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jambudz lemmy.zip jambudz@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-10-14
#152 · Quote Reply

Extremely specific contrary case (I always put my cart back, it’s fun when they accordion together), but my grandma appreciates the carts near the handicap spots because then she doesn’t have to get out her walker.

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AItoothbrush lemmy.zip AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2023-06-12
#153 · Quote Reply

the shopping centers i've been going to, everyone has been returning them. or stealing them. this fucking economy. no middle ground right now.

Right? I dont see anyone leaving them arround like its usually depicted. Its either straight up stolen or returned in an orderly fashion.

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AlexanderTheDead lemmy.world AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-11
#154 · Quote Reply

I'm much more talking from a community standpoint. I would ask family or neighbours to help. I'm thinking of a different cost factor as well. If one's knee is so badly hurt that walking 100m is a serious debate, I imagine it isn't as useful in an emergency brake situation. So getting groceries might not cost 100$ more, it might cost one's life.

Not everyone has people they can rely on, homie. At a certain point just accept that there can be a genuinely good reason for not returning a cart instead of doing mental gymnastics to justify a crazy "no tolerance" policy. Literally all that is being asked is that you take that other commenter at face value: it's not always a 100% judge of character. In the first place, the idea of it being a judge of character is a meme, a joke- anyone with actual character would acknowledge that and also acknowledge that they don't always know everything and there are exceptions to every rule..

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Hupf feddit.org Hupf@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-07-24
#155 · (edited) Quote Reply

Ha! Let me tell you an anecdote. My apartment building is positioned around 7 to 10 minutes walking distance to IKEA, a huge department store and a few small grocery stores. People would be fine dragging a IKEA/department store/grocery store cart for 10 fucking minutes being loud and an ass. And of fucking course they wouldn't bring them back. Also, some of them would bring one INSIDE OF THEIR ...

Why would wealth correlate with morals?

If you're think poor people are more likely to be shitheads, that's propaganda speaking for you.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-09-24
#156 · Quote Reply

Anything to help out our fellow laborers. What goes around will eventually come around for those of us who stick together! Sooner or later I hope we can build a solid coalition of laborers to push back against the robber-Barron's (spelling?) destroying our futures' for profit. Holy shit these are some good edibles! I rest my case, your honor.

Sir, this i sa Wendy's, or was a Wendy's... until they shut it down... never mind, it's s dispensery now... you're in the right place.

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Sgt_choke_n_stroke lemmy.world Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-09-20
#157 · Quote Reply

Also because they had made a completely other film called Bug Hunt at Outpost 7. They realised that it was going to be a complete flop so they got the rights to Heinlein's worst book (and in the lead for worst scifi of all time) and gave it to Verhoeven to mangle onto the already shot Bug Hunt at Outpost 7. Even Verhoeven agreed with me giving up on reading the book half way through it because ...

The book is heavier on the difference between a citizen and a civilian based on the teacher razacks class with emphasis on the burocracey, training, and waste of money of the war machine.

Heinlein wanted to show how war can take over a civilization. Is it dry? Sure I agree with that. Did verhoeven give up on the novel. Yes I read that, he combined elements of the bug hunt at out post 7 with the characters and themes of the book.

It's a mesh, I like verhoevens movie. Just because it's also alot like robocop

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yabbadabaddon lemmy.zip yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-02
#158 · (edited) Quote Reply

Yeah, carts don't smell and most have a coin so....

Yeah but you cannot eat a cart.

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yabbadabaddon lemmy.zip yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-02-02
#159 · Quote Reply

Jesus Christ, I'm out here disenfranchising the disabled.

As long as you don't dismember them

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Bytemeister lemmy.world Bytemeister@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-29
#160 · Quote Reply

I used to work for a winter sports store. Skis, snowboards, winter clothes, etc. On slow days during the week, it was often just me running the floor while I had some guys doing service work in the back. So I had a day where I was alone in front of the store, doing price changes on a rack of skis. Behind me, the only customer in the shop went through every clothing rack and meticulously removed...

Fuck. As former retail worker, I'm going to be livid for the next 15 years thinking about it too.

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u/CaperGrrl79 lemmy.ca CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-04
#161 · (edited) Quote Reply

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 t...

Heh. My first date with my husband ended up at a pizzeria chain. He pulled out a gift card (he won at karaoke). Believe it or not, despite Weird Al asserting that pulling out a coupon book when on a date is tacky, I actually admired it. We've been together 14 years, and this year is our tenth wedding anniversary. 😊 Turns out we had a whole lot more in common.

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u/CaperGrrl79 lemmy.ca CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-04
#162 · Quote Reply

I used to work for a winter sports store. Skis, snowboards, winter clothes, etc. On slow days during the week, it was often just me running the floor while I had some guys doing service work in the back. So I had a day where I was alone in front of the store, doing price changes on a rack of skis. Behind me, the only customer in the shop went through every clothing rack and meticulously removed...

Holy shit, I am the opposite. I had thought I wouldn't make extra work for workers (unless I was in a hurry and it was a shelf stable thing, I will always put back a refrigerated or frozen thing where it belongs). But this breaking-the-tedium is a new perspective for me.

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u/CaperGrrl79 lemmy.ca CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-04
#163 · Quote Reply

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

The online site for my grocery stores are good for making a list, but never tell me where it is in the store. If possible, some store sites do a list by how you add it. I am a bit obsessive about arranging my list around where stuff is, so I'm not zig zagging.

I use self checkout a lot, but at my local one, they ad match, so I have to show screenshots (or Flipp app) to the cashier to do it.

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u/CaperGrrl79 lemmy.ca CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-04
#164 · Quote Reply

The supermarket is my 3rd space

Used to be mine, too, but I don't browse like I used to. I only browse the Giant Tiger (Canadian budget department store a bit like the old Bargain! Shop and BiWay before it) and Dollarama. 😅

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lastlybutfirstly lemmy.world lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-15
#165 · Quote Reply

My first job at 15.5yo was the grocery store. I bagged and got carts for work when bagging could be plastic (newer), paper (common), or a combo of both (old people, usually). If you don't return your cart, fuck you! Now I live a few blocks from the same grocery store and return that shit to the inside of the store, grabbing spares sometimes if they're just sitting around in the way. It used to ...

If you don’t return your cart, fuck you!

It seems there's a certain personality type the managers of stores prefer working out there in the parking lot.

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Mcdolan lemmy.world Mcdolan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-14
#166 · Quote Reply

Jesus Christ, I'm out here disenfranchising the disabled.

Haha, it never dawned on me until someone else said it to me.

One of those things that seems obvious in hindsight.

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Hiro8811 lemmy.world Hiro8811@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-11-16
#167 · Quote Reply

Yeah but you cannot eat a cart.

Wha?

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tomcatt360 lemmy.zip tomcatt360@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2024-07-21
#168 · Quote Reply

Heh. My first date with my husband ended up at a pizzeria chain. He pulled out a gift card (he won at karaoke). Believe it or not, despite Weird Al asserting that pulling out a coupon book when on a date is tacky, I actually admired it. We've been together 14 years, and this year is our tenth wedding anniversary. 😊 Turns out we had a whole lot more in common.

My wife and I use coupon books almost every time we eat out, and we've been together going on 5 years.

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