Shopping carts
Shopping carts
O.k., here is one thing that I was wondering if anyone else had noticed...when you go to a finnish supermarket (never mind how many k's it has), finns are liable to leave their carts virtually anywhere and walk off! You'll be walking down the supermarket aisle, looking for a good chunk of leipajuusto, and boom a cart blocks your path and the owner is nowhere in sight so you have to double back and find an unblocked path to your tasty lakkadeliverysystem cheese. I pointed this out to Sanna, and she said that yes it was quite normal to which I replied that similar behavior would get your a** kicked in the states. So, in short, has anyone else noticed this or do am I just lucky in having encountered this about 50 times in Lahti?
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I agree, the abandoned cart syndrome is quite annoying, but not as bad as the abandoned stroller situation! I don't know if it's just because of where I live or what, but there are HUGE strollers everywhere that seem to have 'drivers' that think they are at the wheel of a mack truck and like to run people down with them!! Those 'drivers' are also the ones who bring those larger than life strollers into crowded shops and jam the entire place up!! These massive strollers (prams) are left more in the middle of isles and such than the shopping strollers...in my neck of the woods that is...
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Re: That happens alot in America too:)lol
And in Holland...katrina wrote:People abandon carts in America too:)
What
If I'm shopping, I don't want to lug that 50 kilos of food about all over the place with me... I rekon it's the best thing to leave your trolly in a safe location while you undertake on the futile search for quality underwear in Citymarket!
Clearly, people are either:
dog/cat
love marmite/puke at the whif
trolly huggers/trolly abandoners
It's just one of those things. It's all a bit misty, but I'm pretty sure that I also did that in the UK way back...
Cheers
Gavin
If I'm shopping, I don't want to lug that 50 kilos of food about all over the place with me... I rekon it's the best thing to leave your trolly in a safe location while you undertake on the futile search for quality underwear in Citymarket!
Clearly, people are either:
dog/cat
love marmite/puke at the whif
trolly huggers/trolly abandoners
It's just one of those things. It's all a bit misty, but I'm pretty sure that I also did that in the UK way back...
Cheers
Gavin
Re: Shopping carts
I haven't noticed this at all. It used to p*** me off in Ireland when people did this and it was a welcome surprise when I came to Finland that nobody, that I noticed, did this same annoying habit.gerg_861 wrote:So, in short, has anyone else noticed this or do am I just lucky in having encountered this about 50 times in Lahti?
Maybe it's just Lahti
Re: Shopping carts
Keep clear of Hamina and Kotka then KidsDeman wrote:I haven't noticed this at all. It used to p*** me off in Ireland when people did this and it was a welcome surprise when I came to Finland that nobody, that I noticed, did this same annoying habit.gerg_861 wrote:So, in short, has anyone else noticed this or do am I just lucky in having encountered this about 50 times in Lahti?
Maybe it's just Lahti
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Cheers
Trolley Abandoner
Totally agree, actually it funny,
In the US I worked in a SuperK as a student, basically people would come in, slouch over a trolley and maybe only pick up 4 items rather than carry a basket. Then they'd leave them all over town, in which concerned granny's felt obliged to ring in a get you to drive over and collect it.
In Ireland where I'm from, the every so environmentally conscious shoppers would simply either
a) if there was a water source nearby, throw the trolley in the water either canal, river, lake, whatever
or
b) They'd throw em off high rise if that was available
Finally in Holland the locals would abandon them in a queue wander off for 5 mins to pick up their Leerdammer and then come back and expect to resume their previous position! God damn that pissed me off, then if you did not wait for them to come back, they'd gently ram the trolley into your ass thinking that I'd not notice. Definitely, the worst!
In the US I worked in a SuperK as a student, basically people would come in, slouch over a trolley and maybe only pick up 4 items rather than carry a basket. Then they'd leave them all over town, in which concerned granny's felt obliged to ring in a get you to drive over and collect it.
In Ireland where I'm from, the every so environmentally conscious shoppers would simply either
a) if there was a water source nearby, throw the trolley in the water either canal, river, lake, whatever
or
b) They'd throw em off high rise if that was available
Finally in Holland the locals would abandon them in a queue wander off for 5 mins to pick up their Leerdammer and then come back and expect to resume their previous position! God damn that pissed me off, then if you did not wait for them to come back, they'd gently ram the trolley into your ass thinking that I'd not notice. Definitely, the worst!
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