This isn't about safety, profit margin, liability, or labor. It is simply about personal responsibility and laziness. Nothing more, nothing less. Those who take the extra 30 seconds to secure a cart in the corral are ensuring the cart will not do any damage to any vehicle. Those who don't are willing to take the chance, no matter how small, that the cart might do some damage or cause an inconvenience to another shopper....all in the name of 30 seconds. Regardless of any rationalization, you simply can't know that leaving a cart outside the corral won't have detrimental result.
It isn't a huge deal in the grand scheme of things....but it is laziness....just own it.
JMHO.
I disagree that it is laziness to do something I have zero obligation to do just because it will require minimal time and effort to do it.
Speaking as a non-US person so I don't know if that applies to your country, guys, but still.
Well, technically, you also have zero obligation to hold the door for the folks behind you. The subway (or whatever place you're in) should hire a person to hold the doors for them. You don't have to do it, it's not on you to hold the fucking doors. You also have zero obligation to surrender your seat in a bus to a pregnant woman or an elderly person. The bus company should add more seats or hire an enforcer to make you leave that seat so they could sit, or to keep those seats unoccupied until such a person boards the bus. Why would you surrender your own seat? That's bullshit, it's not on you, they should plan that shit accordingly to the amount of people on that route (side note: they actually should).
Hilariously, in Russia, you also have zero obligation to clean after your dog when you're walking him/her in your neighbourhood, because hey, you've got cleaning folks for that. They're responsible for cleaning the nearby territory. It's their job. So there's basically shit everywhere, and while that might sound as a metaphor, and it actually works as a fucking metaphor too, it actually isn't that. There's literally fucking shit everywhere, come spring. Fuck me.
I just don't know. This thread pisses me off so much. And Tim, I still love you, no matter what you stance on the shopping carts is.
Edit: it's also a good way to tell I've been drinking—if you see me posting in this thread, I've been drinking.