I don't know if this was a man or a woman. I didn't see.
Person drives a white car. They used one of the small carts in the store. This person has parked right next to the curb in the parking lot. LAZY JERK has pushed the cart next to the curb and left it there, rather than walk to a corral less than 30 feet away and which can be seen from their driver's side door.
LAZY JERK...let's just call them "L.J." for short...begins to back out of the space. L.J. hits the cart with the back of their car. This is something that would obviously happen and that anyone, including a visually challenged person or a toddler with basic reasoning skills, could see coming. L.J. stops their car. Pulls up the foot or so back into the space.
The cart starts to move down the parking lot. At the time, I am pushing a row of 11 large carts. I stop for a moment, and notice that the row I am pushing is slowly moving backwards. Yea. The geniuses that designed our store and chose the location put the goddamned place on a hill. So our parking lot has a slope all the way up to the front entrance.
Since I, being a practical person, can tell that 11 large carts will do a hell of a lot more damage than a single small cart, I sadly watch and see what happens. Thankfully the small cart is moving at maybe one mile per hour. Slow. But, it still bumps into the side-back of a truck two spaces down.
Well. A thinking or concerned person might step out of their vehicle to check on things. Does L.J. exhibit the qualities of a careful and concerned citizen?
...What do YOU think...?
L.J. backs out of his or her parking space (slowly this time), turns the wheels and proceeds to drive off the parking lot. Thankfully because the cart was going so slow there was no ding or damage to the truck. I checked. Because I had to be the one to go get the cart that L.J. has so nicely left for me.
God damn it I really hate our customers. This job has taught me so much disgust toward the human race. I never want to work in retail ever again. In fact with the crap I go through with Kroger I never want to step foot in a grocery store again!
Goes to show how lazy and inconsiderate our customers are.
What gets me the most are the people who are willing to park FAR away, even when there are available parking spots closer to the store...and leave their carts where their car was. Seriously, if you're able to park far away and walk that distance to the store, you should be able to return your shopping cart to the appropriate spots.
FYI, most super markets or grocers have a downhill slope from their front door to the parking lot. Usually very mild and unnoticeable until you start to push a multitude of carts up it, but it makes sense that the slop is there. All designed in the name to please customers, to make their experience easy and enjoyable, if not a hassle free finish to the shopping trip. In many respects, stores have trained customers to be as lazy as possible so as to try to earn repeat business.
-- Edited by Mardoll on Friday 10th of October 2014 04:04:56 AM
For nearly a decade, I worked as an assistant psychiatric counselor; therein, I dealt with virtually all aspects of human behavior and its foibles. In that time, my heart remained pure and intact and ever hopeful for us as a species.
And then I got into retail.
Nothing will more disillusion and poison and absolutely create e v i l thoughts and acts in your mind, wished upon your fellow man, than working in retail. There will never be a more volatile environment, rife with the rotten stench of what we used to see as people, but now reduced to two legged PIGS, than working in a store brimingly FULL of them. My signature reads "Mother Nature Needs to Douche"..............ABSOLUTELY.
We're at 7 billion plus people on this ovoid shaped rock hurtling through space, and there seriously needs to be a new plague that wipes out 'bout---Oh, I dunno, let's say ONE BILLION? And yes, I will gladly stand up and be counted among the first to go...................................So long as I can be guaranteed 900,900,999 OTHER puke pots dissolve into harmless, easily absorbed into the ionosphere and go first.
For nearly a decade, I worked as an assistant psychiatric counselor; therein, I dealt with virtually all aspects of human behavior and its foibles. In that time, my heart remained pure and intact and ever hopeful for us as a species.
And then I got into retail.
Nothing will more disillusion and poison and absolutely create e v i l thoughts and acts in your mind, wished upon your fellow man, than working in retail. There will never be a more volatile environment, rife with the rotten stench of what we used to see as people, but now reduced to two legged PIGS, than working in a store brimingly FULL of them. My signature reads "Mother Nature Needs to Douche"..............ABSOLUTELY.
