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Sylvan Goldman

American businessman and inventor
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    Today in History—June 4
    / The Debut of the Shopping Cart

    Sylvan Goldman, through a Standard Stores advertisement, asked readers of the Oklahoma City Advertiser that very question this day in 1937, inviting them to try the new shopping carts (“the latest device conceived by the mind of man”) and experience a new way to “shop…

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    Sylvan Goldman, through a Standard Stores advertisement, asked readers of the Oklahoma City Advertiser that very question this day in 1937, inviting them to try the new shopping carts (“the latest device conceived by the mind of man”) and experience a new way to “shop…

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