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Ames => Ames => Topic started by: 1240east on June 14, 2019, 11:44:54 PM

Title: Possible ames cart sighting
Post by: 1240east on June 14, 2019, 11:44:54 PM
im not 100% sure these are old ames carts but they look like they are i saw these at a goodwill all the way up in Minnesota so if they are ames carts i wonder how they got all the way up to Minnesota
Title: Re: Possible ames cart sighting
Post by: BillyGr on June 15, 2019, 10:36:46 AM
One might suspect that if, when the stores were closing, they didn't get anyone local interested in buying the carts those leftovers all got sent to a liquidation warehouse somewhere, thus allowing them to be sold off to other buyers in just about any area of the country (and maybe beyond)?
Title: Re: Possible ames cart sighting
Post by: Retail Regents on June 15, 2019, 12:26:57 PM
Quote from: 1240east on June 14, 2019, 11:44:54 PM
im not 100% sure these are old ames carts but they look like they are i saw these at a goodwill all the way up in Minnesota so if they are ames carts i wonder how they got all the way up to Minnesota

Those are not Ames carts. Theirs have a black rear gate and a seat flap with four circles going across the flap titled "NO NO NO YES." Plus the fact those have a generic warning label would suggest those are no older than November 2004. Another has a four-circle diagram with the circles on each end, also something the Ames Uniteds didn't have.

The one you show from the front I can tell is labeled "REHRIG UNITED" on the bottom, which suggests it was manufactured in 2007 or 2008.
Title: Re: Possible ames cart sighting
Post by: 1240east on June 15, 2019, 01:09:36 PM
thank you for the info