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I used to return the cart when the concept was "return the cart to avoid the grocery store having to hire someone to collect carts, increasing their overhead, thus raising prices".
Then we learned, at least in Canada, that the grocery chains kept prices high after the pandemic well after the supply chains settled down. They even did a second wave of higher prices. They are price gouging so much they've never seen such high profits.
They have also made a move to get rid of regular checkout, pushing robotic checkout so they don't have to hire humans and they can increase their profits even further.
The shopping cart question used to pose itself as "do you help society and return your cart if there is no reward for you."
Let's rephrase it. "Will you do free labour for a multi-million dollar company who is laughing all the way to the bank with record profits while some people in society are going hungry because they can't afford the higher prices?"
I NEVER return my cart now.
The problem is, that the only person you punish is some 16 year old making minimum wage.
It's not a punishment. It's part of the job.
If we keep putting away carts and self checking our groceries, that person won't have a job.
They take in the carts from the designated cart returns.
Why are you working for free for a multi-million dollar corporation that doesn't give a shit about you? Just leave your cart anywhere. Someone will be along to collect it.
Because I care about the people that work for them. The only person acting like a cold hearted corporation is you. Why have you let their actions steal your humanity? If you can't bring yourself to help out someone making around minimum wage and then use corporate greed as an excuse, you're kind of a piece of shit.
Give me a break. You are pretending returning a cart is some sort of moral high ground just because it's pointed out you're doing free labour for multi-million dollar corporations with nothing in return for you.
If you REALLY cared for the employees you'd be standing outside the store demanding they pay better so they employees can get above the poverty line and no longer need food stamps to survive.
What kind of 10 year old child logic is that? Unless I can devote my life to a cause there is no point in making anything better? It seems like you've crafted a world view where you get to act like a conservative asshat but with the smugness of a Hasan type loser. So glad I don't know someone like you irl.
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Why stop there? You could leave a bunch of little messes around the store so the wage slaves have plenty to do.
If they keep purging human workers over profits, I just might.
Being lazy under the guise of helping people get jobs?? Gimme a fucking break 😂. Lemmy never ceases to amaze me
Massive grocery chains don't give a shit about you. They are happily starving society for more profit.
If you think taking your stupid cart back is some sort of noble deed, you're a sucker. All you're doing is helping the CEO keep his overhead down.
This just changed my mind on the trolley problem.