Our local Meijer’s (regional grocery chain) has replaced all of their shopping carts with a new type of cart. The new carts are all metal with some sort of blue coating on the metal. The coating looks like baked enamel but I’m not sure.<\/p>\n
Personally, I liked the old carts better. They were a combination of metal and plastic and were much lighter. But, I guess the new carts represent progress.<\/p>\n
One of the features of the new carts are dual beverage holders, one on each side of the handle. While the beverage holders seem to be functional, I am just not sure why you would need them. It is not like I am going to swing over to the beer cooler and grab me a 42 ouncer to drink while I am shopping. I suspect if I did, I would get into trouble.<\/p>\n
You can buy hot coffee and fountain drinks in the store. But most people either buy them and then leave or they buy them and sit and drink them. I don’t think that I have ever seen anyone walking through the store, drinking a slurpy.<\/p>\n
Grocery shopping is not an outing. It is a purpose driven event. When most people go to the grocery store, they go there for one purpose; to buy groceries. If they want a latte and a biscotti, they will go to Star Bucks.<\/p>\n
On a side note, my cousin, the late Bob Adams, once pushed a shopping cart with his truck.\u00a0 He reported that they fall apart at about 60 mph.\u00a0 Alcohol was a factor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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