Welcome!

Welcome to the Save the Shopping Carts Foundation! No, I'm not going to ask for donations. This foundation exists to encourage people everywhere to return shopping carts to the stores to which they belong, regardless of whether it is your cart or not.

Returning a shopping cart not only keeps the community looking good, it actually helps the economy. How? Think of it this way:
The average shopping cart costs a retail store between $60 and $125.
When enough shopping carts disappear for long enough periods, store management must consider purchasing replacements.
Buying one replacement cart is the equivalent of one full shift (sometimes two) for the average part-time retail employee.
The money for that shopping cart has to come from somewhere, and the first target for cutting costs in retail is usually the labor budget.
Store managers sometimes have to cut an employee's hours just to replace equipment.

Rescuing a cart allows retail employees to keep working. When retail employees are working, the stores are kept clean, customers get the help they need, the business thrives, and the employees get to spend their paychecks with other businesses. When the employees' hours are cut, the store suffers, the customers are unhappy, and less money flows through the national economy.

So let's all help each other out. Go rescue those abandoned carts!