Shopping Cart or Carriage?
 

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!

in boston we call them cahts...

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

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

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

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

Matt

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

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

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

both

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

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

baskets or carts for us "true floridians"

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

~ lora

do you have horses to pull your carriages?

never heard it in anyother context ;)

it's shopping carts for the Hawaiians...

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

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