The average American will interact with the ubiquitous shopping cart approximately 5,350 times in their lives*. But, what do you know about them?
The shopping cart was invented in 1937 in Oklahoma City by Sylvan Goldman, founder of the Humpty Dumpty chain of supermarkets. Goldman wanted to make it easier for customers to buy greater quantities of his products. "The wonderful thing about food," Goldman said, 'is that everyone uses it, and they only use it once."
The cart was not an immediate success. Women likened it to pushing a stroller ("And I've had enough of that," one woman said) and men thought it made them look weak. Goldman hired male and female models to push his carts around, and adoption soon followed.
NOTE: Changed coords on 5/6/25, as original cache went missing. Same style hide, but in a 'quieter' place in the parking lot.
*a totally made up number