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Originally Posted by EdFNJ
The purpose of putting them in the "cart corral" is so they don't roll into your CAR and scratch or dent it when either it is windy or some "kind" person bumps into it with their bumper so they can have the parking space where you so thoughtlessly left it. When that happens, you won't be thanking all those "kind" people for leaving them in an empty parking space for you.  They BELONG in the cart holder with the understanding that in some cases it isn't physically easyand there is little choice , but generally they are the exception. That's part of the reason PUBLIX offers to take your stuff out to your car and take the carriage away for you. |
Publix pays people to help customers rolls their shopping carts/buggies/trollies/carriages (whatever you call them from whence you came) to their cars for a few reasons:
1. It prevents people from damaging the carts or leaving them in far places where they might get missed, which makes them easy targets for theft.
2. It prevents customers from damaging their own or other peoples vehicles, when they leave them outside the corrals for the wind (or customers who don't see/look in their mirrors) to move the carts.
3. It is a good customer service feature in general, something grocery clerks used to do back in the 1960's and 1970's but got phased out.