Abstract: A shopping cart has a wheeled base, a rear frame projecting upwardly from the rear end of the base with a handle at its upper end, a basket having a rear end secured to the frame and projecting forwardly from the frame at spacing above the base, and a fixed child seat secured to the rear frame. The basket is closed by a pivoted rear gate at its rear end. Two or more carts can be nested together by pushing the front wall of the basket of a first cart through the rear frame beneath the fixed child seat of a second cart, simultaneously pivoting the rear gate upwardly to allow the basket of the first cart to enter the basket of the second cart. The side walls are inclined upwardly from the child seat to the front end of the basket.

Abstract: A tether system for shopping carts in which a plurality of carts each have an anchor member at a location which is exposed when another cart is nested into the rear of the cart. An elongated tether of pliable material can be secured to the rear cart of a nested series of carts with the tether extending forwardly and looped around the anchor on the forward cart of the series of carts in order to secure the carts together.