Frequently Asked Questions & Our Market Research:

What is the cost of a Shop & Carry® food wagon?

Through this web site individuals will be able to buy their own Shop & Carry® food wagon for only $179.00*. Please note that shipping will be extra. However, if your food store offers any type of savings program to their customers using a Shop & Carry® food wagon, you can then earn back your cost. This is just one way your supermarket can say thank you for helping to lower their operating expenses. *Prices are subject to change without notice.

What can I expect from my supermarket if I use a Shop & Carry® food wagon in their store?

The type of program a food shopper can expect at their food store will vary. There are many different programs a supermarket may or may not offer. One rule will be standard, you will have to shop with your own Shop & Carry® food wagon, to receive any benefits from a possible supermarket program associated with your Shop & Carry® food wagon.

What is the reason for no child seat in the Shop & Carry® food wagon?

There is no child seat in the Shop & Carry® food wagon for several reasons. One is that the US Consumer Product Safety Commission reported 12,000 Hospital Emergency Room treated head injuries in 1988 due to children falling from seats in metal wagons. Additional accidents involving dislocated arms and other injuries are not included in this count! Even with seat belts on, children have reached for shelves and pulled themselves over along with the fully loaded metal wagon. It has been published that most doctors will say placing a child in any shopping wagon is not safe. Today, far less parents are using the child seats due to these statistics. In addition, we found in many cases, that both parents are working. Much of the food shopping is therefore done on the way home from work or when the children are with another care giver. Consumers can also find a wide variety of baby carriers that strap to the adult's chest on the market today. This offers parents a safe alternative to carrying infants up to 18 months of age. Finally, during different times of the day and night we only found an average of 4% of the shoppers in the supermarket using a child seat correctly. Times have changed.

Will the Shop & Carry® food wagon fit into my economy sized car?

Yes, all three containers will fit in your car. If you have the optional Curve Front Container, then one of the four containers will probably have to go on the floor by the car's seats.

What is the Shop & Carry® food wagon's height, weight and size?

The height of the handle bars have been made for a universal height range of people. At 40 and 1/8 inches we are in the center of the comfort zone. The overall width of the Shop and Carry® food wagon is 15 inches. The middle and bottom container's are less than two feet in length. The top small container is just under three pounds empty and the middle container is just over five pounds. The bottom container with the four wheels has an approximate weight of thirteen pounds and can be pushed on its wheels when filled with food!

What about some senior citizens who may have difficulty in bending and carrying?

For those people who wish to use a Shop & Carry® Food Wagon instead of a metal wagon and have some physical challenges they will find:
o The Shop & Carry® Food Wagon is easier to push and control than a metal wagon.
o Senior Citizens spend on average a maximum of $65.00 per shopping trip. Thus, they will NOT need to use the Bottom container or do any bending. The top 2 containers will be more than enough to hold everything.
o The containers are easier to carry than any equivalent amount of food in bags.
o The Shop & Carry® Food Wagon offers the option to just be wheeled into the house.
o Empty metal wagons weight as much as 50 pounds more than an empty Shop & Carry® Food Wagon fully assembled.

Why doesn't the Shop & Carry® have a cross-bar handle and why do the handles spin freely?

Engineers who have tested the Shop & Carry® food wagon have confirmed that not having a cross-bar will reduce stress on the wrist and increase a person's ability to maintain control with the least amount of effort. The simple reason is that by having two handle bars that swivel when you steer or make turns, this will prevent one's wrist from being locked into a constant 90 degree position. Pushing a wagon around a turn with a cross-bar is far more difficult than making the same turn with a wagon that can pivot on one of its rear wheel's turning axis.

What supermarkets have the hand held portable scanners for use as you shop?

When you use a Personal Scanner that allows you to "ring up" your own purchases as you food shop, time is saved at checkout because your items have already been scanned. However, you still have to take time to pack your items in bags. With a checkout lane set up specifically for just Shop & Carry® Food Wagon shoppers you will have checkout as much as 20 minutes faster. With a checkout lane set up for Shop & Carry® Food Wagon shoppers who are using the Personnel scanner, the checkout total time is as fast as you can pay with your cash, check or credit card! No bagging, just pay and go home, thus eliminating the number one complaint about supermarket shopping: waiting on the check-out line to pay.

Over 150 stores worldwide offer the Personal Scanner. Most of these supermarkets are in Europe and in the mid-west states of America.

Some Facts On The Portable Shopper:
o The Netherlands' largest grocery chain saw that the customary 6 PM closing time created a mad "after-work" rush. Thus, they asked Symbol Technologies, the world leaders in bar-code reading, for a solution.
o Express checkout lanes are set up for shoppers using the Portable Shopper.
o For every supermarket offering the Portable Shopper program to their shoppers, they have half of their shoppers that take advantage of them! This 5 out of 10 use by shoppers is comparable to our 6 out of 10 numbers for those who want to use a Shop & Carry® Food Wagon.

What are R F I D Tags?

Do we dare say it? When RFID tags are widely used, customers using their own Shop & Carry® food wagon will eliminate the check out line altogether. One wave of a receiving wand around your Shop & Carry® food wagon and all your groceries are added up. Just pay and go! RFID tags will replace the Bar Codes on individual items. They are small thin metal tags attached to a product that give off a radio signal containing all the product information, including the price. The signal travels a short distance and would be captured, calculated, and recorded by one wave of a receiving wand around your Shop & Carry® food wagon by the cashier. RFID tags are already being widely used in Europe's Libraries and Department stores.

Is Shop & Carry, Inc. a Public Company?

No, at this time Shop & Carry, Inc. is a privately held company.

Can the Shop & Carry® food wagon be used for other things?

Yes, from different demographics, shoppers presented Shop & Carry, Inc. with unique comments.

One was from Elmhurst, Queens, New York.
They found that the Shop & Carry® food wagon made the chore of doing laundry much easier. This was accomplished by wheeling the laundry to and from the elevator. The wash was sorted into the different containers and brought back upstairs.

Many "house" owners stated that they would obtain more than one Shop & Carry® food wagon.
Keeping one in the garage with sorted garden supplies was a favorite.

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