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THE TRUE IDENTITY OF SHOPPING CARTS

Before I worked at Walmart, I thought shopping carts were conveniences provided by stores to ensure that customers left their paycheck at that store. I couldn’t be more wrong!

Shopping carts (which the customers also taught me were called buggies, baskets or wagons as well) are, in all actuality, trash cans. The containers I thought were trash cans were too hidden and inconvenient to be properly used as a trash receptacle as they were located immediately next to the entrance and exit doors.

The shopping cart, however, makes the perfect trash can. It’s right in front of customers at all times. Need to get rid of your McDonald’s garbage? Just throw it down right in front of you! Someone else will take it out for you! The baby seats are perfect cup holders, too. I’ve also found plenty of used diapers, napkins/tissues (used and otherwise), bloody cloths, receipts, used plastic and paper plates and cutlery, tons of bleach shopping cart wipes, cigarettes, clothes hangers, gum, and ketchup (splattered all over).

Walmart is all about their customers, so these mobile trash cans had to be cleaned out regularly for use by the next customer. Guess who gets stuck with that nasty job? The cart pushers and greeters!