1.22.10 - 12:00PM
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Jordan Breindel

Furniture Made Out of Shopping Carts

For far too long the only people allowed to sit in shopping carts were children, the elderly, the obese, and the differently-abled. Now, with the help of Ramon Coronado's 'Mercado Negro' project, the experience of sitting in a shopping cart is finally open to the rest of us. Granted, this isn't really why Coronado started crafting furniture out of shopping carts, but hopefully you'll find that it was a pleasant and whimsical entree to a project that was actually inspired by the trash, poverty, and lack of safe outdoor play areas for children in L.A.'s Westlake neighborhood.

link:// Mercado Negro
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1.23.10

By bobby

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Thanks as if groceries are'nt expensive enough.All you've done is give some lowlife people who already remove the carts from the store lot an idea.Instead of just pushing the carts to the curb after driving home so they can be retreived and returned to store people will now re-furnish their houses .What a dumb story and thanks for making prices even higher at the supermarkets.

1.23.10

By David

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Target will be so impressed to see where their stolen shopping carts are going... Let Target know they need to place an order for another 3,000 per store and they can now raise prices on everything to pay for all the addtional carts stolen by folks trying to duplicate this STUPID idea. AOL you are partners in crime for posting this story.

1.23.10

By LST

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How true, too many carts already make their way away from the stores and dumped wherever, many never being returned to the stores they cam eout of because lazy scum can't carry the bags, and everyone wonders why we all pay so much for grocery items, DUH!

1.23.10

By cheri

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This writer is a fruit loop... I have NEVER see an elderly, obese or other wish handicapped person in one of those carts... as it states in the opening remarks.. People that need extra help ride in electric carts, yes, not these shopping carts. What is this idiot writer trying to do, get the electric carts stolen too? Get the facts correct. How the heck do these guys get jobs as journalists?

1.27.10

By cat

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I have a chair made out of a shopping cart at home, i should take a picture of it.

1.23.10

By Jess

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I like the idea. And really... Wal Mart has the highest rate of unreturned/stolen carts of anywhere and they're the cheapest to go to! If you see a random shopping cart on the street why can't you turn it into art/furniture/something functional? No one knows where he actually got the carts from, it didn't say that he stole them per se, but if the carts aren't in the lots anymore and they're no longer usable as a shopping cart, why not turn garbage into art?