06/11/2026
To whoever reported my cart the second I stepped away from it at Costco… I genuinely need answers. 😭🛒💀
I parked my cart near the end of an aisle so I could grab one item.
One item.
Not a full shopping trip.
Not a 30-minute disappearance.
I walked maybe 20 feet away.
By the time I came back?
An employee had already taken the entire cart.
Gone.
Vanished.
Everything I’d spent the last 40 minutes shopping for had apparently entered witness protection.
Seriously… how does that happen so fast? 😭
Was someone monitoring abandoned carts from a control room?
Did my cart trigger a silent alarm?
Because the response time was unbelievable.
Now I’m standing there trying to explain that no, I didn’t leave the store, abandon my groceries, and start a new life somewhere else.
I was gone for less time than it takes to choose between two brands of cereal.
Yet somehow my cart was treated like an unattended suitcase at an airport.
At that point I spent more time tracking down my groceries than I did shopping for them.
So now I’m curious…
How long should a cart actually sit before someone assumes it’s abandoned? 🤔