Retail cart

A retail cart for use in transporting merchandise, comprising:

• a polymeric base unit having an upper side and an underside;
• a plurality of mobile transport rollers coupled to the underside of the base unit;
• first and second polymeric side attachment members operably coupled to the upper side of the base unit in a generally upright, parallel, laterally spaced-apart relationship, wherein each side attachment member includes a frame member comprising upper and lower crossbars and laterally spaced apart front and rear uprights having a plurality of support members disposed between the laterally spaced uprights, each support member including a shelf receiving channel having an upright vertical wall and a horizontal landing wall that are connected to form a substantially L-shaped cross section defining an opening that faces outwardly away from a central position of the retail cart;
• a plurality of stabilizers operably coupled to an upright of the first side attachment member at a first end and operably coupled to an upright of the second side attachment member at a second end;
• a plurality of removable shelving units slideably received in the shelf receiving channels of the support members, wherein the shelving units further include;
• a landing surface disposed between laterally spaced apart retaining edges having upper cross bars, wherein the upper crossbars are positively captured between an upright of the first side attachment member at a first end and an upright of the second side attachment member at a second end when the shelving unit is in a fully stowed position thereby imparting a first lateral force on the first and second side attachment members;
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• a plurality of downwardly extending;
• U-shaped shelving unit support guides disposed on the plurality of removable shelving units for engaging the vertical walls of the shelf receiving channels of the support members;
• further wherein the shelving unit support guides impart a second lateral force on the upright vertical walls of the shelf receiving channels in an opposing direction relative to the first lateral force when the shelving unit is in the stowed position.

A retail cart for use in transporting merchandise, comprising:

• a base unit having an upper side and an underside;
• a plurality of mobile transport rollers coupled to the underside of the base unit;
• first and second side attachment members detachably coupled to the upper side of the base unit in a generally upright, parallel, laterally spaced-apart relationship, wherein each side attachment member includes a one-piece polymeric frame member comprising an upper crossbar, a lower crossbar and laterally spaced apart front and rear uprights;
• wherein the front and rear uprights each comprise receiving apertures and receiving cradles that protrude from the respective uprights;
• a plurality of stabilizers operably coupled to an upright of the first side attachment member at a first end and operably coupled to an upright of the second side attachment member at a second end, wherein the first and second ends of each stabilizer include upper and lower attachment flanges adapted to be received in one of the corresponding receiving apertures and one of the corresponding receiving cradles disposed on the uprights of the first and second polymeric side attachment members, wherein each upper attachment flange comprises a downwardly extending retaining member;
• wherein each receiving cradle defines a vertical channel which receives a corresponding lower attachment flange;
• wherein each retaining member of said upper attachment flanges defines a hook that clamps on to a bottom wall of a corresponding receiving aperture of a corresponding upright;
• and further wherein the upper and lower attachment flanges impart opposing forces on the upright as coupled thereto;
• a plurality of support members disposed between the laterally spaced uprights of each of the side attachment members having outwardly facing shelf receiving channels disposed thereon, and at least one removable shelving unit slideably supported on the shelf receiving channels of the support members between stowed and forward and rearward extended positions, wherein the at least one shelving unit extends at least partially beyond the front uprights in the forward extended position, and extends at least partially beyond the rear uprights in the rearward extended positions.