Carts in the wrong store

[Summerfly413]

My store is in a plaza. There's a supermarket a few doors down from us, along with a fairly large office store, some places to eat, etc.
Every once and a while we'll get someone in our store with the supermarket's carts(trolley, buggy, whatever you call it).
This itself isn't too bad. I personally would feel really stupid using a cart in a store it doesn't belong to.
What bothers me is when people just leave it by our carts by the door(inside).
They can't even go two more feet and push it outside so the supermarket cart-wranglers can get it.
Does it this happen in anyone else's stores?

[RetailWorkhorse]

Yup. I got permission from the Cart Wranglers for our customers to us their Wally World carts during the holiday season since my store only has three carts (And Corporate refuses to send us any more! Cheap bastards). Sometimes we'll have an Ingles cart come in, but I always take them back.

Our carts are small compared to those, and the Ingles carts are tall and flat so it's easier to reach into them.

Seems tacky during the Spring and Summer seasons, though.

[AriaBlue]

This happens in my target all the time... At the end of the day we just kick them out the doors with the last customer.

[Despina83]

I see this sometimes at my Target. We have a couple of other stores near ours and we find their carts in our parking lot, and one day I saw people in the store shopping with it. I did a double take, since the cart was BLUE.

[powerboy]

We had that alot, when I was working at Walmart as a cart pusher. We would always get Home Depot carts. Me and this one guy (who worked at home depot) would always complain about the stupids customers taking the other carts into the the other stores. Now I miss him

[Department stores *sigh*]

I was once collecting carts for Zellers and saw 3 kids using it for horsing around and rides and such.

Me: Hey! I need to bring those in, stop horsing around in them!
Them: But we're having fun! Why do you care?
Me: It's my job bud.
Them: Ok, can we ride in this safeway cart?
Me: Not my cart, go for it.


Cmoooon natural selection..............

[HowMayIHelpYouToday]

Our carts are small compared to those, and the Ingles carts are tall and flat so it's easier to reach into them.

Seems tacky during the Spring and Summer seasons, though.

I have a funny Ingles story. I'm a bank phone rep. I do Spanish calls. Ingles (Een-GLAYS) is Spanish for English. First time I saw Ingles it was during a Spanish call and I told the customer the purchase was at Een-GLAYS.

C: Where?
Me: Een-GLAYS.
C: Where?!?!
Me: (not so sure I'm pronouncing it right by now) Een.... glays...? EEN... glays.... EEN...gels?
C: AAAAHHHHHH EEN-GELS. Thanks.
Me:

Another time a customer told me she opened the account in Wooster, and I asked other questions because it said she opened it in Worcester. After verifying her:

Me: And I show that your account was opened in War-CHES-ter.
C: They say it Wooster around here.
Me: ....

At home:
Google Worcester pronunciation... click on sound bite...

[blas]

The grocery store I used to work at is in a plaza with a Dollar Tree and a Kmart. Of course sometimes we'd find KMart or Dollar Tree carts in our cart corrall......

But Kmart was all the way over on the other side. It just boggled my mind why they did that.

[Rine]

I work in a mall, so I get other carts in my store all the time. Only Belks has carts and they are like little half carts. Dollar tree had three carts (DT is closed now.) Penny's had no carts.

I just hate it when people bring in the Belk carts and leave them in stupid places, like upstairs, so we have to carry them downstairs and put them into the mall. I used to hate it when I saw people shopping with the Dollar Tree carts in my store when the Dollar tree only had three carts, so if you weren't shopping at the Dollar Tree, then you shouldn't have their carts!

I also hate it that people treat our carts like they are the mall's carts and take them all throughout the mall and usually they leave them in Penny's parking lot which on the other side of the mall. It says on the cart, "DO NOT TAKE FROM STORE."

I almost can't wait until we close our mall entrance and they won't be able to take our carts into Penny's. I have asked people not to take our carts out, and they complain that Penny's doesn't have carts...well, sorry. Doesn't mean you can take our carts.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Dollar Tree carts are very common sights in our cart corrals, and sometimes find their way into our store.

They have signs on them reading "Please do not remove carts from the store", but of course people don't read.

At the end of the night, we just round up all the Dollar Tree carts in our corrals and in the parking lot, and push them in front of Dollar Tree's doors.

Aldis carts also show up from time to time. I return those to the store so I can pocket the quarter inside.

[blas]

Irv, the electric scooters at most stores also say "Do not remove from store", but some people don't read that, either.

My little brother found one of those scooters in a huge pile of snow once.

[nomorecarts]

We had that alot, when I was working at Walmart as a cart pusher. We would always get Home Depot carts. Me and this one guy (who worked at home depot) would always complain about the stupids customers taking the other carts into the the other stores. Now I miss him

same here, we have 3 big box retail stores on each side and behind our store, a bLowe's cart even made it into our cart bay once since they had the same design, just different colors


we got some from a few stores down occasionally

[DaDairyDruid]

Irv, the electric scooters at most stores also say "Do not remove from store", but some people don't read that, either.

My little brother found one of those scooters in a huge pile of snow once.

There was an article in the local paper about some guy who swiped one of those motorized carts from one of our stores in Collinsville, IL and Drove It Home and got caught by the Police. He got a ticket for it not having one of those Orange "slow vehicle" triangles on it as he was on the street. (or something like that) His house was also something like 5 miles form the store.

[JLG]

People bring other store carts inside my store every single day. The problem is that our store is not meant for these huge shopping carts like home depot. Our carts are much smaller and when they bring these carts in the store you can't get around them. I can't stand it when they leave the cart inside right by the door blocking the exit. Chances are you did not find the cart inside our store so take it outside!

[rerant]

I had someone come into my work with a Wal Mart cart. Let me explain why this is so painfully stupid.
First: I work in a coffee shop.
Second: to get from the Wal Mart to my work you have to walk through a rather large plaza, through traffic, cross the street, and walk through another plaza.
Third: I work in a friggen coffee shop!