Personal shopping cart and method of use

A shopping cart, the cart comprising:

• a bottom basket having a bottom wall, front side wall, left side wall, right side wall and rear sidewall with each of the front, left, right, rear side walls extending from a common bottom edge to a common top edge for forming a fully enclosed enclosure accessible from a top opening, the bottom basket having a plurality of wheels attached to the bottom basket extending downwardly to roll the shopping cart on a ground;
• a top basket removably stackable on top of the bottom basket, the top basket having a plurality of side walls and a bottom most wall, the top basket having a handle to steer the shopping cart, the bottom most wall of the top basket having first and second panels pivotable between retracted and deployed positions at first and second hinges, the hinges disposed at the lower most edges of opposed sidewalls of the top basket, in the deployed position, the first and second panels are capable of supporting objects in the top basket, and in the retracted position, the first and second panels are traversed out of the way without any obstruction between the first and second hinges so that an object being larger than a length of the first panel or second panel can be passed through an access pathway defined by upper most and lower most peripheries of the plurality of side walls of the top basket into the bottom basket.