Very interesting. Walmart to charge for shopping carts.

[john guedry]

Another good reason not to shop at w m.

 

[Jack Ryan]

If you think this would "clean up the parking lot" I doubt it. It's Walmart. I'm sure they think its a way to not have to hire people to go out into the parking lot and and bring all the carts back in.
In any event, it probably won't work and it will be just an inconvenience for the rest of us.

We shop at Walmart and we shop at Ruler.

One has carts strung all over the place and people leave them where they took the last item out of it. The other, every cart they have is ALWAYS, EVERY TIME WE GO THERE, they are ALL either being used or they are right there in front of the doors to go it. Right where they are suppose to be.

Same community. Same population, same shoppers.

 

[Jack Ryan]

Something else about carts that ticks me off. When you go to get a cart to take into the store and half of them have wrappers, old sale papers, assorted misc trash, and/or stuff spilled in them. Seems to me part of the job of taking the carts back to the spot the customers get it from to take it into the store should entail cleaning the trash out of them and pulling ones that have sticky stuff spilled in them for cleaning later.

Just count your self lucky that is all you find in it the way these dimwit animal wackos can't run in for a pack of gum with out their stupid dog. Put your groceries in a cart at the grocery store where a nasty dog's butt was ten minutes ago.

 

[caryc]

I must be the odd duck. I don't do anything at Walmart where I would need a cart. But, when I go grocery shopping, while walking in after parking my car, I'll grab any stray shopping cart and return it or use it to shop. If I don't see any stray carts, I'll take one out of the little cart corral in the parking lot and use it to shop. I never leave a cart partially hidden in between parking spaces. I always leave the cart in one of those little corrals.

I figure that since I return carts to the store on my way in, I don't have to return them to the inside of the store after shopping. For me, it comes under the heading of common courtesy. I can't figure why some people are so lazy that they can't at least leave their cart in one of the little corral areas.

 

[Paul B]

One of the places that it's easy yo find a cart that's been left out is the handicapped parking area.I'm handicapped myself and pulling out my walker and unfolding only to have to fold it again when I get cart inside can get old in a hurry. Many times when I shop, it's Walmart for immediate needs and then sometimes the $.99 cent store, then COSTCO for stuff in larger quantities. A handy right where I parked cart replaces the walker and works just as well. It's not so much that I'm lazy, it's the pain. Tylenol just doesn't cut it and I refuse to take the opioids.
Paul B.

 

[RSIno1]

I will admit to feeling sorry for the 85# girl as she struggles to push half a dozen carts back to the corral. Although even the boys seem to be over matched by the same number of carts. Perhaps the fact that it is such a struggle for today’s kids who have been raised on video games is why they avoid the task.

Now they have a power cart to move them.

 

[sceva]

I was at one local store and was pushing the cart to the car when it suddenly locked up tight. It seems this particular had radio controlled auto locking devices on the rear wheels that locked the wheels when they went past a certain distance from the doors. I didn't know it and parked further away.

Seems like a good solution.

 

[Joe Chartreuse]

"Only takes a quarter" is fine in theory, but in our plastic/cellular currency society, no one has quarters anymore.

I don't know about your area, but here there are very few digital parking meters. Most still require change, and people keep some in the car somewhere...

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

I don't know about your area, but in the Peters Colony, Republic of Tejas, there are very few parking meters of any sort. Must be a New Jersey thing. Further, our banks no longer accept deposits comprising coinage. I used to empty my pockets of all coins, then deposit them when the cups fill up. No longer. I must take the coins to a coin counter, which converts the coins to either currency (nearest dollar amount) or a credit to a proffered credit card, after a 10% withholding for the service. It seems banks no longer honor coins as currency. Only place that accepts quarters is the local car wash. Since I sold my Corvette, I have no further use for quarters. As Bob Dylan famously sang, the times, they are a changin' (pun intended).

 

[bobski]

aldi's does it already. you put a quarter in the handle, it releases a lock, you use the cart, lock it back up and turn a key and you get your quarter back once its in the proper storage area.

 

[bobski]

but, if i may say, making everyone suffer for a handful of lazy bums.....is called corporal punishment. its a military term for punishing the whole platoon for one dumb privates mistake. the idea is to make the other platoon members teach the bum a lesson on their own, after they all get punished.
all part of the socialist take over plot, to turn people on themselves to help the governing body. (in this case...w m.)
.

