[Robert A Cook PE]

This is very limited part of the larger question:
Do you return your own shopping cart?
If an abandoned shopping cart is near your car, do you return it to the corral section?
If an abandoned cart is between you and the corral - but not threatening your own car, do you step over and push that cart to the corral?

Would laz hit it?

[Red Badger]

Unless I’m in a hurry...................

[SunkenCiv]

By and large, and depending on the size of the parking lot, proximity to the corral, and whether the whole surface is iced up because it's winter (risk of breakin' a hip), uh, usually I put the cart in the corral. I find it frustrating to encounter a cart in a parking space I'd planned to use, and also know the paint on others' cars could be damaged if the wind (or a bump from a car, or the force of gravity) moves the cart while no one is around.