When a lad, grocery store help was mainly boys about 15 years old. Now at the grocery stores in my region (Eastern Massachusetts), there is an astonishing amount of grey hair and advanced age. Also many other adults of all ages. There is no need to make a religion of either returning or not returning carts; and there is a civil function: one's cart ought not obstruct anything. But the prerogative is management's. Some stores have devices that require a coin to get a cart, only returning the coin when the cart is returned. The second paragraph of the above clip in the OP being nonsense. — tim wood
The point is that picking up the carts is someone's job. It is therefore no great curtesy to eliminate it. — tim wood
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