Category Archives: Shopping Carts

7 Shopping Cart Storage Solutions

Rows of shopping carts

If you own a retail or grocery store, you know that shopping carts are essential for making sales and improving the customer experience. That said, keeping track of these assets presents a challenge. After all, carts must regularly move in and out of your store to optimize the shopping process. Even with standard security measures…

What Happens to Old Carts and Baskets When I Replace Them?

Shopping cart tipped over

Whether you’re a customer or a retail business owner, you may have wondered from time to time what exactly happens to those old, worn-down shopping carts and baskets when they’ve been replaced.  This is merely a matter of curiosity for a customer, but if you own a grocery or retail store, it’s good to know…

Is Shopping Cart Repair Possible (And Practical)?

Stray shopping cart in a parking lot

Maintaining your retail or grocery store and its assets requires a multi-faceted approach. You must hire personnel to handle daily maintenance tasks, such as cleaning bathrooms and floors, dusting surfaces, restocking supplies, mopping up spills, etc. Additionally, you must invest in more rigorous services on a less frequent basis, like floor waxing, deep cleaning, and…

Are Your Shopping Carts and Baskets Ethically Sourced and Manufactured?

Yellow baskets in an ethical factory

The world is moving toward a more sustainable and equitable future. What might have seemed like just a phase in the early 2000s has since grown into a much larger movement for environmentally-friendly manufacturing and ethical sourcing. If you own a business, you would be wise to take note of this ongoing trend, not only…

Retail Trends: Should You Carry Mini-Carts for Kids?

Animated shopping cart with food

For decades now, there has been an ongoing, sometimes vitriolic debate among shoppers about whether or not retail and grocery stores should carry mini shopping carts for kids. And the jury is still out. Today, shoppers will encounter stores both big and small that either offer these small carts, never carried them in the first…