I don’t mean just returning your shopping cart to the cart area, but actually sliding it back in. At my grocery store, some people half ass stack it back in or don’t at all. This drives me nuts because when I come to return my cart I have to fix the mess before I can return mine. Plus, I don’t want the workers who collect the carts to do any more work than they already do.
I caught this one guy who was returning his cart and I had to wait until he was done. Instead of stacking his cart, he just left it there in front of the stack and I said, “C’mon man!” He was surprised and said, “Oh!” then immediately stacked his cart.
The problem I have with this is that it’s a barrier of using the shop if you don’t have a £/€1 coin on you. There’s an Aldi by me where the trollies have this lock on them, but the Tesco opposite doesn’t so I’ll just not go to Aldi as I can’t get a trolly.
Absolutely true, it does present a barrier. I had a token attached to my keys for my own sanity.
Now that token perminantly lives in my car after the clippy thing broke. If I’m shopping for enough things to need a trolley, I have my car. My peers all have these things in the cupholder/ashtray of their center console.
The timing worked out, I had the token attached to my keys while I was without a car, and it broke just in time for the arrival of the car.