...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4690467 | Security enclosure having one or more compartments for housing and protecting a windsurfer against theft A security housing for storing and preventing the theft of elongated objects such as a windsurfer and its accessories is provided. The housing includes at least one compartment that is partially open at the top so that a portion of the windsurfer passes t... | 09/01/1987 |