S/O: What do you call the thing you put your groceries in?

[Brigitte]

I say shopping cart (or just cart), but everyone in this area, southwest VA, calls it a buggy. Just one more way they know I am a foreigner.

[Mabelen]

I am a past trolley user (UK). I became a cart user in the Mid Atlantic region, I believe they are still called carts here in So Cal... I had no idea they were called by other names in diferent areas in the US!

[Jen in PA]

When I'm pushing it, it's a cart. When DH is pushing it, it's a buggy. When the DC are pushing it, it's a menace.

[wy_kid_wrangler04]

I call it a grocery cart... I had to be difficult because shopping cart is just not right LOL

[wy_kid_wrangler04]

Cart, although sometimes the dds whine and beg for a "car cart", which I dislike because it's hard to steer!

 

J

 

 

Oh me too! Those things turn worse than tanks! Now they have them with tv's in them..... good grief, guess it keeps kids occupied right???

[Dawn in OH]

Shopping cart.

[MariannNOVA]

shopping cart, but when I lived in florida, it was called a buggy.

[nd293]

We use shopping trolleys (or just trolleys) in South Africa.

 

I understand shoppping cart, but have never heard buggy or wagon. In Britian a buggy is a pushchair/pram/stroller (and there's another word that might need further analysis).

 

And while we're on the subject of trolley trivia - in South Africa shopping carts are easy to push, but when we moved to the Middle East, and later to Australia, we found that they always went sideways. This requires fairly complex co-ordination to get them to go where you want them too, and if you're on a slope, you're in real trouble. A friend with a more analytical mind than mine says it's because in South Africa only the front 2 wheels swivel, whereas in Australia all 4 wheels swivel. Fascinating stuff :001_smile:

[keptwoman]

We use shopping trolleys (or just trolleys) in South Africa.

 

I understand shoppping cart, but have never heard buggy or wagon. In Britian a buggy is a pushchair/pram/stroller (and there's another word that might need further analysis).

 

And while we're on the subject of trolley trivia - in South Africa shopping carts are easy to push, but when we moved to the Middle East, and later to Australia, we found that they always went sideways. This requires fairly complex co-ordination to get them to go where you want them too, and if you're on a slope, you're in real trouble. A friend with a more analytical mind than mine says it's because in South Africa only the front 2 wheels swivel, whereas in Australia all 4 wheels swivel. Fascinating stuff :001_smile:

Ah you see, South Africa and New Zealand are obviously sensible countries who choose a far superior trolley to the Australian models, which do indeed travel sideways.

[EthiopianFood]

Cart.

[LibraryLover]

Cloth or string bags?

[mlbuchina]

I call it a grocery cart... I had to be difficult because shopping cart is just not right LOL

 

Well, that depends on if you are at a Super(insert store name here). You can get your electronics, car accessories, underclothes, shoes and milk and eggs all at the same time! That's what I call shopping! LOL :lol:

 

Oh, and it's a buggy.

[Tree House Academy]

I am from the South and for my little area, it is a cart or a shopping cart. A buggy generally follows a horse.

[IsabelC]

I call it a trolley :lol:

Shopping cart would also be understood. Buggies and wagons are both horse-drawn vehicles to me.

 

Another year or two on this forum and I'll be able to talk American if I ever get to go there :D

Edited May 11, 2010 by Hotdrink

[sgilli3]

I have always called it a trolley.

[Rosie_0801]

Ah you see, South Africa and New Zealand are obviously sensible countries who choose a far superior trolley to the Australian models, which do indeed travel sideways.

 

You will need to squash that into a heavily locked partition in your mind before they'll give you citizenship, you know. :toetap05:

 

 

;)

Rosie- Expert trolley pusher. It requires manouvering room that supermarkets and car parks don't have though.

 

P.S One of you needs to import these superior contraptions.

[Peela]

Shopping trolly is a common term used here in Australia.

[Melissa in Australia]

We call it a shopping trolley

[3peasinapod]

We call it a cart, but I notice some older/elderly people around here call them buggies.

[seibert4kids]

I definitely call it a "cart", but in the south where we live, it is undeniably a "buggy". Still can't get that to roll off my tounge...yet!

[Liz CA]

You will need to squash that into a heavily locked partition in your mind before they'll give you citizenship, you know. :toetap05:

 

 

;)

Rosie- Expert trolley pusher. It requires manouvering room that supermarkets and car parks don't have though.

