→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Who Invented Spoons, Forks, and Knives? https://youtu.be/JWYnqroiFEg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan Who Invented the Bloody Mary Drink? (and Who is it Really Named After) https://youtu.be/IrVWhhqieCg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP0HjtNM-IuWjliZeLoLVNan In this video: With the emergence of the automobile, home refrigeration, and the supermarket in the early 20th century, retailers soon realized they had a problem – people now were willing to purchase large quantities of food at once, but had no effective means of comfortably carrying everything they wanted around the store. In the early 1930s, the general solution was to have people carry around baskets… Needless to say, something needed to be done. While today the solution to the problem seems obvious, in the 1930s, it wasn’t and it would take about two decades of iterations before the modern shopping cart would finally emerge. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/invention-shopping-cart/ Sources: http://www.google.com/patents/US2479530 https://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/great-depression.cfm http://great-depression-facts.com/ https://nrf.com/2015/top100-table http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/working-papers/WP/WP_CSI_006.pdf https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/10/03/why-supermarkets-are-in-trouble/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/invention-shopping-cart/#_ednref1 http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/12/invention-shopping-cart/#_ednref2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvan_Goldman http://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/27/obituaries/sylvan-n-goldman-86-dies-inventor-of-the-