel proud that they're doing so; so why would we be so determined to take that job opportunity away from them?

It's not like the dropping litter 'to keep people in work' analogy at all, as litter left around is dirty, smelly, sticky, unsightly, blows everywhere and can be dangerous. Shopping trolleys left safely at the edge of a parking area near a supermarket are just.... normal. If I cared so much about aesthetic beauty, I wouldn't be going to a huge ugly warehouse-like Asda in the first place.

Anyone thinking it’s ok to not return the trolly (exception for disabled), would you like to have your car bashed by a runaway trolly? Do you like seeing trollies in rivers and green spaces? Do you fancy spending several thousand pounds on righting the damage caused when someone drops them in canals damaging infrastructure and boats or do you think it’s acceptable to find them on railway crossings for a train to hit? Or pushed into oncoming traffic?

I suspect that the answer is no if you had to pay out of your pocket for the damage caused. You do realise that supermarket have to pay for the retrieval of trolly a left lying around - and this is added to the cost of everyone’s shopping.
Please, just return the trollies to a bay.

I personally am not advocating just abandoning a trolley in the middle of a car park and certainly not walking halfway across town with one. I'm talking about leaving it wedged against a fence or railings with a bit of a dip in front of them - on council-owned town centre (non-residential) side streets a short distance and visible from the perimeter of the store rather than in a council-owned car park.

How do you jump from a trolley left outside a trolley bay making its sure way into the canal whereas presumably the kind of person who throws a trolley in the canal couldn't possibly take one from a trolley bay to do so?

That's like when people all but accuse anybody using a single-use plastic bottle of personally choking wildlife and polluting oceans. Yes, it's good to cut down on their use for several good reasons, but if I use one, when I finish it, I put it inside our closed lidded bin and the council, whom we pay to do so, take it away and dispose of it (I trust) responsibly. To listen to some people, you'd think I'd deliberately gone and beaten a puffin to death with it.