Motorized shopping cart Puns

-Guy who works at walmart

My husband has been encouraging me to try one for a while so that grocery shopping isn’t so difficult, and I did today! I was initially worried that I would feel like everyone was looking at me, thinking that I don’t look disabled, but honestly it was just so nice to enjoy grocery shopping with my husband that I didn’t care.

So this happened roughly a year and a half ago when I was working the apparel section of a large store. This elderly, rather large woman came in at around 10 minutes to closing and got in one of the motorized shopping carts. No big deal.

She's scooting around looking at stuff when she pees herself. All over the cart seat and down to the floor. She then approaches one of my coworkers from another department and demands help finding a new dress, as hers is now soaked. I was nearby folding a pile of clothes, and my coworker called me over and I put on my best customer service smile and said I'd be happy to help her. I asked her the size, style, and color preferences. The exchange went something like this:

Me: I'll be glad to help you. What size and style are you looking for?

Her: a 2x or 3x. It has to be long.

Me, pulling a dress with flowers on it that matched her criteria: how about this?

Her: what size is that?

Me: it's a 2x

Her: find me a 3x.

Me: I'm sorry we don't have this style in a 3x. We can check other departments if you'd like

Her: but I like that one.

Me: well it goes up to a 2x

Her: but I need it in a 3x

Me: I'm sorry, I wish I could help you out with that.

Her: you expect me just to sit here like this? What do they even pay you for?

At this point, I'm getting frustrated. The women's clothing wasn't even my section. I called over another apparel worker that knew the women's clothing section better and explained the situation, and what the woman was looking for. She agreed to help and asked the woman to follow her. The woman looks at me.

Her: are you coming, or are you just pawning me off on her?

Me: she's more familiar with this section, and knows where all the nice dresses are. She can help you better than I can.

The woman scoffs and scoots away after my coworker. I take a deep breath and get back to my work.

A few minutes after closing, I'm taking the final bits of clothing to the fitting room to be put away the next day. And my coworker is there and she sees me and says "Hey! Can you hold this sweater over the door while I help her change?"

I look into the open fitting room, and sure enough, it's her. The cart wouldn't fit all the way in, so the door wouldn't close. I took the sweater and held it up over the doorway while my friend helped the woman into the new dress. After she's got her new dress on, she scoots away. My friend and I look at each other and start laughing at how ridiculo

Apparently I cant do image posts, but I’ve gotten a lot done today. A seat has been added, and I now have the mechanisms for the two pedals. Half of the main basket has been removed for my feet, and that’s all I had time for.

Not disabled just wan to ride one

SO its pretty much the title.

I am a 330lb, 6'3'' man.... so obviously obese. On any normal day I can walk no problem. Infact actively losing weight and biking.

But 2 weeks ago I hurt my back, and pain has been getting worse and worse to the point that I can not even walk around the house. I have gotten it checked out and need to rest the back/leg with muscle relaxers and pain meds

Tomorrow I need to go to costco and buy groceries (kids ran out of food)..... but i dont think i can manage a 5 minute walk much less 1hr pushing a cart.

Do i need proof of injury? I can walk short distances with significant pain so lets say from my car to the door but not much further.

How judged am i gonna be? ... since I am fat and usually bigger people are the ones that are riding those things.

Something that always gets ignored at my store. Someone drove one all the way to the very end of the parking lot as far away from the store as it can go while still being in the Walmart parking lot.

According to my googling, those carts are not supposed to exit the store.

But, I'm not sure how else to do it.

I rolled my foot yesterday, and was instructed to go buy a set of crutches, a certain boot if they have it, and a certain type of shoe. Walmart should have these things.

I can walk with my weight on my big toe very short distances... just enough to get into the store to get on the cart. But there's no way I can carry all those items to my car by hand, even if I adjust and use the crutches to exit the store.

Is it really a problem to drive the car to by car, then drive the cart back, then crutch myself to my car?

I mean... if I go shopping at all in the coming weeks, if I can't carry the items while using crutches, I obviously need a motorized cart. If I need the cart to carry them in the store, how am I supposed to get them to my car without it?

(There's no one to help me. I have no friends or family in this state)

So this happened about 2 years ago just after my amputation. I had a hard shell around my leg (to keep it from bending and freezing in that position and was using a wheelchair but there was a motorized cart outside when we parked at a well known store so I grabbed it so no one had to push me around (just a bit of independence)

i have had to deal with people who think they need the cart more than i before but usually they go away but this one lady wanted the cart.

So i am going down an isle and see this woman pushing her own cart and she stopped to grab something. I also did as well but was in front of her, suddenly i heard a huge sigh and the woman muttered something about me being lazy. I turned around in the seat, to look over my shoulder (conversation from memory so maybe not exact wording)

Me: Excuse me?
Lady: (with another huge sigh) I SAID you are lazy, you can get out of that and let someone like me use it instead.

Now i was a bit confused.. since i couldn't actually do that, but i thought maybe she hadn't seen that i was missing a vital part of walking.

Me: Actually i can't, i left my wheelchair in the car so i could actually use this to get some things while my family are shopping too.
Lady: Get out of that you don't need it! I am tired and need to rest.

So i hate confrontations and this was rapidly turning into one, so i turned the cart towards her and put my leg up so she could see it and then told her

You regrow my leg for me and you can have it otherwise leave me alone

I started away from her and she had come up behind me and then kicked the cart with a scream and called me lazy again.

I got away from her fast.

This is really nothing new.. for some reason people who are even healthy want to use them and won't give them up to people who do need them. What's maddening is when kids get in them just to play around.

They are a bit of independance for those of us who rely on help for their wheelchairs or walking and it really is aggravating to see 3 kids riding the cart behind their mother and her allowing it. so this situation just was annoying, after all how am i supposed to walk With no crutches, no leg and maybe a week out of surgery. Sheesh

Scooters are for the frail, not for the whale

I think big box stores should have the same amounts of motorized carts as handicapped spaces! I do most of my shopping online, but I had to go to the blue big box store today. I looked for a cart, couldn’t find one and halfway through shopping with a regular cart my legs gave out.

Is this a violation of ADA or are they expecting people to bring their own?