fun fact, people apparently fucking hated shopping carts when they were first invented
because they reminded women of baby carriages, and insulted men's ability to act all tough carrying shit on their own
the dude who invented them had to straight-up hire fucking models to push shopping carts around his stores just to clue people in on their usefulness lmao
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart#Development_of_first_shopping_cart_by_Sylvan_Goldman
Sidebar - Weren't "greeters" invented to make you feel obligated to grab a cart so you'd buy more stuff? I feel like that was a part of lore in the homeland of Walmart (where I'm from).
They might be gone now? I haven’t been to a Walmart in ages.
@vantablack @solarpunkgnome
do they still have them in USA? The ones at ASDA (British Walmart) all got redeployed to checkouts or laid off in the early 2010s...