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Should the above tag be places on the main article page maybe? i think so.
THE KING 07:21, 1 May 2005 (UTC)reply
Poorly written sentence?
Some setup must be done in the HTML code of the website, and the shopping cart software must be installed on the server which hosts the site or on the secure server which accepts sensitive ordering information.
"The poles that one uses to push the shopping carts are often stolen, as they are extremely durable and are often used as a street weapon. These are known as "trolley poles" or "cart poles"."
I have never heard of a pole used to push a shopping cart. If you can verify this statement, please rewrite it so everyone can understand it and re-add it to the article. -
SCEhardt 23:05, 5 October 2005 (UTC)reply
I never knew that they were sometimes stolen and used as weapons, but then again, you learn something new every day.
Chevymontecarlo (
talk) 16:23, 30 June 2009 (UTC)reply
Easy to manuever
Yeah its not exactly the most helpful edit, but I push carts in a wal-mart parking lot they are never easy to manuever, so I added quotes.
--
Eno-Etile 07:55, 9 August 2006 (UTC)reply
That section implied that All Four Wheels could swivel in any direction, which I modified- in store carts only the two front wheels swivel.
Saxophobia 11:49, 17 April 2007 (UTC)reply
How many wheels swivel depends on where you live
84.65.121.218 12:30, 2 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Ok, quotes do help, as do references. Thanks.
Chevymontecarlo (
talk) 16:25, 30 June 2009 (UTC)reply
Edited this part, I've been all around Europe and you never see fixed wheels at the rear over there.--
82.171.121.117 (
talk) 16:17, 17 February 2010 (UTC)reply
Electronic Theft
The electronic theft section sounds like an advertisement to sell a product, it either needs to be rewritten or removed entirely. I have already removed the authors name and his advertisement for his website --
Pchov 11:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)reply
Looking better, but it still needs some hard facts related to the theft protection of shopping carts. I removed the word "CartKey" from a newly added sentence in the theft section. The word itself has no meaning, it just sounds like a cleverly disguised advertisement for the Gatekeeper Systems (I believe they were the ones, or someone affiliated with them, who originally wrote the massive advertisement in this article not to long ago). --
Pchov 19:41, 29 July 2007 (UTC)reply
Haggard Move
A Shopping Cart also refers to a move or bad idea by
Bam Margera. It involves getting in a Shopping Cart and someone pushing you into a curb or over a gap and you go flying as far as you can. No one should try it.
I think the Main Picture should be of a average shopping cart, The current picture has Shopping Carts that are not typical.
Matthew1990 07:18, 24 December 2006 (UTC)reply
Online Shopping Cart
Could use a link, to a disambiguation page or something. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
70.109.228.42 (
talk) 04:39, 22 June 2007 (UTC)reply
Seconded, a disambiguation page or link to the electronic system with the same name is necessary in this day and age.
dimo414 (
talk) 03:45, 16 May 2008 (UTC)reply
Too American
Too American! This has nothing about Europe or Australia and virtually nothing about Asia, where they are also used. It even refers to "foreign supermarket chains"! Shocking. -Locuteh —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
81.77.35.111 (
talk) 23:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)reply
Agreed! The article mentions many countries where "Trolley" is used instead, covering more people than the USA. Therefore this article should be retitled Shopping Trolley —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
86.130.30.188 (
talk) 19:25, 23 August 2008 (UTC)reply
You appear to be wrong about the article. I can't find a version in which it mentions many countries where "Trolley" is used instead, covering more people than the USA. Is it possible you made a maths error? I added up the population of the countries using "trolley" mentioned in the current version of the article and it's less than half of the english speaking population of the US. In any case wikipedia has guidelines (
WP:ENGVAR) in place for naming articles and use the version used by the set of countries with the largest total population isn't part of them.
Zebulin (
talk) 02:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)reply
"Shopping cart" seems okay to me, and I'm British and so never use the term myself. I'm glad that "foreign supermarket chains" has been edited out, though: it's clearly unacceptable for articles about international subjects to deal with "the US" and "foreign parts". Yes, I know a lot do, but the point stands.
Loganberry (
Talk) 20:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)reply
It's ACTUALLY called a "carriage" anyway. Calling it anything else means you are from someplace dumb. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
24.60.157.218 (
talk) 07:26, 2 October 2009 (UTC)reply
(^What a pretentious idiot...) -
M0rphzone (
talk) 00:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)reply
Unfortunately I worked as a trolley dolly for a few years when I was at college, and while that wasn't my official title the clue is in the name. While I obviously can see that different regions use different names, this article does seem to still be a little too region specific, so I've changed a few things;
"Often, customers are allowed to leave the carts in the parking lot, and store personnel, referred to as cart attendants, return the carts to the shop."
