Apart from that odd large cart with a Creative Wire badge, here are some other finds. The Schenectady OSJL is the location that keeps on giving.
Quote from: Retail Regents on December 10, 2019, 09:35:54 PM
Apart from that odd large cart with a Creative Wire badge, here are some other finds. The Schenectady OSJL is the location that keeps on giving.
There is (with a quick search) a Walt's Food Centers (https://www.waltsfoods.com/) with 5 stores in IL and one in IN, but no clue if the one cart (where it looks like they took something off the handle but forgot to look at the plastic seat where the name is quite clear) came from this chain or elsewhere.
Quote from: BillyGr on December 11, 2019, 07:43:19 PM
Quote from: Retail Regents on December 10, 2019, 09:35:54 PM
Apart from that odd large cart with a Creative Wire badge, here are some other finds. The Schenectady OSJL is the location that keeps on giving.
There is (with a quick search) a Walt's Food Centers (https://www.waltsfoods.com/) with 5 stores in IL and one in IN, but no clue if the one cart (where it looks like they took something off the handle but forgot to look at the plastic seat where the name is quite clear) came from this chain or elsewhere.
And looking at the most recent pictures of the stores (taken by ordinary people), the shopping carts in the background have dark powder-coated frames and bright red trim, and seat flaps donning four-picture diagrams, which indicate their fleets were upgraded.
Now this? Found at the Troy, NY store.
Schenectady is always a goldmine of the most absurd carts you wouldn't find anywhere else isn't it? Apart from a large influx of ancient ALDI Foods units, here are even more old decrepit wire carts they got:
Precision 444V, Market Basket.
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Technibilt 3440, possibly ex-Grand Union. The front of the child seat had no warning label, so I couldn't tell if it actually was ex-GU or something similar.
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United Steel & Wire cart from 2003 at the Albany store. Original retailer unknown.
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