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If you scatter carts in random places the supermarket has to employ someone to collect them. So you are a job creator^TM^. This is why I never return my cart, and also why I jump on cartons of milk in the dairy aisle and take a dump in the broccoli.
People who actually think this are using it as an excuse for their bad manners.
The person employed by the supermarket to gather carts is not employed to return your cart to the cart return near your vehicle. They are employed to gather the carts from the cart return near your vehicle and bring them back to the store building's cart return.
By doing this, you do not create more jobs (as the cart return employee position already exists whether you return your cart or not), you create more work for an already probably underpaid employee and you also increase everyone's autoinsurance because when the wind blows the carts damage other people's vehicles.
I definitely have the unpopular opinion of disagreeing. As much as I'd like to employ manners with my grocery store, if there's no corral within a 30 second walk from me, I don't put the cart back. Most of my purchases are under 8 items and I usually don't use a cart so I just carry everything by hand in the store and out.
My grocery store doesn't care about manners on their end. It treats me like an economic unit and even makes self checkout the most reasonable option. They'd have me clean the floors as part of the checkout if they could. From a utilitarian perspective, it makes more sense for one person to gather all the carts in a batch rather than each individual going back for their individual cart.
The insurance rates thing is a legitimate point ( insurance is a racket, though. Fuck those guys too)
Except that loose carts roll away and get blown by the wind scratching other people's cars. Carts put up on curbs and in gravel etc. ruins the wheels making everyone's experience worse. Carts left in the parking lot block spaces so people can't park in lots that already sometimes are overfilled.
You're not 'sticking it to the man,' the store owner or corporate shareholders who make the rules and set the prices don't care, you're making life worse for your fellow shoppers.