The Stray Shopping Cart Project

by Julian Montague

“Over the last several decades, the stray shopping cart has quietly become an integral part of the urban and suburban landscapes of the industrialized world. To the average person, the stray shopping cart is most often thought of as a signifier of urban blight or as an indicator of a consumer society gone too far. Unfortunately, the acceptance of these oversimplified designations has discouraged any serious examination of the stray shopping cart phenomenon.

“Until now, the major obstacle that has prevented people from thinking critically about stray shopping carts has been that we have not had any formalized language to differentiate one shopping cart from another.”

For more information please visit the Stray Shopping Cart Project Home Page

Here is a direct link to the article Understanding the System if you’d like to start identifying and cataloguing your own specimens.

Here are My Specimens.

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