Shopping "carts" in the Queen's English

[j_sum1]

No one here use a shopping trundler?

[Siam_Sam]

@Accidental_Martyr

In the Southern US “buggy” is the term used by most people.

Not in Texas or Arkansas.

[Accidental_Martyr]

@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

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

I’m from Alabama and I’ve used both buggy and cart, but actually say cart more.

[bob_2]

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

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.

[Ms_Boods]

@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

[Mr_Downtown]

@Siam_Sam

Not [“buggy”] in Texas or Arkansas.

This Texarkanian strongly disagrees.

[Siam_Sam]

@Mr_Downtown

This Texarkanian strongly disagrees.

Never heard it in Northwest Arkansas or West Texas.