who invented the shopping cart
Who Invented the Shopping Cart? The shopping cart was invented in the mid-1930s by Sylvan N. Goldman (1898-1984). Goldman ran a grocery store chain called Humpty Dumpty, and he observed that shoppers struggled with the âhand carryâ shopping baskets. âThey had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy,â said Goldman in a quote cited in his obituary in The New York Times (November 27, 1984).