I've removed the 'cart attendents' bit. That wasn't my title and I suspect different stores or regions use different ones.
"The majority of carts only have swivel caster wheels on the front, while the rear ones are on a fixed axle."
I've never seen one. If they're around in the UK they certainly aren't in the majority. Changed to 'Some carts...'
I'm from the UK but live in Asia and I find nothing too region-specific about the article now. I'm removing the front-page warning that the page is too American-centric.
WillSmith (
talk) 05:52, 13 January 2012 (UTC)reply
Revised Theft Prevention section
I found a couple of articles that appear to describe the theft prevention system more thoroughly and (hopefully) more neutrally. It also provides proper references to describe how the electronic theft prevention system works without sounding like advertising. I've added and revised the content of this section to make it sound more neutral.
Wxkat (
talk) 11:06, 5 May 2009 (UTC)reply
Invention of the shopping cart
Anonymous user
76.88.183.195 inappropriately removed scholarly references on the history of the invention of the shopping cart: revision history available
here. Recent historical investigations have provided evidence of multiple innovations and controversies between early contributors to the invention of the shopping cart (Goldman among them).
Typewritten (
talk) 19:46, 28 June 2009 (UTC)reply
76.88.183.195, what's wrong with you? After several warnings, you persist in removing scholarly references in
Shopping cart's historical section
here,
here and
here, without discussing your rough action here. You've received several warnings in your
talk page.
Typewritten (
talk) 08:21, 29 July 2009 (UTC)reply
The Shopping cart was invented in 1937 by Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma City. Several modifications were made to the cart by Goldman and others after it was introduced. The nesting cart (Nest Kart), baby seat, cup holder and add space name a few. Information on the invention should remain factual and relevant.
papupi —Preceding
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Papupi (
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contribs)
Please use "~~~~" in order to sign your comments.
Typewritten (
talk) 07:32, 4 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Papupi, The policy of Wikipedia is to use
external sources. With claims about historical facts, scholarly references are preferred (references in the history of innovation in that precise case). The two references that you just erased
here are an example of such sources. One is a biography of Goldman (pub. University of Oklahoma Press). The other is an investigation based on archival materials and patent records (pub. University of Pennsylvania Press). Stop removing them. This is considered as
vandalism. If you want to contribute in a constructive manner, please feel free to add other references or arguments, but do not destroy the work of others. You have received repeated warnings, and you've been blocked from editing because of that at least once (see
here and
here). Your recent edits are to be reverted again. If you persist in your disruptive edits, your conduct will be reported again to Wikipedia administrators.
Typewritten (
talk) 07:32, 4 August 2009 (UTC)reply
Prices of carts in 'electronic theft' section
Do we really need the prices in the 'electronic theft' section? It sounds so like an advertisement.
Chevymontecarlo (
talk) 16:27, 30 June 2009 (UTC)reply
Man lots of ppl talk about shopping carts. Im a bum and its the best way to transport cans to make $0.05. I had the same shopping cart since 1965, i build it custom. its interesting to hear about how theyve made them more modern since then. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
24.184.242.64 (
talk) 19:06, 31 July 2009 (UTC)reply
I actually changed something with that. the cost of shopping carts can go up to 150.00.--Chef-Warden 19:26, 17 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Bkopicz3 (
talk •
contribs)
advertising
the kartlock entry reads like promo material from the kartlock company —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
69.196.147.245 (
talk) 22:44, 13 March 2010 (UTC)reply
As a weapon?
Are there any citations for this?
On all the trolleys I have examined the handle is fairly light and pretty flimsy if you give it a good whack. I don't know why any thugs would prefer to carry a light piece of tube around than a lumpier more damaging weapon. Specially if they expect to be encountering people who are familiar with violence and probably can take a beating using such a weapon.
