Keep shopping in car from falling over

Both of my cars (a Renault Scenic and a Ford Fiesta) have small hooks on the side of the boot well. I just hang the shopping on that.

What car? I have a huge boot and Mercedes supply a couple of solutions beyond the hooks on the side. You can get a bungee net which attaches to the lashing points (most cars seem to have this) or you can get a more expensive set of folding rails and dividers for the boot to make small compartments.

Thanks for some great recommendations here for what has been a tiresome issue. Just letting it fall over is not an option as the smell of egg can be horrendous. Bought a collapsible crate for the car.

Are there many other aspects of your life STW can give advise on?

Take the eggs out the bag and put them by themselves on the seat. Put them back in the bag when you get home.

Mildly related anecdote: For a few months many moons ago I used to work as a cashier in a local shop. Packing people’s bags for them you just can’t win… one person will snap at you for putting so much as a box of tissues on top of the eggs (must be in a bag by itself!) and the next person snarls at you for wasting bags and throws all their shopping on top willy-nilly. Both of them sneer at you for being an idiot.

Anyway… my usual solution, having forgotten to bring bags (again) and not wanting to buy more, is to cover the boot floor in a wide layer of loose shopping. Wedge delicate stuff in amongst things that won’t roll around much (eg tetrapak cartons or bags of potatoes are good wedgers).

I use hooks attached to the rear seat head restraints to hold the bags upright. Something like this will allow you to adjust the length so the bag’s not hanging (if that bothers you): Hidden Car Seat Headrest Hooks Adjustable Car Storage Organizer | eBay

Or just use a bit of string and a carabiner to make your own.

Cue the Ateam building montage, BA welding, faceman acquiring, hannibal nodding, Murdoch hanging upside down off a tree, BA welding again……..

…….cardboard box?

Buy a Mercedes E Class Coupe.  Has awesome shopping bag hooks, hope that helps.

Anyway… my usual solution, having forgotten to bring bags (again) and not wanting to buy more, is to cover the boot floor in a wide layer of loose shopping. Wedge delicate stuff in amongst things that won’t roll around much (eg tetrapak cartons or bags of potatoes are good wedgers)

Yep. The lidl approach.

Fire it all back in the trolley so you don’t have to keep up with cashier. Hoi it all in the back of the car. Take a number of risky in balancing various items on top of each other and waddling to the house.

In an actual serious answer this can be modified to the lidlikeamodel.

Open lidle bags in the boot pack them from the trolley. No falling over and you can lift large amounts out.

Buy a Mercedes E Class Coupe. Has awesome shopping bag hooks, hope that helps.

My Passat had that exact thing in 2006 🙂

Or just use a bit of string and a carabiner to make your own.

Before I took a rucksack to the shop (which is the actual solution to the OP’s issue), I used to carry a carabiner with me.  Snap the crap through half a dozen carrier bag handles, it stops them falling open and you can lift up the lot in one go.  Checkout staff used to look at me like they’d just witnessed Moses parting the the Red Sea.

@ads678 – that box looks awfully like the tubs Royal Mail use for moving mail around in. The metal wheeled cages I used to move stacks of those around in would generate massive amounts of static electricity, the air would crackle and ll your hair would stand up when you walked past them; avoiding touching them was a good idea…

As I have a large bag in my car’s boot, with things like wellies and other stuff in, when I do shopping, like others have said, the bags go on the floor and/or the seats – I rarely have problems with them falling over.

Something else it’s worth having to help keep the bags upright, and in fact carrying them when loaded is a couple of these things, they’re brilliant and stop the handles cutting your fingers off!

Put shopping bags in boot.
Push bags over yourself.
Drive off knowing they can’t fall over if they already have