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See also [[Doomed Supermarket Display]].
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== Advertising and Announcements ==
* The 21st Century insurance company has a commercial with a mass of shopping carts being dropped onto two cars from overhead. The object is to illustrate how both cars get the same damage and repairs, but the 21st Century insurance owner pays less.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Johnny and The Bomb]]'': Johnny and Kirsty escape some [[The Men in Black|Men In Black]] by riding a bag-lady's shopping cart down a steep hill.
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' book [[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]], you get a lot of varied shopping trolley shenanigans as those things are alive (and initially hiding it) due to rather plot-relevant events. But they're useful to store things in. And dangerous when they take off on their own, leaving people running behind them screaming about what's inside them. Or screaming about being inside them. One memorable instance is when one is hijacked and used to store the [[Butt Monkey|Bursar]] in - and it then takes off for the hills. A massive comedic [[Chase Scene|chase scene]] (complete with [[A
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Married With Children]]'': The Bundys and the Darcys both win a shot at a local grocery store's ''[[Supermarket Sweep]]''-type contest. The Bundys show up with a [[Pimped
* In the ''[[CSI New York]]'' episode "Obsession", one of the murders centers around a race run using shopping carts and where it is customary to sabotage the other teams.
* Done on ''Bit Com'' (a short, live action comedy show that runs as filler between programs on ABC3 in Australia) where the discovery of a shopping cart in the parking lot causes the two main characters to completely abandon their plans in favor of playing with it.
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