Anyone know where the information about renting shopping carts came from? I'm doing a report for a class about the effectiveness of this method, and I'm having a hard time finding anyone talking about it. The fact that this entire section is unsourced isn't really helping. Anyone have any ideas?--
Dudemanfellabra (
talk) 04:03, 13 April 2011 (UTC)reply
It's such a commonplace thing it is really hard to find any decent information that is reliable. So, good luck with your report ;)--
Lakkasuo (
talk) 13:37, 13 April 2011 (UTC)reply
It's funny that you say that because I had actually never heard of the idea until a few days ago when my girlfriend (who is from Korea.. I'm from the US) was complaining about Americans not having the system. I think it is a very good idea, and frankly I'm baffled as to why more chains in the US don't implement it. This practice may be commonplace throughout the rest of the world, but here in the states it's very rare. I searched for about two hours last night and found next to nothing usable. I don't really even know what to search for haha. Any clues to even get started? Really, anything will help. Thanks!--
Dudemanfellabra (
talk) 22:26, 13 April 2011 (UTC)reply
Mini Shopping Carts
Something I've happened upon at some stores are mini shopping carts for children. I'm not talking about small shopping carts like you find at dollar stores, but rather scaled down versions of the full size ones and intended to be pushed by a small child. (Most adults would have to stoop.) One kind I've seen had more or less caricature dimensions, but at least another model was so proportional it almost looks identical. Without anything else in a photo for scale, you would likely assume it was full size. Take a look:
[1][2] Although this article could easily acquire too many images, I'd say this would make a good addition, or at least one of these photographed alongside a full size cart for scale. — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
4.254.87.126 (
talk) 22:20, 1 June 2011 (UTC)reply
These are quite common where I am. They're sweet. Maybe could be mentioned, but I'll leave it to someone else to do it if they deem it worthy. Sometimes I've seen them with a pole and a flag so that parents can spot a moving mini trolley in the crowd. --
Lakkasuo (
talk) 17:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)reply
Globalization
A globalization tag has been placed on this article. Amongst the image files is one of a trolley bay in the UK. The word "trolley" is used in the opening sentence. The image file, as described by the uploader is "Trolley bay". When looking at some other pages, for example:
Pancake,
Egg barley, and
Truck, all have images using localized descriptions: "socca", "tarhonya", and "lorry". Please see
MOS:COMMONALITY which is a subset of
WP:LANGVAR before changing the file caption.--
☾Loriendrew☽☏(ring-ring) 01:58, 5 November 2015 (UTC)reply
It's strange that
shopping cart states
Goldman developed the shopping cart for his
Piggly Wigglys but the page for Piggly Wiggly doesn't mention Goldman and Goldman's page doesn't mention Piggly Wiggly.
Winston Spencer (
talk) 02:31, 30 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Might be a case of mistaken identity (or sneaky vandalism). Changed to the Humpty Dumpty chain per refs.--
☾Loriendrew☽☏(ring-ring) 03:11, 30 December 2015 (UTC)reply
Google searches result in the HD chain. Piggy's website "About" section does not mention carts. It is possible that the stores Goldman owned, through sales/mergers, might now (today) be Piggys, but at the time they appear to be Humpty's.--
☾Loriendrew☽☏(ring-ring) 03:31, 30 December 2015 (UTC)reply
>> sanitary wipes, for cleaning hands and shopping carts, are seen near the entrances of most retailers <<
This is a major exaggeration: certainly "most retailers" is patently false. I've shopped in many countries around the world and never seen any such wipes (besides which, most retail outlets do not provide shopping carts!) ...and I ain't dead yet! If the cleanliness or otherwise of shopping carts deserves mentioning in this article then it's a question that also merits rather more than sweeping, unreferenced assertions. --
Picapica (
talk) 17:00, 27 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Hi
Picapica, I've removed that whole sentence, A few retailers may do this but like yourself I've never seen this done (in the UK atleast) and I would imagine it's not really done elsewhere, As I said in the edit summary A few retailers isn't most so yeah removed :),
(Also a somewhat unrelated comment but doing this would be more of a financial loss and long-term it wouldn't be viable in the end (unless a charge is done for each wet wipe which unless you have someone monitoring a wet wipe then it's not going to work) Cheers, –
Davey2010Talk 17:09, 27 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Thanks,
Davey2010. It occurs to me (equally tangentially perhaps) that any retailer providing such wipes is effectively going to be saying: "Hey, look -- we've got dirty trolleys!" --
Picapica (
talk) 00:56, 28 August 2018 (UTC)reply
You're welcome, Haha exactly!!, Only best advice I can give to everyone reading is don't lick trolley handles lol, At the end of the day you pick up germs/bacteria no matter what you touch, It's a part of life, Anyway thanks for raising this, Thanks, –
Davey2010Talk 01:08, 28 August 2018 (UTC)reply
Shopping trolley.
It should be renamed to shopping trolley, the term cart is only used by Americans, the majority of the population call this a trolley. In fact if you look up the definition of cart and trolley, trolley makes more sense.
David127:1 (
talk) 05:50, 21 June 2020 (UTC)reply
@David127:1 "Shopping cart" returns 232 million results on Google, while "shopping trolley" returns only 3.5 million. Furthermore, Google Ngram counts "shopping cart" as at least six times more common than "shopping trolley".
Oktayey (
talk) 18:40, 17 October 2022 (UTC)reply
Why is this listed as a start?
Rather than start-class, this looks more like a featured-article candidate. I found it really interesting and informative. Can people look it over, fix any things that seem in need of correction or addition, and then nominate?
Kdammers (
talk) 16:24, 14 January 2024 (UTC)reply