THIS. Grocery stores are the worst. I do not blame people for not taking carts back in those cases.
The handicapped spots are the closest to the store anyways. Sometimes if I’m fortunate enough to get a regular spot near the store, the store is closer to the car than the cart corral so it goes back there.
Honestly for the handicapped spots, since they all have those generous loading zones, a cart could easily be left there for the next person.
But seriously, handicapped people don’t have canes or walkers? What do they do when they have to go somewhere and there are no shopping carts to hang onto?