Leaving Taco Bell today I spotted a lonely Ames cart roaming the streets of Lincoln Plaza in Worcester, MA, a former Ames location.
QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
Leaving Taco Bell today I spotted a lonely Ames cart roaming the streets of Lincoln Plaza in Worcester, MA, a former Ames location.
did ya grab it?
man that cart looks beat up!
Unfortunately no. The only cart I have been able to successfully fit in my Focus 4dr sedan is an Ames handicap cart. I will possibly check back tomorrow with my Explorer. Hopefully it is still there!
Nah, it must have disappeared into the shadows of one of the many dark alleys of Worcester.
i nodiced no body put a ames shopping cart thread btw did ames ever have any outher collor cart besied Green and Red????
QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
I think they were just red and green unless you're talking about earlier ones where the main color was yellow
they had yellow carts:o
Here is an Ames cart I found being used as a trash can in the Carl's Jr. parking lot. Big Lots bought a bunch of Target and Ames carts, covering the logos with Big Lots stickers. On this cart, someone (not me) peeled off the Big Lots sticker revealing the Ames logo underneath. (On the other side, the sticker was still there.) So no, Ames didn't have any stores out here in California, but Big Lots trucked a little bit of retail history out this way...
This cart, I am not sure if it was an Ames cart or not. While it is the right color, all the logos have been scraped off every single cart so I can't say with 100% certainty that this was an Ames cart...
i had no luck finding any carts in the carmel ames they must have stored them some were i did see alot of A&P Carts though
QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
QuoteOriginally posted by Caldor1999
QuoteOriginally posted by 76BraldorZayKamesfanBBTB
I think they were just red and green unless you're talking about earlier ones where the main color was yellow
they had yellow carts:o
NO I don't think so I'm just saying earlier Ames' main color for their logo was yellow possibly the carts were open metal ones like Caldor had.
I was born in 1987 not 1958 so I don't know Ames' first carts
hmm lets see i was nboren in 1988 ames tured 30 that year and bought out the Zayer names closing 74 of there stores that year
and i first went to ames back in 1996 and i havent been there since 1999 and i last saw one open was back in 2002 when they were doing there GOB sale:(
QuoteOriginally posted by df559
Here is an Ames cart I found being used as a trash can in the Carl's Jr. parking lot. Big Lots bought a bunch of Target and Ames carts, covering the logos with Big Lots stickers. On this cart, someone (not me) peeled off the Big Lots sticker revealing the Ames logo underneath. (On the other side, the sticker was still there.) So no, Ames didn't have any stores out here in California, but Big Lots trucked a little bit of retail history out this way...
ha ames in California that cart must had have a fun trip heh
Not only did Ames use the Red and Green Carts, but after the acquisition of Murphy's Mart, Ames used rebranded Brown Carts and rebranded metal carts using stickers, some rivited on name plates, and replaced handle covers.
Ames shopping cart sighting: Sept 6 2005 on CBS News
There was a report by Cynthia Bowers that aired around 7:05 about "Camp Katrina" and they shown people based in a camp in a Big Kmart parking lot and i saw an Ames cart twice in the report. The camp was in Waveland Miss.
http://video.cgi.cbsnews.com/video/video.pl?url=/media/2005/09/06/video818475.wmv&sid=201&dart=news.video3
Makes sense because Kmart bought up some of the Ames carts...for whatever reason. Kind of "funny" seeing it down there though.
Ames shopping cart inside Kmart in Bangor, Maine... with the usual Kmart yellow lighting...
An Ames cart found in Southington, CT behind a Price Chopper. There was an Ames in Southington down the street which is now a Bed, Bath & Beyond and a Bob's Discount Furniture. There are tons of them in Southington, sadly most of them are scribbled out after Ocean State Job Lot acquired them for the Southington store.
Ames shopping carts at the Oneonta Salvation Army.
QuoteOriginally posted by amesman
Ames shopping carts at the Oneonta Salvation Army.
