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The First Shopping Cart Was No Fun (conclusion)

Continued from last week Trouble on the Horizon Watson’s telescoping cart design The grocery industry, however, would soon be introduced to a landmark invention: telescoping carts. In Missouri, business owner and machinist Orla Watson came up with a design for a grocery cart that improved upon Goldman’s basket-carriers. The cart enabled space-saving convenience in supermarkets and parking lots by nesting […]

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According to Redwood City Pulse’s source item, The First Shopping Cart Was No Fun (conclusion), Continued from last week Trouble on the Horizon Watson’s telescoping cart design The grocery industry, however, would soon be introduced to a landmark invention: telescoping carts. In Missouri, business owner and machinist Orla Watson came up with a design for a grocery cart that improved upon Goldman’s basket-carriers. The cart enabled space-saving convenience in supermarkets and parking lots by nesting […]

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