People leaving shopping carts....

KillerBee370 · 12-11-2009, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by phelan

There's your problem right there. Walmart shoppers (no offense to any of you guys here who shop there) are generally lazy *** motherf*ckers who would use a conveyor belt into the shop if they could. The day they are responsible and take carts back to the return area is the day hell freezes over.

hahahaha i've done that...except i don't smoke, so i just sat back and relaxed for abit...

ended up falling asleep a few times for like an hour

Falling asleep??! LMAO!!

KillerBee370 · 12-11-2009, 04:45 PM

The best is when you get in, someone pulls up and hits their blinker holding up 5 damn ppl, you hit the brake lights, throw it in reverse...

...and then throw it back into park and bolt back inside the store just for the hell of it.

Modshack · 12-11-2009, 05:31 PM

Wait....... You actually parked your car in a Walmart parking lot??....

PapoZalsa · 12-11-2009, 07:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Modshack

Wait....... You actually parked your car in a Walmart parking lot??....

kannibul · 12-11-2009, 08:46 PM

Wow, the generalizations fly...

I'm fat (well, I don't think I'm FUCKTARD fat, but still big...at 6'0" / 295lbs) - but I always put the carts where they should go.

When I hit home depot and use one of those BMF carts, I roll the thing back up into the store.

Then again, when I was younger, and had a car I didn't mind getting torn up, I played shopping car demolition derby. Amazing what a 78 T-Bird going 30 will do to a shopping cart. I'm sure the store thought 'them damn teenagers tearing up our carts...' my thought is, you pay people to collect carts, and put carts into parking-spot containers...

Yet they're everywhere.

My favorite is when people put them in the cart holder, and it's ovbious someone hasn't come by with the little battery operated cart pusher to send them back in the store. In my day, you had to PUSH them...my record was 56 carts in one shot...no battery wimp-assist! RAWK!

Montez · 12-11-2009, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Modshack

Wait....... You actually parked your car in a Walmart parking lot??....

He did park on the far end of the lot...hehe. I live in really nice area and ocassionally I go to Wallyworld park on the end, even people with much nicer cars than my Z donot have respect for other people's sh"t. I see them opening doors into other people's cars, letting baskets roll into people's cars etc. I day I was at Whole foods and watched some jerk in a Mercedes E500 let his basket hit and scratch a ladies rear door on her Lex GS350, he looked and kept walking. I got his license plate number and gave it to the lady and waited for the police, she was greatful for me doing that.

frost · 12-11-2009, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by kannibul

I think it's ALDI that does this, but they basically make you put a quarter in a lock to get a cart, and when you return the cart, you get a quarter back.

It's very noticable how many less carts there are in their parking lot vs Walmart...

I think your situation, should something have happened, the store would have been liable due to negligence...

Slick system with the quarter thing. I think walmart had something similar, where if you brought a cart back they give you a certificate for money off your next purchase or something.

Gaiiden · 12-11-2009, 09:52 PM

when i see a shopping cart next to me I just do this:

Kills two birds with one stone.

in regards to one being there when I come out, I always try to find a spot in the highest point on the lot - that's about the most you can do besides parking in the boonies (which I do as well)

DooDooBrown · 12-11-2009, 10:09 PM

Kinda reminds me of that Meguairs ad that I saw in Car And Driver!!!! Shopping carts = Pure Evil!!

Jones Boy · 12-11-2009, 11:38 PM

I don't shop at Wal-Mart for this very reason. My wife took my 3 month old Tahoe up to Wal-Mart in the spring a couple years ago. We were having the typical 35 to 40 mph spring winds in Oklahoma. Well, my wife does what I've taught her to do and parks out in the boonies, to protect from door dings. She is about to get out of the car and feels/hears this loud bang. She thinks she's been backed into or hit by another car. She glances around and doesn't see any cars and figures it was something weird. So she goes into the store and shops. Well on the way out she is walking up to the car and can see the massive dent in the driver side door. So she comes home and tells me. Well I'm like why didn't you go in and talk to the manager of the store. She says they won't do anything because of the signs on the cart returns that says they aren't responsible for damages. So I call my uncle lawyer and ask him and he says to go back up there right away and talk to the manager. Needless to say Wal-Mart's claim department found them not liable for damages, and i got stuck with the 1000 dollar repair bill.

So, I don't shop there anymore. Oh yeah, Wal-Mart actually has a form for baskets hitting cars. It has spots for pictures and damage descriptions and so forth.

The parking on the highest point is a good idea!

nogoodname · 12-11-2009, 11:48 PM

think ditched carts in the parking lot is disrespect?? ....... i sometime see carts on my street and on the main street to my neighbourhood..... dumb ppl actually take the time to push a cart into intersections

spearfish25 · 12-11-2009, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by kannibul

I think it's ALDI that does this, but they basically make you put a quarter in a lock to get a cart, and when you return the cart, you get a quarter back.

I'd leave the quarter and just push the cart onto one of the little curbs there. That's my move...cart 'beached' half on the curb so it doesn't roll around.

nogoodname · 12-12-2009, 12:09 AM

i used to slam the cart into the cart return LOL... its bitter sweet because the carts are useful but its annoying to see them ditched all over the place... so i some times collect any carts near my car and slam it into the cart return.

also, when waiting in line with ur cart... ever had those dummies who push the cart so close to ur back.... one time some one hit my heel/foot right where it hurts lol, i got so mad... i kicked the cart behind me, things when flying and that person learned a lesson.

bloodo · 12-12-2009, 12:35 AM

It does not only happen at Walmart, it's every where you go grocery. When I used to be a courtesy clerk for Hyvee, I had to run around collecting carts because people left them everywhere. Hyvee's parking lot is not as big as Walmart, but some people are just too damn lazy to take the extra step to return the cart.

zmyride · 12-12-2009, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by phelan

There's your problem right there. Walmart shoppers (no offense to any of you guys here who shop there) are generally lazy *** motherf*ckers who would use a conveyor belt into the shop if they could.

