Most grocery shoppers have seen it without ever knowing what it does. The small hook found on the front edge or side of a standard shopping cart is an officially designed feature — and its purpose goes well beyond decoration.
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- —The hook is officially designed to hold your purse or bag
- —It keeps bags off germ-covered floors and in plain sight
- —Most shoppers have no idea it exists or what it’s for
A feature hiding in plain sight on every cart
The small plastic or metal hook located on the front edge or side of a shopping cart has an official name: the purse hook, sometimes called a bag hook. It is a deliberately engineered feature, not a structural byproduct of the cart’s frame.
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