Nestable shopping cart with improved lower containment means

A nestable shopping cart comprising a main containment basket supported elevated by a frame, casters secured to said frame to displace said shopping cart on a floor surface;

• said containment basket having a bottom wall, side walls, a front wall and a rear wall;
• a handle bar secured rearwardly spaced from said rear wall by spaced side attachments members at opposed ends thereof;
• a restraining open area defined between said rear wall, handle bar and a spaced side attachment members;
• a lower secondary containment basket secured between a pair of upwardly extending rear frame members in a lower section of said frame and having at least a portion of a top open end thereof aligned substantially on a vertical axis passing through said restraining open area, said secondary basket and said restraining open area being dimensioned to position and retain elongated objects supported in said secondary basket and extending through said restraining open area whereby said object is transported substantially upright by said shopping cart in a rear portion thereof and within the containment space of said restraining open area, said secondary basket being secured and spaced inwardly of said pair of rear frame members by nesting support brackets, said nesting support brackets having a pair of attachment members disposed and spaced in parallel vertical planes running longitudinally along said cart and interconnected by an integral intermediate bridge member, a nesting space defined between said vertical planes for receiving therein a respective one of a pair of frame members of another shopping cart.