{"id":15732,"date":"2020-07-03T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-03T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=15732"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:22:26","slug":"how-is-veganism-like-returning-shopping-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/03\/how-is-veganism-like-returning-shopping-carts\/","title":{"rendered":"HOW IS VEGANISM LIKE RETURNING SHOPPING CARTS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HYd4yNpFlwxiJZ4bMh124c5GOl6zNphMS9AQQuBb8ohPbW8Warq6wl9bYQoh8JIUOOYMxc6RdQKJDD-SYVKr56uW-291x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HYd4yNpFlwxiJZ4bMh124c5GOl6zNphMS9AQQuBb8ohPbW8Warq6wl9bYQoh8JIUOOYMxc6RdQKJDD-SYVKr56uW-291x300.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/HYd4yNpFlwxiJZ4bMh124c5GOl6zNphMS9AQQuBb8ohPbW8Warq6wl9bYQoh8JIUOOYMxc6RdQKJDD-SYVKr56uW.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>There was an article in <em>Scientific American<\/em> re a study published in <em>Science <\/em>about why people don&#8217;t return shopping carts. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/anthropology-in-practice\/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts\/\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/anthropology-in-practice\/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts\/<\/a><br \/><br \/>There are people in the parking lot who always return their cart, individuals that never return their cart, those that return when it&#8217;s convenient, patrons that feel pressured to return the carts if a cart attendant or adjacent car owner is present, and customers with kids who return the carts as if it&#8217;s a game when the children ride in the carts. <br \/><br \/>Certainly this is like vegans. There are those that will never buy vegan food, people who always buy vegan food, those that buy when it&#8217;s convenient, customers who feel peer pressure to eat vegan meals sometimes when being watched, and vegans who see it as a fun game to explore new foods and restaurants and take others there. Which are you? <br \/><br \/>For more about behavior and vegetarianism, see: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2006issue1\/2006_issue1_beliefs.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2006issue1\/2006_issue1_beliefs.php<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an article in Scientific American re a study published in Science about why people don&#8217;t return shopping carts. See: https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/anthropology-in-practice\/why-dont-people-return-their-shopping-carts\/ There are people in the parking lot who always return their cart, individuals that never return their cart, those that return when it&#8217;s convenient, patrons that feel pressured to return the carts if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15734,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/revisions\/15734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}