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I've always wondered why "Shopping Cart" isn't called "Shopping Trolley" in the checkout flows of British websites...

by TechBro8615 3y ago

ddek 3y ago
It is on Argos.
- benbristow 3y ago
  Argos is great. Like Amazon but you can walk in (at least before they started closing loads of their stores and merging them into Sainsbury's) Same day delivery online before Amazon started doing it with Prime Now too. Their app update release notes used to be hilarious too but they've stopped doing them, I think the person responsible left. https://thecircular.org/argoss-hilarious-app-updates/ https://thecircular.org/argoss-hilarious-app-updates/
_oyks 3y ago
It's often called Basket to navigate this
sys_64738 3y ago
You find a lot of British-English terms are different from what we use in the US.
- devnullbrain 3y ago
  'isn't' means the same though
BasedAnon 3y ago
because most people don't care that much, i've lived in the uk my whole life but my english is extremely americanized due to my use of the internet growing up
evolving-silica 3y ago
The very first thing we do, when we create a new e-commerce website is to change "cart" to "basket" everywhere we can find it. Without that - as our manager says - we wouldn't sell anything on UK market
Izkata 3y ago
One of our sites uses the word "hopper", and I was once told that when a client asks what it means, our UK people tell them it's an American term, and our US people tell them it's a British term.
- b112 3y ago
  Jokes on all of you, it's a Canuck word.
- jahewson 3y ago
  That’s funny. It’s definitely an actively used term in the U.K. though I can imagine people not knowing it. Outside of heavy industry I’d associate it with centuries-old flour mills. I’ve found that often when my fellow Brits complain of a word being American it’s actually just an old English word we stopped using.
  - Animats 3y ago
    > Outside of heavy industry Even rather light industry. Coffee grinders have a feed hopper.
rcxdude 3y ago
It is on some of them, but it isn't super common.
idk1 3y ago
It is on a few places, here it is on Argos - https://i.imgur.com/kik8y91.png https://i.imgur.com/kik8y91.png

I've always wondered why "Shopping Cart" isn't called "Shopping Trolley" in the checkout flows of British websites...

ddek 3y ago

It is on Argos.

benbristow 3y ago
Argos is great. Like Amazon but you can walk in (at least before they started closing loads of their stores and merging them into Sainsbury's) Same day delivery online before Amazon started doing it with Prime Now too. Their app update release notes used to be hilarious too but they've stopped doing them, I think the person responsible left. https://thecircular.org/argoss-hilarious-app-updates/ https://thecircular.org/argoss-hilarious-app-updates/

_oyks 3y ago

It's often called Basket to navigate this

sys_64738 3y ago

You find a lot of British-English terms are different from what we use in the US.

devnullbrain 3y ago
'isn't' means the same though

BasedAnon 3y ago

because most people don't care that much, i've lived in the uk my whole life but my english is extremely americanized due to my use of the internet growing up

evolving-silica 3y ago

The very first thing we do, when we create a new e-commerce website is to change "cart" to "basket" everywhere we can find it. Without that - as our manager says - we wouldn't sell anything on UK market

Izkata 3y ago

One of our sites uses the word "hopper", and I was once told that when a client asks what it means, our UK people tell them it's an American term, and our US people tell them it's a British term.

b112 3y ago
Jokes on all of you, it's a Canuck word.
jahewson 3y ago
That’s funny. It’s definitely an actively used term in the U.K. though I can imagine people not knowing it. Outside of heavy industry I’d associate it with centuries-old flour mills. I’ve found that often when my fellow Brits complain of a word being American it’s actually just an old English word we stopped using.
- Animats 3y ago
  > Outside of heavy industry Even rather light industry. Coffee grinders have a feed hopper.

rcxdude 3y ago

It is on some of them, but it isn't super common.

idk1 3y ago

It is on a few places, here it is on Argos - https://i.imgur.com/kik8y91.png https://i.imgur.com/kik8y91.png