Everyone knows how long it takes to walk through an Ikea store. Once you enter along the winding path and embark on your sojourn through the store its not like you can easily just exit or walk back to the entrance.
Which is what makes someone’s taking your shopping cart a really annoying experience. This has happened to me a few times at Ikea’s now and to be honest it really pisses me off.
After my cart was taken by an idiot today I asked the first store employee I saw about it. I also asked her if one of the staff would have taken it and she said definitely not. They do not take carts, even if they are empty. So it definitely was a moron shopper who did it.
Anyhow, I thought of a way to prevent people from taking your shopping cart in the middle of the store: Put an item or even multiple items in it. They do not have to be items you intend to buy. I know this is a sad thing to do because someone else at the store will have to place those items back in their original location, but it seems to be the only way to get people to not do what they already, if they had a sense of integrity, would not be doing.
Other than that, the only thing I can think of that might work would be to get one of their pencils, a piece of paper, and tape or somehow affix to the cart. On the paper write:
Hey moron! I didn’t push this cart a quarter-mile through the labyrinth aisles of this store up to this point and burn 1000 calories dodging kids, fat people, and invalids so your dumb ass could take it! Keep your hands off!
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