For $20, you probably could have left the store with one of those carts!! =)
Well, I did have the room in my Dad's truck, but I'm not paying 20 dollars for a shopping cart :-P
QuoteOriginally posted by amesman
Well, I did have the room in my Dad's truck, but I'm not paying 20 dollars for a shopping cart :-P
Must not be a Diehard Ames Fan like I thought you were then =)
Ames carts aren't difficult to find at all. I see them all over the place, especially on the sites of Ocean State Job Lot. Would I pay $20 for a Caldor cart? Most likely. That's my two cents :)
QuoteOriginally posted by XISMZERO
Ames carts aren't difficult to find at all. I see them all over the place, especially on the sites of Ocean State Job Lot. Would I pay $20 for a Caldor cart? Most likely. That's my two cents :)
Sure, my thoughts too. I threw $20 out there as a reasonable amount. I'd rather pay $20 for a decent cart, than to find some old rusty one with 3 wheels partially seized up laying around a former Ames, take it, and then have a guilty conscience to go with it.
BTW XISMZERO, Keep your photos coming!! =)
I apprechiate the feedback, powersbt!
Here's the multi-generational red and green carts found in Agawam's Ames store.
sweet pic, and powersbt, I am definately a Ames fan. I just wouldn't pay 20 dollars for one of the carts because a) I don't have the room for a shopping cart and b) I didn't have 20 dollars..hehe :-P
I didn't have a camera, but there was a green AMES shopping cart looking sad in front of a Salvation Army in Latham, NY. The closest AMES to that location was down the road, in the now completely abandoned (save for a standalone pizza hut) "diamond" plaza? (i'm probably wrong).
Anyway, good find.
A red Ames cart in the Maine Coast Mall in Ellsworth.
Those red carts are truly gems amongst fields of green and scratched green ones...
It would be funny to see Ames in its heyday booting out other stores, i.e. using Bradlees, Jamesway, and Caldor carts! Like a Big Lots or Goodwill.
QuoteOriginally posted by Ameskid
It would be funny to see Ames in its heyday booting out other stores, i.e. using Bradlees, Jamesway, and Caldor carts! Like a Big Lots or Goodwill.
Here's a picture of an Ames converted Goodwill cart I found in Rocky Hill, CT!
http://www.amesfanclub.com/resource/images/inventory/08.jpg
Here's a gem my girlfriend Cassie and I spotted behind Ames (Peebles) in Hudson, NY! Unfortunately, I can't fit carts in my car, so we too the child seat flap as a keepsake... Hehehe.
Here's a covered up Ames cart at the Salvation Army on Oswego Road in Liverpool, NY.
Mr. Fontaine, I also notice a Price Chopper cart on the right on your picture. Is Peebles a cart recycler like Big Lots, Goodwill, Marden's, and Salvation Army, or does it use it use its own carts?
QuoteOriginally posted by Ameskid
Mr. Fontaine, I also notice a Price Chopper cart on the right on your picture. Is Peebles a cart recycler like Big Lots, Goodwill, Marden's, and Salvation Army, or does it use it use its own carts?
No, that was the first Peebles I've been to, but it was very clean cut and seems to stick with their own theme, like a Sears almost.
no matter wer ei go i can always find a old caldor cart or a old bradlees cart but i still have yet to run into a old ames cart
QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
QuoteOriginally posted by Ameskid
Mr. Fontaine, I also notice a Price Chopper cart on the right on your picture. Is Peebles a cart recycler like Big Lots, Goodwill, Marden's, and Salvation Army, or does it use it use its own carts?
No, that was the first Peebles I've been to, but it was very clean cut and seems to stick with their own theme, like a Sears almost.
Chris, why didn't you stop down here where I am? I'm only about 25 miles from Hudson! Also, I've never seen that cart before. I'm actually glad you didn't take it, because now I can photograph it next time I head up there(if no one else grabs it first).
By the way: You nay have read my past posts about different carts at the Cincinnati Big lots. Well, I saw a green cart with the same pattern as in XISMZERO's picture of the 2 carts filled with boxes (presumably not for sale). I have decided that it definitely was an Ames cart!!! :tumble:
And indeed it is. They actually have 2 there. I was able to get one, which I used, and peeled the sticker partly off. I saw A, M, and S. Wahoo!:insane::insane:
QuoteOriginally posted by amesman
QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
QuoteOriginally posted by Ameskid
Mr. Fontaine, I also notice a Price Chopper cart on the right on your picture. Is Peebles a cart recycler like Big Lots, Goodwill, Marden's, and Salvation Army, or does it use it use its own carts?
