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Shopping Cart, Buggy, Carriage, Wagon, Basket, Bascart, or Trolley Map

This map compares regional names for the thing people use for groceries at the store, including shopping cart, buggy, carriage, wagon, basket, bascart, and trolley.

Current result: the U.S. is leaning Shopping cart on the Shopping Cart, Buggy, Carriage, Wagon, Basket, Bascart, or Trolley Map, with 63% of 291 verified votes.

Prompt: What do you call the thing you use for groceries at the store?

Answer options: Shopping cart / Buggy / Carriage / Wagon / Basket / Bascart / Trolley.

Open the interactive map to vote once and compare national, state, and county results.

Last updated from verified vote data: Jun 10, 2026, 6:08 PM EDT.

Live Results Snapshot

  • Shopping cart: 182 verified votes (63%)
  • Buggy: 94 verified votes (32%)
  • Carriage: 11 verified votes (3.8%)
  • Wagon: 1 verified votes (0.3%)
  • Basket: 2 verified votes (0.7%)
  • Bascart: 0 verified votes (0%)
  • Trolley: 1 verified votes (0.3%)

State Results

These states currently have the most verified votes on this map.

  • Tennessee: 70 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 70%
  • Georgia: 43 verified votes, Buggy leads with 56%
  • Connecticut: 38 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 82%
  • West Virginia: 38 verified votes, Buggy leads with 79%
  • Florida: 23 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 78%
  • Massachusetts: 8 verified votes, Carriage leads with 63%
  • Kentucky: 6 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 83%
  • Texas: 6 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 67%
  • Colorado: 5 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 60%
  • Michigan: 5 verified votes, Shopping cart leads with 100%

What This Map Compares

This page is meant to answer common regional comparisons for shopping cart vs buggy vs carriage vs wagon vs basket vs bascart vs trolley map.

  • shopping cart vs buggy
  • buggy vs carriage
  • wagon vs basket
  • bascart vs trolley
  • trolley map

Worth Knowing

The folding shopping cart was popularized by Oklahoma grocer Sylvan Goldman in the 1930s, so the object is newer than a lot of the regional words people use for it.

How The Map Works

Votes use browser location or ZIP backup, are grouped by national, state, and county result maps, and are live self-selected responses rather than a scientific poll. Exact GPS is not stored in public results.

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