A Mother and Child’s Dream…a Grocery Cart with a TV for kids!
Posted by: Amanda Carroll on: August 12, 2008
Our neighborhood grocery store, Safeway, got this brand new grocery cart for kids that I am SO LOVING! It’s a little car WITH A TV for kids that plays cartoons! Unbelievable. We discovered it today.
Here’s a picture from “mom view” you can see Emily watching a cartoon on her tv. There’s also a screen for the mom. I chose between three cartoons for her…Dora, Backyardigans, and Wonderpets (she watched all 3) and ate cereal, a banana, and drank milk while I shopped. As I was shopping it displayed recipes and somewhat annoying food commercials…but hey…my child was QUIET in the store which is a downright miracle. Genious! I spent more time and more money because my child was actually behaving in the store. I could just kiss the person that invented it!
Only one problem. LOVE the fact that they thought of a cupholder for my Starbucks Green Tea Frappucino with whip, but here’s no place for a purse/diaper bag. So smart…but yet such an important component is missing. HELLO? Focus Groups…market testing anyone???
Oh…also, they won’t let you take it outside. So after you checkout you have to put the groceries in a regular cart, move your kid, and than put the tv cart away.
Still worth it. Anyone else seen these?
For my Fairfax area friends, I found the cart at the Safeway on Lee Hwy and Nutley!
UPDATE: I just had a thought…how long until we have the same technology attached to STROLLERS! Yes! GRACO…are you listening?
12 Responses to "A Mother and Child’s Dream…a Grocery Cart with a TV for kids!"
August 12, 2008 at 11:07 am
Wow! They’re charging?! It was free today, hope that doesn’t change! Guess you gotta get their early to get the cart! HA!
August 12, 2008 at 11:22 am
HEB has them. And when my kids were smaller we loved them. But alas they are to big now. They did charge a dollar to rent them. And like yours you could’t take them outside. If you tried the wheels would lock and the cart wouldn’t roll. I remember the days of quiet shopping. Now all I hear is…can I climb in, I’m tired!
August 12, 2008 at 1:15 pm
the HEB in atascocita has them for free. at least i got to use it for free, was I supposed to pay someone?? Alex liked it too!
August 12, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Liz was just talking about this on KSBJ a few minutes ago! She was saying how she’d talked to you and that you guys were talking about this and I thought “Hmm…I wonder if Amanda has blogged about this yet…” And lo and behold…You have! 
I’ve never seen these and this is the first I’ve heard of them. Hopefully we’ll get a few here in Huntsville soon…My sister would LOVE having them for her kids…Although, it looks as though there’s only room for one…?
Thanks for the pictures!
August 12, 2008 at 5:04 pm
The HEB in Cypress has them too…for a dollar. My son loves them but has only gotten to ride once because they are in HIGH demand!!
September 4, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Hi Amanda!! I love these carts!! We just discovered them at Tom Thumb (Randalls). Our 3 yr old runs to them and chooses just the right one. Apparently different cars have different movies in them. The one we had today had Barney, but the one we had last time had Dora, Wonder Pets, and Diego…she was in HEAVEN!!!
Now if they offered a hand held something with earphones for big kids…lol – maybe in the future.
Carol
November 5, 2008 at 8:20 pm
I am less than thrilled about these carts. They appeared at my grocery store a couple of days ago and I will not be taking my toddler back to the store until they are removed. With how ubiquitous tvs are these days, I prefer to choose when, where, and what my daughter watches. Unfortunately the store has decided that I either get to accept their programming or suffer the inevitable meltdown.
Fortunately there is plenty of grocery store competition around here that I can skip to the next one.
January 11, 2009 at 3:02 am
I think that this cart is realy good because you can see your child from the back of it and it keeps your children entertaned well you are doing your shopping and it stoppes them from running around the shop for thing how cool lol
January 17, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I would kill for one of these in my store…and I DO mostly shop at Safeway. The best we have is the crappy car shopping cart and the steering wheel is broken so it actually becomes a weapon or shelf cleaner offer if used correctly!
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August 12, 2008 at 11:00 am
That’s really neat. HEB in Conroe has about 3 or 4 of them, they only cost a dollar so they are ALWAYS gone…I still haven’t got to use one!