Jon and I went out to get groceries yesterday and like always I noticed all of the motorized shopping carts were occupied by very obese younger customers. I saw an elderly couple sitting on the bench inside the store waiting for one of the carts to become available. The elderly woman's husband had a walker with him so I assume the cart was to be for him.
I was wondering if that is a common thing where the rest of you shop? Here you will see younger kids tagging along behind an obese parent or parents getting groceries and you can always tell the kids are embarrased. The parents drive along telling the kids what to get them from the shelves.
I was just curious what your thoughts are on this.

My thoughts on this are the same as ever. Americans need to get up off the couch and move it, move it! I just came from Germany where no one eats low fat or low carb. No one skips dessert (though some do say no to the 3rd piece of cake) and they drink like the fishes but also I didn’t see a single person who was morbidly obese. Every day we hiked 2-3 hours in the snow up the mountains sometimes in 28 degree temperatures. There is never weather so bad that the German’s think they shouldn’t go for a walk. When you move like that you really don’t have to worry much about calories. The German’s aren’t super skinny they are a stout people but they aren’t blubbery either. There was no one so big they couldn’t walk through the grocery store of their own volition. Even my husbands 80 year old aunt went for a walk with us one day. So come on America get off your butt!

I know alot of peoles disabilities may not be visible. But, when I see someone using those carts who are in their mid 20's & morbidly obese in the candy isle with a cart loaded with junk it annoys me. Especially when there are elderly or a pregnant woman waiting for one of them.
I do not think that is what the carts were intended for.

As a mother 3 times over I would NEVER be caught DEAD in one of those carts, I was just preggie and not handicapped at all, at least not enough to need a cart, why heck I walked on my own two feet into the ER when it was time to deliver, and went into labor with my second child following a nice long walk and lo and behold the entire walk I was carrying my first born!!!

Morbidly Obese is a handicap believe it or not, it is a sad but true fact of life for so many now a days.

I think using a cart is only a symptom of a deeper problem, one called Laziness Morbidly obese or not they can still walk. Those carts are intended for truly handicapped ie:elderly people who have very limited mobility and need a walker to ambulate, or perhaps a person whose legs have been recently amputated, or some other severe disability. In the same matter people get sitations and fined from the police for parking in a handicap spot, people who unnecessarily use those carts should also be sited for taking advantage of the handicapped.

A 20 yr old using a cart that is obese yet can walk anywhere else they have to go must have very little self respect to hop on one of those carts and then order their children to do the shopping! How totally insane is that!!!

P.S. Insanity is a handicap too:D

I agree obesity is a handicap. Albeit a self inflicted one. A friend of ours who had twins could only walk short lenghts during her last month of pregnancy without getting very out of breath. She used the carts alot during that time when doing her shopping.