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Default Revenge of the Shopping Cart

On 5/24/2013 9:17 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 5/24/2013 8:37 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 24/05/2013 5:02 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>> What is so terribly difficult about this concept? As I said in the
>>> Aldi's thread, I'm grateful I have two good legs. It doesn't bother me
>>> to walk to take the cart back. You will also never catch me parking in
>>> a handicapped spot. I also don't drive around in circles looking for
>>> someone to leave just so I can get the closest parking space.
>>>

>>
>> I rarely even take the cart out to the parking lot. I use re-usable bags
>> and rarely have more than four bags of groceries, so I just take the
>> bags out of the cart before I leave the store.
>>

> You're lucky you can get away with only four bags. I live 20 miles away
> from the grocery store so I do a big shopping trip about once a month.
> Much of it is destined for the freezer. Four bags for me wouldn't cut
> it. But no, I don't leave the grocery cart out where it will likely, by
> some twist of fate, decide to ding a car.
>


A number of supermarkets have cart collecting bays at several places in
the lot and people do seem to use them around here.

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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