Shopping cart with lifting fender

A horizontal stack of shopping carts comprising:

• a front shopping cart including:
• a first support frame including a first chassis and support masts extending substantially vertically upwardly from the first chassis, wherein the first chassis is coupled to front wheels and rear wheels and includes a rear cross bar extending laterally across the first chassis and positioned between the front wheels and the rear wheels, the front wheels and the rear wheels being longitudinally spaced from each other,
• a basket supported by the support masts over the first chassis, wherein the basket defines a compartment, and
• a lifting fender formed separately from the first support frame and selectively coupled to an underside of the rear cross bar, the lifting fender defining a lift section extending below the rear cross bar and defining a bottom surface;
• and
• a rear shopping cart including:
• a second support frame including a second chassis having longitudinally extending support struts laterally spaced from each other;
• wherein one of the longitudinally extending support struts contacts the lifting fender of the front shopping cart holding the rear wheels of the front shopping cart off of a support surface supporting the front shopping cart and the rear shopping cart.

A method of horizontally stacking shopping carts, comprising:

• providing a front shopping cart including:
• a first support frame including a first chassis and support masts extending substantially vertically upwardly from the first chassis, wherein the first chassis is coupled to front wheels and rear wheels and includes a rear cross bar extending laterally across the first chassis and positioned between the front wheels and the rear wheels, the front wheels and the rear wheels being longitudinally spaced from each other;
• a basket supported by the support masts over the first chassis, wherein the basket defines a compartment;
• and
• a lifting fender formed separately from the support frame and selectively coupled to an underside of the rear cross bar, the lifting fender defining a lift section extending below a remainder of the rear cross bar and defining a bottom surface configured to be an initial contact point for a second, rear shopping cart when forming a horizontal stack of carts such that contact between the second, rear shopping cart and the lifting fender generally decreases contact between the second, rear shopping cart and the remainder of the rear cross bar;
• and
• pushing a rear shopping cart toward the front shopping cart, the rear shopping cart including a second support frame including a second chassis having longitudinally extending support struts laterally spaced from each other with rear wheels depending from the second support frame;
• wherein pushing the rear shopping cart toward the front shopping cart includes moving one of the longitudinally extending support struts into increasing contact with the lifting fender of the front shopping cart to lift the rear wheels of the front shopping cart off of a support surface supporting the front shopping cart and the rear shopping cart.