No, that was the first Peebles I've been to, but it was very clean cut and seems to stick with their own theme, like a Sears almost.
Chris, why didn't you stop down here where I am? I'm only about 25 miles from Hudson! Also, I've never seen that cart before. I'm actually glad you didn't take it, because now I can photograph it next time I head up there(if no one else grabs it first).
I figured you would ask me that! Sorry the trip was very sudden:( But I did have you in mind when we didn't take it:)
It's ok man. No hard feelings. Just call me up when you head down here again.
Ames carts at the Kmart store in Bangor, Maine. Some had Kmart stickers some were Ames original!
Other Kmarts also have some Ames carts (Portsmouth NH and Waterville ME) for sure.
Here are a bunch of Ames Carts masquarading as dollar store carts in East Brunswick NJ (in the Shoprite plaza on Route 18).
This is quite a large dollar store, but not one of the chains that I know of (forgot the name at the moment).
QuoteOriginally posted by BillyGr
Here are a bunch of Ames Carts masquarading as dollar store carts in East Brunswick NJ (in the Shoprite plaza on Route 18).
This is quite a large dollar store, but not one of the chains that I know of (forgot the name at the moment).
Nice!
Here's a red Ames cart hanging out.
Here's a red one unmasked at the Troy Big Lots, which was a former Ames(as well as a Bradlees before that).
This is a green Ames cart I found in a Target parking lot in Twin Falls, Idaho :o
Green Ames carts inside Reny's in Madison ME.
Just like that kid on the news found a one in a million Blue-Eyed Cicada, while on Cape Cod this weekend I had my own one in a million find. A rare multi-colored former Ames cart wandering the streets not too far from it's now native Ocean State Job Lot in Bourne, MA!
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i found an ames cart!(mabe an old hills cart?)
at a local Salvation Army store
its got a new home :bouncing:
(my home) :yup:
QuoteOriginally posted by patk i found an ames cart!(maybe an old hills cart?)
at a local Salvation Army store
its got a new home :bouncing:
(my home) :yup:
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/2850/dscn0613tw7.jpg) it is a hills cart :bounce:
I wish that money were no object, because I would love to have a vintage cart from Ames, Zayre (for kicks), Wards, Hills, Gold Circle, Murphy Mart, GC Murphy and more than I can list right now. If I had ever known that these chains would be gone, I would have kept more goodies from back in the day and had a storage unit just for my retail stuff.
;)
Completely random Ames cart I spotted while leaving the Walgreens on Chalkstone Ave! Seems to be a lonely stray cart, homeless on the streets of Providence.
QuoteOriginally posted by patk
i found an ames cart!(mabe an old hills cart?)
at a local Salvation Army store
its got a new home :bouncing:
(my home) :yup:
i got that cart in the nick of time. the store dumped the rest of them O_O
QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
Completely random Ames cart I spotted while leaving the Walgreens on Chalkstone Ave! Seems to be a lonely stray cart, homeless on the streets of Providence.
And you of all people know what to do with homeless carts!
Save The Carts
Since 2008
Help find every stray, homeless cart a loving new home.
I was at a Big Lots today and they had a orange Ames cart and they also had a Venture cart too. Didnt get a chance to take pics though
I found a green Ames cart at a health food store today the Ames logo was on it. I tried to get a picture but they threw me out of the store and I was not able to get it. They said that I peeled the sticker with their name off of the cart but it was off when I layed eyes on it. Those people are jerks.:mad::flaming:
COUPLE TIMES IVE DRIVEN BY DRACUT DO-IT BEST STORE AND NEXT TO IT A SMALL PLAZA WITH 5 OR SO STORES AND THERES A BOOK STORE AND OUT FRONT THEIRS A BOX AND AMES CART FULL OF BOOKS MARKED HALF PRICE AND WHEN THEY CLOSE AT NIGHT THEY BRING IT INSIDE AND ONLY BRING OUT ON SUNNY DAYS SO ITS BEEN WELL TAKEN CARE OF:D
QuoteOriginally posted by df559
This cart, I am not sure if it was an Ames cart or not. While it is the right color, all the logos have been scraped off every single cart so I can't say with 100% certainty that this was an Ames cart...
