Carts And Bags

These images are all from major online retailers, not fly-by-night sites. You're not imagining anything; all of the shopping cart images look terrible! Conversely, all of the shopping bag images look pretty swell. Perhaps it's easier to manipulate 200 pixels into the shape of a bag than a cart, huh?

Although all of the retailers used text in their 'cart' links, about half of them did not use any icon at all.

GUESS?, Inc. is the only online retailer to try this nifty idea of incorporating the number of items in the cart into the actual image space.