Santa Fe, New Mexico, paid a local contractor $47,000 to round up about 3,000 shopping carts around the city in 2021 and 2022. Fayetteville, North Carolina, spent $78,468 collecting carts from May 2020 to October 2022. Shopping carts keep wandering away from their stores, draining taxpayers’ coffers, causing blight and frustrating local officials and retailers. […]
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San Antonio Whole Foods one of the first in the U.S. to deploy new Amazon smart grocery carts
The smart carts allow shoppers to use a QR code in the Whole Foods app and attached cameras to scan items. San Antonio’s Northside Whole Foods store is one of the chain’s first three locations to feature Amazon Dash Cart technology. The smart carts allow shoppers to use a QR code in the Whole Foods […]
Read MoreA solution to that squeaky shopping cart
Just the other day, I came up with a real Crackerjack of an invention. This one really could help people. Decades ago, when I regularly spent time on Missouri River beaches with a couple of good friends, we sometimes dreamed up inventions to change people’s lives. We never got around to building our dreams, not […]
Read MoreShortage of Shopping Carts at San Francisco Safeway
On Monday, NBC Bay Area counted about five or six shopping markets in the Safeway at Taraval Street and 17th Avenue. “I always park on the roof, there’s usually a stack,” said Jim, a Safeway customer. “I can see a dozen usually, right? Not today. I’m about to ask one of the checkers and see […]
Read MoreGallup: Americans returning to grocery stores, restaurants as pandemic eases
A new Gallup poll finds more Americans are heading back to their local grocery stores and restaurants as the COVID-19 pandemic fades. Gallup reported Wednesday that 37% of U.S. adults say they are shopping in person for groceries at least once a week, up six percentage points from last year. The poll found that 83% […]
Read MoreShopping Cart Jail
Stores face fines to reclaim abandoned carts – even if they were stolen
Read MoreWhy people hated shopping carts when they first came out
We live in a world shaped by shopping carts. The ubiquitous, unloved contraptions are a key feature of US economy. (Yes, really.) The birth of shopping carts in the early 20th century helped usher in an era of mass consumption and enabled grocery stores and brands to expand their products – without customers worrying about […]
Read MoreThere is one day of the week that it’s the cheapest to buy your food.
Nutritionist Steph Grasso says most new deals start on Wednesdays, and old deals tend to stick around for the remainder of the day. The middle of the week also likely means the shelves are freshly stocked, so there are more options to choose from. Grasso also said that there tend to be fewer shoppers on […]
Read MoreGas price spikes expected to affect how much we pay at the grocery store
As gas prices continue to hike up, you may be feeling some pain at the pump. But those increases impact a lot more than just how much it costs to drive your automobile. The numbers seem to just keep going up. According to AAA, the national average for a gallon of regular gas is now […]
Read MoreReinventing the Shopping Cart
The first shopping cart was patented in 1940 and was reinvented in 1946. The first shopping cart in the United States was patented in 1940 by Sylvan Goldman. The cart had two baskets that sat on a folding frame, one on the top and one on the bottom. Grocery stores were much smaller than they […]
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