come on goof,,you should no i like usen them old ppl electric carts,if you get there in the morning there all charged up,,thay fly,,and i love how thay beep beep beep when i back up..

Haahaa anytime we went by one if those scoot around carts when boys were young they always wanted sit on it and make it go and my response was always same
"Your legs ain't broke be thankful they work fine" if they continued to pester me as I walked away I would then say " go ahead brave boy temp.God..have a seat"

Omg tmommy thats to funny..if i was your kid i would tell ya,,catch me if you can,lmfao.

I rarely buy enough at one time to use the shopping cart...
I am more of a hand basket type of woman...

and that would be why you race cars.
.bet you were hell on wheels on your bike and big wheel

I am the one clanking with ear buds in I can't hear it anyway

but you might catch me cussing when I turn a corner lol

trust me woman,i had a bad azz big wheel,nobody could touch me,,I was just that good

I'm going to put a lot of thought into this... Yes and yes... Now my head really hurts lol

No. I never use a shopping cart.
I only use those hand baskets.
I want to get in and out as fast as possible.

Going to the grocery store anymore seems like battling people that are unable to pay attention to what's around them, only focusing on what catches their eye at the moment.

In my experience people enter this weird mental state when they grab a shopping cart. No longer does anything or anyone exist around or behind them.

Whenever they go into an aisle, even if they don't need anything, they will stop right next to a display or another cart.
The entire aisle may be clear, but they stop right in the middle of the bottleneck, creating a complete blockage.

While staring up at the aisle signs their cart will never go in a straight line, weaving left and right. Possibly as an extension of their driving and not wanting anyone to pass.
Sometimes running into other carts, or creating a traffic jam.

There is also running into familiar shopping cart hypnotized's and stopping in the middle of a heavy traffic area to say absolutely nothing of importance to each other.

In many cases the one person doing the actual shopping is surrounded by at least 4 other members of their family that really didn't need to come into the store but insist on walking side by side. Occasionally they all have their own cart. Like trains of covered wagons, maybe to protect them from the roving gangs in the produce section. Or prepare for the possibility of an impromptu G7 meeting they've just become a part of.

Sometimes I think people are trying to escape from the monster that is the shopping cart. Someone usually parks one right in front of a frozen foods or dairy cooler door, the exact one you need to get into, as they wander away to pursue rumors of some secret treasure trove in another aisle.

And in the end, when it's time to leave, there is always a line.
A line at the checkout? No. A line along the checkout where people stop in the middle of the throughway looking to see which line is going to be the fastest, wanting to avoid making the commitment to choose a lane...even though their cart is full and choosing the shortest lane will ultimately save them zero time.

I wonder if people studied it they would find that with people training themselves to be more highly focused on their computer, or phone, that basic real world choices based on static information are becoming more difficult to make.


At any given time, at any grocery store I've been to, I've noticed more carts in the parking lot than are ever in the corral's.
And I always see one of the baggers wandering through the parking lot collecting them.


It is! I worked at a grocery store as a kid. We used to try and make the biggest train of shopping carts as we could possibly move.

Sometimes we'd watch a certain corral from the breakroom window because carts would roll out, and then start going down an incline.
They'd hit a car, or hit the curb and go flying (once someone left an 8 pack of coke bottles on the bottom and it exploded on impact), and once we saw some 50 year old guy loading groceries into the back of his buick and the cart rolled down and knocked him into his trunk.


Carts are evil.
Grocery stores are a necessary evil.
I don't want to compound the two and become an evil zombie.

And those big carts at Costco are a pain. Lol. Okay Sassy.....how much for those on the black market?

I will check out my cart...if it wont roll,has a stuck wheel, pulls to one side, etc....I WILL get another. It's annoying LOL.
Yes, I return to the cart-corral, unless i've had a bad experience and the corral is wayyyyy over the next parking aisle, then I have been known to leave it in the parking space next to me. But I have never blocked someone in with it...that's just rude!

That's why ya take your kid along
his job to jump out and move any carts in my parking spot

can i borrow the kid i gotta go shopping tomorrow

I check a couple then figure, screw it and take what I get.

But after I unload into my car, I return the cart to its place INSIDE the store.

I actually watched a woman parked in the very first spot outside the store, maybe 40 feet from the door, push her cart to her car, load her car, and then push the cart over 100 feet in the opposite direction to the cart return corral.... Illogical Captain!

haaahaaa..nope cause I am doing the shopping then

I was in charge of that as well....and Momma always made me take the carts to the cart corral. My reward was $.25 for the bubble gum machine.

You shop where I do?

roflmfao believe it or not sometimes I do both if something wrong with the cart I go get another one ... do I always take it back all depends where I am at ... sometimes areas are on a little hill so I take it back to the front of the store at least or find the cart place in the parking lot and sometimes i leave them ... I have to be in a special mood though lmao

I don't know if it's the same for you Americans, but we have to put a pound coin, into a slot, in the trolley, before using it. I always find leaflets, in the trolleys. Yeah. Thanks for dumping your abandoned crap into something I need to use. I prefer to use a shopping basket if I can. Yeah I normally take my trolley back to the place I got it from.