Meet the American who invented the shopping cart, Sylvan Goldman, Oklahoma supermarket mogul

Meet Sylvan Goldman, an American born to immigrant parents in Oklahoma. As a businessman, his brilliantly simple invention, the shopping cart, changed consumer culture.

His brilliantly simple idea was born in Oklahoma during global economic calamity and as the Great Plains were recovering from ecological disaster. "The shopping cart revolutionized merchandising and changed the face of America." "To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth." "Goldman tackled the myriad tasks of preparing food for 200 men … with the good humor and determination that characterized his later business activities." "There were people shopping and not a one was using the cart." Goldman gifted $1.5 million to the Oklahoma Blood Institute.  "Goldman was the epitome of the immigrant's son who worked hard and risked much to build a business." Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.

"The simplest inventions are always the most fascinating," Larry O’Dell, the state historian for the Oklahoma Historical Society, told Fox News Digital.