When you go grocery shopping...

[tikilyn]

I'm in the South and call them baskets. Make sense to me! Oh and I would never call Pepsi a coke but again thats me.

 

[Stacerita]

They are called carts around here. Sometimes called baskets. But then we have hand held baskets for light shopping days.

 

[HelenePA]

Shopping Cart, or Crap holder

 

[singingpixie]

I say shopping cart, but my ex's family said "basket." to me the basket is what you pick up and carry if you don't have enough stuff to warrant a cart.

 

[Goofyluver]

Shopping cart or basket.

I went and visited a friend in southeast Texas and we went to the grocery store. After check-out a store employee walked up to me and said:

"Excuse me...but can I take your buggay?" (with a very thick Texas accent)

I asked him to repeat himself...and again he said: "Can I take your buggay?"

I looked at him and said: "I have nooo idea what you're saying. I'm sorry."

He came up to me...took my hand in his...and touched the handlebars for the shopping cart with my hand. Then he says: "Your buggay. Buggay? This is a buggay!"

I just smiled...pretended I knew what the heck he was saying the whole time...and got out of there so he would quit looking at me like an idiot.

 

[SHAYMARAYSMOM]

You're not alone ... I call it a carriage too ...

Carrige here also

 

[mamacatnv]

Am I the only one that calls it a carriage?????

Nope my DH does also.

I am from Calif - it is a cart or basket
He is from New Hampshire - it is a carriage

His parents who started wintering in FL and now live there pretty much full time called it a buggy when they were here in June. FIL says to DD, "go get the buggy" she looks befuddled and then she says "Grampie, I'm too big for a stroller "

 

[Lovin' Lorne]

Cart.

The others sound really, really wrong to me.

I went and visited a friend in southeast Texas and we went to the grocery store. After check-out a store employee walked up to me and said:

"Excuse me...but can I take your buggay?" (with a very thick Texas accent)

I asked him to repeat himself...and again he said: "Can I take your buggay?"

I looked at him and said: "I have nooo idea what you're saying. I'm sorry."

He came up to me...took my hand in his...and touched the handlebars for the shopping cart with my hand. Then he says: "Your buggay. Buggay? This is a buggay!"

I just smiled...pretended I knew what the heck he was saying the whole time...and got out of there so he would quit looking at me like an idiot.

That reminds me of the time my Mom and I went to a KFC in Oklahoma.

We went up to order and the girl said something, God only knows what. We looked at each other, then back at her and asked her to please repeat. Turns out she was saying "Welcome to Kentucky Fried Chicken. May I help you?" It sounded more like "WeelkamtaKentookyfraydcheekenmaIhepyooou?"

We still laugh about not having our ears tuned to "Oklahoma".

 

[Pin Wizard]

I probably call it a basket more often than I call it a cart. But I use both terms. Never heard of the other two.

 

[disneychick0412]

Cart, but I'm from the south, so I hear lots of people call it a buggy.
I have never heard of it called a carriage

 

[suzimar57]

shopping cart

 

[Pooh67_68]

A shopping cart.

 

[Ms Lucy]

A Trolley

 

[disneyjunkie]

shopping cart

A basket is the little plastic thing with two handles that you use when you are there to pick up a few items.

 

[disneyholic family]

i voted cart - but that's not entirely true...i use both cart and buggy...

you should have given the option of choosing a + b, a + c, b + c, and all of the above (and possibly none of the above)

 

[dbogen]

Here its a shopping cart or carriage. The basket is the thing you pick up and hold for a few items. When I hear trolly, that is the thing that moves people on the streets.

 

[jen0610]

Shopping cart.

 

[maroney495]

I say "shopping cart" but without the "shopping" it is buggy.

 

[Angelhalo]

If you are from the South like me then it is a BUGGY and as a PP mentioned any type of soda is a "coke".

I'm from NC. I say cart. I think my mom used to say buggy when we were little I guess she thought it was cutesy, but we haven't used the term since I was like 7 or 8 yeras old. Now it's always Cart.

Also, we only call Coke Coke. Anything else is called whatever it is. Diet Coke, Dr. Pepper, etc. We use the word soda but never Coke for any soda.

 

[Angelhalo]

I say shopping cart, but my ex's family said "basket." to me the basket is what you pick up and carry if you don't have enough stuff to warrant a cart.

Ditto. To me the baskets are the well....baskets with handles at the front of the store....handheld like dorothy had but with no lid....used to see a lot of metal ones but now they are mostly plastic.