Shopping Cart Abandonment

So as I was researching this post, I came across an article on why users abandon shopping carts. Excited, I clicked on it. As pictures of upside down shiny metal carts behind Safeway and other carts abandoned in strange places filled my head, I really wanted to know the psychology behind a shopping cart abandoner. Are they people who get a thrill off stealing the cart but then cannot get it up their apartment stairs? Do they not have room for it in their home? Do people drive the cart way out in the desert,dump it in a dried riverbed and see how long it takes to find it's way back to the store? Is it latchkey children with nothing better to do but shove the cart into traffic and run?

Well, it wasn't those kind of shopping carts. Apparently I'm not as tech minded as I thought, as the article referred to electronic shopping carts. People abandon those for all the reasons you might imagine, hidden charges, complicated sign up or sign out, slow internet connection,etc. 

Which made me see that all forms of abandonment are similar. Often people abandon relationships because they discover hidden things about the other person, they feel it's too complicated to get involved, too complicated to get out, or the relational connection is too slow and they give up.

All of those reasons though, focus on the other person, who we cannot change. God created each of us as unique individuals and we are the only ones who can change. 

Today is a good day to take a relational inventory. Ask yourself if you appear impatient, unavailable or non- accepting. 

If you are, what could you be doing differently to start living with intention and abandon?

Comments

[Lance]

Relationships are a two-way street, aren't they. I like this idea of the relational inventory. An honest look at myself...

[Audra Krell]

Yes relationships are two ways and often we are so caught up in wanting the other to change that we forget to look at ourselves. Have a great weekend Lance!

[heather]

Wow. As always, when i come here to catch up I am slammed between the eyes. In a very good way, of course.

And I happen to be one of those cart abandon-ers. Of the internet variety. I tend to get there and realize, hmmm, I don't need to spend this right now. So I close it out.

Gracious. I do believe I now have a complex. :)

[Audra Krell]

I do it all the time Heather, if a site makes it too hard to for me to spend my money I just close it out.  : ) Thanks for stopping over and have a great weekend!

[Mama Zen]

Those are great questions!

[Web Design Company]

Relationship is not business in the life...we have gain the love from our loved relations...so the managing the life with the soft hearten one always bring the peace of mind.