u/SpankySharp1

I grew up in SE Pennsylvania, and I worked at a grocery store as a teenager. I started as a bagger, and part of my duties were going out and gathering the shopping carts from the parking lot. It was pretty much a job—cart duty—reserved exclusively for people on the bottom rung, the baggers. The cashiers or customer service reps behind the counter never had to get the carts.

I live in South Carolina now, and at the grocery stores I frequent—Publix and Food Lion, mostly—I'll see various people outside gathering carts, people I know aren't baggers. My question is: was it a regional thing, that the people at the bottom of the totem pole got the carts or was there some kind of bagger revolution that resulted in more equality among cart-fetching?