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The Shopping Cart Test

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    Aqua Letifer
    wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 16:01 last edited by
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    Please love yourself.

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      Horace
      wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 16:32 last edited by
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      There are levels of this test which become more ambiguous in their discriminatory power. After pushing the cart to the stall with the rest of the returned carts, they are not often all stacked neatly inside one another. Do you push your cart in with the rest of the jumble haphazardly, or do you find a single cart in the jumble and stack your cart inside that one, while leaving the rest of the jumble, or do you stack the whole jumble neatly?

      Education is extremely important.

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        Mik
        wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 16:49 last edited by
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        Utter nonsense. There can be a lot of reasons people don't return them. I do return them myself, unless the store makes it unpalatable by having too few cart corrals.

        Not that it is an issue anymore. I either have mine delivered or pick it up in the lot.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          Doctor Phibes
          wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 16:59 last edited by
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          I typically jump into the cart at the top of a steep hill, and shout WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

          The problem with Americans is they're so busy analysing whether they're good people or not, they miss the freaking obvious.

          I was only joking

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          • M Mik
            11 Jun 2020, 16:49

            Utter nonsense. There can be a lot of reasons people don't return them. I do return them myself, unless the store makes it unpalatable by having too few cart corrals.

            Not that it is an issue anymore. I either have mine delivered or pick it up in the lot.

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            Aqua Letifer
            wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:04 last edited by
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            @Mik said in The Shopping Cart Test:

            Utter nonsense. There can be a lot of reasons people don't return them. I do return them myself, unless the store makes it unpalatable by having too few cart corrals.

            Not that it is an issue anymore. I either have mine delivered or pick it up in the lot.

            It's high-minded bullocks, sure, but I shared it because I think the idea is absolutely correct: douchebaggery outs itself when one is allowed to get away with it. Another (perhaps better) example is the "see how he/she treats the waiter" dating advice.

            Far older: (paraphrasing)

            When a place is busy and someone comes in thoughtlessly with some business or another, people will often treat him coldly, or become angry. But at such times, etiquette dictates that one should calm himself and deal with that person in a positive manner. To be just as thoughtless and to treat the person harshly is the way of middle-class lackeys.

            I've remembered that because I know that last part is verbatim. 😁

            Please love yourself.

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              11 Jun 2020, 16:59

              I typically jump into the cart at the top of a steep hill, and shout WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

              The problem with Americans is they're so busy analysing whether they're good people or not, they miss the freaking obvious.

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              Aqua Letifer
              wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:06 last edited by
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              @Doctor-Phibes said in The Shopping Cart Test:

              I typically jump into the cart at the top of a steep hill, and shout WHEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

              The problem with Americans is they're so busy analysing whether they're good people or not, they miss the freaking obvious.

              People who don't shopping-cart bobsled at every opportunity are to be treated with pity and suspicion.

              Please love yourself.

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                Catseye3
                wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:28 last edited by
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                Anyone meekly accepting that he's "no better than an animal or an absolute savage" because some jamoke on the Net said so has more serious problems than faulty shopping cart disposal habits.

                Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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                  Mik
                  wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:34 last edited by
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                  I find a huge chasm between how you treat people you deal with and shopping cart returns.

                  “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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                    Horace
                    wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:38 last edited by
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                    There are a lot of professional shopping cart fetchers who would be out of a job if everybody returned the cart neatly to the front of the store. Call me crazy, but I care about those people and their jobs - and the families those jobs support.

                    Education is extremely important.

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                      11 Jun 2020, 17:34

                      I find a huge chasm between how you treat people you deal with and shopping cart returns.

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                      Aqua Letifer
                      wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:40 last edited by
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                      @Mik said in The Shopping Cart Test:

                      I find a huge chasm between how you treat people you deal with and shopping cart returns.

                      They're both actions in which you have a wide range of choice because doing the wrong thing isn't at all illegal. Therefore, paying attention to the choices people make in those settings is informative.

