Not at all. Both sides are prone to wild exaggeration. Feel free to call me out if and when I start spouting cockeyed conspiracy theories.
I need to be fortified with some extra-spiked eggnog before studying all those links and references you provided. Thanks.
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All the media is now so sensationalist and biased in one way or another (including Fox) that it is often extremely difficult to know how things really are out there.
Yeah? Would you go so far as to say some of those 'news' channels, with multiple people yelling over each other spouting outrageous statements, stances and "facts" could even be called..... wait for it..... 'The Crazy Channel'? Hmmmmmmm?
In our area there's a grocery store named Aldi. When it comes to shopping cart management, Aldi has the best idea of ANY grocery store out there. In order to get a cart shoppers have to insert a quarter to unlock the cart and when you return the cart you get a quarter back. As a result, there are virtually zero carts left in the parking lot and all the carts roll true and still have their factory alignment. No need to hire anyone to fetch the carts out of the lot either.
I don't know why all grocery stores don't use this method.
Now fun is fun and all but you are getting pretty close to the line with this one Conrad. After all, that IS my wife you are talking about!
I would put a ROFLMAO emoticon here but the sad truth is that that is the sad truth. :-(
Been shopping for 40 years and the whole operation is still full of surprises such as 1) Move your cart so that woman can get around you. 2) Move your cart so that man can get around you. 3) Do not leave your cart cross- wise in the middle of the aisle because neither that woman nor that man can get by you. 4) That man is staring at you and would like you to move.... again, just like seven feet ago in this aisle. 5) That man cannot get by you, you have to move your cart. 6) That woman would like to look at / pick up something that is behind the cart you abandoned in front of the milk. 7) That man would like to look at / pick up something that is behind the cart you abandoned in front of the cereal display. And after this, it starts to get repetitive.
It is not averace, nastiness or even a cavilier attitude that causes this, it is the fact that she is all alone in the store and there is no one else trying to do anything around her. Oh wait, there IS a human trying to get around my cart! Who'd a thunk it? Wow, I have never seen another human in a store before. And so forth.....
Without a firm hand steering reality, chaos will take over and run things. And that is never, ever pretty.
Brian
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?? ?? Beats me- I read that story before I posted the link (obviously I was at that link) and I just went back there now. No warning, no interruptions of any kind and I have Norton Premier 'on the job' so it <should> have reported any attacks. ?? I am also using an ad blocker, so perhaps whatever jumped out to you came in the form of a threaded link to an ad(s)?
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A whopping 25 cents is enough to get all their carts back? Around some of our 'hoods, shoppers walk off the premises with a cart full of their purchases, and then just abandon the cart somewhere near their 'hood-home. Doesn't seem like 25 cents would be enough to dissuade that.
I wasn't blaming you of course, I just let you know as a FYI.
In our area there's a grocery store named Aldi. When it comes to shopping cart management, Aldi has the best idea of ANY grocery store out there. In order to get a cart shoppers have to insert a quarter to unlock the cart and when you return the cart you get a quarter back. As a result, there are virtually zero carts left in the parking lot and all the carts roll true and still have their factory alignment. No need to hire anyone to fetch the carts out of the lot either.
I don't know why all grocery stores don't use this method.
I'd say that method does not work well for those who are disabled. They are expected to get the cart in the first place, then put it back when done.
The disabled generally just leave the cart right where they loaded their vehicle. Sometimes pushed up on a curb.
Oh, wait. I see a LOT of able-bodied people doing that too.
Well, SOMEONE out there is likely to see some of those stray carts and want to bring them back and pocket the $0.25 each. So in that regard, it might still work OK even if some people leave their carts in the lot.
Yeah, I admit the Aldi model is better than what the current system is -- but that's not really my point. This is the "what makes me crazy and annoyed..." thread, right?
In that case.... "what makes me crazy and annoyed" about the Aldi carts would be that we should be able to pick up and return the carts closer to the car so we don't have to walk all the way back to the store to get the 25 cents. There!
Well, SOMEONE out there is likely to see some of those stray carts and want to bring them back and pocket the $0.25 each. So in that regard, it might still work OK even if some people leave their carts in the lot.
In that case.... "what makes me crazy and annoyed" about the Aldi carts would be that we should be able to pick up and return the carts closer to the car so we don't have to walk all the way back to the store to get the 25 cents. There!
The solution is an easy one, Max. Just part closer to the cart corral and you won't have to strain yourself with SUCH a long walk.
Absolutely not. I usually park as far away as possible so my car isn't damaged by idiots who don't give a F*** about other people's property. Thus far it has worked.
Absolutely not. I usually park as far away as possible so my car isn't damaged by idiots who don't give a F*** about other people's property. Thus far it has worked.
Even that Doesn't seem to work for me. I will park away from all other vehicles only to come out of the store to have some moron(s) right parked next to me-even in a relatively empty outlot.