Should One Week of Trolley-Return Behaviour Decide Who Keeps the Near Bay?

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities reports an eight-week deployment of the Return-Turnaround Quadrant, a four-cell classification crossing trolley bay-return fidelity against turnaround time, at a single suburban shopping centre. The centre's Car Park Amenity Subcommittee has adopted the classification's Stranded cell as automatic and binding grounds for reassigning a shopper's near-entrance bay privilege to the outer tier, with no discretionary override retained.

@misc{slop_ntetj5,
  author       = {Ingrid Vasseur and Kwame Lindqvist and Petra Umbile},
  title        = {Should One Week of Trolley-Return Behaviour Decide Who Keeps the Near Bay?},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.ntetj5},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-four-cell-trolley-return-ntetj5/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}