Someone stole my invention idea for a portable shopping cart

@snapster The next best thing would be to figure out how they’d let you sell that cart here for cheap. Please?

@snapster Maybe this is something that fits in the Mediocre other interests is designing and producting a more affordable version of this?

@luvche21 although they’d need to be careful not to violate patents…

@Pantheist You’re so ghetto.

@phatmass lol, honestly I just use the things at the supermarket.

@Pantheist What and then push your groceries home in one?

@phatmass
• I usually park right next to a rack anyway- added benefit of one less side for someone to open their door into my car
•It’s just me and my wife- I can load em all up on my arms, there are stairs on my front porch anyway
•What’s wrong with reusable bags? Honestly I usually take the plastic ones since I reuse them for collecting cat shit from her box, trash from the beach, etc.
•I’ve found kicking the wheels when they’re jammed usually fixes em
•I already get in enough trouble with my wife without dealing with cart groupies

@phatmass Ladies loooove a man who brings his own shopping cart to the store.

@Pantheist Around here parking next to the cart thing means more opportunities for someone to hit your car with a cart as they give the cart a shove in the general direction of the cart corral.

@phatmass

never again get a dirty, germy cart that squeels as you go down the aisles, with a bad front end alignment

Because I really want the grocery store floor and parking lot germs in my car and in my house.

Especially the gooey squished bananas, spilled juice, and chewing gum.

@RedOak let me know where you get your hover shoes for going to the store. Apparently you avoid the ground?

@phatmass No way to avoid the shoes touching floor thing… other than picking up the feet and not stepping in the goo.

But we don’t have to put those goo-germs on the cart wheels in the back of the car. And it is easy to avoid self-starring.

@RedOak not sure I understand that last remark?

@RedOak You do know we have an immune system for a reason. Right? For generations we all lived though using the grocery cart, not sanitizing everything we touched, the 5 second rule for food dropped on the ground, etc. Not to mention all the crap kids put in their mouths.

@phatmass

@Kidsandliz do you choose to step in dog crap on the sidewalk when you come upon it?

@phatmass Just my 2 cents, but I am not sure if all of those “inconveniences” combined would equal a fraction of the inconvenience of having to lug the cart back and forth, much less taking the time and effort to assemble it in the grocery store parking lot, especially if it were raining that day.
YMMV

@connorbush And now your uncle will be pissed at your for stating that irritating him will give you joy when he reads this thread… LOL

@medz that sounds every bit as fun as the lincoln tunnel

@medz

Kinda like these liquor stores?

Drive-in / thru liquor stores are quite common throughout the country. They’ll even load for you - you never leave the car.

If you can dream it, somebody has probably already done it.

Everything is a reboot.

@Pavlov rule 34

@alacrity Yes, I am sure there is pr0n of it somewhere.

@Pavlov yes. And lumber yards too.

@suewalsh1 @Pavlov @alacrity
I think Eskimo Hut even has franchise opportunities. They have drive thru beer, daiquiris, & margaritas.

@compunaut there was a drive-thru full service bar at a golf course I once played in Ohio a few years back- between the 9th & 10th holes- where you placed your order by text and drove your golf cart thru and picked up your order. they had 6 brews on tap, a full selection of top-shelf bottles and 6 slurpee machines dedicated to margaritas. it was heartbreaking that there was no way to get back there without having to circle the course, and our caddy made $350 in tips alone running back and forth for the rest of the game. I was 1 under par for the front 9, 14 over for the back 9, and still managed to win.

@compunaut I don’t want the bother of owning one, I just want to be a very, very good customer.

@Pavlov So perhaps there’s a business opportunity for someone. Location: somewhere near the end of your commute home? Maybe within walking distance?

@compunaut Dude. That’s one reason I’m married. I don’t fetch my own drinks. (Although, I may be divorced for that comment.)