Visual Blight: Shopping Carts
Invented and patented in 1937 by an Oklahoma City grocer named Sylvan Nathan Goldman, the shopping cart was a revolutionary innovation. Rubber-wheeled and easily propelled in all directions, this device hugely expanded the time that people spent shopping. (”Customers have a tendency to stop shopping,” Mr. Goldman explained, “when their baskets become too full or too heavy.”) 01
When used properly, shopping carts are not a bad thing. But when they are improperly abandoned, particularly after having been removed from a store’s property, they become a visual blight upon our urban landscape.
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01. 2008/03/14 - Globe&Mail: How the shopping cart serves the common good
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