Looks like a Jamesway cart to me.
QuoteOriginally posted by beachgal26
I wish that money were no object, because I would love to have a vintage cart from Ames, Zayre (for kicks), Wards, Hills, Gold Circle, Murphy Mart, GC Murphy and more than I can list right now. If I had ever known that these chains would be gone, I would have kept more goodies from back in the day and had a storage unit just for my retail stuff.
;)
Well if you were close to indianapolis back behind the ol Zayre in southwest indy Mars Hill there used to be a few old zayre carts prety rusty as they have been outside for a few years This now converted old zayre sat empty for years and still has the old loading dock complete with old fixtures sitting outside Its been a few years since i was back there but unless the scrappers have gotten them im sure there still there
Ames shopping cart at Marden's in Biddeford, Maine back in 2004. (with Lechmere and Shop Rite carts)
I see Lechmere also, but what are the yellow-and-red carts to the right of the Lechmere?
QuoteOriginally posted by Ameskid
I see Lechmere also, but what are the yellow-and-red carts to the right of the Lechmere?
Those are Shop-Rite carts. Shop-Rite is a grocery store chain with stores in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, and Connecticut.
The local NWL had Ames, Bradlees, even Hills carts. Now even they have closed.
I found one in The Waterford Stop & Shop Plaza, I'm not sure why it was there, There wasn't a former Ames in that Lot, But a Vacant NHD Hardware was.
not a shopping cart, but a carry cart...I tripped over it while shopping in Ollies in Greensburg, PA. Next time I go back there I'm going to investigate their shopping carts to see what names are on them. They have 4-5 different kinds of carts there, so who knows what I will find...?
I walked around the back woods for about an hour behind the Peterborough NH former Ames/A&P. Look what I found!
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This was my first find. It was absolutely mangled on a snowmobile trail. I was surprised to find it here, the A&P went out around 2001. It was a PC Foods for a few years after, but it has been vacant now for about 3 years
About a half hour later, I caught a red glimpse sticking out of a small stream. At first I expected it to be a Brooks cart, since a Rite Aid is now in that plaza. I took off my shoes, luckily was wearing shorts, got into the river, pulled it out, AND......
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A new place to put my bottles!! Yay!
I'll give the logos a paintjob eventually
Can I just say what a task it was to clean?
And you still cant touch the metal parts or you get black pitch all over you
But I finally got an Ames cart, and an 80's one at that! I almost like it better without the wheels, serves my purpose more
That...is totally hardcore. :yup:
youll want to probably clean the metal with some rust remover as it looks like its been in water a very long time
now that its out it will detereate very quickly if not preserved
check with flood cleaning places they can tell you what to use to preserve this
I like the part about making sure everything has tags
That is AWESOME. Totally vintage find man!
QuoteOriginally posted by C. Fontaine
That is AWESOME. Totally vintage find man!
It was about 500 yards behind the store I'd say, at the bottom of a massive gully with a stream at the bottom. If it had the wheels I never would have been able to drag it out, but I was able to use one arm and claw myself back up the icy hill. Wasn't too easy!
I had emailed you Chris about maybe if you'd have an extra cart to spare, then go figure I find one in the woods on my own.
I wouldn't be suprised at all if that cart had been in that stream for a whole decade. I didn't get a picture of it when it was still in the stream and had all the moss and dirt and snow all over it, because I didn't know what it was. I was looking for Ames carts, but I was thinking green, not red.
I can get some rust remover at work. Thanks for the advice retailfan
Just found this on google
That's one of Nicks (XISMZERO)'s pictures. It's at the Dayville location. It might have come from his blog!
Oh really i wounder if he graped it
There was an AMES CART behind the drive-thu Menu Board at the Queen Street Burger King in Southington, CT on TUesday. I didn't have my camera so I couldn't take a pic. In fact my camera is missing ever since I moved.
