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Default Proposed New Grocery Store

On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 2:39:13 PM UTC-5, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
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> On Friday, August 12, 2016 at 3:28:45 PM UTC-4, wrote:
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> > To add to that other thread about unloading groceries and
> > conveyor belts the Harris Teeter here had those flat, square
> > shopping carts. When you reached the checker s/he dropped
> > down the front of the cart (think of a 'trap door' on the
> > seat of long underwear to get an idea of these carts)and
> > removed your items and scanned them. Groceries went down
> > the conveyor belt to the bagger. Your new store may or
> > may not have these types of carts and check out system.

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> I remember those. They didn't hold enough. Now all of the
> grocery stores are back to the old-fashioned kind.
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> Cindy Hamilton
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>

I haven't seen these type in a while and when we had a
Winn-Dixie a hundred years ago they also had the flat,
square carts. Were these flat carts a smidge wider than
the regular, deep ones now or am I just imagining it?