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Shopping cart conveyor
Device used in multi-level retail stores
A Shopping Cart Conveyor also known as Vermaport, Cartveyor or shopping cart escalator is a device used in multi-level retail stores for moving shopping carts parallel and adjacent to an escalator. Shoppers can load their shopping carts onto the conveyor, step onto the escalator, ride the escalator with the cart beside them and collect the cart with the contained merchandise at the next level.[1]
While inclined moving walkways can be used in multi-level retail stores to transport shopping carts between floors, they are associated with safety hazards (such as, with baby strollers)[1] and take up about twice as much floor space as a separate cart conveyor system, because moving walkways can not be installed at inclinations greater than 12 degrees, while a cart conveyor can operate at an inclination of up to 35 degrees.[2][3]
Only specially-designed shopping carts can be transported with a cart conveyor.