Should you return your shopping trolley?

A longstanding debate has emerged once more: should you return your shopping trolley when you’re done with it? 

An LA based clinical and forensic psychologist shared her answer on social media, telling viewers that she doesn’t return her trolley and they can judge her all they want. 

"I’m not getting my groceries into the car, getting my children into the car and then leaving them in the car to go return the cart. So if you’re going to give me a dirty look, f*** off." 

Marcus Lush weighed in on the debate, saying that while some might be “all rageful” that others abandon their trolleys, he’s not so set in stone. 

“I reckon the supermarkets are extorting us so much with money that if they want to pay someone to go and get the trolleys and make the whole day easier for us, we’re having to check out ourselves, if they want to return the trolley, good on them.” 

He personally doesn’t abandon the trolley, instead pushing it from a bit closer and hoping it slots in neatly, but he doesn’t have a problem with others leaving them. 

“That car park space, it is part of the supermarket,” he continued. 

“They should manage it.” 

The combination of high costs and a transition to more self-service operations is driving this thought, as customers are now seemingly responsible for every part of the operation. 

“There is no customer service, so if one small way of getting back is just leaving your trolley akimbo by the car so they put it back, I don’t have a problem with that.” 

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
There is some beat up story on TV one News
tonight going on about people with supermarket trolleys at supermarkets
and whether they take them back to what do you
call that thing? A shoot? What would you call the
stuff where the supermarket trolleys are kept? You google that
for me, Dan, I can't be bothered. What would it

(00:34):
be called a trolley bay? It doesn't see like a
trolley bay, But anyway, I go closer than push it
with great gusto and hopefully it just slots in. That
gives you a good feeling. But people are all rageful
that some people won't return their trolleys. I'm not so
set and stone about that. I reckon the supermarkets are

(00:57):
extorting us so much with money that if they want
to pay someone to go and get the trolleys and
make the whole day easier for us, we haven't check
out ourselves. If they want to return the trolley, good
on them. I've got no problem with people just leaving
their trolleys beside their car. I myself choose not to
do that. Don't have a problem if people do do

(01:17):
that because what is that space, that liminal space, that
car park space. It is part of the supermarket and
they should manage it. They've taken all your money for
their overpriced goods. Yeah, but of kind of the shaken
hout is can I take your trolley off? You would
be nice. They do nothing else. You beg it, you
scan it, you pay for it, you drag it to

(01:39):
your car. There is no customer service. So if one
small way of getting back is just leaving your trolley
a kimbo by the car, so they put it back,
I don't have a problem with that. I don't do
that myself. Creates work for people, and gosh, they're getting
rid of enough jobs at the supermarket. No, so I

(02:01):
probably have surprised myself. I'm probably slightly radical on this.

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