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?

Lazy and entitled. I couldn't agree more OP, really irks me. I could never do it, and I really struggle when I'm with my young children - putting shopping in the boot, walking over to the trolley park with children still sat in trolley, getting them both out, putting trolley away, retrieving my coin and then walking back to car with said children in my arms - I would still never leave the trolley. Above all it's unsafe and takes up precious space in the car park.

@Mummy2mybear
Yes agree . I am the realist here !! Twins and 4 year old being left for a few seconds v children being snatched by a weirdo !!

@Wouldloveanother Because that was absolutely hard enough for me at that point in time. Sorry to have stumped you with not being as physically able as you clearly were, but for me giving birth left me far less able to lift or carry and small amounts left me in excruciating pain. But fine, call a new mum in pain lazy if you prefer.

Trolleys have breaks, if you use them they aren't going anywhere.

@HappyHappyHermit It's only the same as collecting the trolley to actually push around the supermarket, assume you have to lift amd carry your baby then!

@Georgieporgie29 @Wouldloveanother On arrival at the supermarket, DS will walk nicely with me to go and get a trolley as he is excited to get to the supermarket. This in turn makes it way more likely he’ll melt down returning the trolley. He’s non-verbal and profoundly autistic, so I can’t leave him in the car on his own.

I have once left a trolley when I had a newborn and screaming toddler. It happens.

It really isn't.

I worked at Sainsburys many years ago, in the 70s, and we employed someone whose job was to collect trolleys, and general janitor duties. This job was often given to someone with learning difficulties. At one shop, Slough, which has long since closed, the trolley man disappeared for ages, and when he turned up he was soaking wet. A customer had told him he had seen a trolley in the middle of the pond in the local park, so he had gone off and retrieved it. We had to find him a change of clothes and send him home to get cleaned up.

Me too. I get annoyed scanning my own shopping.

I do this as well

Anyway, the people you really need to aim your ire at are those who plug a large trolley into a small one thereby making it impossible to plug your trolley in and forcing you to traipse round the car park with empty trolley.

@ChinBristles

Google 'Shopping Cart Theory'. It's a thing. There are lots of articles about whether returning your trolley is a strong indicator of whether you are a good person or not.

These people need to be smote for even considering doing this !🤬

Because they’re absolute lazy c*nts

Smote

Smoten?!

Exactly..you can dress it up with a million excuses but … this !!

I leave mine near the parent and child spaces because it’s easier when pulling up have a trolley there.

I used to bloody love this when my dc were young. It was genuinely really helpful.

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But then how do you get from your car to the trolley in the first place? And can't you ask someone to put the trolley back for you at the end?

I think, on reflection, I have absolutely no problem with anyone who just finds it too hard for whatever reason, whether that is disability, small children, or just sheer exhaustion or overwhelm. I may not sometimes understand it (like the small children bit), but I get that people and their circumstances are different, and who am I to judge that.

But I still think the majority that do it are just lazy entitled sods, and that the ones for whom it is too hard are in the minority.

You're right, not everything is as black and white as calling everyone "lazy c**ts"

@Froodledo - How do you get the trolley in the first place?

I did this yday 😩

I do normally put it back but I was in a rush and short of time
I felt v rebellious doing it

I always take my trolley back.

However someone mentioned to me that there is an full time member of staff i n our huge supermarket car park that goes around collecting up trolleys. If nobody left trolleys around they would be out of a job!

Yes, collecting trolleys from the trolley bays, not abandoned and half-hanging around in parking spaces!

Imagine if everyone was a can't-be-arsed-er. The car park would be carnage!