# Shopping "carts" in the Queen's English **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 9, 2014, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067 "2014-05-09T17:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![j\_sum1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@j\_sum1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_sum1)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/41 "2014-05-12T05:20:53Z")
No one here use a shopping trundler? ---
**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:** [May 12, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/42 "2014-05-12T14:50:27Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > In the Southern US “buggy” is the term used by most people. Not in Texas or Arkansas. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/43 "2014-05-12T16:29:39Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Not in Texas or Arkansas. In Alabama I would say the majority use “buggy.” I recently had a discussion with a woman from Alabama who had lived in California for several years. She said that one of the first times she went to a grocery store in California she asked where the buggies were and the employees didn’t know what she was talking about. This map showing usage of different words is interesting: [http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q\_75.html](http://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_75.html) From Wikipedia: > [@](#): > > Buggy – Some regions of Canada, Detroit, Michigan, Colorado, parts of the Southern United States and Pittsburgh, the latter case often being considered a word related to Pittsburghese > **[Shopping cart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_cart)** > > A shopping cart (American English), trolley (British English, Australian English), or buggy (Southern American English, Appalachian English), also known by a variety of other names, is a wheeled cart supplied by a shop or store, especially supermarkets, for use by customers inside the premises for transport of merchandise as they move around the premises, while shopping, prior to heading to the checkout counter, cashiers or tills. Increasing the amount of goods a shopper can collect increases ... I’m from Alabama and I’ve used both buggy and cart, but actually say cart more. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/44 "2014-05-12T17:20:11Z")
You might think that a shopping trolley/cart/buggy is just a basket on wheels, but think again. The way things are going, you will be able to bluetooth your list to it and send it off round the supermarket while yo have a coffee. > [@](#): > > In Hungary intelligent shopping trolleys as samples have been introduced in the Praktiker Store in Vecsés. Within the framework of the couple of hundred million HUF investments the store has introduced equipment 5-10 years in advance of their time in its European model store. One of these is the intelligent trolley. > Electronic price tag shows the price of all products, this means almost 55 thousand kinds of products. The customers can learn the latest commercial information through plasma televisions; they can find direction in the store with info-terminals connected to the internet and can make their ideas come true with the help of modern interior decoration design programs. > In the checkout zone new generation IBM fast cash registers with touch-screens operate; they decrease the awaiting time with minutes and also displays the photo of products to be purchased as a control. [http://www.shopping-trolley.eu/history](http://www.shopping-trolley.eu/history) Actually, come to think of it, I can do it all from the comfort of my own armchair and have the stuff delivered at my convenience. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/45 "2014-05-12T17:52:12Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > In the Southern US “buggy” is the term used by most people. My mom always used the word buggy; she is from Baltimore City (born 1929). I’m not Southern in any capacity, but I expect I got it from her while growing up 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2014, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/46 "2014-05-15T04:00:27Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Not [“buggy”] in Texas or Arkansas. This Texarkanian strongly disagrees. ---
**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:** [May 15, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067/47 "2014-05-15T04:50:46Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > This Texarkanian strongly disagrees. Never heard it in Northwest Arkansas or West Texas. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shopping-carts-in-the-queens-english/688067.md?page=2)