The present invention is a shopping cart for manually transporting goods
from one location to another, it includes a bottom frame with a plurality
of wheels connected thereto, a vertical support connected to the bottom
frame and extending upwardly therefrom to support a basket. The basket has
a rigid bottom, an open top, a front, and a back, and two side walls. Each
of the side walls includes at least one top member connected to the front
and the back. The side walls, front and back, each establish corners where
they connect to one another, and these corners include at least one
substantially vertical rigid member. The side walls each include a
flexible, elastically expandable member connected to the top member and
elsewhere to the basket. The flexible, elastically expandable member may
be open mesh or sheet, and may be a partial panel. Optionally the
flexible, elastically expandable material may be included in the front of
the cart.
