I said for years that every second date should be to a grocery store. The first date can be as fancy and choreographed as the couple wants, but the second date needs to be to the grocery store.

You can learn just about everything you need to learn about a person from watching them at a grocery store. From how they chose a parking spot, to how they talk to employees, to how they budget, to how they prepare a list, to how healthy they eat, to how they check out, to if they return the shopping cart.

Never understood people who couldn't put the shopping carts in the cart return when they are done.

I hurt my knee a few years back, not going to return it if it's too far away. There's a good reason sometimes, it's not a 100% judge of character.

For those that may have somehow missed it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_theory

citizen /sĭt′ĭ-zən/

noun

1. A person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization to the protection of a state or nation.
2. A resident of a city or town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.
3. A civilian.

I don’t understand?

If you can push it around the shop full of things, you can put it back while empty.

Change your mind on a product. Do they put it back where it belongs or throw it on the nearest clearly wrong shelf?

The movie is Starship Troopers, in which only those who serve in the armed forces are granted full citizenship.

according to the meme, from now I see "returning the cart" as a fascist move

A citizen is a civilian, a civilian is not necessarily a citizen.

Or, is the person a shopper at all? Do they act like they've never been to a grocery store in their lives?

That's useful information.

The world sucks man

The real test of character is whether a person not just takes the cart to the cart return, but also tidies up the coral as well so that the carts are all pushed in.

Or do they compulsively steal? And if so, did they remember what my favourite chocolate bar is?

Wait, it's underwater?

The book is way too "Wow the military is cool!" for how long the author actually served it seems weird. Movie definitely has better theming, characters of course shine better in the book but the book seems to not think they are fascist. The author protrays it as kinda good or necessary.

Gurgle gurgle.

I don’t think I’ve talked to an employee in a grocery store in years. They’re all self check out or 95% self check out and there’s online directories to find the location of every product in the store

Are frozens a separate category here?

I don’t do it because I don’t want to and they can pay someone to come get it. Why does everyone defend companies? Just hire someone to go get the carts all day. Hire 2, 3 or 4 people.

I worked at a supermarket and loved going outside to get the carts.

I expected this to be higher up

When you're walking into the store, do you take in a cart that you pass which is not in the corral, or do you shake your head and curse whoever left it there, while leaving it there yourself, to get one at the door? Also, you could take one in from the corral, or you could return the one you used back to the front of the store, instead of the corral.

Taking it to the corral is not the only measure of a "good" person. Why don't you do even more? Why don't you take several carts from the corral to the store when you're entering? You're heading that way anyway. Because you're not paid to do it, you say?

Date takes note.

Gen z is already struggling to date. They don't need the added barrier of not ordering limos for their burrito and being judged for it.

because there is cleaning up after yourself, and there is cleaning up after other people

I'll take a convenient cart on my way into the store or gather a cart while taking my own to the corral (which rarely happens because I usually park near them in the first place when I use a cart), but I won't go out of my way to get other carts that people left behind, because fuck them that's their fucking job*. I will give them shit if I see them leaving them there though.

*to be clear lmao I mean it's the cart user's obligation to return the cart, not the employee's job to gather up random shit across the lot

imagine telling on yourself like this

not only lazy and selfish, but obviously dumb both for sharing this and for thinking the explanation makes any sense. also, for not just parking near the fucking corral on the first place

what a fuckin' wanker

hey, look, it's a piece of shit

I haven't seen a shopping cart without a coin slot for a very long time. Communist Europe does not have moral lessons for citizens!

I sincerely hope you never dislocate your knee and still have to go shopping.

Just go shopping. We'll discuss compatibility when we are done.

It's all about compatibility here. If the date thinks they need limo burritos then that's important information.

do you take in a cart that you pass which is not in the corral

Yeah, usually. But only because I don't want it to crash into my car.

I don't even get who can fail society's litmus test?

I was always told by military people, the longer you serve, the more you hate it. That only people going hoorah after getting out were the ones that served like a month long type stuff.

can walk around an entire store shopping with said cart, but can't spend a fraction if that walking to return it

can walk around an entire store shopping with said cart, but can't spend a fraction of that walking to return it

tbf, ime people working grocery stores like lost/cast off items like that (assuming it doesn't spoil quick). the small game of "oh, where does this go" is much wanted change of pace to the mind numbing tedium that is working a grocery store

You guys are some ablist mother fuckers.

Then come to capitalist Europe. Because in Belgium we do have those without a coin slot.

People even propose to take them off other people after they are done, so those people don't have to bring it back to cart return and can just leave instead. While there are plenty in the in stock. It is just a nice thing to do.

No, coral.

That kid from the Walking Dead.

Maybe that wouldn't happen if people didn't leave shopping carts around to bump into and fall over.

Shouldn't you know then you could be doing a more fulfilling job?

Or better yet, get rid of the "work or die" society.

Yeah the book glazes the military and he didn't serve that long so it does line up.

I used to park right next to tthe cart return so I could grab a cart and return it easily. Then those sorry fucks moved the cart return a good hundred yards farther out. Fuck you cocksuckers, I'm DONE!

Stopped using those 10+ years ago here in Norway. I guess having to deal with cash was more of a hastle for the supermarkets than having to retrieve the occational cart.

Robert Heinlein had a serious respect/love for both the military and the mormon religion. The movie, on the other hand, is a satire of the book. Personally, I prefer the movie

I do too after reading the book. But I do believe after reading that there is so much room for more. A show would be great but I want the real suits. It really gets across the terrorism.

Especially if they're Greek and you go to university together?

That's just an excuse to walk more. You're a persistence predator. Waking and lazy swimming are literally THE BEST exercise for us. Low impact exercise for the first, and zero impact exercise for the second.

Remember to stretch everything everyday, and stretch just a little further every month.

Aldi's is the only chain that I specifically remember seeing those coin locked shopping carts/trolleys at here in the US. I know they are used other places, but it's been years since I was in those parts of the US and don't remember the other store chains that use them.

Almost every single store in SoCal uses shopping carts/trolleys with a "brake" on one of the wheels. If you pass outside of the IR perimeter of the store's designated property (which frequently doesn't include the outside parking spaces of their own parking lot, thereby making them a problem for all their customers,) one of the wheels locks so the cart/trolley is basically unuseable.

Many, but nowhere near most, of the carts/trolleys that don't use such technology of coin based locks, or wheel brakes end up being used by the people experiencing homelessness to cart what few possessions they have left. Most of their stuff has already been stolen by the cops and shoved into garbage trucks, or in the case of their pets, they get taken to the shelter and put down.

This isn't just true of California, but they at least try to not do this heartless crap to everyone, just the most vulnerable of us that can't remember schedules. Other states don't even give schedules. The cops and trash crews show up in the middle of the night, and your tent, all your possessions, probably all your important ID papers that you have, and your pets disappear. You now have to pay to get your pets back. All your property went into a garbage truck, was compacted, and went to the landfill. You don't get that stuff back.

Cruelty is the point in the US, and always has been.

I feel like that would doom any chances I’d ever have of a relationship. I park really far away, visit the bathroom at least once for guerrilla art installations, and zig zig across the entire store as I remember what kinds of things I want. Both major exes hated this.