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Sylvan Goldman Research Paper

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Sylvan Goldman was born on November 15, in 1894. He was born in the Ardmore Chickasaw nation. After World War I Sylvan and his brother opened up their own food store. Sylvan served as a food requisition in France during the War. One day Sylvan was observing his customers struggling with carrying the ordinary shopping basket and being able to put enough items in it and still be able to handle it. Then one day he saw a woman put the shopping basket on a wheeled chair and push the chair around. Sylvan who also was a mechanic decide to put what had happened into use by creating the shopping cart. The shopping cart was created in 1936 and Sylvan put the carts to use in his own store chain called Humpty Dumpty in 1937. A year later Sylvan received

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