/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I hope one day they discover that while they were busy shopping, a thousand loose carts pummeled violently into their car.

>>5943819
Then get out there and round 'em up, Rusty.

>>5943819
I always push my buggy to the corral no matter how far or even if its raining because there is a slight chance i might have that job one day.

Civilization is wasted on millions. Persevere, my friend. Civilization perseveres despite these animals' best efforts. I take heart in scenes like this for that very reason: this is the best the savages can do. Well, that, and revive defeated diseases like measles.

>>5943819
I always take my cart back inside the store. Today, a young lady collecting carts and quite attractive, thanked me then tried to strike up a conversation. I made a bit of small talk but she was too young. She was googly-eyed and grinning at me but I stayed clear. But dog gone, if I was 20 years younger, I'd probably know her creator's name by now.

>>5943845
jesus christ how old are you gramps?

>>5943845
lucky, all we have are mentally handicapped and #420blazeityolo kids collecting carts around here
admittedly, that's not much of a distinction

>>5943845
Bro she was mentally deficient. They always send em out to chase the shiny wheelies. I know cause I used to be let out to chase those wonderful gleaming bovine silver wheelies. Stop thinking about taking advantage of unbalanced teens who stare at you.

>>5943865
76.

>>5943843
>civilization
>carbound cager hell

Not really. If you can't get there on a train, it's not civilization. It's just a place where a bunch of people built houses.

>>5943865
I'm 43 years old.

i actually park close to those cart parking space things so i don't have to worry about where to leave the cart.

>>5943920
Enjoy having some asshole send his cart rolling into the side of your car.

>>5943881
>If you can't get there on a train, it's not civilization.
lol what? Trains usually only serve awful poor people areas

confession:
>just got my car repossessed and was at the grocery store feeling depressed
>in parking lot I see a sweet Bugati at the back of the lot as I walk by.
>Out of jealous rage I smash a shopping cart hard into the side of the sports car, leaving a huge, crumpled crated in the side

>>5943927
that's never happened before. in fact, it's usually empty around those things since they're need the back end of the parking lot. lot of lazy fucks.

>>5943845
>>5943899
Clear sign of daddy issues. Nice job staying away.

>>5943935
Atlanta detected

>if we try to make moving around not a total nightmare, niggers might benefit! Can't be making life better for niggers, let's just spend 4 hours a day in our cars instead!

You can't make this stuff up

>>5943957
>Atlanta detected
That statement described almost all of america

>>5943957
What, trains are used almost exclusively by and for the benefit of poor people. They are almost never used by the middle or upper classes

>>5943985

Yes, the middle class prefers gridlock and paying a chauffeur to idle outside everywhere they go, right?

>>5943983

Most of America is useless empty space, by land mass. Look at places that matter. New York, London, Tokyo, Singapore. Trains everywhere.

>>5943999
>Most of America is useless empty space
most of all matter is empty space

>>5943999
Why would we look to extremely overcrowded places? Cars are by far the most viable way in nice places

>>5943935
>>5943985
>this is what poor white trash actually believes
lolno
Doctors are certainly middle/upper middle class and they all take the subway and light rail where I live rather than drive. Or they walk.

>>5944008
>Doctors are certainly middle/upper middle class and they all take the subway and light rail where I live
lol, where the fuck do you live?

>>5943832
i have that job, its as bad as you might think

>>5943999
LA "matters" by your definition and uses cars more than trains the reason the cities you listed use trains is because how dense they are.

>>5943999
I'd love a state-wide train system that took you from one town to the next.
I live in nowheresville hicktown usa, where the nearest 'big' city is 50 miles away, with nothing but farm shit in between.
Thats a pain in the ass to drive. I'd love to be able to just hop on a train and take regular trips to the city for conventions and shit.
>tfw it'll never happen
>tfw we're almost going to be getting some wind farms installed but locals are too paranoid that they'll cause radiation
>yes i'm fucking serious
>radiation. from a wind farm.

>>5943999
if you live in a place where the population is dense enough to support trains, you do not live in a good place

>>5944016
LA is an abomination that needs to be cleansed from the earth. Literally all they do is produce celebrity gossip and design overpriced aerospace products to drain our economy via bloated defence contract. It's often used as a cautionary example for urban planning.

One time I saw some stupid teens "ride" a cart and jump off aiming towards the cart return area.

Instead it veered off and hit a parked car and the kids ran off.

>>5944035
did they died?

>>5943819
Agreed. I don't even use a cart. Ever.

