Do you put your shopping cart in return space or just place it where ever in the parking lot?

Personally, I do return my shopping cart to the designated area. Just because they pay someone to gather the shopping carts doesn’t mean that customers should leave their carts everywhere. It’s common courtesy to the employees of the store to put the carriage in the correct spot.In addition to it being the courteous thing to do, returning carts to their corral is the safest thing to do.

It’s funny that you showed a photo of Target in your question because I saw a situation in a Target parking lot once that firmly cemented in my mind the importance of returning carts to their proper place. I visited a local Target on an extremely windy day. Shopping carts were rolling everywhere like they were possessed by evil spirits.

I watched one particularly lively shopping car fly the entire length of the parking lot before it ricocheted off some unsuspecting shopper’s minivan. I am certain that the cart was traveling at least 80 MPH.

I used to go to an Aldi's Grocery Store where you had to put .25 cents in to unlock a cart. You got your quarter back when you put your cart back and relocked it. People were annoyed at the concept, but really, what a brilliant idea!

If anything, like you all mentioned, there would be less dents in cars. The other genius part is they did not have to pay a parking cart attendant to gather carts! I personally do put my cart back every time.

I live near Chicago and there can be some very windy days. I remember seeing a cart barreling through the parking lot one day and chasing it and saving someone's car from getting smashed. Maybe everyone should take into the concept above that I mentioned!

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I admit I am guilty of popping the cart onto an island or similarly disabling it if there are no cart returns in the parking lot and I am in a hurry. In general, I try to park near a cart return to make it more convenient for me to return the cart and put it someplace it cannot get loose and damage anyone's car. It really irks me though that some stores have huge parking lots and they put all the cart returns really close to the store.

Yeah, this way it takes them less time to retrieve the carts--IF their customers put them in these too-close-to-the-store cart returns! As others have posted, most people won't go too far to return a cart. The stores really should scatter numerous cart returns all over their lots.

One store really impressed me by having a roving employee who picked the carts up at customers' cars. That was while I was travelling, or you can bet I would do all my shopping there. It was not a particularly expensive store, either.

I would never just leave the shopping cart in the middle of the parking lot or somewhere that a car might hit or someone might walk into. What goes around comes around. Usually I had to pay a $1 or 25-cent "deposit" anyways to get the cart so in most cases I put the cart back to get my money back.

Sometimes as I am returning the cart I may see someone who needs a cart so I will offer to "sell" the cart to them just to save them a trip. If I happen to be in a really good mood, I just might let them have the cart for free. I think people who don't take the time to put the carts back are nothing but lazy people.It takes an extra minute to put them back.

Unfortunately I have been to many parking lots where the shopping carts are everywhere, on the grass, in the middle of the lot and even two blocks down the road.

As I'm a Capricorn, I like to have everything put back where it belongs, it's just plain thoughtless not to put a shopping cart back, stray ones can cause accidents and it creates more unnecessary work for the staff. As ginamichellesattic said, a lot of stores now have a coin system, we also have Aldi here in Spain and that really seems to cure the problem. Better still, when a new supermarket called Masymas opened in my town, they gave away free keyrings, with a magnetic "coin" in a holder that fits all the supermarkets carts, this has been a great freebie, before I had this I was always searching around for change, now the "coin" thingy is right there with my keys.

One thing you do have to watch here in Spain, is gypsies approaching you as you load your car, they want to wait for you to finish and take the cart back to get the coin, they can be quite intimidating, especially if you are on your own.

Usually, I put the cart in the correct spot. While I know many people try to park close to a store's entrance, I usually try to park close to a cart corral. (On the opposite side to avoid roaming carts).

Parking close makes it easier to put back the buggy. If I only have a few items, I will put the buggy back inside the store and lug out my bags so there is no need to return the buggy. Some stores have started a policy that is prevalent in Europe that really helps cut down on stray buggies.

They require you to insert a quarter to take out a buggy. You get the quarter back after you return the buggy to the storage location. I know our local Aldi store does this and it really cuts down on wild buggies.

The attached video presents the firm IDEO reworking the shopping cart in 5 days.

Good question. Like yourself, I see people place their carts everywhere but in the designated areas. However, I usually put cart in the cart rack area when I’m done as I would pretty upset to say the least if my car was hit by a rolling cart simply because someone did not care to take a few extra steps to put the cart back where it actually belongs.

We really don’t always think about the potential consequences that our actions, or lack thereof will have on other people so we don’t always do what is necessarily right. With that being said, this is the reason why I put my cart back because that is what the designated areas are there for and simply because I wouldn’t want to risk having that cart roll and hit another vehicle.

I have had way too many incidents of a shopping cart denting the side of my car. So I try to always make sure that I place where they belong, in the cart corrals. Understandably many companies will not pay for damages that are caused by cart incidents.

I know from experience that you are parking at your own risk. While the carts are the property of the store, there is no way for the company to hold each customer accountable for what they do when they are finished with the carts. I was a manager of a Walmart for many years, and not only did my own car sustain damage, but there were countless situations where I had to explain the company's policy to a very irate customer.

I don't use carts that often, but I *always* put them back in the return area. If I arrive at a store and am not planning to use a cart, I will sometimes still grab two or three carts and return them to the stall before going inside. I like the carts that require you put in a quarter in order to use them, as they won't give you the quarter back until they are placed back in the cart return.

I reserve substantial hate and resentment for people who don't return carts. There are even some people who don't think you should bring expensive cars to these stores, and that it "serves you right" if you get thousands of dollars in shopping cart damage. We should build special prisons for those people.

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I always park near a rack so when I load the car I can just put the cart in the rack. As you get older this is a good way to remember where you parked.

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