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[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

A long time ago I worked at a grocery store and I preferred it when people didn’t return the carts. Would you rather spend your day gathering carts outside or gathering carts for 10 minutes at a time and then having to deal with customers?

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Customers in the store are bitchy and demanding.

Customers outside the store are bitchy, demanding, and controlling a two-ton machine.

Hard choice.

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was yelled at daily. Never was I threatened with someone’s car.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I wasn't ever explicitly threatened with a car, they were just distracted and didn't care if they hit someone.

[–] darthskull@lemmy.ca 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

I’d still rather be outside than dealing grocery store customers in the snow, rain, cold, or heat.

[–] cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm just curious, did you bring the carts in in smaller batches so you'd have to make more trips and the whole task would take longer?

[–] pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah. Way longer. It’s a much quicker job when all the carts are in one spot and you just bring a long train of them back at once.