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Please be considerate of handicap people. This was at winn dixie Sumter Landing. You took the cart out there take it back.

I don't know why, must have had a brain freeze or something, but I decided to go to Colony Publix one afternoon to get a few groceries. I noticed some shopping carts like this in a handicap area so I gathered them up to take them in; a lady that happened to be parked next to them thanked me because of the difficulty of her husband getting out of their car. Said she couldn't understand why people left them there.

Personally I like the way Aldi does it. To get a cart, put a quarter in the mechanism near the cart handle and the chain releases from the cart in front of it. Do your thing and return the cart to the cart corral, put the chain into your cart holder and out pops your quarter. Efficient. Works for me, folks bring their carts back, and possibly one less employee at the store rounding up carts.

Yes, I agree. I love Aldi!

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That is great, but also consider the people that are hired to go out and round up carts, would lose their jobs.
A woman friend of mine worked with those kids to get them employed, and it meant a lot to them to have the work.

If you look around close to the handicap spots there is no real place to take them. I suspect they are left by those who are handicapped because of the difficulties they may have. When I am walking by there if I see them i take them on back to the store.

Some people use a cart instead of taking their walker.

There is always two sides of a story. I always take the cart back to the cart corral. However, my 92 year old mother appreciates the carts left near handicapped parking. She uses them to get into a store without using her walker. If it is a good day, she will use that cart inside the store. If it's not a good day, she will try to get a rider.

I agree that it is not always easy for a handicapped person to return a cart to the cart corral.

I believe all handicapped people are given assistance with their shopping to their car. Even people in good health are asked if they need help. The carts are then taken back to the store by the employee. It only takes a minute to return a cart to the corral and the exercise is good. I think most considerate people do this.

Just wait and see what happens to THAT job if minimum wage goes to $15/hour

Dont worry you will pay for the raise

Doubt it. The grocery stores will just take a $20 deposit to leave the store with a cart and give it back when you return it. Better bring your cash.

Everyone needs to make a decent wage, even $15 hour is hard to live on. Welfare has to come into play at present minimum wage. Business have to factor it in, also they have to get rid of deadbeats. Shape up or ship out.

I'm the guy that brought up Aldi's and their carts. After writing I JUST KNEW that someone would point out those employees who round up carts and lost jobs and... valid point of view but... Now the Thread transitions to minimum wage.

Sometime I get dizzy with responses to original topics and how they tend to wander away.... Thus is our online life in TV. Nothing bad about it - just an observation.

And - we don't have this problem much in FL - but living in Massachusetts for 20 years...many many times I saw runaway carts in parking lots slamming into parked cars - or driving cars...dangerous of course. Not a big issue here in flatland USA tho.

Post#8 makes a valid point! Some folks do like using the cart to move around