In my neighborhood the grocery stores stopped requiring a coin to get them during COVID-19 lockdowns. They kept it that way, and people put the carts back in the parking lot (although most people walk to the shops).
Where I live they often end up dumped outside people’s houses. They use them like personal carts and pile them up at home on the street until the shops come past and collect them
Also Aus, seeing them clustered in a group of 2-4 off in a random parking bay isnt uncommon (although annoying) and seeing a single trolley a block from the shops in the grass of a park as soon as it became too hard to push any further is rare, but i do spot it from time to time.
Is this one of these american things? I have never seen someone not returning the shopping cart.
There’s math behind it.
Walmart: they won’t even walk the cart one spot over to the car corrall.
Target: They generally return them at least to the corrall. Target lots are usually smaller and busier.
My local grocer: They’ll return them if there’s a corral in the current line. If they park on the outside, they’ll never return them.
If the place has a small busy lot with lots of corrals and isn’t poverty level shopping, most will make it back.
If it’s a giant walmart with one corrall per zipcode and people that are fed up with life, they might just let it roll down the hill into traffic.
I guess they don’t have to put a euro in?
In my neighborhood the grocery stores stopped requiring a coin to get them during COVID-19 lockdowns. They kept it that way, and people put the carts back in the parking lot (although most people walk to the shops).
Where I live they often end up dumped outside people’s houses. They use them like personal carts and pile them up at home on the street until the shops come past and collect them
Also Aus, seeing them clustered in a group of 2-4 off in a random parking bay isnt uncommon (although annoying) and seeing a single trolley a block from the shops in the grass of a park as soon as it became too hard to push any further is rare, but i do spot it from time to time.