shopping cart
noun
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: a metal or plastic cart with four small wheels that is used for holding merchandise when shopping (as at a supermarket or department store)
… about the only amenities besides the jumbo-sized shopping carts are a few flatbed dollies to allow shoppers to get large appliances like refrigerators and washing machines to the cash register and then out to the parking lot.—
Jean Crichton
Jean Crichton2
: a temporary record of items selected for eventual purchase from an online vendor's website
To set up shop on the Internet, you need a commerce-enabled Web site, which includes the electronic shopping cart; a connection to the credit card network; and finally, a merchant account …—Tom Negrino
Tom NegrinoDelivery charges are the No. 1 reason shoppers abandon a virtual shopping cart, according to Jupiter Media Metrix. Every Internet shopper has a shipping-charge horror story.—Ellen Neuborn
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Melanie Marshall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
Many back up their recommendations with tales of the techniques that washed away their lifelong acne in just weeks, and viewers of all ages fill up their shopping carts with what they're told will work like magic.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 13 Feb. 2025
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14 of 15
Reformation Brooke Crop Cashmere Turtleneck Sweater
This black turtleneck has been dominating our readers’ Nordstrom shopping carts.
—Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 7 Feb. 2025
More than 80 people spent part of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday stuffing clothes, bottle caps, and food littering Coyote Creek into trash bags, and pulling shopping carts and television monitors from the creek bed.
—Brittany Pierola Diaz, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Shopping cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopping%20cart. Accessed 27 Feb. 2025.
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