 

P.S One of you needs to import these superior contraptions.

 

:lol::lol::lol: Is the Australian government really so tense? I always thought they were fun-loving, easy-going mates down and under...you know?

[pooh bear]

Trolley

[ereks mom]

:D

[keptwoman]

You will need to squash that into a heavily locked partition in your mind before they'll give you citizenship, you know. :toetap05:

 

 

;)

Rosie- Expert trolley pusher. It requires manouvering room that supermarkets and car parks don't have though.

 

P.S One of you needs to import these superior contraptions.

Oh I can sing Advance Australia Fair with the best of them. That's all that's required isn't it? :D

Just don't EVER expect me to cheer for the Wallabies.

[MyThreeSons]

I grew up in CA, where we called them shopping carts. I've been in SC for over 12 years now, so I called them buggies. And the guys who round them up from the parking lot are known as buggy boys. :001_smile:

[Rosie_0801]

Oh I can sing Advance Australia Fair with the best of them. That's all that's required isn't it? :D

 

Yup! "Australians all are ostriches!" Nothin' to it.

 

Just don't EVER expect me to cheer for the Wallabies.

Who are they? Eek! Will they strip my citizenship for being un-Australian? :eek:

 

Yes Liz, our government is uptight. Aren't all governments? It's pretty funny watching the old guys pretend they are fun loving and easy going though. I think you know they are fun loving and easy going by how often they appear on the news in tracksuits, doing interviews in the middle of their morning constitutional.

 

;)

Rosie

[peachskittles]

It's a shopping cart to me. I was thrown for a loop at a Kroger when I worked for them though. They are called bascarts. I remember when the supervisor asked me if I had looked in the bottom of the bascart and I was like "Uh, what are you talking about?". She pointed to the shopping cart and I was like "Oh the shopping cart." She shook her head no and said "It's a bascart here." Weirdest name I've ever heard for it.

[mommaduck]

Other: We say buggy and cart interchangeably.

[usetoschool]

From the west and always called them carts. All of our parking lot returns say something like "please return carts here". If you call them a buggy or wagon, what does the sign in the parking lot say? If I google cart return I get all kinds of pictures that look like our grocery story parking lot but if I put in buggy return I get Amish horse and buggy pictures :001_huh:.

 

eta: I do get a few "please return trolley here" if I put in trolley return

[Danestress]

Ellie, I have recently discovered that for 4.99 a week, I can order all my groceries online. I use the store's weekly specials and recipes on my own computer. I can set a window of time and arrive at the store to pick up my groceries. I don't even have to get out of the car. Someone else has shopped for me, bagged them, and will bring them out, put them in the back, and scan my credit card. It's the best.

 

So my days of pushing "shopping carts" are over.

[fivetails]

I've only ever heard them called "carts" [aside from online]

 

When someone says "buggy" - I get pictures like this or this in my head.

 

[and a trolley is something like this or this ]

 

eta: and, of course, wagon

[Miss Marple]

Grew up calling it a buggy, but now call it a cart.

[Willow]

Its a trolley! :001_smile:

[ThreeBlessings]

Cart or grocery cart.

[Rosie_0801]

[and a trolley is something like this or this ]

 

 

Those things are called trams!

 

Rosie

[rootsnwings]

We call them buggies here in Alabama! :)

[Janet in WA]

I voted for "cart" because that's what I call it today. But I could have also chosen "other" because I grew up caliing it a "basket".

[mazakaal]

I used to call it a cart, but here in England it's a trolley.

[mazakaal]

Funny, when I opened the thread I thought I was going to be choosing between bag and sack.

 

:001_smile: This is what I thought too.

[emeraldjoy]

I voted other because we never call it a shopping cart...just cart.

interesting.

[jazzyfizzle]

I learned very quickly as a young girl working in our convenience store never to ask the male customers if they wanted a bag. Most times you would get a lewd comment. (Yes of course, even to the young teen girls)

It is always 'sack'.

;)

 

Shopping carts here on the Northcoast.

[mom2denj]

Buggy-I am in NE FLA. I did grow up in NH though, and they are called shopping carts there.

[mom31257]

I voted other because I've said cart and buggy. I've never heard the expression, wagon, though.