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Shopping Cart Emoji 🛒

A metal shopping cart on four wheels, the icon nearly every online store borrows for its own "add to cart" button. It flags a haul in progress, screenshotting a full cart before checkout, joking about what's actually in there, far more often than it depicts an actual trip to the store.

What 🛒 means

A metal trolley cart, designed with an extended basket attached to four wheels at the bottom and a handle towards the top left corner of the basket that contains a metal divider within.

The 🛒 Shopping Cart emoji represents shopping, as the name suggests; both online and offline shopping. It could also interpret a wish list, a grocery list, or even the metaphorical act of 'purchasing'.

How and when to use it

Is there a list of things you need to shop for? Or are you jotting down a list of needs one might shop for, or at least try to shop for? In all such cases, you can use 🛒 - "I have a massive list! 🛒" or "You could try, but you cannot shop for a better personality 🛒".
A shopping cart could also symbolize all the things you're willing to bend the crutch for. Hence, you may use 🛒 to represent those things. Like, "It might cost half my savings, but it's worth the risk 🛒".
While talking about things one cannot buy, 🛒 is a quirky addition. For instance, "Money cannot buy you happiness 🛒. But it can sure buy someone else's" or "I'm trying to buy more time here 🛒".
🛒 could be the emoji representation of a 'buyer' or a 'customer' too - Our goal is to keep customers longing for more 🛒"
And lastly, if you're sharing a shopping-based post or repost, do bring in 🛒- it can be a limited edition repost, a personal post, or even a big announcement on purchable products.

Other Names

🛒 Cart
🛒 Trolley Cart
🛒 Shopping
🛒 Wish List
🛒 Shopping Cart
🛒 Pushcart
🛒 Shopping Trolley

The lowdown

Category: Objects › household
Codepoints: U+1F6D2
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :shopping_cart: GitHub · Discord:shopping_trolley: Slack · Discord
Keywords: cart, shopping, trolley

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.