Par4QC
Yes. Always good to do a demo if the option is available.
You know, the first shopping cart was invented in 1937 by some guy who owned the Humpty Dumpty supermarket in Oklahoma. You know what it was? A metal cage on wheels. That's it! And here we are, 87 years later... still pushing a metal cage on wheels! Have we made no progress?
Now you may argue, "What about the cupholder thing on some of them now." Now that's some wonderful innovation! I now have a place to put my overpriced coffee. Big whoop! We've got rockets landing themselves on Mars, cars that drive themselves, AI that can write novels, and here I am wrestling with a cart with one wheel doing the cha-cha!
And what's the deal with that wheel? Every cart has one of those bad wheels. You may think it's just me, but it's not! It's everyone! It's the universal shopping experience. Even people in Bangladesh are asking themselves, "What in the hell is going on with these shopping cart wheels?" It's like the three good wheels are telling us, "Hey, we've got this!" and that one rogue wheel is like, "Nope, I'm going to Target!"
And it's always the front left wheel. What's so special about that wheel? Why can't they fix that wheel? I will tell you why - they don't care! Because they know you'll use it anyway. They've got you. You can't carry 37 items in your arms like some prehistoric hunter-gatherer. And the size of these things! Too big for one item, but it's never enough when you've got 40. And don't even get me started on the little kiddie cart with the plastic car attached. It's not a cart, it's a parade float! Suddenly there's a mini-van maneuvering through the canned soup aisle. And the kid? He's not helping. He's just honking that fake horn like he's on the Long Island Expressway!
These stores have self-checkout, self-scanning, and even delivery robots. But they can't give me a cart that doesn't veer left life it's trying to get off the highway at the last second before missing the exit! It's like we're all living in this futuristic world, but we're still stuck in the 1930's with these carts. Same old cage. Same old wheels.
The future is here, but these cages with wheels are nothing but relics dragging us through the produce aisle.
