The Kroger I work at has those carts that are smaller in length and have two basket levels. Those carts are much harder to steer in stacks out in the parking lot and they're much more dangerous to push (with that bar that your legs get really close to). I've had instances where customers put so much on them that I have to switch them to a bigger cart and they complain about the bigger cart being dirty or unsanitized.
yeah people are hilarious, baby carts get used more than any other cart and most people load up these carts with as much stuff as a regular buggy then get irritated when they **** starts to fall out in the middle of the store
I think what he or she is referring to is the "Child Shopping Cart". Its about 50% smaller than a regular shopping cart and its for the kids to load their basket up like mommy. I don't think he or she is talking about these:
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I think what he or she is referring to is the "Child Shopping Cart". Its about 50% smaller than a regular shopping cart and its for the kids to load their basket up like mommy. I don't think he or she is talking about these:
That is the cart that the OP was refering to... and everything that he said was absolutly correct.
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I like them too on occasion. Sometimes you don't have enough items to warrant using a regular bascart and those hand baskets are terrible when it comes to tall items such as cereal boxes or soft drink bottles.
I'm the guy that started this topic. Those pictures are what I'm describing. I'm not describing the cart with the car attached to it. I'm a bagger and my duty is to push those crappy carts that are hard to steer in stacks. We have the newer edition of the two basket mini-carts which have a milk rack at the bottom. The bar that keeps the milk from falling out is where the injury risk to my leg occurs.
I like those carts and they aren't that hard to bring in, you just have to hold the front cart and back cart from the side and walk at an angle, it's just a pain that there are different carts that don't fit with eachother. Obviously, the problem is the people that don't realize that just because you got the items in the cart doesn't mean it's not 10x more difficult to get the items in the cart after grouped in bags.
I like those carts and they aren't that hard to bring in, you just have to hold the front cart and back cart from the side and walk at an angle, it's just a pain that there are different carts that don't fit with eachother. Obviously, the problem is the people that don't realize that just because you got the items in the cart doesn't mean it's not 10x more difficult to get the items in the cart after grouped in bags.
That is my technique for bringing them in, I just don't like that you have to make multiple trips and that they get used the most. With the big carts you can fit 7-10 comfortably and still have decent control over them. I can only do 7 of the mini-carts at a time and they get used up by the time you get more of them.
When I was a bagger, we used to line up about 20 or so outside (sometimes 30 or more) and then call for one of the others to help. One push, one steer. Bring them in all at once. Worked great.
If I have too much stuff for a basket, I like to shop with those carts since they are more manueverable and I can juke and dodge all the fatties, electric carts, and aisle blocking idiots.
I'm not a courtesy clerk, so I don't have to push them in unless someone really ****ed up. But if I do, I tend to have a lot of trouble with them.
At any rate, ours didn't get fitted with lock wheels, so now they've mostly disappeared. I've had customers ask for them just so they can wheel their groceries home with them. I think we have only one left.
I seldom ever need a shopping cart, but the hand baskets have recently all disappeared. Soooooo, I've taken to snatching a few bags off the lanes and just go about that way. Works great~
at my store there is an apartment complex and they have been slowly stealing all of our carts and baskets and baby carts we have one cart with baby seat in it no one wants that
Ours too. We have apartments behind the store and a high school at the end of the parking lot. All our mini-carts and child carts are gone and we barely have enough regular carts to carry on daily business.
Now remember this much. if yu really want to complain about customers over loading these little carts, then lets talk about the few customers that wants to ride the handi-cap carts and load them down with the same if not more, items than the big carts would handle.
And then they want to know why the carts die and can not make it around the store. 300# limits, 400# customer and huge orders.
It's a rolling cart and Kroger wants you to fill it up. Customers come in for just a few things and don't want to to carry one of the handled baskets that get heavy. It's a marketing ploy by all retailers to get shoppers to put MORE in the cart than the specific items they came in to shop for.
