Lazy Shoppers and Windy Days

When I finish loading my groceries into my car I put the cart in the nearby rack or walk it back to the store.

The racks came along sometime in the 1980s because there were people in too much of a rush or too lazy to return carts to a location near the front door.  These islands are for convenience and yet it appears a great many people still lack the ambition to push a cart 20 feet when finished with loading.

I find it annoying on a calm day to see an open parking space with a cart in the middle.  On windy days the 4 wheeled contraptions become missiles sailing across parking lots.  Chipping paint, stealing parking spaces and denting cars.  In one of these pictures from Monday a woman was barely able to get into her minivan because of the wind driven carts.

From an employment perspective I wouldn’t hire someone who wouldn’t spend 30 seconds putting a cart in a safe space.  Do you want the lazy and inconsiderate in your shop, office or factory?