Aussies lose it over selfish act at a car park: ‘People are lazy’

Aussies are outraged by a selfish parking move after a customer dumped a Coles shopping cart just meters away from a shopping cart.

A photo of the abandoned trolley was shared to Reddit on Wednesday, showing it had been left in front of a parked car and was taking up the corners of four parking spaces.

“Too much to ask?” the social media user captioned the post.

Dozens of commenters criticized the shopper, while former cart collectors said they spent days collecting the discarded items.

“People are lazy and you are treated like absolute shit for just doing your job,” one person wrote.

“I also worked as a cart collector for almost a year and the job would have been much easier if people could have been just a little bit more considerate,” another added.

Others pointed out the irony that many shoppers are quick to blame those who throw out shopping carts when they themselves commit the lazy act.

“The same people who leave the trolley outside would be the first to complain if someone does something that bothers them even a little,” one person wrote.

“People are the worst sometimes,” said another.

Some claimed that parents are to blame for the annoying problem, while others suggested that people were throwing away carts because some stores don’t require a token to use them.

“I’m honestly sick of it, I understand times are tough but there are so many lazy parents these days and we’re already seeing the results of it,” one person wrote.

“People just want their token [or] dollars back. The fact that many shopping centers have as many as 26 different shapes [and sizes of] trolleys are the cause of this problem,” someone else wrote.

Coles shoppers can report abandoned trolleys by completing a form on their website to indicate where and how many trolleys have been discarded.

The supermarket giant tested coinless shopping trolley locks at their Middle Camberwell store in Melbourne’s east in 2022.

The measure was introduced to help staff track down abandoned trolleys.

Most Coles stores require customers to insert a $1 or $2 coin or a trolley key to use their shopping trolleys.

Some Woolworths stores also require customers to use tokens or coins to use their trolleys, while shoppers have the option to purchase locked keys in their stores.

A Woolworths spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia that most customers do the right thing and return the trolleys.

“We work closely with dedicated collection companies who respond quickly to reports of abandoned carts to return them to our stores,” the spokeswoman said.

‘They also regularly sweep the streets around our stores for abandoned carts.’

Daily Mail contacted Coles for comment.