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That'd be one red Ames cart, decent shape, all markings intact, spotted outside the Bangor Salvation Army. Another cart found inside the store.
I was tempted to offer them money for it, but I've really nowhere to stash the cart, unfortunately.
Here's an AMES CART completly in tact in back of the Queen Street Burger King. It's been sitting there for a few weeks. I would assume BK must've stolen the cart because all the AMES CARTS from Southington wound up at JOB LOT. Pic taken yesterday 4/24/09.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2547/3866505340_8721e05cfe_o.jpg)
These live at my house. :) There's at least one more floating around town that I've yet to get my hands on.
QuoteOriginally posted by kendra
I was tempted to offer them money for it, but I've really nowhere to stash the cart, unfortunately.
I can totally relate to this; when I spotted a few Caldor carts at Building #19 in Haverhill, MA I wanted to ask them if they'd allow me to purchase one, but I'm not sure that I could fit it in my car, let alone find a place in my house to stash it. And I know my mom would object to having a shopping cart stored behind our house. :rolleyes:
However, there *is* an old Ames shopping basket at the Salvation Army in downtown Haverhill, and I may go back there and make them an offer.
2 carts lucky
On route 9 in Hyde Park, NY is a shopping center still standing as of Aug. 2009 with Ames shopping carts litering the parking lot along the side of the building and under protective cover in the back.
Another cart in hiding around back. Additional carts can be found near the woods, they are in sickly shape being left to fade in the sun for 7 years.
any new ones saved recently?
I remember I saw some Ames carts in Hyde park around 2009, but when I pass by, there isn't any left. I wish I could, but I probably will get photos of the Hyde park Ames.
Spotted a ton of Ames carts at a place in Norwich, CT called "Surplus Unlimited". It's like a BigLots for rednecks. They were the newer green cats, made mostly of plastic and some black painted metal accents. They were probably taken from one of 2 Ames stores which had closed in Norwich.
*Interesting Find Today*
Today me and my friends were hanging out in the woodsbehind the University of New Haven witch in near my house and we came across their shopping cart dump (Its when the students go shopping and bring home carts and leave them in the lots,the custodsians litterly throw them down the hill into the woods)and I found an old metal AMES cart!!!Its about the size of a Walgreens cart with a red handle bar whit the white AMES logo!!!I never knew they had metal carts!!!If anyones interseted in getting it tell me!!!!!
Quote from: Amescaptain77 on March 07, 2010, 03:43:46 PM
I remember I saw some Ames carts in Hyde park around 2009, but when I pass by, there isn't any left. I wish I could, but I probably will get photos of the Hyde park Ames.
There were definitely carts there as of mid-September 2009. I'm willing to bet the majority of them are in the back, out of sight. I'm heading up to Hyde Park, as well as some other locations, this summer, and I'll be looking to snatch a cart!
We were at KMart in Fitchburg, Ma. They have some old Ames carts. The stickers were peeling off so you could see the old logo.
Jo-Ann Fabrics used to use Ames carts to store stuff in, this was of course BEFORE the Torrington Parkade was razed and demolished. I have no idea where they are now, hopefully somebody else snatched them up before Jo-Ann Fabrics closed.
I saw a Ames cart a a local food pantry
2 Ollie's Bargain Outlets
2251 Lancaster Pike
Reading, PA lots of Ames carts and more :o
1081 Haines Road
York, PA lots Ames carts and more :o
i did not get a cart but i got a seat flap! 8)
im pretty happy today i saw a Ames shopping cart in westminster md at the biglots it was formerly a Ames store so that would make sense why their wad a Ames shopping cart their i got my hands dirty and digged around in the dirt in the corner and looked for a recepit or tag but didnt find anything like i said it hasnt been a ames in years obviously so i doubt i will find anything but hey you never know i am going to go back their sometime soon so i will post any more findings but for now heres the pics
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if anyone has any information on any of the old stores in Westminster including ames kmart and the old lowes location please let me know thanks
That cart looks to be a former Hills cart the ames tag looks like a sticker
Quote from: jmcnamara96 on October 14, 2010, 05:05:55 PM
That cart looks to be a former Hills cart the ames tag looks like a sticker
Yep, it's an old Hills cart. I peeled one just like that at a Ollie's in MD and kept it. :D
There are three green Ames carts in West Bend, WI at the Amity Rolfs Liquidation Sale. They looked like they were in an all right condition. Also sighted was a blue Hobby Depot America cart and a metal Drug Emporium cart that was a little rusted.
