For reasons I can’t fully explain, people’s failure to return their carts bothers me more than it probably should. But then I realized I can do something about it.
I wonder how much of this behavior is caused by enormous parking lots and shopping by car.
where i live there is a packing area next to the cart return. I put my stuff into bags and backpack there, then return the cart. No hassle at all.
If I had to go a couple of hundred meters to return the cart, I might come up with excuses too. Lots of our decisions are driven by the environment we live in. Reasons are made up after the fact.
I wonder how much of this behavior is caused by enormous parking lots and shopping by car. where i live there is a packing area next to the cart return. I put my stuff into bags and backpack there, then return the cart. No hassle at all. If I had to go a couple of hundred meters to return the cart, I might come up with excuses too. Lots of our decisions are driven by the environment we live in. Reasons are made up after the fact.
If I can, I grab a cart from a corral the middle of the lot and return it to the same corral.