It’s a much-overdone topic discussed on social media and across websites – the laziness of not returning shopping carts. There’s even a scholarly theory that revolves around a person’s willingness or unwillingness to return a cart says a lot about you as a person.
At its most basic, the shopping cart theory is a way to judge one’s moral character. If one doesn’t take the time to do a basic task like returning a cart to a corral, that assists both workers at the store and keeping fellow shoppers’ vehicles safer from cart collisions. So how long does it take, in general, to return a cart? Someone did the math
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Here’s the video, set to the theme of Mario Kart. It’s produced by ‘the_michigander’ TikTok account.
You can see from the timer that the winning time was just over 15 seconds. That’s going from an abandoned cart in one of the ‘grassy knolls’ within the Meijer parking lot to a corral. And, as so many who do return carts fail to do, place a large cart in the large cart side of the corral and not the small cart side…