Ergonomic hand-held shopping basket

A hand-held basket comprising:

• (a) a bottom, a proximal side wall, a distal side wall, and two end walls defining a cavity, wherein the cavity has a longitudinal axis and the proximal side is curved inwardly towards the axis in a contour adapted to an adult human body,
• (b) a handle attached to and projecting upward from the bottom, the handle being laterally spaced from the walls and extending upward through the cavity, and having a grip portion positioned above the cavity.

A stackable hand-held basket comprising:

• (a) a bottom, a proximal side wall, a distal side wall, and two end walls defining a cavity, wherein the side walls and end walls have an outwardly-turned peripheral top edge forming a lip, the lip being extended downward along the proximal side wall to form a cushion portion, the cushion portion defining a smoothly curved surface of which the lower edge is an extension of the lip;
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• (b) a handle attached to and projecting upward from the bottom and laterally spaced from the walls, the handle defining a channel which extends through the basket bottom, the channel being adapted to receive the handle of a substantially identical basket nesting directly below in a stack.

A stackable hand-held basket comprising:

• a bottom, a proximal side wall, a distal side wall, and two end walls defining a cavity, wherein the cavity has a longitudinal axis, the proximal side is curved inwardly towards the axis in a contour adapted to an adult human body, and the side and end walls taper inward toward the cavity for at least a portion of the height of each wall such that the cavity is at least partially nestable within the cavity of a substantially identical basket located directly below;
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• a handle attached to and projecting upward from the bottom into the cavity and being laterally spaced from the walls, the handle defining a channel which extends through the basket bottom, the channel being adapted to receive the handle of the substantially identical basket nesting directly below.