We're at 7 billion plus people on this ovoid shaped rock hurtling through space, and there seriously needs to be a new plague that wipes out 'bout---Oh, I dunno, let's say ONE BILLION? And yes, I will gladly stand up and be counted among the first to go...................................So long as I can be guaranteed 900,900,999 OTHER puke pots dissolve into harmless, easily absorbed into the ionosphere and go first.
*WHEW*. Rant over.
(This probably didn't help the O.P. very much!)
Actually I know exactly where you were coming from. Our customers are lazy, disgusting pigs. The crap I find in carts? Used tissues. The plastic free sample cups. Receipts (why are you taking it if you are going to leave it in the cart??). A lot of the disinfecting wipes available at the front doors.
Two weeks ago a customer took a cart, filled it with their own bags of garbage, and LEFT IT AT A CORRAL. From what I could tell they had just pulled one out of the corral and threw their crap into it, then pushed it beside the corral. It was the furthest one from the store, as if they knew (and they did) what they were doing was wrong. We are talking like five bags of things.
Soon after I first started I found an entire dead chicken in a small canvas bag next to one of our trash cans in the parking lot. An. Entire. Dead. Chicken.
I have so much hate for these lazy, disgusting *******s. I also really think Kroger needs to provide us courtesy clerks who have to pick out the trash out of the carts with gloves. Who knows what germs and disgusting crap are on them? No wonder Kroger provides disinfecting wipes.
I also get pissed at the SHEER GOD DAMNED LAZINESS AND BALLS that these people have. Last week I (politely) asked one gentleman not to leave a cart at the curb. Several others were already there. He responded with "Others had done it so I thought it was okay."
These DOUCHEBAGS will leave a cart at random despite the fact that a corral is nearby. And if that corral is overflowing they will do what they can to SHOVE IT IN THERE AND GET IT STUCK.
Oh your post helped me alright because I often feel the same way when in the parking lot. And when I find a can of bug spray in the frozen section those same feelings resurface. When I see six carts of go-backs because we don't have the labor for it due to scheduling and staff they can also appear.
FYI, most super markets or grocers have a downhill slope from their front door to the parking lot. Usually very mild and unnoticeable until you start to push a multitude of carts up it, but it makes sense that the slop is there. All designed in the name to please customers, to make their experience easy and enjoyable, if not a hassle free finish to the shopping trip. In many respects, stores have trained customers to be as lazy as possible so as to try to earn repeat business.
-- Edited by Mardoll on Friday 10th of October 2014 04:04:56 AM
The parking lots slope downhill from the store so when it rains the water runs away from the entrance.
Get some disposable gloves from the utility cart and stick them in your pocket. If I had a cart full of trash I would push it into the back room and put on gloves, then get a dustpan and scoop out the trash into a garbage bag. A quick trip to the restroom to throw up, wash my hands and I'm ready to go back out and get hit by a car or melt in the sun!
And to think we put our damm food in those nasty carts.
As a cashier I have customers ask if I have a trash can all the time. They hand me snotty kleenex, chicken bones, half eaten apples all kinds of germy nasty disease infested stuff. But the one I hate the most is MONEY FROM YOUR DAMN BRA. Not touchin your boob sweat money, no way.
It sounds like none of the associates in this thread have ever met a good customer. I always tell my associates: "for every bad customer you have, there are a hundred good ones". This only holds up if you keep a smile on your face, which is a valuable skill even outside of retail.
Get some disposable gloves from the utility cart and stick them in your pocket. If I had a cart full of trash I would push it into the back room and put on gloves, then get a dustpan and scoop out the trash into a garbage bag. A quick trip to the restroom to throw up, wash my hands and I'm ready to go back out and get hit by a car or melt in the sun!
And to think we put our damm food in those nasty carts.
As a cashier I have customers ask if I have a trash can all the time. They hand me snotty kleenex, chicken bones, half eaten apples all kinds of germy nasty disease infested stuff. But the one I hate the most is MONEY FROM YOUR DAMN BRA. Not touchin your boob sweat money, no way.
I always tell the customer that someone took my trashcan or that I don't have one, unless I can see that they just handing me a receipt or coupons.
