(JEWISH GROUP) Just for fun; A Jew did it! Sylvan Goldman

Goldman was born Sylvan Nathan Goldman to a Jewish family,[4][5] the son of Hortense (born Dreyfus)[6] and Michael Goldman, in Ardmore, Oklahoma.[7] His mother had emigrated from Scharrachbergheim[8] in Alsace-Lorraine (today France) and his father from Latvia.[4] He had one older brother, Alfred.[6] His father worked at various dry goods stores owned by his wife's family, one of which was located in Indian territory where Sylvan was born.[6] Sylvan was raised in the Jewish faith and was bar mitzvahed.[6] Sylvan learned the retail trade from his father and his mother's uncles.[6]

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Invention of shopping cart

He introduced the device on June 4, 1937, in the Humpty Dumpty supermarket chain in Oklahoma City, of which he was the owner. With the assistance of a mechanic named Fred Young, Goldman constructed the first shopping cart, basing his design on that of a wooden folding chair. They built it with a metal frame and added wheels and wire baskets. Another mechanic, Arthur Kosted, developed a method to mass-produce the carts by inventing an assembly line capable of forming and welding the wire. The cart was awarded patent number 2,196,914 on April 9, 1940 (Filing date: March 14, 1938), titled, "Folding Basket Carriage for Self-Service Stores". They advertised the invention as part of a new "No Basket Carrying Plan."

The invention did not catch on immediately. Men found them effeminate; women found them suggestive of a baby carriage. "I've pushed my last baby buggy," offended women informed him. After hiring several male and female models to push his new invention around his store and demonstrate their utility, as well as greeters to explain their use, his folding-style shopping carts became extremely popular and Goldman became a multimillionaire by collecting a royalty on every folding design shopping cart in the United States.

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With all the anti-Semitism, "squirrels" that come running anytime Jews are mentioned, and for a variety of other reasons, I thought I would remind those of our contribution to society, no matter how seemingly inconsequential.

The shopping cart. Who knew?!