Article: Profiles in safety and health: retail grocery stores.

This industry reported large numbers of work-related injuries and illnesses in store and warehouse operations; stock handlers and retail sales clerks sustained serious sprains, cuts, and other disabling disorders

"Customers had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy." --Sylvan Goldman, on what prompted his design of the first shopping cart in the 1930's

Shopping carts, those common carriers traversing today's supermarket aisles, have provided clues to the changing character of grocery stores since the Great Depression. Back then, small one-person operations were the norm and customers shopped with small baskets or ...

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