What is the psychology of those who do not return shopping cart at supermarket?

ByCaden Crawford

Although it is common sense to return the cart to the cart place when using the cart at the supermarket, some people sometimes leave the cart in a parking lot or the like. We classify those who firmly return such carts and those who do not return to 5 types and explain what kind of influence will occur in supermarkets unless we return the cart.

Why Do not People Return Their Shopping Carts? - Scientific American Blog Network
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts/

There are supermarkets where carts are lined up in a well-ordered cart place in a supermarket while carts are left behind in parking lots. Some supermarkets are setting up a cart storage place in the parking lot, we need to make a change when using the cart like a coin locker, and make efforts to make money back when returning to the cart storage place.

ByOliver Ruhm

The fact that the cart is not returned to the fixed position other than the supermarket as described above is because "the cart storage place is too far from the parked place", "I can not go back to return the child to the car" "Weather is too bad" "Physical problem "You can not easily return the cart from the shopping cart" "I'm aware that it is the job of someone else to collect carts" and "Someone left the cart so that they can pick up the cart immediately at the parking lot" I will. It is decided whether these persons overlap each other and whether to return the cart, but cart users can be categorized into five types as follows.

◆ 1: Returners (person who always returns)
People of this type always return the cart to the correct place regardless of the distance to the cart storage place or the weather. Returners has a strong sense of obligation, and if you leave the cart you will feel sorry for someone collecting carts.

◆ 2: Never Returners (people who never return)
A person who never returns the cart to a fixed position, this type of person believes that returning the cart is the responsibility of someone else's work or the supermarket side. And even if the cart is neglected around me it does not show interest.

◆ 3: Convenience Returners (who return according to circumstances)
I will return it only when parking near the cart storage place or when the cart is close.

◆ 4: Pressure Returners (people who feel pressure and return)
We will return the cart only when the cart is close, or when there is a car owning the car parked next to it.

◆ 5: Child-Driven Returners (those who return with their children)
People who have children, who take the children to the cart storage place and return it to the queue of queuing carts like a game.

ByBetsy

As you can see, it depends on each person's way of thinking whether or not to return the cart by people. Also, in a study published in Science in 2008, researchers sandwiched a leaflet in a parked car and supervised the reaction by placing a supermarket in a parking lot where four carts were abandoned and a supermarket cleanly tidied up. I did an experiment to see. As a result, in the parking lot where the cart is scattered, 58% dropped the leaflet on the floor, whereas 30% said that if the cart was in order, throwing the leaflets.

That one unit that thought "If only about one is OK" and leave it is that there is a possibility of becoming the first step to devastating your favorite supermarket.