Teacher Terry
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None of our stores have baskets anymore. If I just need a few items I carry them in my arms.
I always take mine back too, even if it's raining. That said, I stopped automatically thinking others were being lazy when I had some health issues that made that extra step very difficult, esp when I didn't have the cart to lean on after returning it. I'd still return it to the stall if there was one but when there wasn't I put it as close to my car but out of the way as possible as long as it wasn't blocking anything. Makes taking a cart back now, when body is happy, an act of gratitude for good health.We almost always proactively return our basket or shopping cart at every store that offers them before leaving the store. And we never leave shopping carts at random in parking lots - we either return them to a designated area (like Costco provides) or back to the store (like HT/Trader Joe's/Whole Foods). It's sad how lazy some people are...
Not my jobI can’t imagine why someone would want to seal the basket, but I guess if they do, there comes a point where the merchant say enough is enough. Our local stores all have baskets. The only problem I have is that no one brings them from the checkout area, where they end up after shopping, back to the door that you enter the store from. There’s a holder there, but it’s typically empty.
Thankfully, now I know enough to go in the other door and grab a basket from there.
Just for what it's worth, as a consumer product sales person in the late 70s, I was helping grocery stores reset their shelves all of the time. Getting consumers to spend more time is an approach that improves impulse purchasing. I am guessing the strategy was in place before my time.I've noticed a couple of trends in grocery and similar stores.
The first is that they want to confuse you and make you spend more time in the store and the second is that they want you to have a bigger cart. They also don't want you to use your self brought bag to shop with.
I think the "spend more time in the store" trend is to get you to buy more. Maybe it works for some people. But after a 1 hour visit to a Walmart store today I've vowed to just get things shipped from walmart.com. So I'll be spending less time in their store here.
I think their theory is that if people spend more time searching the store they will buy more. I can't speak for others but I shop with a list and if I can't find what I am looking for I leave and buy elsewhere including online. This policy by both Walmart and Costco has driven me to buy more elsewhere. I also generally shop less at both stores anticipating this problem and deciding my time is just not worth saving a few dollars.
The smaller cart thing is also perplexing. If I have more than a few items I want a cashier so that drives up their labor costs.
This happened to us a few days ago. Everything was scanned & paid for, but just as we exited the store the alarms went off & the cart wheels locked up. Some store employee raced up and held what looked like a giant cell phone next to the wheels & released the lock.When people push the shopping cart with unscanned products the wheels will lockup just before you exit the first sliding doors.
This makes you wonder why they have not gone to the IKEA model to make you walk through every aisle in order to get out!N
My local Wegmans keeps doing major redesigns to keep us in the store longer. I work from a list and I find it incredibly rude and frustrating as I age to make me hunt for items
This practice may work on some, but eventually, I will become frustrated and order everything online even paying a little more
This makes you wonder why they have not gone to the IKEA model to make you walk through every aisle in order to get out!
My primary grocery store, WinCo, only has only full-sized grocery carts. I would love to have access to either a hand basket or a small cart. Pretty sure that isn't going to happen since they did away with their hand baskets earlier this year, and WinCo has never had small grocery carts.I’d much rather take a small cart than lug around a hand basket. Either that or if I’m just going for a few things I put them in my bag as I shop and then take them out at the register.
People will steal the darndest things. I was in McDonalds and saw someone walk in, use the restroom, grab a handful of mustard and ketchup and put it into their coat pocket and left.I can’t imagine why someone would want to seal the basket, but I guess if they do, there comes a point where the merchant say enough is enough. Our local stores all have baskets. The only problem I have is that no one brings them from the checkout area, where they end up after shopping, back to the door that you enter the store from. There’s a holder there, but it’s typically empty.
Thankfully, now I know enough to go in the other door and grab a basket from there.