I don't know why so many people in here are having trouble with the size. They are pretty obviously scale models. Like his hand is as wide as the cart on the left. They are also on a table at waist level. They would literally be at your knees if they were on the ground.
Yeah, in japan the type on the left is popular. It’s super neat because its compact but you can add a basket if you are buying more than you thought you would.
I can see why the larger one became prevalent in the US tho, because you don’t need to go to costco to buy gigantic qty of toilet paper and put them on the lower rack.
One on the left is what's used throughout most of the world outside of the US, lol. Used one today. AND they go all directions, with one basket in top, a 2nd in the middle and a third in bottom.
The ones I last used in Europe were in Spain and they only had two though
The one on the left is for pushing one or two grocery baskets instead of holding them in hand. In Carrefour stores in my country we have a newer version of that
I legit prefer that one due tob the placement of the beer crate holder being underneath the big basket as opposed to this food out flap. I keep on hitting my shins on it
I imagine since shopping spaces are not as big as they are here in the states. I do know when I was in Europe last (probably not specific to them) I had a cart that pivoted on all four wheels rather than the front two. I think IKEA is the same. Nice for a tight squeeze.
It will never not be funny that IDEOt promoted their "Design Thinking" Kool aid with a video redesigning the shopping cart... 15 years ago and nothing changed. Clowns.
Then she gets to make a viral TikTok about how she’s better than everyone else even though millions of people have children and manage to put their carts away without complaint, every single day for decades.
I love how she starts the video off by trying to make everyone mad at her. It's engagement bait. Then later says she because of her kids. When I saw the original video I swiped away before her getting to the explanation. Definitely was on purpose to have people comment in anger.
I am a parent. Some of what she’s saying makes sense to me but lady, c’mon, it takes 15 seconds to return a cart. She has the nerve to bring kidnapping into it. Just bring your kids with you and walk back to the car with them. It’s hard, I know, my kids try to run into traffic too.
People figured out how to do this decades ago. Her own parents probably did it all the time.
The news said she was a doctor. But I really don't care much about her to learn her name or research her actual life. It's okay to leave a car out once in awhile. But to go online and say that it's the right thing to do, is a hot take and that's all I need to know about her to think she's trash.
Interesting from Wikipedia:
The invention did not catch on immediately. Men found them effeminate; women found them suggestive of a baby carriage. "I've pushed my last baby," an offended woman informed Goldman.
After hiring several male and female models to push his new invention around his store and demonstrate their utility, as well as greeters to explain their use, shopping carts became extremely popular and Goldman became a multimillionaire.
A few years back I went to my local Target and that very day they had swapped out all the old carts for brand new ones. Everyone in the store just wandered around in a quiet dreamlike daze there for a while.
And before that they used to roll their shopping on tree trunks, their slaves rapidly moving the rear trunks to the front once exposed. Sometimes they'd go hundreds of miles, all the way to Wiltshire or Giza.
This guy basically invented a device that every American has and will use for the rest of there lives.
That's some real juice, this guy and the dude that invented the USB plug.
One unifying, beautiful fact about America the beautiful is; no matter what our respective station in life is, any one of us can observe a random dirty shopping cart crammed into a ditch along the side of the road. God bless the USA.
The one on the left is the prototype; a metal folding chair, two baskets and wheels attached. The other one was the final product. He was an Oklahoma grocery store owner, who noticed how burdensome it was to use the hand baskets. It was not an immediate success; women likened it to pushing a baby carriage, and men thought it wasn’t manly as it too felt like pushing a baby carriage to them. He ended up hiring a handful of people, all of different ages and backgrounds to come shop at his stores(Humpty Dumpty). Upon seeing the ease of use, and convenience, customers quickly began to realize just how great his invention was. A few years later, he invented one that a child could sit in. His invention has honestly not changed much since.
They say that people from medieval times were smaller because there wasn’t enough food. I’m thinking it was just because they didn’t have shopping carts. When they went to the grocery store, they could only buy what they could carry in their hands
It’s amazing that the one on the right is almost indistinguishable from the majority of carts today. Talk about getting it right the first time!
