# Shopping cart question - dangling wire between front wheels **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 9, 2024, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994 "2024-11-09T19:47:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994/41 "2024-11-11T23:07:31Z")
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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994/42 "2024-11-15T14:27:57Z")
New carts at Meijer! Coincides with the store “refresh”. I like the change but they put the Pet aisle far opposite corner from groceries. Ok I checked out the new carts for dangle bits. Nope nada nein no such apparatus on these carts. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994/43 "2024-11-15T14:57:11Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > > > What’s a cart escalator? (asks the poster from the far North). > > Literally that; an [escalator designed to move a shopping cart up or down store levels](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart_conveyor). > [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Oooooh! multi-story grocery stores! Fancy! > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I suspect this is going to be more common in a dense urban area, where two floors are needed for a supermarket or department store like Target. Or when the store and parking entrance are on different levels, as with [this Harris Teeter.](https://maps.app.goo.gl/tehA7jZ1Zb523dhd9) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994/44 "2024-11-15T15:01:13Z")
As I suggested, that seems to be a dense urban area, where there isn’t the space available for acreage of parking lots at the same level as the store. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994/45 "2024-11-15T15:31:50Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > isn’t the space available for acreage of parking lots at the same level as the store. The Target with the cart escalator I mentioned above is itself two floors with clothing down and housewares/groc up. This is/was pretty common in traditional mall department stores (JCP, Kohls, Macy, etc) but they didn’t need to worry about carts. I get the impression keeping kids off the cart escalator is a challenge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-cart-question-dangling-wire-between-front-wheels/1009994.md?page=2)