They seem pretty innocuous, those hefty baskets of metal or plastic that we confront routinely as we go about the time-consuming task of buying food for our families. Nested in neat, long rows ...

Columns share an author’s personal perspective. There are two kinds of shopping carts in the world: Ones with normal wheels and ones with wonky wheels. The normal carts glide along through the ...

(CNN) — It's an almost inevitable part of any shopping trip. You enter a store to grab a few necessities and find yourself pushing, pulling, lifting, and/or dragging your cart up the baking aisle as ...

SHOPPING CART FACTS• Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket chain in Oklahoma City, Okla., is credited with inventing the shopping cart in 1937.• There’s an average of 200 to 250 ...