Story of the Shopping Cart and the Secret to Spreading Ideas

Have you ever thought of how and when the modern day shopping cart was created? The story of the creation of shopping carts starts with Walter Deubner. He was running an old-style  grocery store was looking for a way to increase his business and observed that his customers’ purchases were limited by what they could conveniently carry home. So he did what any creative business man do – he created a solution that consisted of a paper bag with a cord running through it for strength. He patented this in 1915.   The second step in the evolution of the shopping cart was an improvement on […]