...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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| 5265891 | Jogger's baby carriage apparatus A frame assembly removably mounts a coach member thereon, wherein the frame member assembly includes spring members to cushion the coach member mounting to the frame assembly, with the frame assembly further including first and second harness tubes to acc... | 11/30/1993 |
| 4817975 | Self-aligning sulky There is disclosed in one aspect, a self-aligning sulky with independently pivotable wheels which may be pivoted through a full 360 degree rotation. The pivotable wheels provide a sulky that provides less rolling resistance and greater resistance to tippi... | 04/04/1989 |