In fact, a study in Journal of Marketing Research suggests the opposite may be true: Shoppers gathering groceries in baskets are more likely to reach for junk than cart pushers.
Typhoid Mary... Wherever writer looked was junk; laundry carts, smashed sinks and toilets, bedpans, metal lockers, pieces of oil drums were scattered in and around the buildings.
Eight truckloads of musty old junk were carted off to the dump, but somewhere in the heap, my husband unearthed a gem: his deceased father's favorite leather armchair.
Multinational companies including Nestlé, General Mills and PepsiCo quickly capitalized by marketing cheap processed foods in urban and rural areas, killing local food cultures with mobile junk food carts and creating an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
Guest photos taken on disposables are often poor quality and require a large processing outlay for a few decent shots; bubbles, confetti etc. leave a mess and create garbage and other items left for guests are just more "junk" for them to cart around.
Normally, it would cost about $6,000 to clean it out, but she did the project pro bono and also arranged for Sleepy's to donate a new bed, Anderson/Ross Temporary Personnel Services to provide workers and Perna Carting and Junk Junkies to haul the detritus to the dump.
In our own time the materials of do-it-yourself reefs have tended to be castaway junk: old refrigerators, shopping carts, ditched cars, out-of-service vending machines.
"He'd always be dragging around a cart full of junk or bags of cans," Mr. Bargabos said.
It makes you feel vaguely unworthy, and may inspire you to rebel and stuff a few pounds of junk food into your shopping cart.
In one strip, for example, a young woman wanders wordlessly at night through a grimy city neighborhood where men leer at her and a homeless man pushes past with a shopping cart full of junk.
