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

[ChinBristles]

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?

They need to make the trolleys more expensive - £5 or more, that way fewer people would be lazy. Or do a thing while you have to scan your clubcard into the trolley and if you don't return it, the discounts from the club card on your shop are removed and you are charged extra.

@Florenz bloody brilliant idea!!

@Florenz I think this is brilliant. Suddenly I think people would discover that they actually can be arsed after all. You could call it the twat tax.

"Twat tax" - love it!

Yes, not taking your trolly back to a trolly park/bay is akin to eating in a restaurant and throwing your food on the floor then grinding it into the carpet, and allowing your kids to watch tv via iPad at full blast - because they can’t be arsed to think for once about anybody but themselves.

it’s not the same as taking you dishes back to the kitchen.

@Florenz careful! With thinking like that, you’ll be in the running for next PM…!

Me too

@Branleuse
You are the very reason companies have to bend over backwards and redeploy their staff.

I've witnessed many, many people like you at our local Tesco who park but three spaces from a trolley park ( usually in a P&C space ) but cannot be bothered.

Wish this actually was a thread about P&C parking... makes my blood boil!

I think that's been done to death, this is a new twist on car park etiquette.

I must live by you!

I can’t believe some people can make excuses for leaving their trolleys lying in the car park.

why not make the trolley staff’s jobs a bit easier and leave the trolley in the shelter? That way they can focus on getting the trolleys to the front door - it’ll only delay them if they have to run round the entire car park looking for strays!

also, apart from possibly damaging someone’s car if it rolled into one, what if it was windy and it rolled into a tiny old woman and knocked her off her feet?

I don't think I've seen so much vitriol on this thread as when a mum took a few extra sachets of jam and Nutella from a breakfast buffet, mind you nobody there linked that to mass shootings!

Twat tax…love it 😂😂😂

No they don't. On amazon you can buy a coin release token that tricks the trolley into being released without depositing any money or leaving a fake pound. I can't believe how many people are enjoying superiority over their trolley behaviour.

xsquared · Today 13:14
BalloonsAndWhistles
Branleuse
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.

Supermarkets pay people to collect the trolleys, and if they dont, then they should, as it always used to be a thing.

It feels similar to me as self service checkouts and reduction of staff in many sectors.

Sometimes they are really far away and its a faff.

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.
You sound so entitled
The reasons given here does not excuse anyone from common courtesy.

Xsuared wrote : Do you also drop litter because a road sweeper is paid to clear it up at some point?

If it's such a faff for you to enter a store, pick your shopping, scan and pack, and then walk your trolley to the collection point, then why don't you just do an online shop and get it delivered?

Saves you time and the physical effort from doing all those things.

@xsquared because it’s easier sometimes to shop you’re self, and leave the trolley where the heck I choose, as opposed to shop online and be lumbered with dented fruit and veg, short date perishables and a time slot that might not suit me. Nobody has come up with an actual example of how leaving a trolley in the carpel made something bad happen.

Oh dear. How will i sleep at night knowing I dont meet some random internet peoples standard of behaviour supermarket trolley etiquette?

What is the point of this thread anyway?
Even people who cannot always manage to return a trolley neatly due to disabilities have been told they should stay home and order their shopping on the internet ffs. Passive aggressive putting the trolley behind someones reversing car.
Some of you clearly need better hobbies

Thanks for the tip about internet shopping. Genius.
Or maybe i can live my life within the parameters of the law and make my own decisions and you live yours

Oh no. Poor imaginary old lady

I honestly didn't know this trolley put back thing was a thing

Only for some apparently...

I'm happy to put the trolley back if it's convenient but if it isn't then I won't. I think it's like that virtual signalling thing where people are happy to show how decent they are.

it's like that virtual signalling thing where people are happy to show how decent they are

Strange way to view it, especially as people do it even when there's nobody to see it but ok.

Yeah but pulling other people up for not doing it

It's just good manners...but I guess that's a thing of the past too and virtue signalling if someone pulls another up for it.