Plenty do
Also a dedicated lane for leaving your groceries while you go pick up the reusable carrier bags you left in the car.
Pretty common to find an unused cart in the middle of the store 'round here. Not because the store put 'em there, tho. Well, sometimes it is. But not for the customers.
I normally take one of the pre-filled carts. Their suggestions are usually a pretty good starting place.
It’s amazing how many grocery stores I’ve been in where this isn’t a thing.
Most stores I go to have stacks of baskets scattered everywhere for presumably that very reason.
Here in Japan it’s common everywhere I shop that’s more than a tiny specialty store. I seem to remember seeing it at least sometimes in the US when I still lived there.
I was about to say that here in Hawai’i it’s fairly common, but I realized when I saw your comment that it’s likely the Japanese influence here (I tend to see this most commonly at Don Quijote and Times, which is owned by the same Japanese parent company)
I wonder what Times in Hawai’i is; it’s a rent-a-car service here, heh. I imagine it’s called something different here. I don’t remember seeing it, but I haven’t been to Hawai’i since 2015ish.
That said, I doubt it’s Japan, but rather making it more convenient for consumers to spend more than they intended by making it easier to have a basket handy.
That’s funny. Here Times is a local Hawai’i grocery store chain. Pretty good poke.
“I only came in for two items.”
And now I have a stack of items leaning against my chest and a 2L bottle hanging on each thumb.
Just do what everyone else does and steal someone else’s cart.
Ohh hey, free baby!
But what if they didn’t put anything I like in their cart?
Toss that shit out, these assholes keep putting stuff I don’t want in the carts I take from them.
And they say spotting Psychopaths is difficult.
I keep a couple foldable reuseable bags in my purse for such occasions
not allowed to use those in a store near me.
same store also got rid of baskets.
I really don’t know what they were thinking. I obviously just use my own bags, but like… tf?
They banned people from using their own bags? That’s ridiculous
Funny, just yesterday I had seen that in a big drug store for the first time (consciously) and was impressed of that business smartness.
Mine does. One at the meat market, one by dairy, and one in the exact middle of the store
Bunnings does this. Unfortunately they also don’t have any near the entrance so you end up snark hunting
Many actually do! There are some stores that position baskets inside the shopping space just for this case. Easy way to make an additional sale.
Publix has this. I always appreciate it.
Carts are provided (and comically oversized today) because it gets people to buy more than if they looked full earlier:
https://proceedings.emac-online.org/pdfs/A2024-119348.pdf
(there are much older studies than that confirming the same thing)
Still, right tool/right job
Yep.
I hate that removing the smaller carts means I have to drag around a big cart.
I work from a shopping list - I don’t buy what’s not on the list.
