[NotGolfer]

Originally Posted by LuvtheVillages

I have difficulty walking. I park in the handicap space, and I am always happy when there is a cart left there for me to use. It helps support me as I walk to the store and while shopping. Thanks to anyone who leaves a cart near the handicap spots.

I'm with you on this one. Before my mobility issues, I would always return the cart. NOW though, if someone is walking towards the store I'll sometimes ask them if they need a cart and always I get some type of affirmative answer. I've often wondered why the engineers that plan the parking lots don't put cart storages close to the handicapped spaces. From the social media comments (not just this one) people tend to be very judgmental without knowing what's going on. I'd say---you wouldn't want to walk in my shoes for a day, a week or a month. I get the remark, "but you "look" great!!" Well don't judge from the outside.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Worldseries27

sainthood awaits

Will you sing when they come marching in?

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by retiredguy123

At Aldies, it's not about the 25 cents. They don't have any place to return the cart, except to the store. They save money by reducing customer convenience. One reason that I don't shop there.

Parking lot is rather small so short walk to return the cart no biggie to me.

[fraurose]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

In UK no food supermarket gives 'free' shopping carts.
You get your £1 coin back when you return your trolley.

That is how it should be everywhere, ( in Europe there smart )
lot of People are very rude there don’t care if there damage someone’s Car with there Cart , there just leave it by another Car .

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

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.

[fraurose]

🤪👎🏻

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by LuvtheVillages

I have difficulty walking. I park in the handicap space, and I am always happy when there is a cart left there for me to use. It helps support me as I walk to the store and while shopping. Thanks to anyone who leaves a cart near the handicap spots.

thanks so much for that reply, i'm with you, & thx for leaving me that cart!

[PugMom]

Originally Posted by Bjeanj

MichaelG, you have come up with the oddest topics of conversation. Sucked me right in!

I try to park close to a cart corral, but not close enough where an errant cart could clip my car. If I can’t park close enough to one, I will return mine unless I’m having a bad day (physically). If that’s the case, I’ll push the cart in front of my car, making sure the wheels are turned so it doesn’t get blown around and end up hitting another car.

yes! some carts have a lock-type thing on one of the rear wheels to prevents the cart from traveling too far away, if it's bolstered against a light pole or handicap sign, it won't move

[GOLFER54]

Donate it to a homeless person

[Worldseries27]

Originally Posted by kathy1516

i do try and return the carts to the corral; however, i park in handicap and there are days when i’m in a lot of pain and can’t safely take it to the corral and walk back to my car. This brings me to the question why is there no return area next to handicap parking to leave the cart when finished shopping? I’ve gotten dirty looks from people that see i’m in handicap parking and leave my cart, yet no one ever offers to return it for me!!!! This is a valid issue for those of us that can’t always comply. It just doesn’t make sense to have handicap spots near the store yet have the return area near the end of the row!

we all understand your predicament. Have no worries.
Thanks for bringing it up. I'll pay more attention to that and pass it along.

[southheart]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

One of my wife's pet peeves. As in "why do they leave carts in the parking stalls when the cart corral is only 30 feet away"?

It is not anything that I lose any sleep over.

You might if people leave them IN the Handicapped Parking space and you couldn’t park. I use a mobility scooter and can’t move the cart unless I park out in the aisle, unload my scooter and move the cart and try to get back in the car to park and…well I think you get the picture. Please don’t leave them in the handicapped spaces.

[Worldseries27]

Originally Posted by two bills

someone is very bored today!

spot on mate

[Worldseries27]

Originally Posted by stu from nyc

will you sing when they come marching in?

i'm applying for angels flight school, not the choir.

[Worldseries27]

In all seriousness there seems to be an issue re the handicap parking spaces.
One poster is glad theres a cart present to assist them into the store.
Another complains of the carts presence in or near the spot.
Is there a right answer here?

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Fastskiguy

Isn't it awesome, never a stray cart in the Aldi's lot. You can train humans for 25 cents.

Joe

Only certain group, not everybody shopped there.

I’m surprised panhandlers haven’t been outside in parking lot with sign saying, I will return you’re cart for that quarter. Opps that involves work…..