Had to rescue two carts tonight

[Bagboy]

Yes, you heard me. Some asshole left two carts on the side of the road about two miles from our store. Someone(probably the asshole in question) called our courtesy counter, and said that there were two carts at the corner of Madaket Road and Swift Rock Road. The manager, V was on duty tonight.

She wanted me to rescue the two carts because we desperately needed them. So, she comes up to me, and says; "You have a truck right? Can you go and get those two carts?" I said sure.

I get to the carts, and they are covered, and I mean covered with mud and muck. So, I pick up the first one, and put it in the truck bed. The next one, I hung suspended, between the two "shelve holders", so it would hang and be able to swing to and fro, but not too much. So, I drive back to the store, and put the carts outside. V begins to bitch;

V: they're filthy!
BB: I found them at Madaket and Swift Rock.
V: We have to clean them tomorrow.
BB: Alright

My shift ended after I got back. I was proclaimed a "Cart Hero" by my coworkers.

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

wow, another perk to being in alaska, I have at least 3 salaried managers with pickups, they would have sent someone in THEIR truck to get the carts if we needed them that badly

[drmike]

We actually have a company here in Charlotte that contracts out to the local supermarket chains. They drive around looking for carts and return them to the stores.

[Becks]

I'm surprised she didn't make you clean them then and there, since she was so concerned.

[blas]

Never anywhere as far away as that, but oftentimes at the grocery store, people from K-Mart would return our carts to us, and we'd find K-Mart carts and bring them back to them.

People are so lazy and yet so damn wreckless and immature....

[Meadhands]

My shift ended after I got back. I was proclaimed a "Cart Hero" by my coworkers.

Hey! I played that game! Not exactly on par with "Guitar Hero," but it's good. The peripheral is a giant grocery cart with a wheel that sticks and squeaks. Rawk!

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

I always see our carts at other stores in the area. we'll run them across the street, but we don't wander too far, however if it was 2 miles i'd be laughing too hard about stealing some hobo's house

[Gerrinson]

We had one woman who used to walk 4 miles (each way, which she told us at length) to buy her groceries. She never brought a cart with her, but she would take a cart home each time. Turns out she had been tossing them off the bridge and into the river!

After a couple months of this, management finally got wise and informed her that taking the cart off our property was theft. She ignored them and the police were called. And cart theft dropped considerably after that.

[Bagboy]

We had one woman who used to walk 4 miles (each way, which she told us at length) to buy her groceries. She never brought a cart with her, but she would take a cart home each time. Turns out she had been tossing them off the bridge and into the river!

After a couple months of this, management finally got wise and informed her that taking the cart off our property was theft. She ignored them and the police were called. And cart theft dropped considerably after that.

People throw the other grocery store's carts into the harbor.

[Becks]

Gerrinson, not just theft.

Destruction of property, too.