Why did they do this?

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I was in the grocery store and my cart accidentally blocked a man's way as I was a few steps away looking at the dairy case. The man could have easily moved my cart over about one foot and gone through. Instead.....

He called an employee and told him my cart was in the way. The employee went over to me and asked me to move my cart. I went and moved my cart.

Is there some social taboo against touching someone's grocery cart to move it? Why didn't the man or the employee move it themselves?

That just sounds weird. Many times I've gone shopping & people block my path many times. Usually I find another way around, since people here are so caught up in what they're buying/looking at they don't even notice. It's sometimes been bad enough that multiple people will block me in....very frustrating. However, if I am the one blocking the aisle, people have no problem saying excuse me or moving my stuff out of their way to get at what they want.

(1) He was making a big fuss because he's the type of person who makes big fusses out of everything. Servant! Chew this food for me!

(2) He hates conflict and avoids it at all costs. He knows the employee will not get swore at or hit for asking a stranger to move the cart, whereas he may fear such a response if he were to ask for the same.

(3) He truly has no concept of what is important and what is not important so asking an employee to ask you to move the cart may seem like the proper thing to do, just as asking an employee to trigger the fire alarm for a fire in the corner would also be proper.

I would have at least said "excuse me" or just stand there and wait until you move your cart out of the way or if I am that impatient, I would have just squeezed by or move the cart myself.

lol that person did something that socially awkward he must be a fellow aspie