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Re: The First Shopping Cart Wasn't Cool

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Originally Posted by CR4Moose View Post
Seventy years ago, the first shopping cart glided through the aisles of a Standard supermarket in Oklahoma City. Would obesity be less common if Americans were forced to shop every day and carry old-fashioned market baskets on their arms? In other words, does the ability to buy food in volume help to make us fat?
A part of me wonders if we would just make more trips to the grocery store or have more kids (to carry the baskets) to compensate.

But I completely agree with you, if our carts were half the size they are now.......

then again I've taken 2 full size carts at the same time by myself before.
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