amy from yonkers spotted this beauty at a marshall’s in hartsdale, new york. she wonders what possible scenario could have prompted its posting. “were there oogling complaints to management?” amy asks. “did a manager observe an oogling incident? and why, exactly, is cart-oogling a problem?”
(perhaps because of people like this.)
related: adio, amigo
150 responses so far ↓
#1
boone
What is “oogling” i would think that such a highly recognized store would use a bette word to describe this.
Jan 7, 2008 at 8:45 pm rating: +1
#2
Canthz_B
“I can’t buy this now…It’s been oogled!”
Jan 7, 2008 at 8:50 pm rating: +5
#3
anglophile
I’m pretty sure that’s a marketing ploy. What are the odds some random store manager would be able to match the font of the note to the Shop On in the logo of the store?
Jan 7, 2008 at 8:51 pm rating: +5
#4
Canthz_B
People with ooglephobia should shop on-line.
The rest of us love to go to the store to see what crap other people are buying.
Jan 7, 2008 at 8:59 pm rating: +7
#5
Grimfool
Maybe Marshalls’ management is asking shoppers not to sing Chicago hits to other shoppers’ carts:
And If you leave me now
You’ll take away the very heart of me
oooh no, baby please don’t go
oogle, I just want you to stay …
… but then again, they are saying “please refrain …” so maybe they do want singing. It’s a mixed message.
Hey, while we’re in Marshalls, can I get a price check on a white Puma jacket and an Oral-B extra-soft toothbrush?
Jan 7, 2008 at 8:59 pm rating: +18
#6
secondsout
Maybe that Cha e guy with the toothbrush also wrote this sign, and it is supposed to read “no googling other people’s carts.” If you have internet access on your phone, you are not to go online to find myspace-stalk those shopping carts.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:08 pm rating: +4
#7
freq
wtf
is oogling? do they mean ogling?
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:08 pm rating: +3
#8
Team Cassandra
I’m sorry – but now that I have a nine year old partner in crime ( I will also mention that we never go to grocery stores so it feels a little like a field trip for us if we should happen upon one.) we would both be wandering at the store giggling “ooglyooglyoogly” at unsuspecting grocers’ carts.
With spirit fingers, of course. Notes like that are just too tempting.
PS. Look at me go with my badass italics.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:09 pm rating: +9
#9
amy d
I’m thinking it’s a problem with the carts themselves. How many times do you get the cart with the messed up wheel? Pull to the right, drag on the floor, pull to the left, now shimmy, shake and stutter. This Marshall’s apparently has a minority of carts that function properly. Shoppers are oogling each others’ carts to trade up when the other person has their back turned.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:10 pm rating: +6
#10
Wade
I think the manager shouldn’t bugle about the occasional cart oogle, for his customers may decide it is more frugal to Google.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:11 pm rating: +11
#11
secondsout
and who the hell cares enough to look in other people’s carts at Marshalls? If you’re going to “oogle,” try something more interesting, like Victoria’s Secret.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:11 pm rating: +5
#12
mamason
Hey! What do you want to do today?
Umm, I don’t know. Wanna go cart oogling at Marshall’s?
Nah. Management is really cracking down on that.
Bummer.
Yeah.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:23 pm rating: +18
#13
Ralphy
I suppose they could supply carts with lids, but then I suppose their main problem child would just walk up and say “Could I please see that white puma jack you just put in there. I think it has CHA E inked on the inside collar.” MAN–some people need to get a life!
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:39 pm rating: +2
#14
Ralphy
Uh–jack is short for jacket
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:42 pm rating: +1
#15
Grimfool
If David Essex shopped at Marshalls . . .
My, cart, it won’t roll,
Shop on, oogle and go,
Hey, kid, oogle too, did ya
We like, oogling you,
Hoping you chose those blue suede shoes,
My, cart, it won’t roll, shop on.
And where do we go from here
Where is the aisle that’s clear
Still oogling for some blue jeans, plasma screen,
Oogling things I’ve never seen
My cart rocks like a song by Queen, knowwuddahmean?
(What I mean)
Shop on
Shop on
Shop on
Now I’ve shamed myself and I will go away.
Jan 7, 2008 at 9:42 pm rating: +13
#16
Team Cassandra
Because writing songs is all the rage and you guys made me addicted to Colin Hay.
I’m tryna find the bleach,
I’m looking for a bag of raisins,
I’m heading to towards the beets
When suddenly, with fascination,
She’s oogling my cart.
She’s looking at the machinations;
Hers stutters and it starts,
I hear her mutter accusations…
Day after day
She reappears….
And night after night
Her oogling stirs my fear
I try to steer …and stay away
But there she is agayayayn!
I call up management
And tell them: Fix the situation!
Her oogling is bent!
It’s just abomination!
