Sylvan Goldman

[6] His father worked at various dry goods stores owned by his wife's family, one of which was located in Indian territory where Sylvan was born.Despite reaping a generous and timely sum from the Safeway sale, Goldman and his brother lost much of their fortune in the crash; and being banned from competing with Safeway in Tulsa due to a non-competition agreement, they moved to Oklahoma City where they purchased five grocery stores and formed a new company called Standard Grocery.With the assistance of a mechanic named Fred Young, Goldman constructed the first shopping cart, basing his design on that of a wooden folding chair.Another mechanic, Arthur Kosted, developed a method to mass-produce the carts by inventing an assembly line capable of forming and welding the wire.The cart was awarded patent number 2,196,914 on April 9, 1940 (Filing date: March 14, 1938), titled, "Folding Basket Carriage for Self-Service Stores".[8] Other inventions by Goldman include the grocery sacker, the folding inter-office basket carrier, and the handy milk bottle rack.He gave time and money to the National Conference of Christians and Jews at the Southwest Center for Human Relations at the University of Oklahoma.