shopping cart engineering question
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shopping cart engineering question
Time for some serious ranting here. 
Just what were the shopping cart engineers smoking when they designed the meshed shopping carts that have the sloped sidewalls making the handlebar end higher than the front end ???
Everytime I go to Lowes to get some small stuff I get the standard sloped meshed shopping cart. Then, before I am done shopping, sometimes I end up with a larger item, that will not fit in the cart, but will fit nicely riding on top of it. But, as I go bumping down the aisles it slides off of the top of the cart, because it is sitting on sloping downward cart walls. Why did they slope them ??
Just what were the shopping cart engineers smoking when they designed the meshed shopping carts that have the sloped sidewalls making the handlebar end higher than the front end ???
Everytime I go to Lowes to get some small stuff I get the standard sloped meshed shopping cart. Then, before I am done shopping, sometimes I end up with a larger item, that will not fit in the cart, but will fit nicely riding on top of it. But, as I go bumping down the aisles it slides off of the top of the cart, because it is sitting on sloping downward cart walls. Why did they slope them ??
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Originally Posted by Greg 79 f150
Time for some serious ranting here.
Just what were the shopping cart engineers smoking when they designed the meshed shopping carts that have the sloped sidewalls making the handlebar end higher than the front end ???
Everytime I go to Lowes to get some small stuff I get the standard sloped meshed shopping cart. Then, before I am done shopping, sometimes I end up with a larger item, that will not fit in the cart, but will fit nicely riding on top of it. But, as I go bumping down the aisles it slides off of the top of the cart, because it is sitting on sloping downward cart walls. Why did they slope them ??
Just what were the shopping cart engineers smoking when they designed the meshed shopping carts that have the sloped sidewalls making the handlebar end higher than the front end ???
Everytime I go to Lowes to get some small stuff I get the standard sloped meshed shopping cart. Then, before I am done shopping, sometimes I end up with a larger item, that will not fit in the cart, but will fit nicely riding on top of it. But, as I go bumping down the aisles it slides off of the top of the cart, because it is sitting on sloping downward cart walls. Why did they slope them ??
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Hey, don't knock shopping cart engineering! What else, without any kind of propulsion system, cost under $50, can go racing across a parking lot. Put a $1000 + dent in anything from a $10,000 Kia to a $100,000 Maserati, and not have the slightest scratch on it!
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Originally Posted by Sam_Fear
My grandfather designed the 1 wobbly wheel system used on all shopping carts. He always said the original plan called for a square wheel. 
I always wondered about that!
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Originally Posted by Sam_Fear
My grandfather designed the 1 wobbly wheel system used on all shopping carts. He always said the original plan called for a square wheel.
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Have you guys seen the anti theft shopping cart? You try to take it off the property and a mechanism on one of the wheels puts on the skids and you have to drag it if you want to keep going, took one for test drive in phoenix inner city, it really works! I guess they were tired of rounding up all the carts that people without cars pushed to their domiciles. Strange but true. Also these anti thefts are very aerodynamic like the Lowe's rides.
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