But he has cerebral palsy which made walking back to the car without the cart for stability difficult when he was shopping alone. He actively liked if someone left a cart in the handicapped hatch mark area because then it would be close so he could grab that going into the store and be balanced against it.
He did know it wasn't ideal though, and I'd take the carts back when I started shopping with him.
Shouldn't, but people absolutely do judge them! They also judge if they think you shouldn't be in a handicap spot period. So many people get huffy when they see my (what appears to be) able body get out of the car then...oh shit, my visibly disabled husband!
Every rule has its exception, it makes sense that physically handicapped people shouldn't be treated as strictly with rules concerning physical activities.
I take it back into the store because it's closer than the nearest corral. Or I take my bags out before I go into the parking lot and leave the cart in the lobby cart storage.
Idk. I put my cart back but I have heard an occasional decent argument why someone wouldn't.
One of the biggest ones is a single parent shopping alone with multiple small children. I get that ideally the cart corral probably isn't super far away, but leaving small kids alone for even a short period of time must be nerve wracking and not always safe depending on the area and climate.
Now there's more than one and they're running mental gymnastics to claim that pro-social behavior is simping for corpos. Special kind of entitled faux-leftism there.
The CEO isn't paying that salary. It's a cost of business. A business you're paying for as a customer. All the customers pay a percentage of a nickel extra for shopping in a store that has a cart returner on the payroll.
I suppose ithe job pays badly and isn't very interesting. It's not something I'd waste my life doing. I wouldn't want my kids to do it either. Actually I wouldn't recommend it for anyone. Life has much more to offer than pushing carts all day.
So, congratu-fucking-lations, you've created a job that nobody ought to do and made everyone pay for keeping a sorry ass kid on poverty wage.
Ok, so you'd argue that by pushing the cart back, then you're the one doing the same meaningless job for free. Good point, right?
But here's the catch: Nobody ever needs to return a cart.
There are at least two ways to do this.
One: We can all accept that the cart doesn't have a home to be returned to and just leave them wherever and pick them up at the same place. This is obviously the chaotic neutral way.
Two: Pack your groceries in bags in the cart after (or while) paying. When you push the cart back towards the car, you walk by the cart corral, pick up your bags and walk to the car while leaving the cart in the corral. It's fucking magic.