Shopping cart

A shopping cart (trolley, carriage, trundler, buggy, wagon, basket) is a cart supplied by a shop, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping. Customers can then also use the cart to transport their purchased goods to their cars. In many places in the United States, customers are allowed to leave the carts in the parking lot, and store personnel will return th... More

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