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If you don't return your trolley at the supermarket, why is that?

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ChinBristles · 09/07/2022 16:03

A woman today, in a P&C space with no child (but that's a different argument) just let her trolley blow away after she'd put her shopping in the boot. I retrieved it and put it behind her car so she couldn't get out. She was raging!

Why do people not return their trolleys?

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Georgeskitchen · 09/07/2022 16:05

Mostly because they are lazy and ignorant and it serves them right if a loose trolley bumps their car and damages it!!

Bakedpotatoesfortea · 09/07/2022 16:09

Round my area (nice and posh obvs) people push their shopping home in the trolley, or sometimes move house with them. Then they dump them in the woods or the local park.

Alphabet1spaghetti2 · 09/07/2022 16:10

Because they are lazy, self absorbed, think they are better than anyone else types, and usually arrogant.

Tootsey11 · 09/07/2022 16:11

Because they are lazy bastards

Playplayaway · 09/07/2022 16:11

Laziness. If she can manage to use a trolley to shop she can manage to put it back in a trolley bay.

I presume it was a shop with free trolleys. You rarely see wayward trolleys at my local Aldi where you have to put £1 in.

Wouldloveanother · 09/07/2022 16:12

Haha good for you! It’s laziness and a breezy ‘someone else can do it’

Toottooot · 09/07/2022 16:12

Because it’s fit somebody else gets paid fir?

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ChinBristles · 09/07/2022 16:18

It was a massive Tesco in a good area.

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poppyart · 09/07/2022 16:19

I don't think it's actually in someone's job description to collect all the wayward trolleys, it's probably the warehouse staff who have to go around and get them.

Sometimes if i park in an underground car park and park in the parent and child spot I'll leave mine because it's great pulling into a spot and there's a trolley there to put my child in rather than having to walk across the car park, plus it's underground so it doesn't blow away

FreezyFreezy · 09/07/2022 16:20

Because I cba. 🤷

TheDuchessOfBeddington · 09/07/2022 16:20

I retrieved it and put it behind her car so she couldn't get out.

I love this OP!

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ChinBristles · 09/07/2022 16:23

I saw a short on fb a few weeks ago of putting a trolley behind someone's car and I remembered it just at that moment! So can't claim it's an original idea!

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Wouldloveanother · 09/07/2022 16:27

FreezyFreezy · 09/07/2022 16:20

Because I cba. 🤷

So who should be arsed? Or would you be happy for everyone to do it and you have to drive around them all as you park?

DownNative · 09/07/2022 16:30

poppyart · 09/07/2022 16:19

I don't think it's actually in someone's job description to collect all the wayward trolleys, it's probably the warehouse staff who have to go around and get them.

Sometimes if i park in an underground car park and park in the parent and child spot I'll leave mine because it's great pulling into a spot and there's a trolley there to put my child in rather than having to walk across the car park, plus it's underground so it doesn't blow away

Tesco employs people whose job us literally to round up trollies. But it is NOT a reason for anyone to leave theirs wherever they please.

Blanketpolicy · 09/07/2022 16:30

Lazy, inconsiderate and dim are the first words that come to mind and I think accurate in all cases.

MiniMoosey · 09/07/2022 16:33

I leave mine near the parent and child spaces because it’s easier when pulling up have a trolley there. If I’m parked elsewhere though I out my trolley back.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/07/2022 16:37

I don't often go to a supermarket in person and get a trolley (deliveries all the way for me, non-driver) but when I last went to our nearest big Tesco and Sainsbury's they both had a thingie in place at the exit from the carpark that locks the wheels, so in theory you can't get the trolley any further. In spite of this, we see abandoned trolleys all over the place locally, often in the river. Sad

Branleuse · 09/07/2022 16:37

I do sometimes, especially for the ones you put a coin in, but for some others, if the trolleypark isnt close by, i dont bother.
Theres several reasons for this.

  1. Supermarkets pay people to collect the trolleys, and if they dont, then they should, as it always used to be a thing.
  2. It feels similar to me as self service checkouts and reduction of staff in many sectors.
  3. Sometimes they are really far away and its a faff.
  4. If ive just spent a fucking fortune in your store, picked my own stuff,packed my own bags and seen that most people are now even scanning their own shopping at the checkout too, then they can get fucked if they think im going to feel guilty because sometimes they have to pay someone to collect and tidy the trolleys and baskets.

Trolley collecting/returning is not a moral issue or a sign of character.

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ChinBristles · 09/07/2022 16:41

@MiniMoosey but don't the trolley assistants collect them even when left at P&C places? And what it it's windy?

Interesting points @Branleuse but would you be annoyed if someone else's abandoned trolley bashed your car?

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SamphirethePogoingStickerist · 09/07/2022 16:42

In my case it's a long standing protest. They have one area of shade in the car park, it is well frequented but the nearest trolley bay is half the car park away. It's a large Tesco store. There is a base for a trolley park but they never bothered to build it. So locals place their trolleys in it anyway.

And yes, I have written, lots of times.

MiniMoosey · 09/07/2022 16:42

Well you would put the brake on… not just leave it to blow about

FFS090722 · 09/07/2022 16:45

Cos I'm broken, especially after the shop. The trolley bay is far from the disabled spaces, and I sort of used it as a mobility aid.
And I would be fucking devastated if after doing the shop and loading it into the car some twat pulled a stunt like that.

DiscoBadgers · 09/07/2022 16:46

I try my hardest to but at our local supermarket the trolley park thing is really far from the disabled spaces, so I have to leave DS in the trolley while I unload the shopping and then have to risk the meltdown battle to get him back to the car.

sometimes if the meltdown is too much, I just have to give up 🤷‍♀️

growinggreyer · 09/07/2022 16:47

MiniMoosey · 09/07/2022 16:42

Well you would put the brake on… not just leave it to blow about

I have never seen a shopping trolley with a brake! What sort of weird universe do you live in? Do they have headlamps and a glove box as well?

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ChinBristles · 09/07/2022 16:50

@FFS090722 I wouldn't have done it if she were parked in a disabled space.

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