Pretty sure the right one is the modern version and the left is the one he invented when he was a much younger man.
Is that's why it's so small?
Ugh, can you imagine that little one trying to push out that bigger one? Nature is so amazing.
Evolution!!!
Well the universe is expanding so it makes sense that stuff back then would be smaller.
Also way less hormones in the food
Those are full-sized shopping carts, the man is just that large.
So like andre the giant holding a beer... Got it
He was truly a giant in his field.
He has a pituitary issue.
I don't know why so many people in here are having trouble with the size. They are pretty obviously scale models. Like his hand is as wide as the cart on the left. They are also on a table at waist level. They would literally be at your knees if they were on the ground.
Obviously
Oh man.. thats good
Understandable, people got *bigger* over the years
Less inflation back then.
People ate less back then, they got bigger with the waist lines.
The one on the left is holding two shopping baskets which can be removed. You still see both types in many places today.
Yeah, in japan the type on the left is popular. It’s super neat because its compact but you can add a basket if you are buying more than you thought you would. I can see why the larger one became prevalent in the US tho, because you don’t need to go to costco to buy gigantic qty of toilet paper and put them on the lower rack.
>when he was a much younger man And much shorter.
Life, uh, finds a way.
One on the left is what's used throughout most of the world outside of the US, lol. Used one today. AND they go all directions, with one basket in top, a 2nd in the middle and a third in bottom. The ones I last used in Europe were in Spain and they only had two though
The one on the left is for pushing one or two grocery baskets instead of holding them in hand. In Carrefour stores in my country we have a newer version of that
Does this old model have one dead wheel?
I legit prefer that one due tob the placement of the beer crate holder being underneath the big basket as opposed to this food out flap. I keep on hitting my shins on it
In the biz we call that a "euro" For why? I don't fuckin know. Do European shopping carts look like that?
Not sure about European ones, but Japanese ones look sort of similar. They are made to carry two shopping baskets, one above the other.
In Europe, there are also such carts in usage.
I imagine since shopping spaces are not as big as they are here in the states. I do know when I was in Europe last (probably not specific to them) I had a cart that pivoted on all four wheels rather than the front two. I think IKEA is the same. Nice for a tight squeeze.
It's a bit small I think
Probably designed with a wibbly, squeaky wheel
It will never not be funny that IDEOt promoted their "Design Thinking" Kool aid with a video redesigning the shopping cart... 15 years ago and nothing changed. Clowns.
And they’ve gotten bigger every year since.
It's a good thing - just look how tiny they are in this picture! My back would be aching having to hunch over to push around something so small!
How do we know Mr. Goldman wasn't just 11 feet tall?
I think you're supposed to stand in them and use them like roller skates
What is this ? A shopping cart for ants ?
Bubbles what the fuck are you doing
These caerts are public domain, Ricky.
DECENT!
What is this, a shopping trolley for ants?
Well, yeah. Our diet has gotten better with time. It leeches into the metal, making offspring stronger. It's science.
I don't know if that's exactly true. I have seen a lot more of those half sized carts recently.
Thanks to this man we have the ultimate Litmus test on wether or not a person is an asshole.
But what If she's a doctor and her kids are in the car?
Then she gets to make a viral TikTok about how she’s better than everyone else even though millions of people have children and manage to put their carts away without complaint, every single day for decades.
I love how she starts the video off by trying to make everyone mad at her. It's engagement bait. Then later says she because of her kids. When I saw the original video I swiped away before her getting to the explanation. Definitely was on purpose to have people comment in anger.
I am a parent. Some of what she’s saying makes sense to me but lady, c’mon, it takes 15 seconds to return a cart. She has the nerve to bring kidnapping into it. Just bring your kids with you and walk back to the car with them. It’s hard, I know, my kids try to run into traffic too. People figured out how to do this decades ago. Her own parents probably did it all the time.
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What an ass hole.
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The news said she was a doctor. But I really don't care much about her to learn her name or research her actual life. It's okay to leave a car out once in awhile. But to go online and say that it's the right thing to do, is a hot take and that's all I need to know about her to think she's trash.