 

[bobski]

i really get a kick out of living in america these days. if it wasnt for being a lifetime vet, who saw all this in the military....i would have been duped like many now are.
folks...living out here in CIVLANTFLTRET is now no different then being in the military.
i wont have any part of it. i will fight it the whole way to the grave.
rules regs dont do this dont do that, no this cant do that out of stock must put in chits to have things. .........no way jose'.

heck even parking lots are now like military parking lots where officers get up front parking, and enlisted walk across the street.

handicap up front. ok. fine,
but now leos get it, parents with babies, small suv cars only, pick up only....geeesh.
any vets knows what i speak of!

 

[Jeepnik]

Now they have a power cart to move them.

I’ve seen those. Probably more related to preventing injury liability than anything else.

 

[Jeepnik]

but, if i may say, making everyone suffer for a handful of lazy bums.....is called corporal punishment. its a military term for punishing the whole platoon for one dumb privates mistake. the idea is to make the other platoon members teach the bum a lesson on their own, after they all get punished.
all part of the socialist take over plot, to turn people on themselves to help the governing body. (in this case...w m.)
.

Group punishment has been a staple of military punishment since the beginning of organized military. Works very well. Sadly, these days it isn’t acceptable. Heck I’ve heard that after USAF basic the recruits rate their instructors. If the troop isn’t happy they can punish the instructors.

 

[pyth0n]

I was at one local store and was pushing the cart to the car when it suddenly locked up tight. It seems this particular had radio controlled auto locking devices on the rear wheels that locked the wheels when they went past a certain distance from the doors. I didn't know it and parked further away.

Seems like a good solution.

That's supposed to keep theft down. At WM the carts lock up if it's brought passed the yellow parking area boundary lines.

 

[RSIno1]

I’ve seen those. Probably more related to preventing injury liability than anything else.

True - the boss could say don't push more than 10-15 carts at a time but the guy who want to get it over will do 25-50 just to prove he can.

 

[Teflon97116]

Walmart has already trained us to do our own checkout. This is just one more exercise in marketing today. Next we can get up early to unload trucks Mon, Wed, and Fri mornings! This way all of their employees are free to fill on-line orders for people too lazy to do it themselves. Try stopping one of these employees filling orders for some help? Good luck!

Scan your own, then pay and bag for yourself? Oh, the humanity!!!

Add Kroger, Costco, Target, Safeway, Vons, Randall's, Home Depot, Lowe's, Albertson's and countless other retailers who offer self-check - and home delivery.

I find that most of those customer-operated check-stands are a PITA, so I actually prefer how easy the Walmart self-checkout system is to use compared to ALL of the others. Those businesses all support online shopping orders too. What's unique here? Nothing. I never had to unload a truck at any of those stores, nor do I anticipate ever having to do so at a Walmart.

So, turning abruptly back to the subject of renting Walmart shopping carts for a buck - and their reasons (good or bad) for doing that...

 

[Rum River]

So I read the link provided by the OP and then did some simple google searches.

According to what I found Walmart in the U.S. is not going to charge for shopping carts.
They're doing it at some locations in Canada, but not in the U.S.

It's hard to believe, but not everything you see on the web is true.

 

[shoot to thrill]

Want ME to shop in your store ?? THEN PROVIDE ME A SHOPPING CART !! Can I bring in a wagon ? Are you gonna charge for the "handicap" carts?

they should charge $20 for the handicap carts and no refund. most people are to fat and lazy to bring a cart back

 

[pyth0n]

A local small chain grocery tried that. Too much hassle for customers and staff. Customers left in droves. Cart theft and damage are just part of doing business.

I have noticed one thing. One chain has three stores in town. Two are in, how should I put this, better neighborhoods the third not so much. The two nicer stores regularly get new carts. And the carts are cleaner and better repair. The third store seems to get hand me downs. I suspect it’s same throughout the chains other stores.

One other major chain has locking wheels activated by a perimeter system. Frequently their cart wheels are locked. Nice store but I don’t want the hassle so I shop elsewhere.

As many of the articles I've posted reported, many European & Canadian stores have been doing it for years. Even here in the USoA, just not as common. Aldi's (a German Co.) is one.
I'm sure it doesn't hurt their business any if it drive some inconsiderate lazy people away. I'm all for it, but I think $1 is too little. It Should be $5.
That said, I haven't found anything from WM confirming the rumors.