Selfish Customer Gets Roasted For Saying People Shouldn’t Return Their Shopping Carts

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Apr 26, 2022 6:00 PM EDT

When it comes to doing our jobs, many of us would do anything for an easy day's work now and then. A workplace without a sense of challenge might get boring pretty quickly, but one where we're not forced to deal with unnecessary drama, rude customers and annoying BS that distracts us from what we're meant to be doing? That is nothing short of bliss. 

Unfortunately, not everybody seems to share that point of view — especially for those who work in retail. According to people like u/Eve_Asher, if a store clerk isn't dealing directly with a customer or cleaning up the mess they leave behind, they're not doing what they're supposed to be.

At least, that is what the Redditor's post on r/The10thDentist might lead you to think. Explaining that they got annoyed when shoppers "[did] the work that an employee could be doing", they claimed that this justified the fact that they judged those who chose to use self checkouts and return shopping carts.

True to the nature of the contrarian subreddit, almost everyone vehemently disagreed with this out of touch opinion. People were quick to point out that things didn't usually work like OP thought they did. While self service might not be to anyone's taste, it isn't always putting somebody out of work.


 

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    Font - r/The10thDentist u/Eve_Asher • 14h I don't respect people who return their shopping carts or use self checkout Society/Culture People who take their shopping carts back to the grocery store just got finessed by a giant corporation so that company could avoid employing someone to do that. Same thing with self checkout. You're doing the work that an employee would be doing. You're also taking away entry level jobs from someone who could probably really use it. I was just at Target and I wai
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    Font - alls_are_taken 14h Returning the carts isn't a separate job. It's part of someone's scope who is already doing other stuff. G Reply * 2.6k sassythensweet 12h Yeah, I worked at a grocery store and the person collecting carts was almost always a bagger. If they had to collect carts then we would just be short one bagger and a cashier would do both jobs until the bagger came back.
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    Font - YeetPastTenselsYote 14h 3 4 Awards This just seems like a very self-centered post and a way to justify either your laziness or judgemental nature towards others. Regarding carts: People who don't return their carts to the proper places are lazy, self-entitled assholes. They don't consider the fact that rogue carts can and often will roll around causing damage to others' vehicles. Even if you "made sure it's secure", what you deem as secure could be handily dislodged by a strong gust of wi
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    Font - Regarding self-checkout: plenty of reasons people would want this. Maybe you're buying some more intimate stuff and don't want even a cashier to see what you're buying. Maybe you just don't like needless human interaction. Maybe you see the checkout line is already long enough and don't wanna wait that long. Maybe you don't have a lot to purchase and wanna be considerate to those who have more to purchase and are waiting in line. You might think you're "sticking it to the man," but you're
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    Font - Main_Tip112 14h 2 Awards By your absolutely airtight logic, we should all make messes while we shop and throw shit on the floor, because then the store would have to hire additional employees to clean up after us. G Reply * 2.7k 3 carrotv 13h Return the cart to the cart return. I don't take it all the way in.
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    Rectangle - AmandaCalzone 14h "I'm unbelievably lazy, how can I try to trick people into thinking that this is moral?" lol upvoted 6 Reply 4 813
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    Font - PokeZelda64 14h "Piss and shit all over the toilet seat, hell spread it on the walls. If you don't, you are making a janitor's job obsolete"
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    Font - LLLLLLover 14h The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing. To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presen
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    Font - makingspringrolls 14h Do you take the stairs instead of lifts/escalators, so someone has to clean them? Do you go into a bank to withdraw your money ? Do you pay your bills at a post office? Do you shop in stores, and not online? Do you buy your meat and fresh produce from specially stores, or from chain supermarkets?
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    Font - theexteriorposterior 14h You're just creating busy work. Aren't there more productive things people could be doing with their time? 6 Reply 金 87 SolidEcho7597 8h I work at a big box store in clothing, but am cashier trained, and will be called up when the lines are long. It is incredibly frustrating to have to put down what I'm doing to have to go up front to check, but there are multiple open self checkouts. Those people aren't helping me, they're taking me away from my primary job.
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    Font - snailsandstars 14h The supermarket isn't going to hire someone to return carts. They're going to make current employees do that job too, and pay them the exact same amount. Way to stick it to the man! 6 Reply 仓173 rejuicekeve 7h Grocery store margins are almost as low as they could be and still make a viable business, the moment you have to hire another person you aren't budgeted for it goes directly into the costs of the food. At which point you're just sticking it to yourself
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