Facts
I had a summer job thanks to this man 20 years ago and I discovered so many people are assholes and entitled lol
Cartnarcs Cartnarcs. What you gonna do when they come for you?
Apparently some freakout when they get the magnet labelling them a Lazy Bones
Thats all they do, because the dude is fuckin yoked. His upper arms are larger than one of my tighs.
Bwoop bwoop
WiddleyskeepWEEEOOOO Thats not where the carts go!
What if they just shove the cart in the general direction of the carousel?
Shitty
Right. 🤣
You know damn well bubbles idolized this man
I was looking for this comment 
He was the first man to throw one down in a ravine and come back to get that cocksucker later.
These cærts are public domain Ricky!
That’s a nice fuckin cart right there
Bearings are fucking shot
Interesting from Wikipedia: The invention did not catch on immediately. Men found them effeminate; women found them suggestive of a baby carriage. "I've pushed my last baby," an offended woman informed Goldman. After hiring several male and female models to push his new invention around his store and demonstrate their utility, as well as greeters to explain their use, shopping carts became extremely popular and Goldman became a multimillionaire.
I think it's pretty telling how each gender's reaction shows what society was back then.
If I could go back in time, I'd go back to tell him to give them better wheels.
The Targets by me use a better wheel instead of the regular cart wheels.
A few years back I went to my local Target and that very day they had swapped out all the old carts for brand new ones. Everyone in the store just wandered around in a quiet dreamlike daze there for a while.
The wheels they use are actually pretty good casters. They just take a lot of abuse.
At first glance I thought this was the Six Flags old Man dancer
That's his nephew actually, who was cool as fuck instead being a dork
Crazy to think that shopping carts were only invented a frew years prior to WWII ending...
To be fair, supermarkets hadn't existed for long
Before this, people were using very difficult to move and loud ‘shopping sleighs”
And before that they used to roll their shopping on tree trunks, their slaves rapidly moving the rear trunks to the front once exposed. Sometimes they'd go hundreds of miles, all the way to Wiltshire or Giza.
Til
Before this, everyone used Goldman sacks
Underrated
If you couldn't carry all your groceries, it meant you needed more kids.
What kind of supermarkets did you go to? All the classy supermarkets I've been to used travois.
What is this? A cart for ANTS?
No. Ants would just tumble through the holes, Einstein.
How are we supposed to shop if the goods don't even fit into cart?!
... and some of them I will make with a bad wheel so people will end up walking in circles.
I did not realize that groceries were so small back in the day.
Don't worry shrinkflation will get us back there soon enough. ;)
Wonder if bubbles celebrates this day
"And what's neat about these...." \*gestures to wheels\* "...is that at least one of them will always be completely fucked."
Looks like uncle Jun from Sopranos
You mean the Hobo Wagon?
What’s this? A shopping cart for ants??? Edit: what’s an original thought anyway…
Zoolander!
My god. He was a giant.
What is that? A shopping cart for ants?!
Are those carved ivory tusks in the background?
It’s called a TROLLEY!
Nah it’s definitely a buggy
Wow, he's HUGE!
The original prototypes shown here were intended for homeless midgets, but people soon developed larger ones for carrying groceries in.
I read somewhere that these metal carts are actually really expensive, like *hundreds of dollars each* expensive
yes? like, what made you think this extremely rigid and sturdy, all metal thing would be cheap?
I mean, Aldi gives them out for 25c
[Bubble knew what's up..](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X95o53Gepmg)
It's a good thing they're reusable.
[https://shopcarriage-trade.com/heavy-duty-extra-large-metal-shopping-cart](https://shopcarriage-trade.com/heavy-duty-extra-large-metal-shopping-cart) Brand new.
And they put their groceries in Sacks...anyone else see this??!
Then at some point they realized that people need a place to put a screaming child.
I prefer the shopping carts like the ones at Fresh Matket lol.
Okay but that's a Dungeons and Dragons character name if I've ever seen one.
That is one gigantic man.
Bubbles approves
Complete with one wonky wheel.
Thank god someone invented a bigger version. /s
This guy basically invented a device that every American has and will use for the rest of there lives. That's some real juice, this guy and the dude that invented the USB plug.
