I noticed a thing at grocery stores in Latin America months ago that has broke my mind ever since.
For completely unfathomable reasons (to me at least) when you are done unloading your shopping cart at a till you don’t push it through and back to the area you got it from, nope.
Instead, once your cart is empty, you walk the empty cart back through the line and ditch it in the area between the tills and the aisles, so it’s in everyone’s way and everyone doing their shopping has to navigate around the pile of empty carts.
The first time I noticed it was in Paraguay and I just assumed I must be missing something. So I unloaded my items and started walking my cart ten feet forward to the cart storage area…. THE GASPS AND TITTERS! I sheepishly got my cart back, dragged it back through the line of people and their own carts, and left it right where it would be the most inconvenient for everyone in the store.
When in Rome…..
A Bit Gone 