Can’t you make a sign?!
Tell the people, tell the nation that it’s
Oogling and…What?
No – it’s not Overkill!
Cuz day after day
She reappears….
And night after night
Her oogling stirs my fear
I try to steer …and stay away…
I try to steer …and stay away…
I try to steer …and stay away…
Jan 7, 2008 at 10:18 pm rating: +14
#17
Crash
This is the result from the homeless on Pearl street lurking in the stores, stalking the unsuspecting customers at Marshalls around every corner, down every store isle, to the cash register and finally to their vehicles, awaiting the opportune moment preyed on that they sought for so long just to…snatch that damn cart and run like hell out of there…damnit !!!
Jan 7, 2008 at 10:39 pm rating: +5
#18
raiseyourglass
Cathedrals of Bling
The Gods are money sound these days.
And priests have marketing degrees -
The faithful called to worship
By giant plasma screens
Flock to shopping cathedrals –
Seeking salvation through merchandising.
At the Church of Holy Consumption
All denominations are welcome –
Hundreds, twenties, tens.
All the hymns are sung by Muzak
The readings daily specials.
A sister offers a spray of holy essence
(The bottle’s 40 bucks an ounce) .
Leave your offerings at the till -
Major credit cards accepted.
As the worship service’s end
Sign the dollar across your chest.
A celebrant with talking head
Will coo a soothing benediction,
“Go in Peace, my child. You’re worth it.”
January, 2007
Robert Charles Howard
(I know… no shopping cart but I like it anyway)
Jan 7, 2008 at 10:40 pm rating: +5
#19
fantasy
It would be hard to shop without oogling. That is how you find out what is on sale without having to buy the newspaper “Oh Honey, would you run get some of that Charmin toilet tissue it must be on sale and while your at it pick up a 12oz of ketchup you know, Hunts I see it in everyones cart”
Jan 7, 2008 at 11:12 pm rating: +2
#20
WanderingPenguin
I hope there’s a second note. If so, we can call that one: “Shoppin’ 2: Electric Oogaloo”.
Wow. I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit reading my own pun. That can’t be good.
Jan 7, 2008 at 11:41 pm rating: +5
#21
Kelly
Can I oogle with googly eyes? Can I oggle with goggles?
Forget it, I’m just snatching that shit out of your cart when you ain’t lookin’. That puma jacket is lookin’ mighty fine.
Jan 8, 2008 at 12:46 am rating: +3
#22
ian in hamburg
Oogling a shopping cart is a waste of time because so much is buried. It’s when everything’s spread out on the belt at the cashier’s that things get interesting. You can almost tell the kind of person and the life they lead by a strew of groceries.
Jan 8, 2008 at 1:28 am rating: +4
#23
Ange
I think I’ll start cart oogling. Seems like I’m the only person not on this band wagon yet….
Jan 8, 2008 at 2:26 am rating: 0
#24
Vanessa
This just happened to me yesterday. I was at my mecca, otherwise known as Target, grocery shopping. As I pulled items out of my cart the lady in front of me checking out was watching me. She turns to me and says, “I liked your entire order until you pulled out cauliflower. No one should eat that.” I told her good, because it wasn’t a poll.
Jan 8, 2008 at 3:17 am rating: +9
#25
fantasy
This note is just fucking “Ooglicios!”.
Jan 8, 2008 at 8:03 am rating: +3
#26
DrAstroZoom
My apologies, madam, but I just couldn’t take my eyes off your gorgeous melons.
[/W.C. Fields]
Jan 8, 2008 at 9:38 am rating: +4
#27
Katzndogz
The first thing I thought of was that maybe people were oogling what was in other people’s carts with the intent of snatching it for themselves.
Jan 8, 2008 at 9:59 am rating: 0
#28
Katzndogz
You know, carts are here to serve us, but that doesn’t make them pieces of meat! Stop oogling and start respecting!
Jan 8, 2008 at 10:00 am rating: +1
#29
the sos
I like to pick people at random when I go shopping and follow them around. I oogle like crazy. And I like to grab one of everything they get.
Jan 8, 2008 at 11:17 am rating: +1
#30
Canthz_B
Don’t oo-oo-oogle with your great big googly eyes!
Jan 8, 2008 at 11:27 am rating: +1
#31
GhostWriter
It’s all because of a cross-cultural mix-up.
A few frequent shoppers complained to management that some guys were hanging around the dressing rooms and the “intimates” section, leering at the lady shoppers (particularly, their chests.)
So Management asked Pradeep, the Indian stock boy, to make a sign (since he’s the only one who knows how to use MS Office) that says, “Please refrain from oogling other people’s racks!”
He got most of it right…
Jan 8, 2008 at 11:43 am rating: +5
#32
Emily
I think it’s actually a poor attempt at humor and marketing. Marshall’s is just the kind of place where someone would ogle someone else’s purchases- its not like they have 10 of everything- its all finders keepers.
