I don’t mean just returning your shopping cart to the cart area, but actually sliding it back in. At my grocery store, some people half ass stack it back in or don’t at all. This drives me nuts because when I come to return my cart I have to fix the mess before I can return mine. Plus, I don’t want the workers who collect the carts to do any more work than they already do.
I caught this one guy who was returning his cart and I had to wait until he was done. Instead of stacking his cart, he just left it there in front of the stack and I said, “C’mon man!” He was surprised and said, “Oh!” then immediately stacked his cart.
Stores used to ring up your groceries, bag your groceries, take them to your car, and load them up for you.
Now they’ve got you convinced that if you aren’t doing their work for them for free, you’re violating some sort of implied social contract.
Self checkout. Ring up your own shit. Because it’s the future.
Many Americans wandering around so stoned, they avoid actual human contact entirely, so self checkout is desirable. No need to make smalltalk or eye contact with another human. We have lost the ability to interact in the smallest of ways with strangers.
I use the self checkout because it’s much less busy than the other checkouts.
No. They never did. I’m from 1967. Nobody has ever packed my bags or taken my groceries to the car. My mother and grandmother got deliveries from the butcher, baker, milkman, fishmonger and veg guy, but supermarkets never did anything but ring up your shopping.
They did where I live, and continued to do so until the Walmarts moved in.