This week's poll was suggested by lollylopmr. When you go to the grocery store with a shopping cart, what do you do with it afterwards? Do you return it to the designated area or wherever is most convenient for you (i.e., the curb next to your car)?

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Question: If price and availability was not an issue and a series had both an officially published version and a fan translation, which version would you probably read?

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There were 2156 total votes. The poll ended: October 11, 2025

Another very heated "discussion" in the comments. Haven't had one of those in a while...

A just ruler amongst tyrants

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So the question is, essentially, "do you have a shred of decency?"

Of course, I'm not a barbarian

This isn't a poll, this is a test to determine whether you deserve to live in society.

Anyone who answers "sometimes" or "never" lacks the ability to perform basic prosocial behaviors and will henceforth be exiled to live as hermits in the wilderness so their selfishness and laziness won't impact the rest of us.

Next are the people who put their carts in the cart return but ignore the signs that say "small carts" and "large carts" and fuck everything up by sticking their large cart in with the small carts. It's like they don't even realize a real human being has to collect these carts and bring them back, and you're making their life harder for absolutely no reason.

I have embraced home delivery of groceries ever since the pandemic, but of course I did it before, just like how I pull close the chairs in a restaurant and am already close by the bus/train door 2 stations/stops before my final destination.

So this is a weird question. We only rarely use carts here for those restocks right around holidays, around 2-3 times a year. When we do there's always a staff to help us load things into the car (yes they follow you deep into the parking lot) and handle the cart returns.

Very rarely we use the carts for the safety of breakable things like eggs, but since most of our eggs come from nearby farms who sell to small family businesses, we never end up buying that much anyways. The cart stops at the cashier, a nearby staff gets called to handle the cart, and we bring stuff to the vehicle in shopping bags.

We mostly just use the shopping baskets, which also stop at the cashier. And when we use a cart, we "never" return it.

Ooh what's that, an advertisement for organic eggs? Back pain plasters? Advanced exoskeleton for heavy lifting? Mobility scooters? Or check out these super cute washable heavy duty transparent kevlar shopping bags! (joke)

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When we do there's always a staff to help us load things into the car (yes they follow you deep into the parking lot) and handle the cart returns.

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Is the place you live, some kind of special place, for the severely physically and/or intellectually disabled, who aren't capable of doing such things, themselves? ...and if it is, why do you have staff at the store, helping people, rather than each person having a personal caretaker?

so based on your answer you do properly return your cart after shopping.

"returning a cart" can mean many things depending on what the store wants you to do.

Common examples:

• putting a cart in the corral in a parking lot
• returning the cart where you got it (can be inside or outside a store
• leaving it at the checkout

Less common examples that might apply if you are disabled or loading a large item into a car

• a staff member may walk to your car to load it and take back the cart
• you may be asked to drive your car closer to the store and your stuff will be loaded and the cart taken back in by staff

TLDR: as long as you leaving the cart where the store wants it then it counts as "properly returned"

For reference improper can be things like:

• leaving a full/empty cart in random spot in the store
• leaving a cart outside a store anywhere other than the designated spaces

Don't expect proper grammar from me. I am not being paid here, so you get internal monologue in written form.

Really depends on the understanding of "return properly" mmm... In some supermarkets around here, putting the cart in the space behind the car in the parking lot is enough by the supermarket standard mmm...

They design the parking lot to have some space behind the car to have a place to leave your cart there on purpose mmm...

I will change this world mmm...
So the world can change me mmm...

I always return it to where the other shopping carts are (not in some random parking space). The only times I haven't made sure to bring the cart back to the storefront or the drop-off locations are when there is an informal "drop-off" location (as in, a single parking space with ten or so shopping carts in it).

My parents were always big on returning them and the fact that leaving them in parking spaces and whatnot is a hazard. Especially if it gets windy. The disabled/injured and parents/guardians of very young children aside, one really ought to properly return it.

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In some supermarkets around here, putting the cart in the space behind the car in the parking lot is enough by the supermarket standard[…] They design the parking lot to have some space behind the car to have a place to leave your cart there on purpose

That is not "properly" in the slightest. In fact, that extra space is almost invariably for longer cars, for full-sized vans, and for small trucks.

@VawX
You think that that is acceptable, that it's intended, and you don't instantly realise that the cart is in way, if you just leave it there...
How you could possibly do so, is far beyond my ability to comprehend.

Quote from zarlan for the severely physically and/or intellectually disabled, who aren't capable of doing such things, themselves?

Is that how you describe yourself? ;-)

Now that I think about it though, it's indeed strange. Afaik general stores here that provide carts always have them inside the building. I think this method of allowing carts outside while a staff follow you is a rather new trend.

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Stores where I live have both an inside storage place and cart corrals in the parking lot. Yes, I always return the carts, because I don't like random objects strewn about to scrape paint or to have to maneuver around, and so I don't do the thing I don't want done to me.

I'm a jack of all trades but master of none. Too many jars and not enough hands.

My parents get their weekly shopping delivered, so we don't have this problem... Which is good because driving around here sucks. If I go to the shops to buy stuff it's just a few things, so I either take a basket (which you return at the checkout) or I just carry the stuff in my hands because... I don't really like using baskets either...

Of course, if we had to take a trolley, we'd put it back in the right place.

...Hop!