Well, leave it to me to get ticked-off about something others may find rather trivial... but I can't help it. This time it's grocery carts!
Our home is situated at a very busy corner of a main road and residential area. Just half a block away is a Food Basics grocery store. Given the store offers everyday low prices, people come from all over the city to shop. And some of them use the public transit system, which stops (of course) right in front of our home.
I've gotten used to the constant flow of people getting off the bus to shop at the grocery store. But, it totally ticks me off to see people bring their groceries back to the bus stop in the Food Basics shopping cart!
Aren't shopping carts supplied to customers for the purpose of getting purchases to the cashier and then to their vehicles? I don't believe they are meant to be taken from the property, rolled down the block to a bus stop... WHERE IT IS LEFT BEHIND after boarding the bus!
Don't these people know they can buy a 'bundle-buggy' to tote their purchases around in? The carts only cost about $15 at Walmart, Zellers or Canadian Tire. There is absolutely no reason to use a store buggy to cart purchases to bus stops (and around the area).
Some people might think this a trivial issue. But if you had to move a grocery cart to back your car out of your own driveway (as we have to), or physically return these abandoned grocery carts to the store numerous times a week, you wouldn't consider it a trivial issue at all!
It's too bad Food Basics doesn't have a cart system like No Frills does, where grocery buggies cost 25 cents to use and is refundable upon return. Rarely do you see a No Frills grocery buggy left behind anywhere.
The reason I am posting this on my Blog is in the hopes those reading it will realize that carts are designed for use at stores and in parking lots. They are not meant to transport goods to bus stops (or homes in the neighborhood) only to be left in front of somebody's property. If you must use it, RETURN IT yourself!