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

By PRANAV HARISH FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

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Aussies have been left outraged over a selfish car park act after a shopper dumped a Coles shopping trolley just metres away from a trolley bay. 

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

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

Dozens of commenters slammed the shopper, with former trolley collectors saying they have spent days on the job retrieving the discarded objects. 

'People are lazy and you'd get treated like absolute a** for just doing your job,' one wrote. 

'I worked as a trolley collector for almost a year too and the job would have been much easier if people could be just a tiny bit more considerate,' another added. 

Others pointed out the irony that many shoppers are quick to blame those, who discard trolleys, when they commit the lazy act themselves. 

'Same people who leave the trolley out would be first to complain when anyone does anything that even slightly inconveniences them,' one person wrote. 

Aussies have slammed a shopper over a selfish car park act after they dumped a Coles shopping trolley (pictured) just metres away from a trolley bay

Aussies have slammed a shopper over a selfish car park act after they dumped a Coles shopping trolley (pictured) just metres away from a trolley bay 

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'People are the worst sometimes,' another person said. 

Some claimed parents are responsible for the annoying issue while others suggested people discard trolleys because some shops don't require a token to use them.

'I’m honestly sick of it, I get that times are tough but there’s so many lazy parents these days and we’re already seeing the result of it,' one person wrote. 

'People just want their token [or] dollar back. The fact that many shopping centres have like 26 different shapes [and sizes of] trolleys is what leads to this issue,' another person wrote. 

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

The supermarket giant trialed coinless shopping trolley locks at their Middle Camberwell store, in Melbourne's east, in 2022. 

The move was introduced to help staff track abandoned trolleys. 

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

A Coles spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia that the supermarket have teams that collect trolleys, which are removed from their premises

'Abandoned trolleys are a nuisance to local communities and we are always working to make this better across all our stores, with regular collections of abandoned trolleys,' the spokeswoman said. 

'Trolleys that aren’t returned to their designated collection points can not only cause safety issues for our customers but inconvenience other shoppers in the carpark'. 

The spokeswoman said shoppers are urged to return trolleys to dedicated trolley bays that are set up across Coles administered carparks.  

Some Woolworths stores also require customers to use tokens or coins to use their trolleys while shoppers have the option of purchasing locked keys at their stores. 

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

'We work closely with dedicated collection contractors who respond quickly to reports of abandoned trolleys to return them to our stores,' the spokeswoman said.

'They also conduct regular sweeps for abandoned trolleys in the streets surrounding our stores.'

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