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Read more: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/shopping-cart-origin/
TIL: The inventor of shopping carts, Sylvan Goldman, had to hire “decoy shoppers” to wheel the carts around stores and demonstrate their convenience, due to not catching on initially.
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They should do this with people putting their carts back in the designated cart areas so people stop leaving them all around the parking lot.
Judas shopper.
Do read the entirety of the article. This is why (and it goes into further detail):
“We could happily conclude our history of the shopping cart there, but that would leave out all the sex. Modern shoppers have found new uses for this now seemingly mundane grocery conveyance — it has at least in some parts of the U.S. become a component in a specialized way to indicate via non-verbal signals potential sexual availability.”
Capitalist psyop
The inventor of the wheel had the same problem some years earlier. “That’ll never catch on” they said.
His nickname was Jerry. When people realized what a great idea it was they all said to him, “That’s gold Jerry!”
“Verified- Jewish conspiracy to manipulate public opinion and behavior using paid actors to deceive the market.”