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...you've whipped round the supermarket, loaded your car and trundle across the car-park back to the trolley bay - do you...
• Forcefully push the trolley in like a game of ten pin bowling, seeing how much of a crash you can create?
• Casually roll it in without looking back?
• Walk it in but leave it in a 'there will do' position?
...or are you like me and can't resist a bit of a tidy up! I can't be the only one who likes to leave a tidy trolley bay for the poor person who has to collect them! 🤣 🛒 🛒 🛒
I place it in carefully, but if there are any that have been unceremoniously dumped, i tend to tidy those up as well.
I tend to shop at Aldi. They're always tidy otherwise you don't get you £1 coin back.
At the larger supermarkets I like to leave it nicely nested inside another one, but if there's chaos further in to the bay then that's beyond my remit.
I go to cheap shops where you have to put a pound coin/trolley coin in 😐
I ride my bike to the supermarket and carry a basket round
I started my career as a trolley boy! I sort them into the correct types and push them together ready for collection.
I never use a trolley or basket,I carry two bags in each hand,part of my 'core' training 😆 🤣
Forcefully push the trolley in like a game of ten pin bowling
Guilty as charged M'lud :o)
I'm a dragger backer.....scroats leave them at the end of the retail path when they realise the wheels sink into grass.
Scan As You Go and a rucksack. It's the future (until you get a random check).
The compulsion to return trolleys to a bay is an odd thing. You gain nothing from it, and arguably you're doing someone out of a job, but it feels like the right thing to do. There's probably a psychology study to be had here.
It's a bit like taking empty pint glasses back to the bar. Though these days I gauge that on cost, if they're going to charge me six quid for a pint then they can pay for their own CA cleaning staff.
The other week the trolly stack exceeded the little hut and extended more than half way across the lane between the rows of parked cars. And yet still people kept adding to it. I was compelled to break it into two parallel stacks.
So you shop at a supermarket which doesn't use pound coins or tokens to release a trolley... i.e not Lidl or Aldi. So there's your first mistake. You must be minted.
Tidier, can't leave them scattered about.
So you shop at a supermarket which doesn’t use pound coins or tokens to release a trolley… i.e not Lidl or Aldi. So there’s your first mistake. You must be minted.
Sainsbury's.
Years ago, I had a little token thing for trolleys. Then one day a shopper asked me for my trolley (there were none left at the entrance) as I was returning it and gave me a £1 coin. I still feel bad that when they returned the trolley, they only got a token, not £1 cash.
So you shop at a supermarket which doesn’t use pound coins or tokens to release a trolley… i.e not Lidl or Aldi.
Anecdotally, I've found this to be geographical rather than by brand.
I still feel bad that when they returned the trolley, they only got a token, not £1 cash.
Don't feel bad. If they can't spend it then they'll never be stuck for a coin for the trolley in future. You did them a favour.
I'm a tidier, although I often wonder why.
I ride my bike to the supermarket and carry a basket round
Amateur. I ride my bike to the supermarket and push a trolley round 😉
The compulsion to return trolleys to a bay is an odd thing. You gain nothing from it, and arguably you’re doing someone out of a job, but it feels like the right thing to do. There’s probably a psychology study to be had here.
Bin dun. For the reasons you suggest. https://medium.com/be-unique/the-curious-case-of-the-shopping-cart-theory-802909d93cff
Huh. No way.
Thanks for that.
I feel weird about this as I think this question is pushed by supermarkets to make some kind of moral imperative to return trolleys, thereby saving them money on staffing to retrieve them.
Supermarkets exist to rinse you of cash.
If you are aware of both of these things, then you deliberately do not return the trolleys.
Neither here. A man comes to the door and I unload some baskets onto the dining room floor. Supermarkets are hideous places that I avoid like the plague. Dawn of the Dead.
rather be a shover than a pusher, 'cos a pusher's a jerk
(RIP etc)
Sometimes as I crosses the car park on my bike I get such enragement by the sight of a shopping trolley sited where I intend to lock my bicycle I ram it out of the way with the front wheel.
I ride my bike to the supermarket and carry a basket round
Amateur. I ride my bike to the supermarket and push a trolley round 😉
I ride my bike up and down the aisles and just lob stuff into the panniers.
My second "proper" job in few was M&S Lakeside. General dogsbody. Delivering carrier bags to the tills, emptying the bins, etc. The best job was wandering about the car parks and collecting the abandoned trollies. Mate and I would do it and make off to Burger King with the proceeds.
Just about every supermarket, posh or scum, in Germany requires you to deposit a €.....
.... It makes those flat bed Ikea ones incredibly good value.
I think it says a lot about the users character on how they leave the trolley after their shop.
I just swing it sideways to let it stop where it likes and swing my SUV out wide, ignore the one way system and beep my horn at anyone who has the audacity to be reverse parking rather than driving straight in. The world is mine everyone else needs to get out of my way.
And I am a tidy and gentle arranger - while fighting my inner bowling alley champion....
I park it properly. But at high speed.
Life is all about compromises.
If you don't do a feet-off-the-floor scoot when on the return leg, you'll die of cat aids
Combination really… I’ll ride my trolley across the car park going ‘weeee!’ and collect any strays as I go but ram it the f home with as much noise as possible.
I think trolley-abandoners are pretty much up there with litterbugs and people that are rude to waiters.
If you don’t do a feet-off-the-floor scoot when on the return leg, you’ll die of cat aids
Pro tip: don't do it on the mini trolleys, their centre of gravity is all wrong. I once did this, the trolley squirted out from under me with its front wheels flying up into the air and I went 'splat' full length in Cardiff Tesco Extra car park.
If you don’t do a feet-off-the-floor scoot when on the return leg, you’ll die of cat aids
I do that the whole way round the store. The smooth floors get you loads of distance, if you can get your weight just right you can wheelie or a slight sideways shove as you take off and you can get a majestic 180.
smooth floors
Ahh same supermarket job we were allowed to take the electric pallet trucks onto the shop floor after closing. But if you stand on them you can race them like chariots round the store and drift them on the polished floor. Good times, I miss being 16!
@tthew this is you AICMFP https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17827814.police-appealing-victims-bike-yobs-terrorise-asda-shoppers/ 😀
Ahh same supermarket job we were allowed to take the electric pallet trucks onto the shop floor after closing. But if you stand on them you can race them like chariots round the store and drift them on the polished floor. Good times, I miss being 16!
*Googles supermarket jobs*
Ah, trolley drifting is an entirely different sport, it's most satisfying when you time it such that the nose moves out the way of an obsctruction at the last second.
IKEA flat trolleys make for excellent bobsleigh action.
@cougar you need to be careful with those buggers, practically need to do a plank to get it right and you're still stuck with the high centre of gravity.