Not returning your cart is a non event. Apparently the grocery store agrees with me as they don’t even post a sign saying “please return your cart.” They have employees who go out periodically and gather the carts. Nobody except a few bored souls on FR give a rat’s bazoo about it.
Its not a crime and it doesn’t make you a bad person or a low life ahole and God isn’t sending you to Hell over it. Its helpful if you return your cart. I’m in favor of it. I don’t care if anybody fails to do it. I have real things to worry about. Like the alien’s landing. 😆
Have you seen the way Chinese people or Indian people get on a train or bus? Have you seen them pile up by the door instead of forming an orderly line? I suppose that is also a “non event”. It’s also not a crime. Nobody is going to hell for it.
However, it is a low class, 3rd world, high time preference, low trust society type of behavior....just like leaving your cart out in a parking lot. And I hope to hell we don’t start having lots of people doing it here in our 1st world civilized country.
Many stores DO have signs asking you to put your cart away or that they are not responsible for damage to your car by unattended carts (because they often cause damage).
It’s not just a few bored souls on FR that care about it. It’s anyone who has had a car damaged in a parking lot or who has needed to move someone else’s cart out of the way to get into their own car.