Friday, 4 June 2021

On This Day In 1937: Sylvan Goldman Introduced The Shopping Cart

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On This Day In 1937, Businessman Sylvan Goldman introduced the world's first shopping cart at his Humpty Dumpty Supermarket chain in Oklahoma.

While he was at his office one late evening, Goldman saw two folding chairs and began to go forth with his idea of the shopping cart. With the assistance of Fred Young, one of his employees, he built the ideal model of a cart by having wheels at the bottom of chair legs and two metal baskets on top of another instead of a chair seat.

Initially, the product looked like a flop upon release until Goldman hired people to push the shopping cart around the store as if they were customers. 


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