Abstract: An appliance for collecting orders in warehouses wherein various goods are stored on pallets, which appliance includes a scoop having a support blade and a handle mounted to a bracket, and also being provided with equipment for suspending the scoop from a hoist mounted on an order-collection truck. A spring-operated clamp can be provided, which serves to engage the top surface of an article carried by the scoop. The clamp may be configured to actuate automatically upon operation of the hoist, through the use of a hoisting wire guided over or attached to an element of the clamp and also attached to or guided over an element of the scoop's bracket.