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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You sound like a good person who returns their shopping cart

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world! The shopping cart/parking lot affects us all. Walmart losing money on every avocado doesn't bother me at all.

In fact walmart probably doesn't care at all either, they'll take electricity over humans any day

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

A friend of mine told me that when he worked at a grocery store as a teenager that he always liked being tasked with rounding up the grocery carts in the parking lot because he got to go outside and be by himself for a bit. I think about that a lot, but I also return my cart.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I agree with your friend, I’ve been in the same job. But I also return my cart.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Former grocery store teen here. It was nice to get away from customers a little, but then again then you're stuck in a parking lot with those same customers and now you have to try and avoid getting run over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I always thought it was nice except for when the weather was terrible like when it was really hot or cold and you were out there with numb hands shoving 30 carts across a snow covered parking lot.

It was only occasionally good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Great, since those carts are returned by good people now, it means they can have a 5 minute break outside in the sun instead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Damn, now I'm going to think of those kids when I return the cart! Maybe I could like, pile them up real bad in the little hut so they can still get fresh air.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I want to see corporate profits shrink!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me returning the cart makes a person's job easier.

Stealing doesn't affect the workers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Funfact: Walmart pays the vendors (usually local person who rents their own truck and buys their own stock) on scan data. If it doesn't scan, Walmart is also not affected.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I return my shopping cart but I couldn't give a shit less how much Walmart is losing to shoplifters.

"Oh know guys! We only made $28 million in profit this year instead of $29 million! What will we tell our investors who are each worth six times that?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$28 million

I like your Dr. Evil-esque way of getting the order of magnitude wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You're right, they made ~$150 billion last year, but that's too much math.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

For some reason not returning the shopping cart makes me angrier than the meme about abusing self checkout.

[–] 31337 1 points 1 year ago

I am not a lazy bones.