"The cart's wet!! I want another one!

[Bright_Star]

Whenever it rains or snows the carts at Wal-Mart get wet like anywhere else. So we just take paper towels & dry them off best we can when we have time. The door greeters give the customers paper towels so they can do it themselves. Saves a lot of time you'd think but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I've heard of customers touch a wet cart only to act like someone just pissed on it & DEMAND a DRY cart.
They even have the nerve to ask.."Why are the carts all wet??" It can be pouring rain outside & they STILL ask that question!

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Whenever I bring in carts and they're wet from rain or snow, I first organize all the dry carts in the corral to leave one empty row for the wet carts.

That way customers can easily find a dry cart.

[powerboy]

They asked the same thing back when I was a cart pusher for Walmart.

[Sylvia727]

Whenever I bring in carts and they're wet from rain or snow, I first organize all the dry carts in the corral to leave one empty row for the wet carts.

You're nice. I want to come shop at your store.

[Jacen]

Whenever it rains or snows the carts at Wal-Mart get wet like anywhere else. So we just take paper towels & dry them off best we can when we have time. The door greeters give the customers paper towels so they can do it themselves. Saves a lot of time you'd think but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
I've heard of customers touch a wet cart only to act like someone just pissed on it & DEMAND a DRY cart.
They even have the nerve to ask.."Why are the carts all wet??" It can be pouring rain outside & they STILL ask that question!

Many department stores here have trollys both inside and outside. Does Walmart not have them inside?

[smileyeagle1021]

Many department stores here have trollys both inside and outside. Does Walmart not have them inside?

wal mart does have them inside, but if they're like any of the walmarts in salt lake they only have a small amount inside, the rest they have stored just outside the cart door, so it isn't too hard to imagine that the carts on a busy day wouldn't even come close to getting dry by the time they get to where the customer is picking them up.

[chops]

There's also the factor of how many SCs can't be bothered to put carts back in the cart corrals (especially with Wal-Mart...for some reason a greater percentage of Wal-Mart shoppers will just leave their carts wherever they feel like). The longer a cart wrangler has to take to get all the carts from random places, the less time they'll have to dry.

That's why I couldn't be a cart wrangler. I firmly believe that the act of leaving a cart in the parking lot and not returning it to a designated location should be a crime punishable by force (lethal in the case of wilfully blocking a handicapped space).

[Sylvia727]

I firmly believe that the act of leaving a cart in the parking lot and not returning it to a designated location should be a crime punishable by force (lethal in the case of wilfully blocking a handicapped space).

I agree with you almost every case. If I'm walking into a store and I see some idiot just leave their cart, I usually grab it and put it away for them in full sarcastic display. A woman even thanked me once!! I yelled back "I'm doing it for the person whose car you just tried to wreck, fidgit!" (Fidgit, btw, is a contraction of f-ing idiot.)

But a couple of times now I've been in parking lots where I couldn't see a corral or the nearest one was 1000 yards away. In both cases I hooked the front wheels of the cart up on the curb so that it wasn't blocking anyone else and couldn't roll away. Maybe I should have walked 2000 yards. But I was in a hurry, so I did what I thought was reasonable.

[HawaiianShirts]

wal mart does have them inside, but if they're like any of the walmarts in salt lake they only have a small amount inside, the rest they have stored just outside the cart door, so it isn't too hard to imagine that the carts on a busy day wouldn't even come close to getting dry by the time they get to where the customer is picking them up.

Or if you're going to the Wal-Mart near me, they've got a big and mostly empty space inside where the carts SHOULD be, but about 90% of the store's carts are scattered throughout the parking lot. And I mean SCATTERED. It's like customers around here don't know what the cart corrals are for because they're often empty while there are more carts in parking stalls than cars.

It disgusts me. I refuse to shop at that Wal-Mart for that reason alone (not that I frequent any Wal-Mart anyway). The crazy thing about it is that I've found Wal-Mart carts at random places down the street. One even showed up at the bus stop about a block from my store, which is almost a mile from the Wal-Mart, and the same bus makes two other stops between the two places.

Carts left anywhere the customer wants to leave them is one of my biggest pet peeves. I've said, on more than one occasion when someone has asked me why one or two of our carts are wet, "It's because some inconsiderate customers like to leave them out in the rain and snow."

Grrr.

[mattm04]

It bothers me more when they come running in from the rain or snow and ask why the carts are wet. Bonus points if they act shocked when I tel them it is because of the RAIN.

[Marxfan]

Whenever I bring in carts and they're wet from rain or snow, I first organize all the dry carts in the corral to leave one empty row for the wet carts.

That way customers can easily find a dry cart.

That's what I did at my grocery store job.

Still, why are people so damned prissy about wet carts? It's water! It'll dry, and it's not like you're buying bolts of silk or genuine leather jackets! You're probably buying refrigerated products... that are wet from condensation (did I spell that right?) anyway!!!

[Jack7957]

The crazy thing about it is that I've found Wal-Mart carts at random places down the street. One even showed up at the bus stop about a block from my store, which is almost a mile from the Wal-Mart, and the same bus makes two other stops between the two places.

Our local grocery store has added the CarTronics System recently, due to alot of people taking carts home with their purchases.

[Slow-Jo]

They even have the nerve to ask.."Why are the carts all wet??" It can be pouring rain outside & they STILL ask that question!

we have to water the carts twice a day otherwise they shrivel up and die! idiots...