Shopping Cart or Carriage?

[Pamela]

Sorry, very random question, but I figured you guys are from all over the country and could tell me whether you call them shopping carts or carriages, or anything else. I work at a Supermarket and a customer became upset with me when I asked for his carriage, he said he didn't know what I was talking about, I needed to call it a cart to have him acknowledge me, now I'm curious what other people call them!

[mike o'leary]

in boston we call them cahts...

...but personally i call them those crazy-cages-on-wheels-they-have-at-the-grocery-store

[A. Leese]

In south Florida they're carts..at least with us <i>true</i> Floridians..everyone else is from somewhere else, it seems, but most people call them carts.

~Angela who's never heard the term carriage for a shopping cart

[Brandon Martus]

carts in michigan... ive heard basket also..

[Matt Leese]

Carts in both NY and MD. I've never heard them called carriages however. Sounds like there should be a horse pulling it...

Matt

[Steve A.]

I call them carriages, but people around CT can call them carts or carriages... :confused:

[Carolyn Duncan]

I've heard carts, carriages, and buggys.
C~ya,
Carolyn

[Amadkow]

Here we call them carts. I have neer heard them called carriages before.

[EddieMcD]

both

-Ed "Paper or plastic, cart or carriage" McDonnell

[Tom Fairchild]

Never heard of carriages before. We call 'em carts.

[Andrew Rudolph]

baskets or carts for us "true floridians"

[Lora Knepper]

yep.. "cahts" in Boston .... and I have heard "buggy" a lot in the Carolinas - particulary North Carolina.

~ lora

[Joe Ross]

do you have horses to pull your carriages?

never heard it in anyother context ;)

[Anne Lam]

it's shopping carts for the Hawaiians...

[Matt Leese]

It's a horse with a buggy behind....

Matt who'll stop telling really bad jokes now....

[Carolyn Duncan]

Matt, sometimes "bad" jokes are good to hear. If no one kept them going, there wouldn't be anymore.
C~ya,
Carolyn who has contests with her friends to find the worst jokes possible. :) :p

[ColleenShaver]

pam- i work in a grocery store too... i definitely call them carriages..

some people call 'em wagons.. i have no clue what they are talking about when they say that. :)

[Christina]

I call 'em shopping carts. Though, I think I have heard people refer to them as a wagon. And as far as the whole buggy things goes, I have a friend with the last name Buggy, so I have to be very careful not to make any jokes about that. :-) Oh, and that's on Long Island, NY.

~Christina ºoº

[Pamela]

I was hoping some of these replys would back me up on my whole carriage thing, it must be a NH term :). stupid horse and buggy jokes, exactly what my crazed customer said :rolleyes: !

[Libby Ritchie]

Hoosiers (in Indiana) call them carts.

[Jgreenwd1]

at butsons we call them cart and bugeys.

[David Kelly]

Originally posted by Libby Ritchie
Hoosiers (in Indiana) call them carts.

Libby as i said, you must like IU cause you're a hoosier, not a Boiler fan (Purdue).:p

[Tom Fairchild]

Hmmmm..... bad joke contest. Sounds like a good idea for a new thread. Any takers?

~Tom~