Greg Zaslow

costs about $175.

And it costs a little bit more.

If it's got the apparatus on the wheel that prevents it from being removed from the parking lot, it costs more like $325.

But the point is...

When you move a shopping cart, no matter where you move it in the lot, it does not devalue in price.

So it is not saving the store any amount of money if you walk the convenient 14 steps and park it next to the tree next to the parking lot where my car is parked.

Or if you walk 111 steps.

To the cart corral, which is totally inconvenient, especially because even though the sun is out, it's starting to rain a little bit.

Okay, so I'm here on the cart.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to take the 14 steps and put it right here, which is right next to where my car is parked.

Okay, I have a beautiful 1994 Toyota Corolla.

It's parked right here.

14 steps away.

Why on earth am I going to walk 111 steps and move it here in the park, the corral?

Because here's the thing.

The cart boy just came out of the store.

The other thing is that it's not against the law.

to leave the cart here.

In fact, truth be known, I used to be best friends with a Publix manager.

He says he preferred it when people don't use the cart corral because the cart corral gets filled up very quickly and so the cart boy has to be dispatched more often