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bsotted · 5 months ago

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I have a lukewarm take I’m walking to the microwave to see what happens pls weigh in

When will it be appropriate to suggest we have to pick a new litmus test for basic human decency because I don’t know if putting away the grocery cart you’re done with it should be it anymore..

WAIT DONT GO YET PLWASE HEAR ME OUT PLEASE I PUT AWAY MY CART I DO!!

IM JUST ASKING ONLY ASKING

Because the new grocery carts have an anti-theft feature on them to try to make it harder to steal them and at a seemingly arbitrary point in the parking lot the wheels literally lock… is it just because I live in Seattle now and the housing crisis is just that out of control here compared to other cities?

I want to know because christ alive grocery stores are starting to make it hard as fuck to keep up the universal I’m Not An Asshole baseline behavior.

Also what’s the intention? For stores that have these, are we literally supposed to just leave the cart next to the car, taking up a whole parking space after you drive off, until some underpaid 16 year old in a hi-vis vest in the rain has time to come by with a key to unlock the wheels?? Is that the new normal?

Because if it is god damn we need a new litmus test for “are you the kind of person who does the right thing even if nobody is watching, even if inconvenient, even for no recognition or reward, and also in the absence of any negative consequence” because it was so USEFUL for that and putting the cart away is dead and dying. Ol girl is bleeding out in the Kroger parking lot. Literally.

A ywy is this just something I’m confronting constantly because I live in a city with a wildly disproportionate unhoused population?

By the way please feel free to use that “other” option to cast a “Sometimes” or “none of the above” or “misc nuance” vote and expand on that in the notes I am invested in this conversation and will be circling back to read what ppl say

#HELP me y’all #angie.txt #tumblr polls #spongebob meme #cart controversy #when the wheels lock sometimes if I’m not too far from a corral I’ll just fuckign power through and push it.#other times if it’s too far to push or gets stuck in the middle of the LANE I have to go get an employee #I hate that! At that point they don’t usually even let you take it back yourself ykwim #like they already unlocked it they’re standing there and they’re going to walk back to the store after this anyway #so they just take it back up to the store with them instead of the corral usually #and at that point all I’ve done is force an employee to Collect My Cart Immediately as opposed to the next time someone does a lot sweep #it doesn’t really feel less shitty #all it accomplishes is avoiding abandoned carts taking up real estate in the parking lot basically #the locking wheels make the danger of the cart rolling into someone’s car and dinging it up a moot point #like instead of letting them grab several at one time at a point when they’re between other tasks..#piecemeal grabbing a single cart when they might be in the middle of a rush or need to go handle a pick-up or whatever #idk I think the real voices we need in this conversation are grocery store employees PLEASE chime in #ok thanks for your time

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