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

Examples of grocery cart in a Sentence

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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 But cantaloupe and honeydew clock in at second and third, respectively, and are also grocery cart staples for a fair share of us. Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1941, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of grocery cart was in 1941

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“Grocery cart.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grocery%20cart. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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