Abstract: A system for handling goods in selfservice shops, comprising a shopping trolley and a cash counter. The trolley comprises at least one basket consisting of a bottom and four side walls, one of which is pivotally connected to two opposite side walls of the basket and adapted to pivot from a lowered closed position to a raised open position. The cash counter includes a compartment corresponding to the size of the trolley and designed to receive the trolley, and control members co-operating with the trolley to move the pivoting side wall from lowered to raised position as the trolley is introduced into said compartment.