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.
The only time I don’t return the cart to the corral is when I’m taking my elderly mother to the store, and we park in the handicapped spots. I always leave my cart near there, because older, handicapped people often like to grab a cart in the lot, and use it like a walker to get to the store.
Likewise, when we arrive, I jump out and grab the nearest cart as she’s getting out of the car, and I can wheel it over to her. It’s nice when someone has left a cart in the handicapped zone.
This is a handicapped thing, you have to be part of that world to know about it.