I found four or five green Ames carts (with the old safety belts still attached!) at Polansky's Market nearby in Amherst, OH today. They must have purchased them from the old Ames over on Cooper Foster Park Road (now Advance/Pierre Foods) when they were closing.
Also, not a cart sighting, but Best For Pets in Elyria, OH is using the register stands from the nearby former Ames down the street. The light covers are the same as they were over at Ames (with the A+ logo and everything).
Quote from: muppethammer26 on September 10, 2013, 10:25:08 PM
At the Forman Mills in Vineland, the store reuses green Ames carts but they put a Forman Mills logo sticker over the Ames logo, but some of the carts still says Ames.
That was the exact same thing that I experienced back in the 1980's/90's with my local Hills Department Stores after they purchased the going out of business Gold Circle Department Store Chain. My local Gold Circle Department Store back in the 1980's had brown plastic shopping carts. When Hills Department Stores purchased the Gold Circle Chain as Gold Circle was going out of business in 1988, Hills Department Stores kept the original brown Gold Circle plastic shopping carts. Hills put a sticker with their logo over the Gold Circle logo and every time my mother took me to shop at Hills, I would scan my eyes through the carts until I found one that did not have the Hills logo, but at the same time still said, "Gold Circle." Being a child as well as a teenager during this time era, I would push all of the carts out of the way that were blocking the particular cart that did not have the Hills logo to get to the cart that still had the Gold Circle logo. I was very disappointed with Hills in 1997 when they upgraded those original brown carts to new red plastic shopping carts that had the Hills logo on them. In 1998 when Ames bought the Hills Department Store Chain, Ames put their logo over the Hills logo just like in that post above that has an original Hills Department Store red plastic cart that is posted by, "zonemad96."
Spotted an Ames cart over the weekend but did not have a camera with me.
It was behind a row of stores at the Crafton-Ingram Shopping Center in Crafton, PA
(suburban Pittsburgh). It was one of approximately 20 broken and disabled carts lined up
in a grassy area behind one of the stores. It was the green plastic Ames cart that they
were using at the time they shut the doors.
The Ames logos had been covered up with a sticker that said "Market Fresh". This is a meat
market at the other end of the Crafton-Ingram Shopping Center. Curiously there was never an
Ames store in this center or anyplace particularly close to it. Just a Grants that later
became a Kmart.
I will have to go back with a camera and try to get a picture, or see if this meat market has
any more of them.
Found another Ames cart over the July 4 weekend.
This was inside a Dollar Tree store in the Walmart Plaza on PA Route 88 in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
(the Walmart at one time was the District HQ store for Ames). The staff at Dollar Tree appeared to be
using it to shuttle backstock to the floor, as it was substantially larger than any of the Dollar Tree carts.
I presume it was a leftover from when the store at the other end of the plaza switched over
from Ames to Walmart.
Quote from: M.R.CALDOR on November 01, 2014, 11:01:37 PM
Interestingly, when Stew Leonard's first opened up on the Berlin Turnpike (where the old Caldor used to be), for about the first three years I would see them using Ames carts (the green ones), how they acquired them is beyond me given there hadnt been an Ames in Newington since I think 2003 when Price Chopper moved in, sadly the last couple of times I've gone there I havent seen any sightings of the carts, I have a good relationship with the store managers there so perhaps if I can pull some strings, I can go in the back and see if I can find any and snap some shots. Worth a try.
Ocean State Job Lot was very notorious for acquiring entire fleets of Ames carts after the 2002 closing. I would have to imagine the Berlin Ocean State got the ones from Newington Ames during that time.
I sighted two Ames carts at a toy store in the Berlin Farmers Market in Berlin, New Jersey.
Quote from: Bdubs on March 15, 2010, 03:55:00 PM
Spotted a ton of Ames carts at a place in Norwich, CT called "Surplus Unlimited". It's like a BigLots for rednecks. They were the newer green cats, made mostly of plastic and some black painted metal accents. They were probably taken from one of 2 Ames stores which had closed in Norwich.
