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Lightfeather · 05-29-2002, 06:52 PM

Feldon, where are all those carts hiding! Pretty high tech ^_~ The ones I am used to in California are wobbly wheeled squeakers and the most high tech thing about them is the little butt rest for a child so they don't get mish mash marks. ^_^

apollo · 05-30-2002, 08:45 AM

Feldon, where are all those carts hiding! Pretty high tech

Yeah, Morgan I'm wondering the same as Lightfeather...what stores in the U.S. have such carts...thats the first I've heard of this....maybe I'm just behind the Times

feldon34 · 05-30-2002, 11:02 AM

Guess it's a Houston thing. Especially in the not-so-well-to-do neighborhoods, people think the store's carts are their carts.

Yellow Tang · 05-31-2002, 07:04 AM

I've never heard about such high-tech-carts too. Strange Houston... ;-)

SunKing · 05-31-2002, 10:01 AM

Hmmmm...I live in Houston and I've never seen any high-tech carts. (Could someone be pulling our leg?)

We have a new grocery store in our area (Kroger) that just got all new carts. The most high-tech thing about them is the eurothane wheels (did I spell that correctly?) ...they're very quiet and roll nicely....but no electronics involved.

(PS - we also get the 'paper or plastic' question)

Tiny Turtle · 05-31-2002, 11:02 AM

OK, since some moron at a local power company over here decided that it was a really smart thing to draw a backup power cable seven feet away from the regular one through a tunnel and then a fire took 'em both out, causing a power-failure in a major part of Stockholm (same thing happened in the same tunnel 14 months ago!) I've been offline for a couple of days (Still had power where I live though). Just thought I'd add that a mall a couple of miles from here uses that Houston high-tech solution. So I guess now it's Houston and Upplands-Väsby...

/Tiny Power

feldon34 · 05-31-2002, 01:21 PM

You're really having fun with that avatar aren't you.

SunKing,

I wonder what part of town you're in. All the Krogers and HEBs I've seen have those carts. Maybe the mechanism is so small you haven't noticed. It's a little black and yellow cuff around one of the front two wheels of the cart.

Tiny Turtle · 05-31-2002, 03:23 PM

Yup

SunKing · 05-31-2002, 05:57 PM

Morgan, I live in Garden Oaks (just north of 610 loop between N.Shepherd and Ella). The next time I'm at the store I'll be checking out those carts.... ...and I expect people to look at me funny.

05-29-2002, 06:52 PM	#21
Lightfeather Occupation: Nerd Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: California Posts: 314	Feldon, where are all those carts hiding! Pretty high tech ^_~ The ones I am used to in California are wobbly wheeled squeakers and the most high tech thing about them is the little butt rest for a child so they don't get mish mash marks. ^_^ Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

05-30-2002, 11:02 AM	#23
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,947	Guess it's a Houston thing. Especially in the not-so-well-to-do neighborhoods, people think the store's carts are their carts. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

05-31-2002, 10:01 AM	#25
SunKing Registered Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 238	Hmmmm...I live in Houston and I've never seen any high-tech carts. (Could someone be pulling our leg?) We have a new grocery store in our area (Kroger) that just got all new carts. The most high-tech thing about them is the eurothane wheels (did I spell that correctly?) ...they're very quiet and roll nicely....but no electronics involved. (PS - we also get the 'paper or plastic' question) My humble Homepage

05-31-2002, 11:02 AM	#26
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	OK, since some moron at a local power company over here decided that it was a really smart thing to draw a backup power cable seven feet away from the regular one through a tunnel and then a fire took 'em both out, causing a power-failure in a major part of Stockholm (same thing happened in the same tunnel 14 months ago!) I've been offline for a couple of days (Still had power where I live though). Just thought I'd add that a mall a couple of miles from here uses that Houston high-tech solution. So I guess now it's Houston and Upplands-Väsby... /Tiny Power Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

05-31-2002, 01:21 PM	#27
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,947	You're really having fun with that avatar aren't you. SunKing, I wonder what part of town you're in. All the Krogers and HEBs I've seen have those carts. Maybe the mechanism is so small you haven't noticed. It's a little black and yellow cuff around one of the front two wheels of the cart. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

05-30-2002, 08:45 AM	#22
apollo Registered Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: East Coast Posts: 58	Feldon, where are all those carts hiding! Pretty high tech Yeah, Morgan I'm wondering the same as Lightfeather...what stores in the U.S. have such carts...thats the first I've heard of this....maybe I'm just behind the Times

05-31-2002, 07:04 AM	#24
Yellow Tang YT Join Date: Jan 2002 Tournaments Won: 1 Location: Germany Posts: 729	I've never heard about such high-tech-carts too. Strange Houston... ;-)

05-31-2002, 03:23 PM	#28
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Yup Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

05-31-2002, 05:57 PM	#29
SunKing Registered Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 238	We should rename this the shopping cart thread. Morgan, I live in Garden Oaks (just north of 610 loop between N.Shepherd and Ella). The next time I'm at the store I'll be checking out those carts.... ...and I expect people to look at me funny. My humble Homepage