Keep shopping in car from falling over

This means I need to take as straight a route as possible home.

You're are joking? Shirely?

Pack cases of beer against the shopping to hold it place, it’s a win/win solution.

Slow down..

Fill up the space with more shopping.

Place small children in the boot and tell them to stop the bag falling over.

Glue Velcro to the shopping bag and boot liner.

Chop up a fitted wardrobe and use sections to make safe storage.

Get shopping delivered.

Put it in the rear footwell instead of the boot as you say you only have one bag of shopping

A short length of dyneema cord, colour coordinated to your upholstery, clipped to the handle of your shopping bag and the other end attached to your rear FM handle directly above.

Thank me later

Put it in the rear footwell instead of the boot as you say you only have one bag of shopping

This, and as above, if you've no room left in the footwells, a case of beer makes a good bag stabliser!

Let it fall over

Live on a diet of pizzas. They can't fall over

Or

Put the bag of shopping on the roof. Everywhere you go people will wave at you and you'll feel really popular.

Buy a Smart car( low mileage),there's no room inside for anything to fall over.

Clearly you under-bought the wine supplies...

Buy a Volvo avec the Shopping Bag Flap of Elasticated Sensibleness.

I just put a curver box on the boot of any car. It's great for single shopping bags etc

I don't put shopping in the boot of my car, therefore my shopping does not fall over in the boot of my car.

(Footwells)

If I did have to put the shoppingin the boot of my car, I'd just stick a plastic box in there and use that.

I have a high-sided box kept in the boot and the larger loaded bags go in that, keeps them upright, otherwise if smallish they go behind the front seats in the footwells as others have said.

Expanding foam.

Get an Aygo - it only takes two shopping bags in the boot.

Buy a Volvo avec the Shopping Bag Flap of Elasticated Sensibleness

I came here to say that. An excellent feature.

Don’t drive a rally driver.

Seriously, you might need a boot divider doo-dah.  I just pop shopping in the footwell of our cars if just a couple of bags.

Get an Octavia. It has a bag holding loop on either side. Failing that buy a bike with panniers

Get a cargo bike?

Ask Jeeves?

Foot well and drive slower round corners. Problem doesn't exist then.

Get some AI driven chop-sticks or robot arms ,they can catch the shopping before it falls over/crashes.

Buy a Volvo avec the Shopping Bag Flap of Elasticated Sensibleness

But if you've got a rubber boot mat you can't access it.

Take a bike and put shopping in pannier bags. Make the world very slightly better as a bonus

You do know supermarkets deliver food nowadays?

If you attach three sufficiently heavy orthogonally oriented flywheels to your car and spin them quickly enough during your shopping trips you should be able to prevent the kind of angular acceleration of the car which causes your shopping to fall over on your way home.

If you want to spend money on a product then there's these ^^ Called Stayhold. Comes in various sizes. Velcro to the boot floor and even comes with a handy wine bottle holder if you're feeling brave.

I thought I'd seen something like this before and a minute on amazon found them.

loads of space for my shopping to slide, get up momentum and then explode in a shower of tomatoes in the back of a transit.

i have a hooked ended camlock strap clipped to the headset of the passenger seat, and loop it around all the bag handles, and back to the headrest. Not hanging but certainly keeps them in place and supported.

I load my shopping straight from the trolley into laundry baskets in the boot of my car. Makes in miles easier when you get home too.

Pyramid bags.

My solution is to keep enough stuff in the boot that there's always something to nestle the shopping in between.

e.g. mine currently contains: bike toolbox, dryrobe in bag for life, ikea bag, microwive-size plastic tub with emergency bike clothes in, bag for life with spare post-ride clothes in, nice stick my son found on a walk, 2x4 thick foam matting for standing on to get changed.

Attach a strong cord between the rear seat handles above the door, thread cord through shopping bag handles and back onto door handles. 😉

What @gowerboy says.

i put mine in so it's already in it's fallen over state... then no falling over

I put mine on the opposite side of the boot to the direction of most of the bends on the way home. Then really pin it hard round those bends so the shopping is definitely where I left it.

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.

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… [img] [/img]

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