Grocery shopping revival of the shopping carts
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
November 18, 2008 2:25pm CST
When we got our President's Choice booklet, they advertised not only the food, or the items that are holiday related, but also a large sized green shopping bag, a shopping carton, one that fits into your purse, and a couple that are like the old fashioned shopping carts our grandmothers and great grandmothers took along with them to the store before it became something that just little old ladies took with them because they did not drive or their eyesight was so bad or they were too poor to own a car let alone get a license.
Now it seems the old fashion shopping cart as opposed to the one you have to pay a dollar for is coming back into circulation. So has anyone of you decided to go back to taking a walk and taking the shopping cart along with you to save money?
Mind you if you live a distance, you still have to get the ice cream and frozen stuff delivered.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
It is about three quarters of a mile to my grocers and I would not use the shopping trolley or cart in the winter. It would be when it is warmer, but I would not want people to think that I am an old lady. So if there are women who are between 20 and 60 using them, I would feel more confident. Then again I do not want to be known as a environmental nut and of course, I could not cart the ice cream home.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
21 Nov 08
If the gas prices go up to $10.00 a gal. it will be those like you who cannot get around who will suffer.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
21 Nov 08
We just have a mile to go, but I can see your point. The trouble is with the gas prices going up (now that Obama is president elect, he will stop the drilling in the
States) people will have to walk a whole four miles to get their groceries unless they decide to rebuild those general and corner stores again.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
22 Nov 08
Forget it. He won't. He is into alternative energy even though it is not available at the prices for the ordinary person. And the environmentalists want to make sure that the animals are protected so they will not allow to build windmills, or drill for thermo energy, or whatever because it might disturb the animal's habitat.
But when the oil is uncapped, all those cut animals will be congregating around looking for handouts.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
18 Nov 08
I don't think our stores will deliver stuff. I live to far from town 10 miles to even think of walking that far I wouldn't make it home especially with being overloaded with food. I wish it was closer. I am seriously thinking of purchasing a sturdy material to make a few of the bags myself and even thinking of making a few as Christmas gifts. It will save me alot of money and also help save the earth a little. But if each of us do a little it all adds up in the end. I do reuse all the plastic/paper bags I receive from stores. And when i get to many I take them to the stores recycling bin just for the plastic bags. Gotta do what we can.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
18 Nov 08
Our store gives free delivery to senior citizens but the others have to pay for it. We also have the Dairy van and I know there were some who ordered their dairy products delivered. I am not interested in saving the earth, but I am sort of a cheapskate and the only thing I use the plastic bags are for the garbage. When I was young my mother took along the shopping trolley or shopping cart, but my father did not drive and it was quite common then. I also got one when I was delivering fliers, but it was the cheapest kind and it only lasted as long as I was doing it.
But when the shopping trolleys are name branded like the ones at Superstore, it sort of limits you to just shop there.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
19 Nov 08
My mother would love if they delivered. Bu where we live so far from town I doubt they would. be nice if they could though.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
19 Nov 08
It would cost a lot of gas. Too bad there is not a store closer to you.
@happythoughts (4109)
• United States
2 Dec 08
We are getting a store with in walking distance this comming spring and I am excited. It is healthy, a good chance to visit with my kids and will save money too. It is a Walmart, and that I am not crazy about, but a chance to get milk when I am out instead of getting in the car and driving is worth it. I think I will think more about what I am buying if I have to carry it or push it all back home.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
7 Dec 09
I have to get an insulted shopping cart when I cannot get a ride. It is almost a mile away So far I am able to get a ride, and I have not gone for a long walk since my husband got als. Usually someone looks after him and I go shopping with a friend. It was easier when I used to live in Vancouver and near the shops. Then most everyone had a folding shopping cart and they took them on the buses, but that was back in the 1950s.
@izathewzia (5134)
• Philippines
20 Nov 08
Push carts is very helpful while doing the shopping. It lessens the burden of carrying all those items in your bare hands. Whether it is old fashioned or new innovation, I still can not do the shopping without it.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
22 Nov 08
Actually I was talking about taking the groceries home from the store if you do not live a great distance, not the shopping carts you get when in the store.
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@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
20 Nov 08
Our neighbor does.
I would also if I had the patience to cross a 6 lane road w/o lights or side walk w/ all my kids & not end up w/ someone as road kill.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
That does make it hard. I do not have to cross any main streets, but we have to watch for those bad drivers leaving the park lot or those who think that they get a point for every pedestrian they hit.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
6 Dec 09
My husband has one of those carts, but we don't use it as much because we live at the bottom of a really steep flight of stairs.
We do, however, have about 24 of those black canvas ones. You know, the PC bags, with the green bottle printed on them? I use one as my handbag, and we use the rest as our shopping bags. They're wonderful!!
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@mipen2006 (5528)
• Australia
18 Nov 08
I think with the environment becoming more and more in people's thinking some of the traditionel things we' and our ancestors used to do will become common site at the supermarkets. My mother used to take her "shopping-jeep" with her in the fifties.
I gues we will see more auto friendly ones as hers was very difficult to load into a car. Maybe this is an inprovement auto-makers should consider when they design new models.
Wouldn't a world free of plastic bags be great!
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
20 Nov 08
I need the plastic bags for garbage, but only need one a week. And I think the shopping carts or trolleys now can be put into the back of the car, but I was thinking of the ones that one took from their house and walked to the grocers or the shopping center. There is no need for a shopping trolley to be put into the car as when you go into Safeway or Superstore, there are the shopping carts in the parking lot.
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@slickcut (8140)
• United States
20 Nov 08
You cannot walk any where in Houston Texas.This is a HUGE city,and you have to drive every where unless you happen to have a neighborhood grocerie,and that kind would be so expensive you could not afford anything..So no i have to drive to my stores...
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
22 Nov 08
That is the trouble. It is about a mile to the stores where I live, fine when there is no snow on the ground, but come November it gets to be cold and by December it is almost impossible. And the Seven Eleven is just as far away on the other side. So unless they build a shopping center within real walking distance for a city where it snows five months out of the year, we are stuck.
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@Yestheypayme2dothis (7874)
• United States
19 Nov 08
Recently, my local grocery store went out in the location down the road. Before that happened, I would walk to the store with my old fashioned cart. I bought various things including ice cream and frozen stuff. Now, since the store does not exist, we go further--you have to drive. We still take the old fashioned cart with us in the car so we can put all our bags in it to take upstairs. When Wegman's opened they gave us free cloth grocery bags. The other store charge for them. We do not pay for a cart and they don't give you are carton that fits in your purse. When you go to Aldi's you have to put a quart in the slot but when come out and put the cart back, you get your quarter back.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
22 Nov 08
At Superstore, we have to put in a loonie ($1.00) but usually what happens is that when someone puts their groceries in the trunk, then you give them a loonie or you may get a freebie. At Safeway, they only charge a quarter but it does not have a good as a selection except they have dark fruit cakes but Superstore only has the light fruit cake.
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