Yep! That store has a bunch of them! Grabbed a couple pictures of them!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEjNx7HqeYe/
One of my friends on Instagram found a classic green one at a Dollar Tree.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEjg44Lqeaf/
She also owns this sign..I speculate it's from the early 2000s or late 1990s.(they didn't use the big red text)
A couple of finds from Florence, Kentucky.
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/3/2913/14520597531_ed36f27efd_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/o88RKR)Cart Assortment, Florence, KY (https://flic.kr/p/o88RKR) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr
These were found in 2006 outside of a 99center. These are gone now and the space is a Harbor Freight Tools.
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7467/16338080405_5c75298294_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qTJW6t)Cart Graveyard: Ames (https://flic.kr/p/qTJW6t) by Harvestman Man (https://www.flickr.com/photos/124303530@N08/), on Flickr
This cart turned up in a loading dock at Florence Mall in January of last year. The scribbling over the Ames logo is for "Kitchen Collection" - presumably a store somewhere in the mall. This cart had a huge hole in the bottom of it. Don't know what happened to it.
Saw these at Kings Island...
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Found these inside the loading dock for a Advanced Auto Parts in Willimantic.
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Willimantic, Connecticut (https://flic.kr/p/Y2JwT5) by JJBers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjbers/), on Flickr
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Here's this old Wal-Mart cart too
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Willimantic, Connecticut (https://flic.kr/p/Y2JvkL) by JJBers (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jjbers/), on Flickr
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Spotted a ton of Ames carts at a place in Norwich, CT called "Surplus Unlimited". It's like a BigLots for rednecks. They were the newer green cats, made mostly of plastic and some black painted metal accents. They were probably taken from one of 2 Ames stores which had closed in Norwich.
Yep! That store has a bunch of them! Grabbed a couple pictures of them!
Oh nice, I've been there, even though I don't remember the carts...Sadly I almost got banned there that time due to me messing around with the store's radio displays.
When I went to cover the Tops in Stamford, there was a fully uncensored Ames cart in front of the Tops road sign. Found out it was the Core Values Thrift Store across the street that used them. It seems a lot of these green ones with the "Ames Ames Ames" handles are from 1999.
Here is an ames cart that quite far from where it came from this is for sale on facebook in northern wisconsin
Quote from: 1240east on December 13, 2019, 11:38:34 PM
Here is an ames cart that quite far from where it came from this is for sale on facebook in northern wisconsin
I should correct that to i now own it so i am now the owner of a 1998 ames shopping cart
OSJL in Ballston Spa got a bunch of green Rehrig units from one of the now-closed Ann & Hope Outlet stores. One of the key differences between these and the ones OSJL got directly is Ann & Hope did not file off the Ames logos.
Some United Steel & Wire units from 2000 are in use at Valley Housewares in Fort Plain. Pretty sure the rack on the second one is from a Price Chopper Rehrig.
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Oh man I'd pay a decent penny for one of those carts
Also this Rehrig in Harvey's Home+Garden+Pet store in Johnstown, NY which could qualify as a wreck:
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There's still some Ames carts inside the abandoned corporate office building in Rocky Hill
One of them is a really old metal cart with yellow plastics. It can be seen in WallieB26's urbex video of the building.
Below is a screenshot from the video showing the cart in question. Someone needs to save it before it's too late!
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Quote from: 108CAM on January 18, 2023, 03:04:24 AMThere's still some Ames carts inside the abandoned corporate office building in Rocky Hill
One of them is a really old metal cart with yellow plastics. It can be seen in WallieB26's urbex video of the building.
Below is a screenshot from the video showing the cart in question. Someone needs to save it before it's too late!
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That United is from Dollar General, not Ames.
Ocean State Job Lot was very notorious for acquiring entire fleets of Ames carts after the 2002 closing. I would have to imagine the Berlin Ocean State got the ones from Newington Ames during that time.
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They still have them, though they tend to move them from store to store. As of this writing, we have a bunch of Uniteds and a couple green Rehrig Regulars from them at the Albany store.