Unfortunately, setting a car seat on top of a shopping cart is not safe. While it may seem like your car seat “clicks” into place around the shopping cart, one small bump could tip your car seat off the shopping cart. The only safe way to place a car seat in a shopping cart is to set it in the main basket. Putting a car seat in the main basket of the shopping cart can take up a lot of room, which doesn’t leave a ton of space for your groceries. Read some of our alternative solutions below to shop with your baby while using the entire shopping cart.
Cart hammocks are rated for babies up to 50 pounds, which is about the time that your baby starts sitting up on their own.
Since the car seat carrier floats on top of the cart, you’ll have plenty of room to put your groceries underneath your baby.
Safe-Docks are not universal in every grocery store yet, but they’re becoming more and more common in the United States.
