23 September 2020

(In-)accessibility


Just to quickly clarify - the man in the wheelchair is not pulling the baby carriage (it's being pushed by his wife, who took the photo).  She posted this on Facebook and got a ton of pushback:

Why don’t you just walk in the road like normal people?

Why do you need to shop for shoes at Payless if you are in a wheelchair?

Totally fake. Photoshopped. 100%.

You just did this for likes and attention. Staged.

Can’t you just move the carts out if the way like everyone else?

Go around through the grass.

Go through the parking lot made for things with wheels.

Store employees are slacking in their jobs and get paid to get the carts.

Why didn’t you park in handicapped parking?

Why are you so far away from the entrance if you get priority spots up front?

I’ve never seen a sidewalk in a complex like this so this can’t be real.

Why didn’t you drop him off in the loading zone?

You knew your condition so why did you choose to go down the sidewalk if you saw the carts?

She replies to these questions with details about their experience in an article at Medium.  Discussion thread at Reddit.

Related: The Shopping Cart Theory

5 comments:

  1. So much bad faith going around.

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  2. I don't see any coin slots or chains on those shopping trolleys (carts). Is that normal in the US? Here supermarket trolleys are chained together, and released with the insertion of a coin or special token. When you return the trolley (to a dedicated trolley bay in the car-park, or back to the store), your coin is returned when you insert the chain. Generally the only trolleys left in random places are ones without coins - ie someone managed to get hold of a trolley without paying for it, so they didn't bother returning it to the correct place.

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    1. This is normal in the U.S. As far as I know there is only one grocery store chain (Aldi's) that has coin-operated trolley systems. Everywhere else (at least in suburban areas), customers are supposed to push their carts back to storage sites scattered around the parking lot.

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  3. the local sav-a-lot has switched to coin slot carriages. both theirs and aldi require quarters.

    I-)

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  4. Regularly see this exact same thing at my local Target that also has a walkway like this. It's a combination of laziness and bad design. There aren't ramps from the walkway down to the parking lot where the cart returns are, so people use the bad design as an extra excuse to be lazy and inconsiderate and not return their carts to the racks. As someone who regularly walks to the store, especially in winter when this problem is most acute, it's really a PITA.

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