Which part of the South? I was born and raised in Savannah and I’ve never heard it called anything other than buggy.
Florida with time all over the State and in Georgia.
“Buggy”? WTFFF? I’ve never heard that one before. They’re shopping carts, duh!
A cart. That is when I’m at the grocery store (or do you say, “supermarket?”). Now, if I’m at the Soapbox Derby, and I was discussing grocery shopping, I’d refer to it by the formal name “Shopping Cart” so as not to confuse it with “Go Cart.”
Trolley.
‘Buggy’? In Ontario? Where? I’ve always called them shopping carts. Southern Ontario, within four hours of Toronto.
If you really want to rub in the snobbiness, call’em:
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They’re called a trolley over here.
I’m from Hamilton, and maybe it was just the older people in my family who called them buggies. But I’m sure I heard other people call them buggies, too.
In Ireland, they are… Shopping trolleys.
That makes sense. The places in Michigan that use buggy appear to be metro Detroit and the Ypsilanti/Milan corridor (as well as can be determined from square pixels on a distorted map) which would be the location of a lot of folks who migrated up from Kentucky and Tennessee. Similarly, Ohio’s pixels are at Akron/Canton (strong West Virginia and Pittsburgh influences) and Columbus and Dayton (strong West Virginia and Kentucky influences).
They’re called shopping carts here in Houston.
buggy?
Sounds like something her humorous granddad said once to be funny that she picked up as real.
As the two ex-NC posters noted, it’s pretty common to hear “buggy” here. I call it basically anything, but now I am going to start calling it a carriage or a wagon.
I think I’ll drop my usage as the shopping cart and start calling it a wagon just to iritate Mrs. Dryfreeze (the buggy user)
Neither did I, although I now remember hearing it referred to as ‘shopping carriage.’ Not by me - I call it a cart.
I have a feeling my English grandparents may have used that expression. Maybe it’s more common in England?
It’s a cart – a “shopping cart” if I need to distinguish it from something such as this vehicle.
Guess you wouldn’t have been swayed to buy a certain salad dressing (I remember the brand name as “Pennsylvania Dutch”) by its commercials, which featured an Amish-looking man delivering the product to town in a conveyance much like this one.
Never heard them called that. We call it a trolly.
We call it a buggy or a cart. But, we call those handheld shopping baskets, buckets, because that’s what my son called them when he was little.