# Shopping Carts in NZ and Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 13, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120 "2007-09-13T21:30:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/21 "2007-09-14T17:14:52Z")
I’m surprised no one has linked to the wikipedia article on [shopping carts](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart): > [@](#): > > A shopping cart (also called a trolley in British and Australian English; sometimes referred to as a carriage or shopping carriage in the U.S. region of New England; also known as a bascart in some regions of the U.S., basket in others, and buggy in Parts of B.C, and the American South.) is a cart supplied by a shop, especially a supermarket, for use by customers inside the shop for transport of merchandise to the check-out counter during shopping, and often to the customer’s car after paying as well. Often, customers are allowed to leave the carts in the parking lot, and store personnel return the carts to the shop. Emphasis added. I have to say, though, that I’m from New England and I’ve never heard “shopping carriage” used. ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/22 "2007-09-14T19:35:25Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] I have to say, though, that I’m from New England and I’ve never heard “shopping carriage” used. [/QUOTE] I grew up in southern Connecticut, and that’s what I call them. I believe it’s a very regional thing, as my wife is from Vermont and had never heard the term before she met me. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2007, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/23 "2007-09-14T19:48:20Z")
I don’t care what you call them. I have but one rule when it comes to grocery shopping – The wheels on the cart/trolly/basket/trundler/glider never never never ever come to a complete stop. If I can’t sweep what I want off the shelf and into the moving cart, then I didn’t really need that item in the first place. If I am moving down the aisle and some moron is standing to one side agonizing over their potential purchase and have left their cart on the other side of the aisle, thereby blocking my progress and threatening my number one rule, then I’ll bash their damn cart out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/24 "2007-09-15T02:43:11Z")
So that was you, **Uncle Rojelio**? Decorum prevents me from using much of the language that I would like to in this forum. I was having a bad day, my son was being fussy, and some total F_CKING ASSHOLE decided that it would be too much trouble to steer around my little personal crisis, and instead ram said shopping cart right into my Achilles tendon. Fuck you ever so much, and you are lucky I’m not as needle-dicked as you, as I let you live. F_cker. Thanks for doing your part toward making the world a little bit more unhappy. Selfish prick. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/25 "2007-09-15T02:50:12Z")
In at least some parts of the American South they’re called buggies, just to add yet another name for the things. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/26 "2007-09-15T03:12:49Z")
You people in NZ & Australia are lucky. All the wheels on your carts move. Here in the US, there’s a law that one of the rear wheels has to be fixed in place and not turn at all, and one of the front wheels has to be permanently fixed turning one way, forcing you to only move in little circles. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2007, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/27 "2007-09-16T00:23:14Z")
I’m reminded of the inventor of the shopping cart. It made him wealthy, and he retired to Hawaii. After he died, his evil brood would intermittently make the news in their decades-long legal fight for daddy’s money. I’d read about it from time to time when we weer living in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120/28 "2007-09-16T01:32:14Z")
Your real shopper prefers : [the last of the V8 interceptors](http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/03/31/mad-max-1979/) . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-nz-and-australia/419120.md?page=1)