I know I’ve had the stuff I was going to purchase ogled at one of their sister stores.
Jan 8, 2008 at 12:54 pm rating: +1
#33
Sexy Yvette Nelson!
I called the store and was told it was meant to be a joke, such as “ooooh, look what they have in their cart.”
Actual quote.
Jan 8, 2008 at 3:07 pm rating: 0
#34
toddy ansco
the real truth of the matter is simply too much political correctness in this messed up country. Lets face it. It is either too offensive to somebody or someones imagination. So all you oogliers go hang out at Marshalls
Jan 8, 2008 at 3:29 pm rating: 0
#35
i_secrately_stalk_you
i feel sad for all the first time oglers that had not seen the sign on the cart and got caught by the ogle police.
Jan 8, 2008 at 4:21 pm rating: 0
#36
bamBAM!
Oogamy is the sexual reproduction of immobile male and female organisms. It’s used in biology. I wonder…?
Jan 8, 2008 at 4:41 pm rating: +1
#37
EvilTwin
Okay, this is a pet peeve word. Even reading the comments is making me cringe. For everyone’s reference, it’s “ogle” rhyming with “mogule.” It doesn’t rhyme with google, boggle, Hoggle, Hogwart, Ludo, or David Bowie…..in case you were wondering.
Jan 8, 2008 at 5:14 pm rating: +1
#38
WanderingPenguin
Don’t mind me. Just misplaced my post is all. *penguinish grin*
Jan 8, 2008 at 5:27 pm rating: +3
#39
Karen
So the sign is posted on the front of the cart. You’re prevented from ooooogling only the cart coming toward you ? No, wait. It asks you to refrain from oooooogling “other people’s” carts. You may, however, ooooogle this one.
Jan 8, 2008 at 5:32 pm rating: +1
#40
fluffernutter
It is I, Fluffernutter the Cart Ogler from Tupperware Avalanche. Sadly, I lack the extra”o” that puts me in that super-ogler Marshall’s category.
Jan 8, 2008 at 5:36 pm rating: +1
#41
Larry David
I’ll admit it, I oogle other people’s carts to see what they’re buying and judge them on it. I like to see how much junk food, etc that people buy.
I oogle the hell out of them.
Jan 8, 2008 at 6:41 pm rating: +2
#42
Team Cassandra
oops!
Jan 8, 2008 at 7:16 pm rating: 0
#43
Suhayla
Okay, I’ve seriously never heard of Marshall’s… judging from some people’s comments, it sounds like a Winners store… I’m still trying ‘get’ the joke (as they intended it, I guess).
Jan 8, 2008 at 7:58 pm rating: 0
#44
ro-nonymous
Those shopping carts with a side of oogle were fucking delicious.
Jan 8, 2008 at 10:18 pm rating: 0
#45
amy d
Anglo, we will not submit to the JC abuse!
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:26 am rating: 0
#46
amy d
Turn your eyes away from the comment above and instead, focus on this goodie:
Blue carts are ugly, anyway! I would never oogle a blue cart.
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:42 am rating: 0
#47
amy d
Call me shallow, Anglo, but you can’t look at a soul and get “that feeling”, if you know what I mean.
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:55 am rating: 0
#48
Meeg
This is why I shop at TJ Maxx: they let you oogle all you want.
Jan 9, 2008 at 1:20 pm rating: +2
#49
reen
And then:
“Shop On.”
Nothing to see here.
Jan 9, 2008 at 5:52 pm rating: +1
#50
Shannon
I work at a Marshalls in IL. Its a lame joke that is part of the new marketing ploy, “Shop On’. It is in no way a passive aggressive comment. If Marshalls were to attach passive agressive messages to carts, believe me, we can come up with much better ones than that. Like “Please do not mistake our fitting rooms for the bathroom” or “Yes, you can go out through the ‘In’ door, just push”
Jan 10, 2008 at 2:11 am rating: +1
#51
Shannon
And to clear up the confusion above ( Suhayla), Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Homegoods, AJ Wright, Winners, TK Maxx, Bob’s Stores and HomeSense are ALL owned by TJX.
Jan 10, 2008 at 2:23 am rating: 0
#52
Lurker
Oogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoogleoooooo!!!
It’s FUN!
Jan 10, 2008 at 11:05 pm rating: 0
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Jan 11, 2008 at 11:45 pm rating: 0
#54
Twigg
Dude! I used to work for Marshalls and I swear people would take sneak peeks at other shopper’s carts and steal what they had. It was a problem, not a major one, but still entertaining. Don’t oogle my cart darn you! Pad lock the sucker…or carry a basket.
Mar 11, 2008 at 11:45 am rating: +1
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