                      For hikers, it's packing out. There are many, many examples.

                      Please love yourself.

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                        89th
                        wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:41 last edited by
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                        If you want to kill some time, this guy (Cart Narcs) has some entertaining (real) videos of him enforcing cart returns:

                        https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMUlr8yHymYgSe58DpUH7w

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                          Copper
                          wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:55 last edited by
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                          I put the cart neatly in the row back inside the store.

                          And I pick up other carts as I go.

                          And I run (pathetic old-man run) while doing it.

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                            11 Jun 2020, 17:41

                            If you want to kill some time, this guy (Cart Narcs) has some entertaining (real) videos of him enforcing cart returns:

                            https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMUlr8yHymYgSe58DpUH7w

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                            Rich
                            wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 17:57 last edited by
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                            @89th said in The Shopping Cart Test:

                            If you want to kill some time, this guy (Cart Narcs) has some entertaining (real) videos of him enforcing cart returns:

                            https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClMUlr8yHymYgSe58DpUH7w

                            Probably the one thing that would get me to not return my cart is knowing there's some muther fucker with a camera that thinks he's gonna 'shame' me into doing so.

                            In any case, I think Aldis has already solved the issue. (the cart issue, not douchebaggery at large) A 25 cent deposit, and virtually all their carts get returned---not sprawled out all over the parking lot, rolling into peoples cars, etc. Great idea. Plus, if the weather sucks, I feel like leaving the cart out is simply paying for a service. 🙂

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                              Klaus
                              wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 18:10 last edited by
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                              Two words: Euro coin.

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                              • A Aqua Letifer
                                11 Jun 2020, 16:01

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                                Doctor Phibes
                                wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 18:11 last edited by
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                                @Aqua-Letifer said in The Shopping Cart Test:

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                                American punk rocker 😂

                                I was only joking

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                                  Rainman
                                  wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 19:54 last edited by
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                                  You guys are nuts.
                                  Seriously. Shopping carts? Girly shopping carts??

                                  I could see a serious discussion in regards to the big flat hand trucks that Costco has. Nothing more fun than running into things with one of those.

                                  But shopping carts? You need to ascertain the difference between a molehill and a mountain.

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                                  • R Rainman
                                    11 Jun 2020, 19:54

                                    You guys are nuts.
                                    Seriously. Shopping carts? Girly shopping carts??

                                    I could see a serious discussion in regards to the big flat hand trucks that Costco has. Nothing more fun than running into things with one of those.

                                    But shopping carts? You need to ascertain the difference between a molehill and a mountain.

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                                    Aqua Letifer
                                    wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 20:09 last edited by
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                                    @Rainman said in The Shopping Cart Test:

                                    But shopping carts? You need to ascertain the difference between a molehill and a mountain.

                                    And you need to ascertain the consequences of three months of lockdown. Seriously just what in the hell are we supposed to be doing on TNCR, solving the mind-body problem? Discovering tea brewing techniques that even Phibes could follow?

                                    Please love yourself.

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                                      Rainman
                                      wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 20:43 last edited by
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                                      It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
                                      . . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?

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                                      • R Rainman
                                        11 Jun 2020, 20:43

                                        It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
                                        . . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?

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                                        Aqua Letifer
                                        wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 22:02 last edited by
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                                        @Rainman said in The Shopping Cart Test:

                                        It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
                                        . . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?

                                        Phibes is your man for that; I'm more of a D&D person.

                                        Please love yourself.

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                                        • A Aqua Letifer
                                          11 Jun 2020, 22:02

                                          @Rainman said in The Shopping Cart Test:

                                          It's a cold, hard and cruel world out there.
                                          . . . Would you like to play a nice game of chess?

                                          Phibes is your man for that; I'm more of a D&D person.

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                                          Rainman
                                          wrote on 11 Jun 2020, 22:10 last edited by
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                                          @Aqua-Letifer
                                          Naw, I was referencing a movie.

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