Shopping Carts: Who's Most Likely To Return?

Shopping carts: Who’s most likely to return? When shopping at the store who do you think is most likely to return a shopping cart? Me personally, I thought that people over the age 40 were most likely return them. We believed that they were the best mannered people. Have you ever wondered how many people take the time to return their cart? It always seems that whenever you drive by a Kroger no matter what time or day it is, there are always people there. My team and I were curious to know what the result of this research would be. Therefore, my team and I narrowed down at what age, gender, and time it would be more likely for someone to return a cart.
To prove our claim that men over the age of 40 were more likely to return their carts, we …show more content…
We identified two Men over the age who both returned their carts and zero did not return carts. Men under the age of 40 one returned their cart two did not. Women over the age of 40 one returned their cart one did not. Women under 40 three returned carts and one did not. Next we went to Kroger off of Grenville in Allen TX at 12:15pm where we collected that men under the age of 40 three returned their carts and zero did not return their carts. Men over 40 two returned their carts two did not return their carts. Women under 40 four returned their carts and zero did not return their carts. Women over 40 fifteen returned their carts and one did not return her cart. In addition we went to Kroger on W parker Blvd at 6:30pm. We concluded here that woman under 40 six returned and zero did not. Woman over 40 sixteen returned their cart and two did not. Men under 40 four returned their cart zero did not. Men over 40 six returned their cart 0 did not. Lastly we went to Kroger off Greenville in Allen TX at 9:00pm.At this time women under the age of 40 12 returned their carts and two did not. Women over the age of 40 three returned their carts one did not. With the men under the age of 40 seven returned their carts and three did not. Men over 40 we had 3 return their carts and zero did not. The number of people that came out with just bags was shocking to all my group members and I. None of us realized …show more content…
We started observing before 6:18 not a lot of people are out at the grocery store this early therefore, our results may be a skewed due to not getting a good amount of people in the morning. In addition, we observed that many people were just there were only 2 exceptions of Kroger customers walking out of the store with another person. Customers may have felt obliged to put up their cart correctly due to the fact that someone was observing them. There was not a shopping cart attendant at the time we was out. At noon some possible variables where what we perceived as over/under 40 may be incorrect. This location had 12 bins for customer carts in a fairly small location. The time of day may have made me record more stay at home moms than men. Women regularly parked closer to the bins while men parked as close to the front of the store as possible. Almost every single person that had a kid, had their kid put away their cart. Lastly, there was a shopping cart attendant that was putting away carts for an entire hour of observation and he would occasionally take and put away someone's cart for them. As we observed the evening some problems include Parking lot was crowded, there was an employee organizing carts and help few customers by taking their carts. Among two people who fail to return the cart, one didn’t return her because since there wasn't any other cars around her in parking she felt it was ok to leave it in the lot.