Very interesting. Walmart to charge for shopping carts.

[gr8guns]

Walmart has a lot less shoppers in my area. The checkout area has 4 assisted with a cashier, the rest are self service. Of course, you get no service if you have to checkout yourself. The renting a cart theory is ok for a certain person, but people like me just get ticked off at Aldi if they don’t have a quarter. If I don’t have a quarter I just go somewhere else to shop. I do believe in paying my way, but I have never purchased anything other than groceries that expect me to work for the store. If I have to gather the carts up, and ring my own groceries up, should I volunteer to help unload trucks too? At least give me some benefits !

 

[pyth0n]

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're not selling the carts, but requiring a deposit so the carts are returned.
I'm all for it. When people cover every inch of the store, either with a push cart or electric cart, then are too lazy to return the cart something needs to be done. Paying someone to round up carts is no good. People get lazier thinking someone will pick up after them.
I've got a 3 foot scratch along the passenger side of my truck because a person was too lazy to put it in the stall on the OTHER SIDE of my truck.

 

[57springer]

They're not selling the carts, but requiring a deposit so the carts are returned.
I'm all for it. When people cover every inch of the store, either with a push cart or electric cart, then are too lazy to return the cart something needs to be done. Paying someone to round up carts is no good. People get lazier thinking someone will pick up after them.
I've got a 3 foot scratch along the passenger side of my truck because a person was too lazy to put it in the stall on the OTHER SIDE of my truck.

For sure !

 

[Jeepnik]

Comments regarding who uses electric carts show a distinct lack of compassion and likely come from someone who has never been disabled.
The old saying, walk a mile in their shoes came about for a reason.

I wonder if those who make such claims ever open a door for anyone, reach an item on a high shelf or lift a heavy/ awkward item for the less physically able.

Regardless, one day when they are old karma will get them. Or better yet let and injury or illness require them to need such aid tomorrow.

 

[Cholo]

Not returning carts to the cart return must be regional. I know it happens sometimes at my local Walmart, but it's rare. I went there yesterday for a few things and didn't see a single cart left in the lot.

I'm not saying everything's rosie here as we often see litter along our side roads. I've been to plenty of other States where I rarely see litter.

Here's a quote I've seen floating around the net recently. It's a bit overly harsh, but you'll get the point.

"The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct. A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them a law and the force that stands behind it. The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society."

Glenn Danzig

 

[Ride1949]

We have "cart corrals" in the parking lot and employees working out there to round them up and take them back inside. (This provides jobs for 4-6 people working on a regular basis.) Still people will just leave them all over the lot. Even if it's only ten more steps to the corral. Really pisses me off to find one sitting behind or up against my truck when it's only a few more steps to take it to where it belongs. Some folks are just lazy.

 

[Paul B]

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

I told the manager of my Walmart that if I had to do that, I'd damn well be shopping elsewhere.

On shopping carts. I always used to return the carts to the corrals until I was no longer able. These days I'll put the cart next to a pole if possible or if next to a curb, up over the curb..Even with the use of a walker or the cart as a walker, walking is extremely painful. To have to put the cart in the corral and then try to walk back without some kind of aid is asking for a fall or worse. There's a darn good reason I have handicap plates on both my vehicles.
Paul B.

 

[bigbillyboy]

Comments regarding who uses electric carts show a distinct lack of compassion and likely come from someone who has never been disabled.
The old saying, walk a mile in their shoes came about for a reason.

I wonder if those who make such claims ever open a door for anyone, reach an item on a high shelf or lift a heavy/ awkward item for the less physically able.

Regardless, one day when they are old karma will get them. Or better yet let and injury or illness require them to need such aid tomorrow.

I get your point. But Let me tell you a brief story . Last summer I ran to wmart . It was a windy day as I approached my jeep a big gust of wind started an abandoned cart across the lot . It hit a car with enough force to knock the headlight fixture completely out of the car. Lamp was left dangling by the wiring ! 😩

 

[Jeepnik]

I get your point. But Let me tell you a brief story . Last summer I ran to wmart . It was a windy day as I approached my jeep a big gust of wind started an abandoned cart across the lot . It hit a car with enough force to knock the headlight fixture completely out of the car. Lamp was left dangling by the wiring ! 😩

I have a couple of parking lot scars on my Tacoma. Stuff happens. Bad mouthing everyone for the acts of a few isn't the way to go about correcting the situation. I tned to gather a few of the strays up as I'm returning mine to the corral. It does set a good example and may well shame a few into better behaviors.