I use the hand basket in stores that provide them (only shitholes like walmart dont, and even they used to). Or I just put everything in my cloth bags and and carry it to the register / my car just the same.

Fuck shopping carts. It's obscene there are entire jobs for dealing with this shit. Europe has it right, at least where I went that you must put a 1 euro coin to get a cart and put the cart back to have your coin returned to you. Not a single shopping cart shitting up the parking lot.

>>5944021
Dyersburg?

>>5944027
The entire state of California in general is a warning of what the rest of the country would look like if the liberals were in charge.

I don't wish anything bad to happen over there, though, or else all the fucking nutjobs and giant cloud of smug would just migrate to some other poor state

>>5944043
non negroid/mexican infested walmarts still have shopping baskets available

That's one reason I like to go to Aldi!

>>5944060
Agreed!
If only they'd use plastic sacks like everyone else, so I didn't have to go on a scavenger hunt for boxes every time I shopped there
>but anon they do have pla-
No, fuck that. I'm not paying for one.

>>5944025
>where you live is so terrible that more people want to live there
wut

>>5944068
Bring one from another grocer or bring a reusable cloth one.

>>5943899
>mfw she is into older guys
>she loves your back pain
>you will get to live out your rich older guy fantasy's

you dun fucked up

>>5944069
its so terrible that people can only afford tiny domiciles and people end up packed in, unable to escap

>>5944014
Boston

>>5943985
Im so sorry you live in a shitty small city and are so scared of black people that you take a worse form of transportation instead of taking the chance that one might sit next to you.

>>5944006
>>5944025
what is 'nice' then

mcmansiontowne?

>>5943942
You are literally the worst scum, WAHHHHH other people should be able to afford nice things if I can't.

>>5944218
Shouldn't*

>>5944109

Sorry you live in a dirty smelly minority infested urban concrete hive and have to hoof-it everywhere via the Shoe Leather Express.

>>5944027
way to evade

I always go by the Aldi's like twice a week here just to nab all the free quarters people leave in their cart deposits.

Europe has it less likely though since they have to use a whole euro.

>>5944316
>Aldi's

Why do people call it this?

>>5944329
People in Ohio put an apostrophe-s on basically any grocery store that sounds like it could be a person's name - Kroger's, Meijer's, Aldi's, ...

>>5943819
I actually always make a point to do this at any grocery store where they don't employ pic related. Not out of laziness or anything, but somebody is getting paid to collect the carts. Their pay is a grossly exacerbated factor in product pricing. Not corralling carts encourages coin locking shopping carts.

>>5944329
its common in the midwest to do this.

like as in jewel's, osco's, etc.

>>5943819

Don't worry. In the future, carts will collect themselves and you'll be out of your job.

>>5944339
I'm suddenly thinking of all the pissed off fatties if Walmart ever used this system
They already bitch about how many times they need to lift thier groceries and walk around the store. God forbid they should ever have to waddle thier empty cart back to the corral

>>5944339
I could see a lot of people just leaving the quarter in there
shit, stores could do this for a miniscule profit increase, just collect the quarters people were too lazy to take back

>>5944339
>go to aldi
>fucking fat old white lady can't figure out how to coin
>is about to explode from anger
>she gives up and says she's leaving for walmart
>couple of other customers and I even tried to help

>>5944391

Ugh.

The world would fix itself overnight if we just euthanized anyone taking longer than 180 seconds at a self-checkout.

>>5944386
There would always be some poorfag lurking for stray carts. You'd be surprised at how stingy people can be over a quarter

>>5944381
Wal-Mart is truly the best for people watching. Stopping there just today for their low daily smiley faces, there was a hungry skellington open carrying an XD.

>>5943819

>>5944398
Right. The world would be so much better if we just brazenly commit mass holocausts because of impatience and exaggerated self-importance..

>>5944408
>implying it's the fault of the judge to witness the inequity of the judged

You should be rounded up with them too.

>>5944334
>>5944341
>>5944329
I do this all the time

>>5944414

Well spoken.

>>5944050
Which state are you from?

>>5943819
I agree with OP especially since cart getters don't get tipped.

>>5944339
>Their pay is a grossly exacerbated factor in product pricing.
You should probably stop buying toilet paper because wiping your ass instead of letting shit stay in there is a grossly exacerbated factor in ass cleanliness.

>>5944452
>tfw cavemen still rub wood pulp in their cornholes and call it "clean"

Feels good to be part of the bidet master race.

>>5944004
Underrated post.

