shopping cart corral

Parking lot enclosure

A shopping cart corral is a designated area in a parking lot where customers return their carts after loading groceries into their vehicles.

These corrals—typically metal enclosures marked by signs—keep carts from rolling into cars or blocking spaces: I always park near the cart corral so I don't have far to walk.

Also called a cart return.

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Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G