 

[pyth0n]

Comments regarding who uses electric carts show a distinct lack of compassion and likely come from someone who has never been disabled.
The old saying, walk a mile in their shoes came about for a reason.

I wonder if those who make such claims ever open a door for anyone, reach an item on a high shelf or lift a heavy/ awkward item for the less physically able.

Regardless, one day when they are old karma will get them. Or better yet let and injury or illness require them to need such aid tomorrow.

If a handicapped person can walk from the handicap parking, to the store to get an electric cart, then they can do the reverse when they return to their car & load their stuff. If they were there with another person to help them shop, then the helper can return the cart. Common sense & consideration to the next person that needs a fully charged cart that needs to be IN THE STORE TO CHARGE IT.
I open doors for people whether they need it or not. it's called manners.

 

[Dimitr]

I don't need a cart, I will just use a plastic basket. people are becoming too lazy which give business like walmart chance to extort us.

 

[pyth0n]

I don't need a cart, I will just use a plastic basket. people are becoming too lazy which give business like walmart chance to extort us.

Where's the extortion? It's a refundable deposit. Bring the cart back, you get tour money back.

 

[caryc]

I don't need a cart, I will just use a plastic basket. people are becoming too lazy which give business like walmart chance to extort us.

Where is one supposed to get the plastic basket?

 

[bobski]

a local grocery installed pillars at the entrance, just wide enough for people, but a cart cant go thru it. people would come to the curb and load it in the car or carry it out in bags. cart stayed in the store entrance area. worked for 50 years that i can remember.

 

[hittman]

Not sure I was in our local Wal Mart even once last year. Haven’t been yet in 2023.

Wal Mart and Facebook seem like the two biggest “attractions” people love to Rosie O'Donnell about yet return voluntarily on a regular basis.

 

[LGC42]

Bobski, that wouldn't work here. Walmart would lose half their customers because they couldn't get in the store.

 

[pyth0n]

a local grocery installed pillars at the entrance, just wide enough for people, but a cart cant go thru it. people would come to the curb and load it in the car or carry it out in bags. cart stayed in the store entrance area. worked for 50 years that i can remember.

Many, many years (70's) ago on a trip home to NY, I saw that in many stores. Some put pole on the carts, that were tall enough to not allow anyone to get carts passed the door way.

 

[Jack Ryan]

I don't need a cart, I will just use a plastic basket. people are becoming too lazy which give business like walmart chance to extort us.

Walmart has destroyed every small business in every small town in America putting thousands of local family businesses out of business. Then they started closing their invader stores forcing you to drive out of your local small town to their "Super store" in larger towns. AND NOW you complain about a 25 cent deposit to use a free cart?

 

[pyth0n]

Walmart has destroyed every small business in every small town in America putting thousands of local family businesses out of business. Then they started closing their invader stores forcing you to drive out of your local small town to their "Super store" in larger towns. AND NOT you complain about a 25 cent deposit to use a free cart?

I remember the same being said years ago about Sears, Gimbels, Macy's, Montgomery Wards, & worse of the bunch big bad shopping malls. They all had one thing in common (except for the malls), they gave the CUSTOMER what they wanted. Goods at lower prices. And they did that because they could buy in large volumes & get the price breaks. Most customers didn't care where they were made. And over the years most quality was pretty good. I know there will be example here of stuff they bought that were lemons, but out of the millions of anything sold, there will be lemons.
The deposit is for people who covered every inch of the store with the carts, but can't go another one tenth of a mile (528 feet round trip) or less to return the cart or put it in a stall.

I still haven't found any conformation from WM that they will do this. The store in my area hasn't done it...…yet.
But I'm all for it.
I'm 74 with third stage COPD and have no problem putting the carts away. I like the exercise.

Just sayin.

 

[Ride1949]

Walmart has destroyed every small business in every small town in America putting thousands of local family businesses out of business. Then they started closing their invader stores forcing you to drive out of your local small town to their "Super store" in larger towns. AND NOT you complain about a 25 cent deposit to use a free cart?

Sounds like a good opportunity for some mom & pop business entrepreneurs.