Taking the Gross out of Grocery Carts

Whether you call it a shopping cart, a trolley (Britain, Australia, and New Zealand English), a carriage or shopping carriage (in the New England region of the U.S.), a bascart (in some regions of the U.S.), a basket (in other regions of the U.S.) or a buggy (in the American South and parts of Western Canada), it is a cart supplied by a shop, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping, and often to the customer's car after paying as well.

Although recent historical investigations have provided evidence of multiple innovations and controversies between early contributors to the invention of the shopping cart, it is usually considered that the "first" shopping cart was introduced on June 4, 1937, the invention of Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City.

Now, seventy-one years later, someone has figured out how to clean them.. Imagine that. This week, a look at taking the gross out of grocery carts.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true." - Carl Sagan (US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy 1934 - 1996)

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