Elon Musk just developed the Litmus Test of human trustworthiness and
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I disagree that shopping carts present a litmus test or a virtue-signaling opportunity and find videos of Cart Karens hassling shoppers to be about the cringest thing I've seen online
IMHO there is no inherent goodness or moral righteousness in schlepping carts across a parking lot and no inherent badness in simply using the cart for its intended purpose (increasing the revenue of the store) and then politely parking it aside out of the way and allowing personnel paid to police carts to do their job
If it's raining and people are in a hurry because busy working late to earn money to fill the cart, they may not have time for schleppage :)
When it's dumping, I did that by pushing it out of the way and run to the car also. Most of the time, I would push it to the stand.
Reason is, make life easier for your fellow earth dwellers. They have to push the damn thing from the cart parking back to the store already.
Returning a cart is a real life example of "doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching..." It is exactly a character/moral test.
I respectfully disagree 100% that it is any test of morals or character whatsoever.
There is simply no moral deficit or character flaw in choosing to place the cart out of the way of other shoppers but not taking it to another spot.
Similarly, there is no moral deficit or character flaw in your taking items off the store shelf and putting them in your cart but then failing to front the stock (pull the next packages forward to the front of the shelf for the next shopper to easily grasp without reaching). If you're like most people, you never think to do this. Is it nice to do? Sure. Do I do it if I think of it? All the time. Do I HAVE to do it to not be judged by Karens?
Nope! Store employees are paid to take care of the details of the positioning of products and positioning the shopping carts the products go into. Would you like to be adjudged morally inferior or of poor character, just because you don't front the stock every single time you take an item off a shelf?
Look, we're busy. We're working to pay top dollar for the goods; we're lifting heavy items from the shelves into the cart; pushing it all around the store; unloading it onto the conveyor; taking the bagged goods out to the car; loading them into the car ourselves; unloading them at home and putting them away...that's enough work for groceries, thanks.
But if you're tall, and my short self is standing near you, and you pull a top shelf product from the back for yourself, it's very nice if you take a moment to grab that very back one and bring to the front for us shorties.. 😂
That's specifically what I do, and I said so.
So how's about an updoot? :)