grocery cart
noun
US
: a shopping cart used at a grocery store
His idea of a good time is to stalk the cereal aisle or the produce section and count the number of men (not very many) who check the price of an item before tossing it into the grocery cart.—
Patricia T. O'Conner
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Neighbors were pitching in too, while volunteers arrived carrying water proof boots, buckets and a grocery cart filled with food and water.
—Atika Shubert, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
Don’t forget your quarter: Aldi’s grocery carts are locked together at the storefront.
—Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 21 Oct. 2024
Ignoring the Rules of the Road Treat the grocery cart like your car and pretend that every aisle has a stop sign on either end, says frequent shopper and Senior Lifestyle Editor Ivy Odom.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2024
Earlier this year, Amazon also began selling its connected grocery carts to third parties.
—Annie Palmer,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
In 2017, a police department in Arkansas told shoppers to wipe down grocery carts because fentanyl residue might be on the handle.
—Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
Supermarkets went out of their way to protect workers and customers, handing out masks, sanitizing grocery carts and spraying checkout conveyer belts.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
In 2022, researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. modeled a single 36-item grocery cart to compare greenhouse emissions from an e-commerce grocery delivery and a traditional trip to the store to get the same items.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 Sep. 2024
On Supermarket Sweep — which ran from 1990 to 1995 — contestants answered trivia questions and then earned time to race around the grocery store set to stockpile items in their grocery carts.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
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Atika Shubert, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
Don’t forget your quarter: Aldi’s grocery carts are locked together at the storefront.
—Samantha Gowen, Orange County Register, 21 Oct. 2024
Ignoring the Rules of the Road Treat the grocery cart like your car and pretend that every aisle has a stop sign on either end, says frequent shopper and Senior Lifestyle Editor Ivy Odom.
—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 6 Oct. 2024
Earlier this year, Amazon also began selling its connected grocery carts to third parties.
—Annie Palmer,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 5 Oct. 2024
In 2017, a police department in Arkansas told shoppers to wipe down grocery carts because fentanyl residue might be on the handle.
—Ryan Hampton, TIME, 24 Sep. 2024
Supermarkets went out of their way to protect workers and customers, handing out masks, sanitizing grocery carts and spraying checkout conveyer belts.
—Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
In 2022, researchers from the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Co. modeled a single 36-item grocery cart to compare greenhouse emissions from an e-commerce grocery delivery and a traditional trip to the store to get the same items.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 11 Sep. 2024
On Supermarket Sweep — which ran from 1990 to 1995 — contestants answered trivia questions and then earned time to race around the grocery store set to stockpile items in their grocery carts.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 31 July 2024
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“Grocery cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20cart. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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