Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation
(behavioralscientist.org)
I went to a futuristic distopian grocery store the other day. Awful time there. As I'm pushing the cart to my car in the parking lot, the wheels suddenly lock electronically as I cross some invisible threshold. "Fuck this" I thought, and took my bags out and carried them the rest of way to my car.
Leaving the cart, wheels locked, in the parking lot.