Caroline’s Cart for Special Needs Kids Comes to Target Los Angeles

One of the new Caroline’s Carts for Special Needs Children now    at Target stores in Los Angeles.

If you have a special needs child, and you shop at Target stores in Los Angeles, here’s some good news. Since mid-March 2016, Target’s general merchandise stores in Los Angeles now each have at least one Caroline’s Cart. Caroline’s Cart is designed to help parents and caregivers shop with older kids or adults with special needs, without having to maneuver a cart and a wheelchair through the store at the same time.  My nephew has Autism, and I know from personal experience how difficult it can be for him to do a little shopping with the family.  A few years ago, I bought him a very expensive type push chair to use of shopping trips.

                      A boy shops at Target using Caroline’s Cart.

Target has been testing the award-winning carts in stores since February 2015 and is now Caroline’s Cart’s largest retail partner. Most stores will have one Caroline’s Cart, and many will have more depending on their guests’ needs. The exception is a handful of the smallest stores, where Target doesn’t have full-size carts.

It is named after Caroline, daughter of Drew Ann Long, an inventor and stay-at-home mom from Alabama. Drew Ann came up with the idea after realizing her daughter, who has Rett syndrome, would outgrow a standard shopping cart. So she and her husband David founded Parent Solution Group, LLC. in 2008, and partnered with Technibuilt to manufacture the carts for retailers to use worldwide.  These carts can be a god send to Mother’s shopping at Target with special needs kids.  If you’re in Los Angeles, look for Caroline’s Cart when you go to Target.  Thanks Target for putting Caroline’s Carts in your stores.  These carts will help so many children shop with their Mom or a family member without being uncomfortable or in pain.