Comments on: Minneapolis and the Two Story Target Cart Escalator

By: Galley

Galley — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:40:57 +0000

These special escalators are called vermaports.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:06:14 +0000

An addition to my comment on October 29, 2009: Plus, if that guy got yelled at for taking pix, then why do I never do (or rarely) get yelled at?

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:48:08 +0000

I found this intresting basically the first time I went to Target at Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH. it is so intresting to see the carts go up and down, plus I have a hobby of videotaping elevators and escalators, so that is my main reason I go to that Target. It was built in 1999 and has 2 people escalators and 2 cart escalators and 3 elevators.
Elevators:
#1: HUGE Elevator made by Schindler in Parking Deck (Target put an elevator in Simon’s and Target’s property! Plus, Target was too lazy to put stairs next to this!)
#2: Not-as-Huge-as-#1 Schindler Elevator in Target itself
#3: No difference from #2
All of the elevators have Epco Survivor Plus buttons.
Escalators:
#1: People escalators in Target itself
#2: Cart escalators in Target itself
Plus, a clever idea: put your camera in the shopping cart and go up (or down) the escalators, watching your cart on the cart escalator.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:01:51 +0000

There is a cartolator at America’s 3rd largest Walmart in Albany, NY.

Keep a smile on your face and love in your heart!

By: Minneapolis Mill City Museum and Historic Riverfront District - One Man’s Blog

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:25:13 +0000

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By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 05:14:34 +0000

Pretty neat, I haven’t seen anything like that.
I’d be most nervous when going down, just pushing your cart over the edge..lol

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:12:47 +0000

actually they try something since 2000 in some discount markets in germany. you can make your shopping list online, then you download a file on a USB-card. When you go to the supermarket some carts have a LCD display and card-reader, and it guides you through the supermarket the shortest way to the Items you need.
Sounds like nobody needs it, but I was touring through Germany and Europe in my past life, each day another city, so our Tour-caterer had to shop each day in another supermarket, when you have 25 hungry Rock’n Roll technicians to serve on tour, you better be fast… So our caterer was happy, when in the next town was a supermarket with this Nav-system. I don’t think this system will make it, actually I don’t know if it still exists, but for him at that time it was a good thing…

cheers

Rhoody

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:04:10 +0000

… so you also may remember the carts, where you can place the kids in a safe way….(that they don’t fill up the cart with candies.. hehe)
cheers to all and have a great weekend

Rhoody

By: Zaher Hajar

Zaher Hajar — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:08:45 +0000

this is absolutely normal, i live in lebanon (middle east) and this is found everywhere…surprised to see this.

By: Derek Wong

Derek Wong — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:24:47 +0000

You’re having some login/cache issues still. It took me a little while to login and logout before I could get to this page logged in as myself (and not as MG). I guess we must be accessing your page at around the same time everyday. :P

In any case I saw one of these at a Target (I believe) in Pasadena, CA, and I similarly thought it was so cool! It made me want to get a cart and put stuff in it just so that I could use the cart escalator. Maybe that’s part of their intention.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:11:16 +0000

Seattle, WA Target.

By: MG

MG — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:30:57 +0000

If I grew up there as a kid, it’s safe to say I’d be winning a Darwin award for my death in that store =P

By: Missy

Missy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:24:06 +0000

Yeah, I love that thing! I also love Target in general. I feel less guilt shopping there since it is a (HUGE) local business in Minneapolis.

By: Lisa Marie Mary

Lisa Marie Mary — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:53:27 +0000

We had a long discussion at Punkymoms about these two story Targets – and I was so amazed! And you know – a bunch of women + two stories of wonderful Target deals…hahaha! We were all salivating hearing the lucky girls who had them in their towns talk about them! (Now how’s that for stereotyping?! Ha!)

But this – cartolators – that is awesome! Totally cool! I’m wondering, though, and trying to work it out in my head without actually being there – how do they keep those carts level? How does it work? Especially the full + some carts – they go on and I’m like “Uh oh!” But everything is fine! Very interesting!

And then, as I watched, I got to thinking some more….how do they keep little kidlets from crawling in there? Do you know how enticing swinging doors are to munchkins? Hell, even my ‘older’ monsters love messing with swinging doors! So I’m on the hunt for cartolator + child accidents – there has to have been some, don’t you think? Or do they have people manning the top and bottom of them?

By: Jake McKee

Jake McKee — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:45:01 +0000

I recall seeing one of these in NYC… maybe at Bed, Bath, and Beyond?

Wherever it was, I was equally fascinated. Much to the amusement (and then eventual annoyance) of my wife!

By: Catbert

Catbert — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:33:42 +0000

Gaithersburg, MD (the Rio Shopping Center Target). It’s been open several years, surprised you’d never checked it out.

By: Urbanist

Urbanist — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:37:02 +0000

Having lived in Germany as a kid I can at least vouch for the fact that they are lightyears ahead of us in shopping cart technology. That sounds like a strange claim, right? Well, when I was 13 and first living in Germany one of my most potent memories was of shopping carts. Also strange, right?

Well, in the US we are used to shopping carts not doing what we want … bouncing off walls and such. Germans, true to their rich engineering heritage, have shopping carts that will stop on a dime and roll in any direction.

Again … for the third time … this sounds like something very strange for a child to remember, yes? Well, all I can say is: that experience was somehow quintessentially German to me.

By: Rhoody

Rhoody — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:52:24 +0000

Hello John,
this kind of trollies are since the early 90th normal in Europe, before the american mall type of thing was coming over to germany, you took your trolley and went allover the shop. Especially in the city-center where there is no space for huge shopping malls. The trollies have special wheels and the escalators have no steps, they are like a belt (well known from airports). the wheels just stick to the belt and you don’t even have to hold them. so you take your trolley all over the shopping-center…
cheers

Rhoody