Grocery store rage is worse than road rage. It amazes me how many people have their head up their ass. My favorite is when two people looking on opposite sides of the aisle have their carts parked side by side, completely blocking traffic.

Husky Boy Jr. said:

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RealTalk said:

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Husky Boy Jr. said:

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20 years ago when I worked at HEB my favorite part of the job was getting carts from the parking lot. As long as the cart isnt going to roll and hit another car WGAS. Plus - if you have ever taken babies or small kids to the grocery store you arent going to leave your kids in the running car alone so you can walk across the parking lot to put away the cart.

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If you're able to lug around your kids while shopping, you can also take them with you when you return the cart.

It's simple:

1) Unload groceries.
2) Take kids with you to return cart.
3) Return to car with your kids and leave.

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how about I just load my kids in the air conditioned car first and stick the cart in the median

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How have you guys not recieved the wrath of the Squirrel Ms. over these posts?

Posts like this make me want to pull my cart and then leave it uncorraled in the parking lot. Folks are just so damn irritable about everything!

I have never noticed anyone pull a cart. But, I'm mostly busy trying to stay out of people's way and by my booze and cheerios.

Are y'all pulling by the handle bar? Walking backwards the whole time?
What is this nonsense?

No. I've witnessed this phenomenon. They pull by the end opposite of the handle bar.

Yep. When I go around corners I'll put my fingers in the wires up front or on top of the corner.

Bruce Almighty said:

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Grocery store rage is worse than road rage. It amazes me how many people have their head up their ass. My favorite is when two people looking on opposite sides of the aisle have their carts parked side by side, completely blocking traffic.

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My favorite is when they came up to whatever their looking for on the shelves and their cart magically turns about 60 degrees.

I'm instantly thinking how they could block traffic better if they turned their cart completely sideways.

One of these days I'll say it out loud and get my butt kicked by 250lb woman who does it.

I wish people wouldn't take their carts down aisles at all. It's almost never necessary. You're usually only getting 1 or 2 things on the aisle. Just leave your cart at the end of the aisle where there's tons of room, walk down the aisle to grab whatever it is, and return to your basket. It's much faster, and a dozen people could fit in the aisle that way.

If people did that then there wouldn't be tons of room at the end of an aisle

Saw a homeless guy pulling his cart from the front on the way home today. I offered him a quarter to let me take his picture so we could all laugh at him but he was kind of rude about it.

et98 said:

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I wish people wouldn't take their carts down aisles at all. It's almost never necessary. You're usually only getting 1 or 2 things on the aisle. Just leave your cart at the end of the aisle where there's tons of room, walk down the aisle to grab whatever it is, and return to your basket. It's much faster, and a dozen people could fit in the aisle that way.

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Talk about making things worse.

Who are these people that circle the parking lot for 20 minutes and wait on people to back out to avoid parking 20 feet further back?

Buck O Five said:

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Who are these people that circle the parking lot for 20 minutes and wait on people to back out to avoid parking 20 feet further back?

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Shoot, I like to park as far away as possible. Then I spend 30 mins wandering around the parking lot looking for pennies.

et98 said:

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I wish people wouldn't take their carts down aisles at all. It's almost never necessary. You're usually only getting 1 or 2 things on the aisle. Just leave your cart at the end of the aisle where there's tons of room, walk down the aisle to grab whatever it is, and return to your basket. It's much faster, and a dozen people could fit in the aisle that way.

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This sounds like a good idea at a dollar store. At a normal store like H-E-B it sounds like a terrible idea.

RealTalk said:

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What's worse is people that don't return the carts to the cart corral. That's just lazy.

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EVEN WORSER are those people who take the carts off property over to the bus stop.

Another cart offense is when people who are stopped in an aisle look in one direction and swing their cart in the other direction.

So many times I have almost been hit by their cart and the reaction is always the same: "Oh, I'm sorry".

Solved tthe problem.

Order on line and pick up at the store. The aisles are cluttered with women shoppers who wander around looking at the shelves in deep thought, store employee's stocking shelves, store employee's pushing those huge carts for "order on line" customers, little kids , college students looked for the beer kegs, and old men (like me) wandering around with a grocery list and shopping for their spouse. We have no idea where anything is located and care less.

Then when you want to check out you find the 8 check out stations are packed with those with two shopping carts scanning one can of green beans at a time or parents allowing each child to scan on item at a time.

Order on line for the win.

Joe Schillaci 48 said:

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Solved the problem.

Order on line and pick up at the store. The aisles are cluttered with women shoppers who wander around looking at the shelves in deep thought, store employee's stocking shelves, store employee's pushing those huge carts for "order on line" customers, little kids , college students looked for the beer kegs, and old men (like me) wandering around with a grocery list and shopping for their spouse. We have no idea where anything is located and care less.

Then when you want to check out you find the 8 check out stations are packed with those with two shopping carts scanning one can of green beans at a time or parents allowing each child to scan on item at a time.

Order on line for the win.

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I shop at HEB and must be one of the few who actually enjoys grocery shopping. I especially like being able to pick my own produce and will often change recipes I'm planning or substitute ingredients based off what looks good. I create a shopping list and and typically in and out of the store pretty quickly.

"Order on line" customers are indirectly causing a huge negative impact my shopping experience. The giant carts being pushed/pulled around are always in the way as they tend to always be in the center of the aisle instead of to the left or right. That, and the employees using them typically have headphones on and are completely oblivious to everyone around them. Oftentimes, I have to skip and come back to an aisle simply becuase those carts are blocking the aisle. My shopping trip now takes considerably longer and these carts/employees are pretty much the only contributing factor.

So, you may be solving a problem for you, but it's also creating a problem for others. I'm not saying you are wrong, and I agree that online shopping is very convenient for many, but just making you aware of it's impact on others. I will say, however, that on-line shoppers have postively impacted the checkout process. It's pretty rare for me to find a checkout line more than 1 cart deep.

Tex117 said:

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I pull mine because I am 6'5" and bash my shins against the cart if I push it.

Obviously, you are a short dude who wouldn't understand these kinds of problems.

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Are you still wearing your leg braces Forest or has Jenny not coached you to run out of them yet?

AgEng06 said:

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toucan82 said:

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And what's with people who take 30 items to the express checkout??????

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Sometimes when HEB is busy, they will direct people with over 15 items into the express lanes to keep things moving. I used to think those people you mention were jerks, until I got ushered into the express line one time. Now I try to keep an open mind about it.

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. This is equity in action folks...

agracer said:

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Tex117 said:

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I pull mine because I am 6'5" and bash my shins against the cart if I push it.

Obviously, you are a short dude who wouldn't understand these kinds of problems.

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Are you still wearing your leg braces Forest or has Jenny not coached you to run out of them yet?

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Im sorry. I can't hear you because you are so short.

Shopping cart, you mean 'buggy'? Yes I'm from a small town.

Old Ag 95 said:

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Shopping cart, you mean 'buggy'? Yes I'm from a small town.

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I, too, am from a small town and it's called a shopping cart. Don't try to rope me into your lame town terms

https://instagr.am/p/CpYZtuWgTHc

What kind of ******* doesn't get out to stop the carts?

My favorite part of that video is the modem feat in tape engineering that is that guy's steering wheel.

I'd take a Takata airbag over that thing!