>>5944414
It's a wonder you can witness anything at all while your head so far up your own ass

>>5944460
and yeah, the word 'is' should be in there somewhere

>>5944440
A redneck, republican, ultra-conservative flyover state of no interest that has no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

One could almost make the argument that its 'worse' than California, except that we've got our minorities under control, and don't let them turn our smaller towns into drug filled warzones.
Sometimes... just sometimes.. i'm glad that the state is run by old racist rednecks who don't put up with the bullshit you see in larger cities.

>>5943845
This is the oldest post I've ever seen on this site.

>>5943999
>half of those cities listed have subways
Nice job, faggot.

>>5944452
They aren't even the same thing. You aren't making sense, anon.

>>5944460
>>5944464

Let me save you some trouble. Here;

>I don't like the idea of institutionalizing the murder of unusually stupid people because I, myself, am unusually stupid

>thread starts slowly about niggers not pushing the carts into the stalls after using them
>slowly devolves into /pol/-tier garbage

>>5944477
>implying your own mother is unusually stupid
That's just plain ungrateful, anon.

>>5944472
Can you read? All of those cities have subways. That was the point dumbass

>>5944486
I'm OP.

I made this thread and closed it without seeing the first reply until now. It went about exactly how I expected it to.

>>5944050
And Juarez, Mexico is what it would look like if corporations and neo-conservatives were in charge. I'll take my chances with the legal weed.

Once upon a time before all groceries were WalMarts or Mega-chains, when there were local and regional stores... in the 70's and 80's

>park car safely in lot of grocery
>walk in, all carts are INSIDE the store
>Store is designed so carts CANNOT leave the inside of the store with separated entrance/exit area and device on cart to keep it inside.
>Go about shopping
>Check out
>Bag boy loads all the paper bags groceries into a tall rolling metal rack which is pushed aside
>You are handed a metal claim ticket
>Go outside, get car, drive car into covered loading area
>Hand number ticket to attendant there, he brings out your rack of groceries
>you can load grocereies into car yourself, or for a tip have the loading area boys put your things in your car

Why did this stop being a thing?!
I know it was a big thing, across many States, I saw from Michigan to Florida, it was a standard for groceries.
I stopped seeing such a set-up in the early 90's

Last "Family Local" grocery mini-chain (8 locations) that I know had this system closed in 2005

Surely that system of shopping cart-dom saved huge $$$$ from lost-damaged carts and the labor or danger of carts left in parking lots.

I Blame WalMart-ization.

>>5944729
Another thing that was the greatest was that covered loading area.

Enough space for 6 or more 1980's land-boat sized American cars.
When it was snowing/raining or just shit weather you could be in the bright light and under cover not getting soaked, getting water in your car, or having snow/rain wreck your groceries.

I'm trying to find a picture of what I an referring to for you whippersnappers that live in this heathen senseless future

>>5943819
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95o53Gepmg

>>5944742
only picture I could find of my nostalgia ramblings

I pity the new generations

Sometimes I do leave my trolley out in a random spot but only if someone else has left theirs there first. So it's actually less work for the trolley collector because my trolley is already next to a previously left trolley he can just connect them both right there and take them back to the depot.

>>5944750
That's called a click and collect where I live.
You go online and order all your groceries and they tell you when to turn up and collect it, you pull up under the covered area and they load your trunk for you.

>>5944729
My town still has drive up (Minnesota) :) Great service, very prompt and courteous.

>>5944729
>>5944742
>live in ginormous east coast US city
>only one walmart in the whole place
>no megachains
>all supermarkets are regional or local chains or independent
>literally all of them unless you count aldi, save a lot and the one target and one walmart, if they count as megachain grocers
>also BJs and Sam's Club, if they count as megachain grocers, too
>not sure they count as megachains
>don't think they do
>many of the stores have the indoor trolley/cart corrals
>the one walmart has one, too
>so does the target

The only stores with the carport like thingy in >>5944750, aren't grocery stores, per se: one's a CVS, one's s a Lowe's and the last is a the BJ's.

I think we don't have the meandering carts because real estate here is way more expensive than in lesser areas that no one actually cares about. So many stores just don't waste valuable parking spaces on trolley corrals.
And when I say real estate is expensive, I ain't joking. A lot of parking garages and carparks/parking lots here sell parking spaces. Not rent for an hour or two: sell. People can buy a space just large enough to fit a common SUV for a couple hundred thousand then pay a hundred something each month, like buying a condo and paying condo fees. Lots of people just use carshare instead of actually owning a car, though.
Shit here's 'spensive, yo.