Do you return shopping carts/trolleys?

What the actual fuck?

Aren't buggies what you push babies around in if you're British?

Or Neil Armstrong's pimpmobile.

Usually. Sometimes I used to hand it to someone walking towards the store past my car. Not since COVID. Better for them to bake in the sun in the return rack.

I literally left a shopping cart next to my 5.7 V8 Hemi about an hour ago....hoping it would drift away....

Always, and to save time for cart collectors, and to prevent someone's car from being dinged, I'll line them up and push them all the way into the corral.

Into your hemi?

There's an Aldi that I'll shop at once in a while. Most of the time, as in almost every time I forget to have or bring a quarter. I end up using my house key. Last time the cashier had a fit and went off about it, saying that the house key will break the quarter slot in the shopping cart. The key is the same thickness and size of a quarter. So she's full of shit.

But yeah, I'll put them in the corral or leave it with the other carts in the store if I can carry the bags myself.

I think it hit a Prius.

No, i steal them and sell them to junkies

Ok, Bubbles.

Bubbles repairs them, i sell them as is no refunds

No. In Britain they're prams. Buggies used to be a US thing. as in the tongue twister -rubber baby buggy bumpers. Now, most Americans just use a stroller.

Or if you’re a man you carry the baby in one hand and a shopping basked in the other. (The basket is full of many things like beer, salsa, and harsh shaving cream).

Real men shave WITH salsa.

And a Bowie Knife.

I've never known a lazy POS who just leaves carts in random spots in the lot, but they do apparently exist.

I only use hand baskets because I only buy enough to fill a backpack and bicycle home with it. Usually the cashier will take it from me at the POS.

However, some people will abandon their hand baskets and/or full-size buggies in the checkout lane, and the workers do nothing as it obstruct the next customer. Welcome to China. I'm thinking of Walmart stores in particular.

Shaving cream? Don't use it. Just water and the razor

I shave with a belt sander.

When I posted that on Facebook several years ago, only one person raised an objection. Her reply used the excuse of not being able to return a cart when she had her two young children with her.

Bullshit. I had two young children long before she ever did and still managed to put shopping carts back when I was done with them.

China has Walmart? Do they look identical to similar stores around the world?

In 2010(?), my mother took a trip to Xi'an with her sister, who was visiting her son who was a teacher Christian missionary there. At the time, my mom worked at the Walmart in my home town (she eventually retired from that job).

Someone with Walmart (at the local store? Regional office?) sent word that my mom was visiting and the Walmart in Xi'an held a high tea in her honor.


On a related note, before my mother left she asked me, my sister, and our families what kind of souvenirs we'd like her to bring back. I told her I'd love to have an authentic wok to cook with over a fire.

Instead of going to a local market or something and buying a handmade, rustic-looking wok...she bought me a wok from that Walmart. It even has a nonstick coating and wouldn't be good to use over an open fire.

The products ship from the factories just down the road.

Yeah, they look similar, but the exact products they sell are somewhat different and more limited than North America.

Do they have a greeter? If they do, are they old and essentially useless aside from barely remembering where they work?

Literally every store and venue in China has a greeter these days, checking health app QR codes to make sure you're safe to enter, per pandemic controls.

Old? Not necessarily.
Useless? Of course.

@ed629

It's pretty simple, just park near one of the return areas in the parking lot.

Exactly.

You'd think someone with a law degree could figure that out, but apparently not in her case.

There's a few options. One, you take your kid with you to the cart return and carry her back. Two, you put your kid in the car and return the cart. I'm pretty sure leaving kids alone in cars is legal. I mean, it's not like it's banned by the constitution.