I work at a grocery store which happens to have several types of carts. Of course, you have your "standard" carts, which are "standard" size and fit into each other nicely. Then there are "giant" carts, which are twice the size of standard carts and thus can hold twice the groceries. These carts only fit into their own kind. (This will be important later.) Next, we have these little double decker midget carts, which are very light and easy to push. Old people seem to love these, and they frequently run out and have to be gathered more often than the other types of carts. Again, these carts only fit into their own kind. Segregation, I guess you could call it. We also have some special carts; electric-wheelchair type carts, car-shaped carts, etc. These carts don't fit into any other carts, even themselves.
Now, there are 2 foyer areas in our store. We keep these stocked constantly, and try to put every type of cart in them. There are also four stacks of standard carts, two on each side, for the customers' convenience.
I am a bagger, so I have to do the dirty work, which includes getting the carts from the parking lot and putting them back into nice, neat stacks. Usually, I am in a bad enough mood when I'm doing this because of SCs being lazy and not returning the carts to the (one of three- for their convenience!) cart corrals. Now, it makes me feel a little better when I see a customer putting a cart back where it belongs on their own... but tell me, why do SCs go through all that trouble of bringing their cart back to the foyer, put it by a stack of like carts, and then just leave it there, instead of going the extra mile and pushing it into the stack so everything is nice and neat?
The real clincher here, though, is when SCs, the lazy-but-not-really kind who put carts back into the foyer, push a cart into a stack of a totally different kind of cart and just leave it there! How hard is it to understand that those carts don't fit together! It's like in pre-school when you have to fit the shapes into the holes. the squares go into the square holes, and the triangles go into the trianglular holes. They're not interchangible. And in the real world (rather than the customer-friendly grocery world) when you get frusterated because something doesn't fit together NO ONE IS GOING TO COME AND PUT IT IN THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU TO COME BACK AND DO THE SAME THING NEXT TIME!
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Any cart-pushers feel the same way?
Now, there are 2 foyer areas in our store. We keep these stocked constantly, and try to put every type of cart in them. There are also four stacks of standard carts, two on each side, for the customers' convenience.
I am a bagger, so I have to do the dirty work, which includes getting the carts from the parking lot and putting them back into nice, neat stacks. Usually, I am in a bad enough mood when I'm doing this because of SCs being lazy and not returning the carts to the (one of three- for their convenience!) cart corrals. Now, it makes me feel a little better when I see a customer putting a cart back where it belongs on their own... but tell me, why do SCs go through all that trouble of bringing their cart back to the foyer, put it by a stack of like carts, and then just leave it there, instead of going the extra mile and pushing it into the stack so everything is nice and neat?
The real clincher here, though, is when SCs, the lazy-but-not-really kind who put carts back into the foyer, push a cart into a stack of a totally different kind of cart and just leave it there! How hard is it to understand that those carts don't fit together! It's like in pre-school when you have to fit the shapes into the holes. the squares go into the square holes, and the triangles go into the trianglular holes. They're not interchangible. And in the real world (rather than the customer-friendly grocery world) when you get frusterated because something doesn't fit together NO ONE IS GOING TO COME AND PUT IT IN THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOU TO COME BACK AND DO THE SAME THING NEXT TIME!
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Any cart-pushers feel the same way?
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