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Cool Stuff Daily

Fri. 05/20 - 1930s Shopping Cart Haters

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The history of the humble shopping cart, and why people absolutely did not like them when they first came out. Plus, a parasite that might make you more attractive—but like, don’t try it. And a tiny pub in an English village that stood up to Condé Nast, and won. Sponsors: I Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcast Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke Links: Why people hated shopping carts when they first came out (CNN) How a Basket on Wheels Revolutionized Grocery Shopping (Priceonomics) Mind-Altering Parasite May Make Infected People More Attractive, Study Suggests (ScienceAlert) Toxoplasmosis - General Information (CDC) Vogue magazine threatens to sue Cornish village pub of the same name (Cornwall Live) Village pub asked to change name by Vogue magazine (BBC) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's Friday, May 20th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. The history of the humble shopping cart

0:43.4

and why people absolutely did not like them when they first came out. Plus, a parasite that might

0:50.9

make you more attractive, but like don't try to get it. And a tiny pub in an

0:57.2

English village that stood up to Condé Nast and won. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:05.9

When new technologies come about, it's natural to act a bit wary at first. You know, sometimes

1:10.5

it's not clear how it could be used in a way that's relevant to act a bit wary at first. You know, sometimes it's not

1:11.0

clear how it could be used in a way that's relevant to your life. Maybe you just don't want to

1:15.3

change how you've always done things. To shift our perspective, sometimes it's helpful to look back

1:20.4

at initial reactions to older technologies, things that we today consider an ordinary part of life.

1:27.4

Which is why I loved this piece from last weekend by Nathaniel Meyersone at CNN

1:31.7

about how much people hated shopping carts when they first came out.

1:37.3

Now, to understand why shopping carts were initially so unpopular,

1:40.5

we have to go back before even their predecessor, the shopping basket.

1:44.8

So before the 1900s, a typical trip to the grocery store meant telling a clerk over the

1:49.8

counter what you wanted, and the clerk would go and gather everything for you and package it all

1:54.6

up nicely for you to take home. No browsing, aisles, or searching for items yourself.

2:00.0

With the advent of the telephone, you might even

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