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!

They don’t bash in to the cars at our sainsburys. There are barriers all along the walkway and people put them in the middle. It doesn’t block the disabled access, they have a separate pathway through the cars. I think unless you’ve seen every supermarket in the U.K. it’s impossible to say you should 100% always return your trolley. What if the lady opposite me wants it, do I have to say no sorry, MN says I must return it and walk 50m away to put it back so that I can hold the moral high ground and wear a 100% trolley returner badge.

Put your shopping away, pass it to one of the many people walking by who want one. That doesn’t make me or anyone else the scum of the earth.

Sadly some people see car park dumped trollies as a signal that it’s ok to take the next step and take them and dump them anywhere. Also trollies abandoned in car parks blow around in the wind - cars get damaged. It’s really annoying to have remove trollies from car parking spaces when you are trying to park - just so you can safely park, but that’s ok because it’s in a gutter and not affecting you!
Trollies requiring you be released from a bay with money are less likely to wander than free roaming trollies.
Your recycling analogy is not the same, as you’ve done the responsible thing and recycled. The only financial cost is to you buying the product - no one else has born the financial burden of your choice.

One person's 'dumped' is another's 'left in the corner', though

I agree with you about trolleys that are just abandoned and left to roll away and cause damage, but I'm talking about wedging them in soft ground against railings or a fence, in view of the trolley collectors.

Plenty of people do return trolleys to bays, but either leave them sticking out a dangerously long way or just shove them anywhere in the bay - quite often they just fall back out again and roll across the car park, especially as most bays don't have a buffer on the ground at the entrance to keep the trolleys in. How is that any better, just because they technically used a bay?

That’s also true!!
I guess that more people will tidy up a trolly bay to help the trolly collector or to enable
More trollies to be returned than will walk the car park returning wandering trollies though.

I park near a trolley bay so that I can easily put it back.

I have on occasion been a Trolley Dick

But you balance it out by being a jolly trolly dolly.

Hat, coat and a long day

I have genuinely in 39 years never not put it back. I need to go shopping tomorrow, if I'm feeling brave I might try it.

Nooooo don’t break what is probably the longest trolly returning streak ever ! The guiness book of records needs you. 🥇

Don’t be so fucking lazy, put it back. Nothing more annoying than an abandoned trolley rolling into your car

That “theory” has been going around for a few weeks. So I don’t think your brother was the one that made it up.

But I take it back. (:

Put it back AND correct others who haven't! My DD does the same.

Put it back AND correct others who haven't! My DD does the same.
And if it’s someone with a disability?

I’m determined I’m going to start telling more jumped up twits who tick me off for mask and trolleys and disabled parking to fuck off.

I once put my trolley back in a trolley bay and then before I returned to my car remembered something in town so made to go back past the shop entrance to the town centre behind. I got shouted at by a Waitrose employee who asked me why I hadn’t taken my trolley back to the bay at the shop door. I complained about him in the shop but was told that he’s always like that. Charming. Next time I see him collecting trolleys I’ll leave it in the middle of the car park.

No I won’t really, I’m not that dickish but I’d like to.

He’s not just a trolley collector, I’ve seen him stacking shelves too. Always makes me nervous in case I inadvertently do something he disapproves of and he shouts at me in the shop. He’ll get shouted back at though, I’ll be ready! I don’t think trolley collecting is a role in its own right, I think they all do a bit of everything.

I always return mine, plus often any near mine and rearrange the bay if people have dumped them and not slotted the right ones together! Reallt pisses me off that people are so lazy and selfish they can't walk an extra few metres! I hate it when you have to park near randonly dumped ones especially in bad weather!

@PoodleMoth

I always return mine, plus often any near mine and rearrange the bay if people have dumped them and not slotted the right ones together! Reallt pisses me off that people are so lazy and selfish they can't walk an extra few metres! I hate it when you have to park near randonly dumped ones especially in bad weather!

Some people aren’t lazy and selfish. They are disabled.

It is a sad reflection on society when farmers and workers in far flung places, work unsociable hours, for very little pay and when supermarkets and distributors work to get high quality beautifully clean and well packaged food onto our shelves at a fair price, that a sizeable minority of consumers cannot even be bothered to take the trolley back. Odd given their lives have revolved around taking!

@MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig

I once put my trolley back in a trolley bay and then before I returned to my car remembered something in town so made to go back past the shop entrance to the town centre behind. I got shouted at by a Waitrose employee who asked me why I hadn’t taken my trolley back to the bay at the shop door. I complained about him in the shop but was told that he’s always like that. Charming. Next time I see him collecting trolleys I’ll leave it in the middle of the car park.

No I won’t really, I’m not that dickish but I’d like to.

He’s not just a trolley collector, I’ve seen him stacking shelves too. Always makes me nervous in case I inadvertently do something he disapproves of and he shouts at me in the shop. He’ll get shouted back at though, I’ll be ready! I don’t think trolley collecting is a role in its own right, I think they all do a bit of everything.

Quite a lot if the Waitrose Staff have learning disabilities (and not all are obvious) so it would be kinder not to shout back at him, because you just never know.

@Mydogisthebestest. Try not to take it personally 🌷I'm sure the vast majority mean 'if you're able bodied & not in pain...'

@IncrediblySadToo really?

Sorry that was in reply to the comment about Waitrose staff having learning disabilities. Is that just Waitrose or supermarkets in general?

Whoever dumps the trolley deserves to be hit on the arse with it.
At least a couple of times I saw the car being whacked by the trolley.
Stupid selfish lazy fuckers.

Somanyso ks if a tenner made me miraculously better don’t you think I’d have fucking spent it by now?

@WellPointDone

Sorry that was in reply to the comment about Waitrose staff having learning disabilities. Is that just Waitrose or supermarkets in general?

I don't know about other supermarkets, but Waitrose near me (3 stores) definitely employ a high percentage of people with LD and when I discussed it with my usual store manager (for a friends DS to apply) he said it was their policy. I'm not sure if he said national or store policy but I assumed it was national.

I have my godson and several family members who have SEN/LD 's so I was well impressed. It can make the shopping a bit of an experience sometimes as one of the women In particular is very blunt 🤣 but as I said, I have plenty of experience with that! One of the young lads is a 'shopping trolley Policeman' and will definitely bark at anyone not following the (his) rules!!

You get to know the staff (NT& LD), but I guess it could upset some people who aren't local.