What do you call this grocery shopping holding device?

[leebee]

Grocery basket or cart.

 

[RangerPooh]

West coast native, and call it a shopping cart.

I first heard it refereed to as a buggy when I moved to the PNW.

 

[RUDisney]

@leebee is right. It's a shopping basket, though sometimes called a cart.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

In Australia that is a shopping trolley.

 

[soccerdad72]

It's always been a cart wherever I've lived.

 

[goofyernmost]

I’m from Pittsburgh and call it a buggy. As do most people I know. To be honest I didn’t know it was a southern thing. I just figured it was a northern thing since a lot of people around here call them buggies.

Many moons ago in a place called the south the first Piggly Wiggly Store in Memphis, Tennessee opened. It was the first to have a supermarket layout where the public picked out what the wanted instead of the cashier getting what they wanted. They found out shortly after that if they wanted to sell more the customer needed something to carry their stuff in, so they used baskets, I assume a woven one. That quickly became burdensome as well so they had the idea to put wheels on them. Now what they called them is probably arguable but buggies were horse power vehicles so if I had to guess it was called a shopping cart since a cart was generally smaller and hand powered. I live in NC but spent most of my life in Vermont and I have never heard it referred as anything other than shopping cart. Both there and here. However, whatever it was called back then it was definitely in the south.

 

[LSUmiss]

Team Buggy - grew up in NOLA

We always called it a “basket”. Also in Nola.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Buggy. My Mom is from WV and Dad is from OH.

 

[pixie3]

Also from Pittsburgh. As a kid we said buggy and now we say cart. However, my mom and my grandmother still said buggy.

 

[ChrisFL]

Many moons ago in a place called the south the first Piggly Wiggly Store in Memphis, Tennessee opened. It was the first to have a supermarket layout where the public picked out what the wanted instead of the cashier getting what they wanted. They found out shortly after that if they wanted to sell more the customer needed something to carry their stuff in, so they used baskets, I assume a woven one. That quickly became burdensome as well so they had the idea to put wheels on them. Now what they called them is probably arguable but buggies were horse power vehicles so if I had to guess it was called a shopping cart since a cart was generally smaller and hand powered. I live in NC but spent most of my life in Vermont and I have never heard it referred as anything other than shopping cart. Both there and here. However, whatever it was called back then it was definitely in the south.

interesting!

 

[fla4fun]

My grandmother called it a buggy or a basket, but Mom called it a shopping cart so I do too.

 

[Shoktherapy]

We always called it a “basket”. Also in Nola.

You must be from the Westbank

 

[LSUmiss]

You must be from the Westbank

Well I actually am lol! But everyone I know does including East bankers!