Nah. They wouldn't use a conveyor belt unless there're donuts giving away free at the end of the belt.

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Originally Posted by phelan

hahahaha i've done that...except i don't smoke, so i just sat back and relaxed for abit...ended up falling asleep a few times for like an hour

that's for losers. i'd never do that. it's karma. nice to people, they're nice back to you. if you try to be axhole, well maybe you are.

12-11-2009, 05:31 PM	#18 (permalink)
Modshack A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Greenville NC Posts: 2,883 Drives: 370Z Sport Rep Power: 976	Wait....... You actually parked your car in a Walmart parking lot??.... __________________ Steal my car! (SOLD)...Now Porsche Cayman S Oil Cooler DIY: Here!

12-11-2009, 09:52 PM	#23 (permalink)
Gaiiden Base Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Jersey Shore Posts: 227 Drives: 09 370Z Touring 6sp Rep Power: 16	when i see a shopping cart next to me I just do this: Kills two birds with one stone. in regards to one being there when I come out, I always try to find a spot in the highest point on the lot - that's about the most you can do besides parking in the boonies (which I do as well) __________________ Drew Sikora Bullrun 2009 participant

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12-11-2009, 04:45 PM	#17 (permalink)
KillerBee370 A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: So Cal baby! Age: 51 Posts: 5,964 Drives: with passion Rep Power: 321	The best is when you get in, someone pulls up and hits their blinker holding up 5 damn ppl, you hit the brake lights, throw it in reverse... ...and then throw it back into park and bolt back inside the store just for the hell of it.

12-11-2009, 08:46 PM	#20 (permalink)
kannibul A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Jenks, OK Posts: 2,281 Drives: 370z Touring/Sport Rep Power: 267	Wow, the generalizations fly... I'm fat (well, I don't think I'm FUCKTARD fat, but still big...at 6'0" / 295lbs) - but I always put the carts where they should go. When I hit home depot and use one of those BMF carts, I roll the thing back up into the store. Then again, when I was younger, and had a car I didn't mind getting torn up, I played shopping car demolition derby. Amazing what a 78 T-Bird going 30 will do to a shopping cart. I'm sure the store thought 'them damn teenagers tearing up our carts...' my thought is, you pay people to collect carts, and put carts into parking-spot containers... Yet they're everywhere. My favorite is when people put them in the cart holder, and it's ovbious someone hasn't come by with the little battery operated cart pusher to send them back in the store. In my day, you had to PUSH them...my record was 56 carts in one shot...no battery wimp-assist! RAWK!

12-11-2009, 10:09 PM	#24 (permalink)
DooDooBrown Base Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Ranson, WV Posts: 178 Drives: 09 370 Touring w/spt Rep Power: 16	Kinda reminds me of that Meguairs ad that I saw in Car And Driver!!!! Shopping carts = Pure Evil!!

12-11-2009, 11:38 PM	#25 (permalink)
Jones Boy Base Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Yukon, Oklahoma Posts: 35 Drives: 370Z and Chevy Tahoe Rep Power: 16	I don't shop at Wal-Mart for this very reason. My wife took my 3 month old Tahoe up to Wal-Mart in the spring a couple years ago. We were having the typical 35 to 40 mph spring winds in Oklahoma. Well, my wife does what I've taught her to do and parks out in the boonies, to protect from door dings. She is about to get out of the car and feels/hears this loud bang. She thinks she's been backed into or hit by another car. She glances around and doesn't see any cars and figures it was something weird. So she goes into the store and shops. Well on the way out she is walking up to the car and can see the massive dent in the driver side door. So she comes home and tells me. Well I'm like why didn't you go in and talk to the manager of the store. She says they won't do anything because of the signs on the cart returns that says they aren't responsible for damages. So I call my uncle lawyer and ask him and he says to go back up there right away and talk to the manager. Needless to say Wal-Mart's claim department found them not liable for damages, and i got stuck with the 1000 dollar repair bill. So, I don't shop there anymore. Oh yeah, Wal-Mart actually has a form for baskets hitting cars. It has spots for pictures and damage descriptions and so forth. The parking on the highest point is a good idea!

12-11-2009, 11:48 PM	#26 (permalink)
nogoodname Lifetime Premium Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Montreal Posts: 22,357 Drives: E46 M3 Rep Power: 1765	think ditched carts in the parking lot is disrespect?? ....... i sometime see carts on my street and on the main street to my neighbourhood..... dumb ppl actually take the time to push a cart into intersections

12-12-2009, 12:09 AM	#28 (permalink)
nogoodname Lifetime Premium Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Montreal Posts: 22,357 Drives: E46 M3 Rep Power: 1765	i used to slam the cart into the cart return LOL... its bitter sweet because the carts are useful but its annoying to see them ditched all over the place... so i some times collect any carts near my car and slam it into the cart return. also, when waiting in line with ur cart... ever had those dummies who push the cart so close to ur back.... one time some one hit my heel/foot right where it hurts lol, i got so mad... i kicked the cart behind me, things when flying and that person learned a lesson.

12-12-2009, 12:35 AM	#29 (permalink)
bloodo Base Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Nebraska Posts: 93 Drives: . Rep Power: 16	It does not only happen at Walmart, it's every where you go grocery. When I used to be a courtesy clerk for Hyvee, I had to run around collecting carts because people left them everywhere. Hyvee's parking lot is not as big as Walmart, but some people are just too damn lazy to take the extra step to return the cart.