Abandoned Shopping Carts, Litter And the Decline of Black America

AmericanThinker ^

[FreedomNotSafety]

The writer may be American but he doesn’t appear to be much of a thinker.

He whines about people not returning carts but has a picture of a stolen abandoned carts which are two entirely different issues.

I do not return carts to the store. I will place a cart in a “corral” if it is convenient. I grew up with cart boys. Usually young men who fetched carts back into the store. I had that job at one time.take a purchase home. Taking it off of store property is stealing.

Looting and shoplifting are easy crimes to fix. It isn’t a black thing except that black communities have been abounded by white liberals when it comes to law enforcement. White liberals love lawlessness in black communities and encourage it since it furthers blacks dependence.

When retail establishments off trash cans both inside and outside people will almost always use them. But liberals have made trash disposal so expensive it is becoming a luxury level service. Many gas stations do not offer trash cans. Many towns have restricted disposal so harshly that people haul items and dispose of them roadside. Its why NYC and NJ look like thrird world trash heaps.

[weezel]

lbj and his great society did more harm to the black family than sheets byrd and his merry band of night riders ever dreamed of doing.

[DouglasKC]

Anyone that uses putting a cart away as a test of moral integrity is automatically a fail for me.

Stores didn’t create cart corrals as a test of morality. They created them to save money. They had to pay people to keep the carts out of parking spaces and thus block paying customers from the store. It also cut down on cart theft by serving as a gentle reminder that the cart belonged to the store.

Having a centralized location and then mounting a propaganda effort to get customers to comply and put their carts there was/is a deliberate effort to save the store money by streamlining their operation.

It was much the same for the trash pickup industry. I grew up where you had your trash barrels (usually galvanized steel because of the practice of tossing out hot embers from coal burning furnaces) on the side of the house somewhere and the garbage man would come up to their location and get them. A slow and inefficient system to be sure.

Someone then got the bright idea of making customers bring their garbage cans to the road or their service would be discontinued leaving them only the options of burning their trash or taking it to the dump. Still there was no consistency to the garbage cans used.

Someone then figured out that it would be a good side revenue stream to actually supply garbage cans for a price. That way they could all be uniform and emptying techniques could be maximized for the greatest efficiency.

In the meantime truck technology was improving as well. They invented the automatic side loader...a device that can grab and dump a can. So one guy could now theoretically do garbage collection instead of a whole crew.

As these systems got more and more efficient they also got more and more demanding of uniformity. So now the garbage collection companies insist you use their wheeled large capacity bins. AND they train us to bring our garbage to the street and place it there in the ideal position for the automatic side loader to work the best.

Nobody in their right mind would insist that bringing their garbage to the road and putting it in the exact right position is a test of character and morality. We’ve been trained to do it for maximum cost savings for the company.

IT’S THE EXACT SAME THING WITH THE STUPID CART CORRALS! We’ve been trained to do this.

[yesthatjallen]

"Stores didn’t create cart corrals as a test of morality. They created them to save money. They had to pay people to keep the carts out of parking spaces and thus block paying customers from the store. It also cut down on cart theft by serving as a gentle reminder that the cart belonged to the store."

As opposed to leaving the cart anywhere in the lot for other people to traverse and maneuver round. It's not about morality testing, saving money, or stopping theft. It's about safety.

Yes, there is a moral component. Leaving your chart anywhere is like dropping your trash where you're standing. It shows you disrespect others and their property.

Social mores maintain social order.

[Don W]

Regarding trash disposal: I live in a small former mining/railroad town. We are provided two vouchers every year for disposal of large/heavy/unwieldy items up to 1200 lbs.

I went to dispose of a load of railroad half-ties that had been buried on my property and was told that the vouchers are not valid for that kind of trash. I ended up paying $800 because I’m a responsible citizen. I even told the attendant at the dump: “This is exactly why the sides of the roads have all that trash dumped.” She just shrugged.

[DouglasKC]

As opposed to leaving the cart anywhere in the lot for other people to traverse and maneuver round. It's not about morality testing, saving money, or stopping theft. It's about safety. Yes, there is a moral component. Leaving your chart anywhere is like dropping your trash where you're standing. It shows you disrespect others and their property. Social mores maintain social order.

I'll grant that the solution is better than the alternative. But I resist the notion that courtesy and morality are synonymous.

[cnsmom]

If LBJ and Margaret Sanger hadn’t destroyed the black family they wouldn’t need the Obama Biden Replacement Plan Now.

[Sicon]

"You are either an American, or a guest."

Or, equally likely, a criminal illegal alien invader.

[yesthatjallen]

"I resist the notion that courtesy and morality are synonymous."

Courtesy: being polite. Morality: knowing right from wrong.

Shopping carts are strewn throughout minority communities. They're there because residents take them and then, instead of returning them, abandon them and repeat this process every time they shop.

Is this stealing? Are they acting morally? Do they know right from wrong? Is making your community look like a ghetto courteous behavior?

Synonymous or not, the end result is the same. Urban blight.

[DIRTYSECRET]

**Blacks are destroying entire businesses and business models, not by staying away from them, but by showing up.**

You mean like the WNBA and the way they treat Ms. Clark? We now gotta pay them ‘what they’re worth’. Please tell me what it is.

[ansel12]

I was talking about customers, not the businesses.

[Mr. Blond]

Culture is downstream from race. Empathy, ie the ability to consider the feelings of others, and forward thinking/future orientation, are abstract concepts. Abstract concepts originate in the frontal lobe, specifically the prefrontal cortex, along with behavior and emotional control. When you evolve in a region that never sees winter, you don’t have the environmental pressures that force future orientation on a population. Failing to return your shopping cart is anti-social behavior, but the fact is that some people simply can’t conceive of downstream societal effects, or the inconveniences that it may cause to other people. The future, for them, simply does not exist.