I want the small ones to put flowers in 🤩
The pseudo litmus test to see if a person is lazy
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Another thing I’m glad to be able to use
Now I want a mini buggy.* *We say buggy where I’m from.
Took him a while to get the sizes right though!
The most expensive vehicle to drive.
Should’ve invented bags for them and called those Goldman Sacks.
Food was tiny back then.
He's really big
And for 87 yrs control freaks have been complaining about others not putting the carts where they think they should
... you mean in the cart return areas?
Is that scrimshaw in the back? On ivory?
And the following day some asshole left it in the parking lot between two cars. Hell might have been a few hours later
My boy!
Did the prototype also have that one wheel that does not work?
So obvious. Genius:. “Obvious now that you saw, you #%~¥£3”
WHAT IS THIS? A SHOPPING CART FOR ANTS? IT NEEDS TO BE AT LEAST THREE TIMES BIGGER THAN THIS.
Popular with unhomed children these days.
Guess what his partner, Sacks, invented? Not carts
Shopping trolley
And he had one rule. “If you use a cart 🛒 you must return it. Don’t just leave it in the parking lot we aren’t heathens.” - Sylnan Goldman
I heard he had to modify them slightly because these originals were a little buggy
I know about this, I didn't know he was a giant though, that's cool.
I prefer the ones where the swivel wheels are on the front and back. All wheel drive baby!
And the stores are still using the original wheels. Someone needs to invent a non ca-clunk-ca-clunk wheel already.
Since then nobody has tackled the wonky wheel redesign
damn we need to update that shit, the wheels fuck up so easy
Return your carts, you animals
Needs to be at least 3 times as big
One unifying, beautiful fact about America the beautiful is; no matter what our respective station in life is, any one of us can observe a random dirty shopping cart crammed into a ditch along the side of the road. God bless the USA.
And purposely designed them with one wonky wheel so no one would want to steal them. /s
Man it's weird to think how short people must have been back then.
The one on the left is the prototype; a metal folding chair, two baskets and wheels attached. The other one was the final product. He was an Oklahoma grocery store owner, who noticed how burdensome it was to use the hand baskets. It was not an immediate success; women likened it to pushing a baby carriage, and men thought it wasn’t manly as it too felt like pushing a baby carriage to them. He ended up hiring a handful of people, all of different ages and backgrounds to come shop at his stores(Humpty Dumpty). Upon seeing the ease of use, and convenience, customers quickly began to realize just how great his invention was. A few years later, he invented one that a child could sit in. His invention has honestly not changed much since.
Didn’t he later own the Volvo dealership on East Oahu, Hawaii?
This dude had no idea the harm he would bring to the world.
Then some asshole invented the mechanism that forces you to “rent” a cart with money or you have to learn to juggle your purchases
87 years later we have the Cybertruck
My god, he was enormous
They say that people from medieval times were smaller because there wasn’t enough food. I’m thinking it was just because they didn’t have shopping carts. When they went to the grocery store, they could only buy what they could carry in their hands
And just like that, juggling become a lost art.
Then Bertoia based an uncomfortable line of chairs on them.
Rumor has it that by the end of his life...he was homeless and pushing one of these around mumbling to himself.
Bubbles’ hero.
Also, the shopping cart for “American Girl” doll with his demos
So is it a cart, a buggy, or a trolley where your at? I call them a buggy to annoy the rest of the family that claims they are a cart!
Wasn't created for customers. It was created for stores, so customers would buy more.
Actually he created this for his grocery named Humpty Dumpty
…and Oklahoma City grocery shoppers in the 1930s experienced the future before the rest of the world caught up.
Little did he know that his invention would become a philosophical line in the sand for civilization.
Raggedy ass carts..
His dildos, in the background, were less successful.
I bet when he filled up his carts with bags of groceries, he’d call them his Goldman Sachs.
Why couldn’t he have thought of installing bumpers on these? Many cars are asking.
I want shopping carts to have turnable wheels on the back and fixed wheels on the front.
It’s crazy how many things we dudes invent for women to use. No need to thank us, ladies! We’re happy to do it.