Comments on: Quick cultural test

by: Evan

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:10:09 +0000

I’m originally from southwest Virginia, so it is a buggy to me.

by: Lennon Patton

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:28:17 +0000

I am from OKC and they were invented here. We call them shopping carts. In fact our local museum has a display devoted to them.

http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi995.htm

http://www.designboom.com/history/cart.html

by: Bart

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:45:11 +0000

I would assume that shopping cart is the most widely accepted term. Almost every major online retailer uses “shopping cart” to refer to the queue of items you’ve selected to purchase.

by: Joseph J. Finn

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:43:23 +0000

Illinois here, and it’s a shopping cart.

by: Robbo

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 23:22:04 +0000

We called them “suicide highway racers”

by: Elayne Riggs

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 22:30:38 +0000

It’s a geo thing. (I used to love doing this stuff back in college linguistics courses!) They call ‘em trolleys in the UK too. I can’t get Robin to use the expression “shopping cart”…

by: Soon

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:55:34 +0000

Like Andrew, I’m an Aussie and I’ll be damned if I stop calling the thing with one buggered wheel anything but a shopping trolley. (Same deal with biscuits and lollies.)

And the carry thing for smaller trips and express lanes is what I call a shopping basket.

by: Tom Galloway

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:59:35 +0000

Cart or basket (North Carolina).

by: ShyGuy

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:37:49 +0000

Representing the west coast, and having worked at Kmart for several years back in my younger days, They are called shopping carts 90% here of the time. Sometimes this is shortened to cart, as in “go get the carts in from the parking lot” and it is sometimes referred to as a basket. This usually only if you have the shopping cart in hand as in “throw a package of cookies in the basket”

by: Beau

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:54:41 +0000

Shopping cart or basket. My family’s from the south and I graduated high school and worked in Northern Virginia.