Why do so many grocery carts have a wheel that's out of whack?

[raccoon]

And goes bump, bump, bump, all over the place and drives you nuts? What’s really happening?

[coti]

1. Dude.

That's pretty deep.

[True Dough]

2. I don't know the answer, but why do I ALWAYS wind up with said cart?

And, to make matters worse, I ALWAYS get in the slowest-moving checkout line!!

Don't shop with me. You've been forewarned!

[catbyte]

6. +1000

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Got 'ya one better......

I'm the "wizard" at checkout lines AND lines in the bank!

[skylucy]

3. I thought it was only one cart and I just keep getting it every time I shop.

[hlthe2b]

4. You left out the constant squeaking, clattering, grinding

[coti]

20. Reminds me... "Life is Like a Mop"

[Girard442]

5. Wheels wear out and break, just like anything else.

Once one wheel goes, people favor the better carts. After a while, they all end up with one bad wheel.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

46. And the parking lots don't do any favors ether. n/t

[Grammy23]

7. I think it is because some shoppers use the cart like a battering ram.

They are kamakazi shoppers and the carts are tough but after being banged into each other hundreds of times they get out of whack. When I pull out a cart and it goes lump lump or is wonky, I go back for another one. Life is too short for that sh*t.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

34. That's part of it.

Especially kids that think banging them together.
And parking lots that are in bad shape don't help.

[tavernier]

9. They tire out?

Sorry.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

57. That's wheelie bad. nt

[tavernier]

58. Don't spoke of it again.

[BusyBeingBest]

10. Because people shove them up over curbs and into the parking lot landscaping, lodge them there

instead of putting them into the cart corrals.

[Polly Hennessey]

36. You caught me.

[DonaldsRump]

11. It's wheel socialism

If there weren't wheel welfare, wheel health care, and wheel unemployment insurance, along with wheel economic stimuli, these wheels would learn to take care of themselves and not depend on others.

Damn' socialist wheels!


(of course)

[marybourg]

35. LOL.

[DonaldsRump]

42. Indeed! The bad wheels all stick to the left!

[ornotna]

12. Always test drive your cart before you commit

That's a must at Walmart, theirs are the worst.

[marie999]

23. I find the ones at Walmart with the orange handle are newer and work better.

[ornotna]

26. That's funny

I always try to get them too when there.

[awesomerwb1]

13. I often get one with

a wheel that hardly spins or a cart that pulls HARD to one side(this one pisses me off the most).

[Pobeka]

14. Cart gnomes. n/t

[Binkie The Clown]

15. Antifa is sabotaging them all to drive us crazy. nt

[Ziggysmom]

16. They go woobly in the store but zip like a bandit in the parking lot to go dent your car!

Why?

[LeftInTX]

17. Depends where you shop!

I never have a problem at HEB

I do have problems at WalMart and Target

It's all about maintenance

[Mariana]

18. Because dirt and gunk get into the wheels and eventually one of them jams. nt.

[ProfessorGAC]

52. Adding On...

...because they go outside, water displaces the lubricant in the wheel bearings, eventually.
Doesn't take long for rust to seize the bearing.
We never see the carts with 4 bad wheels, because when the staff can't move them, they scrapped to use the metal to build new!
The wheels might be romvable so they can be replaced. I never checked.
But, I'm certain that scrapped grocery carts become new shopping carts.

[CaptainTruth]

19. George Soros & the New World Order are behind it.

[NightWatcher]

21. So no one will steal them.

I knew someone who had a small store and said that smooth carts disappear, wobbly or noisy ones last forever. Shoppers complain but they still shop there so why bother or repair.

[JHB]

22. I'm not saying it's gremlins...

...but it's gremlins.

&t=273s

[BumRushDaShow]

24. OMG YES!

And as some posted up thread, the ones that squeal and squeak all loud, which is embarrassing when you are walking down an aisle. And then it'll suddenly start shuddering when a wheel gets stuck, forcing you to push the thing so that it slides (not rolls) forward, so you can keep moving.

[mdelaguna]

25. These replies are hilarious

[njhoneybadger]

27. If you get a bad one and put it back the next one you pick is worse!

[beaglelover]

28. This OP made me LOL as it is to TRUE!!

[ananda]

29. They must be Republican wheels.

[randr]

30. Like fruit cake, there is only one

It just gets around a lot.

[sarcasmo]

31. I've returned plenty of carts that have the wobbly wheel. Now shopping at a new Meijer store

Brand new cars, no wobbly wheels.

[occupant]

32. Cart Guy

Having worked in the grocery business all my life, I recall 30 yrs ago we had a cart guy. Yup, a guy in a box truck used to come by once every 3 months or so and he fixed the carts. He changed broken wheels, fixed cracked handles and smoothed out any rough spots, then he powerwashed 'em all. It was awesome !

[marybourg]

38. But the CEO needed a new ski condo, so . . .

[StarryNite]

51. He's a hero!

Cart Guy rocks!

[Chiyo-chichi]

33. It's not the age old problem that you're describing, but I also suspect

that the relatively new "anti-theft wheel locks" that many stores have these days kind of lock up when they shouldn't.

[Brother Buzz]

37. You need to hire Bubbles, professional shopping cart repairman, to select one for you

[TrishaJ]

39. Happens to me all the time.

And it's usually the LAST available cart!

[Meowmee]

40. I think it is because

One, they aren’t well designed, two, they get a lot of use and misuse, and three they are not maintained well etc. The worst for me are the noisy wheel ones that go bump, bump etc. and the ones that verge to one side. I ditch them for a new one. Costco and Wholefoods seem to have the best carts. One Bjs in our area just replaced all of theirs with a new design which has a smaller higher front seat area which I don’t like because I put large boxes of cat food there so as not to have to lift them too much. They also seem to be wider. I think the plastic Target carts are the best but they seem to get noisy wheels quickly.

[Spider Jerusalem]

41. Because it's not a wheel, it's a caster

A wheel rotates around a single axle; a caster is a wheel mounted in such a way that it also rotates around its vertical axis. This is easily knocked out of alignment and wobbles.

[Marie Marie]

43. They are put there just in case you are really having a bad day and

you thought things couldn't get worse...

[Cetacea]

44. LOL

K&R

[spanone]

45. ...and why do I aways wind up with one?

[USALiberal]

47. Lounge!!!

[hatrack]

48. SOROS!!!!

ANTIFA!!!

LIBTARDS!!!!

HER EMAILS!!!!

[backtoblue]

49. 3 out of 4 cart wheels approve of this message nt

[doc03]

50. That's funny I just came from Walmart the cart I had was doing that nt

[surrealAmerican]

53. entropy

that, and shoddy maintenance

[theneworiginal]

54. It's the Democrats, Dummy.

I read it on the internet on Cart-Anon. They hate shoppers' freedom. Damn Liberals.

[madinmaryland]

55. Nice post, Andy Rooney!!

🤣🤣🤣

[NCjack]

56. Because 1) most of the good ones have been stolen, and 2) the fresh veg

and fruit manager has taken the rest of them into receiving area, where he loads them with stuff to be put out for sale. If you bribe that manager, you can get his worse shopping cart.

[SeattleVet]

59. The wheels are really OK...

but there's a really wicked windstorm going on 3 inches above the ground.

[muriel_volestrangler]

60. It's a motspur

Motspur
(noun)
The fourth wheel of a supermarket trolley which looks identical to the other tree but renders the trolley completely uncontrollable.

source : The Meaning of Liff

http://meaningofliff.free.fr/definition.php3?word=Motspur&lang=en

Courtesy of Douglas Adams

[pecosbob]

61. It's a communist conspiracy, Mandrake!