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Thread #94348   Message #1825708
Posted By: Azizi
02-Sep-06 - 10:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Can you British catters help me?
Subject: RE: BS: Can you British catters help me?
Well, you're not tooo far off-if you're talking about the invention of shopping carts.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blshopping.htm has this info:

"Sylvan Goldman invented the first shopping cart in 1936. Sylvan owned a chain of Oklahoma City grocery stores called Standard/Piggly-Wiggly. He invented the first shopping cart by adding two wire basket and wheels to a folding chair. Goldman, together with mechanic Fred Young, later designed a dedicated shopping cart in 1947 and formed the Folding Carrier Co. to manufacture the carts."

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"Standard Piggly-Wiggly"?!!

How creative. [snark]

But then again he did create the shopping care. So who am I to quivel over that Piggly-Wiggly name.