{"id":788445,"date":"2026-05-11T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:34:21","slug":"philadelphia-advocates-want-stores-to-have-carolines-carts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/788445\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia advocates want stores to have Caroline\u2019s Carts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago,<a href=\"https:\/\/progressivegrocer.com\/walmart-stores-add-specialized-carolines-carts-inclusive-shopping\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Walmart announced<\/a> that all stores in several states in the South and Southwest will have Caroline\u2019s Carts. <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.target.com\/news-features\/article\/2016\/02\/carolines-cart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Target said<\/a> most of their stores have at least one.<\/p>\n<p>In the Philadelphia region, Giant said in a statement that the company introduced Caroline\u2019s Carts a few years ago, and they remain available today. WakeFern, the parent company of ShopRite and Fresh Grocer, did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The Arc of Pennsylvania, a state chapter of a national advocacy group for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, had talked about approaching the big grocery stores in the state to see how many have Caroline\u2019s Carts. However, it would take a lot of effort, said Jessica Capitani, a communications consultant and former board president.<\/p>\n<p>She used to specifically look for stores in her area that have Caroline\u2019s Carts. Her son has Down syndrome and juvenile idiopathic arthritis and had to use a wheelchair at one point, but Capitani could not push a shopping cart and a wheelchair at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would find myself crying in stores at times because it was just so difficult to try to shop with him,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I knew a store had Caroline\u2019s Carts that just changed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The efforts to expand access to these carts continue.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/thearc.org\/blog\/carolines-cart-and-the-arc-to-promote-inclusion-in-retail-spaces\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Arc announced<\/a> every Caroline\u2019s Cart in the country will have a sticker showing the organization\u2019s logo, and a QR code that people can scan to request more carts in their local stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two years ago, Walmart announced that all stores in several states in the South and Southwest will have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":788446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,5527,1448,2830,1311,2107,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-788445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-disabilities","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-shopping","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116555263091703392","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}