Different Carts

Date: Jan 3, 2015

Different Carts

FrontEndSlave · Guru

Our store opened from another location prior.

So we have :

- bubble carts
- old carts with a rectangle-sized dip at the front of the cart
- kiddie-sized shopping carts
- regular sized carts
- smaller sized carts (the customers grab these up like $20s are taped to them)
and, finally, six colorful kid-taxi carts (red,green,blue, two of each)

Try having all of those in a single corral.
One reason it is tough for us to keep up with carts as courtesy clerks is because the morons who shop at our store just randomly throw them all together.
So smalls with large, kiddie carts in the middle or worse at the end, large regular carts smashed into to the colorful kid-taxi carts.
The fun part is when we are low on carts or have a lazy courtesy clerk and the old rectangle-sized carts get pushed in with the regular carts.
Since the old rectangle-sized carts have that missing section on the end, they don't coordinate well with the 'regular' carts. And they end up getting 'stuck' together.
You have to raise the large part of the rectangular cart and push the regular cart back. But do most of our customers know this? Nope.

I would never want to play a puzzle with ANY of our customers.
They would spend 30 minutes searching for edge pieces.
If you have seen some of our corrals...wow. Idiots.

NutritionWhore · Guru

Do tell.. what are these "bubble carts". I'm interested.

FrontEndSlave · Guru

sav-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/MET0730CARTS.jpg

One like those.

Also forgot to mention that we also have the four-foot-wide carts as well.
Floral loves them because they can put so much in to them to move them around inside and out.
The fuel station also uses them to transport between store and fuel.
But put them in a corral and all they do is back everything up.

NutritionWhore · Guru

FrontEndSlave wrote:
sav-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/MET0730CARTS.jpg

One like those.

Also forgot to mention that we also have the four-foot-wide carts as well.
Floral loves them because they can put so much in to them to move them around inside and out.
The fuel station also uses them to transport between store and fuel.
But put them in a corral and all they do is back everything up.

I'd bet you that the cart in that photo would be at a bus stop three miles away. :P

In all seriousness, I have NEVER seen those outside of department stores (except perhaps Target).

In the store I used to work in, we only had a regular/standard cart and the dual-deck basket cart (where there's only enough room on top/bottom for one handheld basket).

BagBoy · Guru

We've had 4 types of carts over the years.

Normal carts
Wide and short carts
Child size carts
Double stack half carts.

We recently had the children carts stolen and a new shipment of normal so we put the double stack and normal in the store and the short fat ones in the shed we have out back.

techelite · Guru

NutritionWhore wrote:
FrontEndSlave wrote:
sav-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/superphoto/MET0730CARTS.jpg

One like those.

Also forgot to mention that we also have the four-foot-wide carts as well.
Floral loves them because they can put so much in to them to move them around inside and out.
The fuel station also uses them to transport between store and fuel.
But put them in a corral and all they do is back everything up.
I'd bet you that the cart in that photo would be at a bus stop three miles away. :P

In all seriousness, I have NEVER seen those outside of department stores (except perhaps Target).

In the store I used to work in, we only had a regular/standard cart and the dual-deck basket cart (where there's only enough room on top/bottom for one handheld basket).

And I have never seen any other kind than these plastic carts here, at least for full size carts. We have the urban carts (the 2 tier ones) and the racecar carts and the kiddie carts. My old store had the little carts you set baskets in but they disappeared pretty quickly.

Date: Jan 4, 2015

Since Im the only one who has a truck at my store, I often go on "cart calls" to get the carts that magically get across town. Its actually my favorite part of my day when I get to do it.

management_drone · Senior Member

NutritionWhore wrote:

In all seriousness, I have NEVER seen those outside of department stores (except perhaps Target).

In the store I used to work in, we only had a regular/standard cart and the dual-deck basket cart (where there's only enough room on top/bottom for one handheld basket).

I've seen those in inner city stores where the carts were frequently stolen by scrappers. One of the stores that I had been at had them after I left, because over 6 months time something like 70 carts had disappeared.

Date: Jan 4, 2015

Anonymous wrote:
Since Im the only one who has a truck at my store, I often go on "cart calls" to get the carts that magically get across town.It's actually my favorite part of my day when I get to do it.

Unless you are management, i would refuse. If you get in a crash, your insurance wont cover it, because you were doing "work related" activities. Also is Kroger paying you gas money?

techelite · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Since Im the only one who has a truck at my store, I often go on "cart calls" to get the carts that magically get across town.It's actually my favorite part of my day when I get to do it.
Unless you are management, i would refuse. If you get in a crash, your insurance wont cover it, because you were doing "work related" activities. Also is Kroger paying you gas money?

Yeah, your insurance may not cover it, but kroger's will because you were on the clock.

Date: Jan 5, 2015

Yeah they pay me for gas. If I crashed, I wouldnt really give a $hit because its a beater thats worth more in scrap than anything