Cashier check-out station with package-catching shopping cart

A cashier check-out station includes a counter having a platform or conveyor belt leading to a register station, the counter defining a lane along a longitudinal side of the counter. The station arrangement includes a shopping cart with a basket having a substantially isosceles trapezoidal shape viewed from above. The cart includes a chassis frame, a front pair of castors attached to the chassis frame and a rear set of castors attached to the chassis frame. The front pair of castors defines a track width which is smaller than the track width defined by the rear set of castors. The shopping basket is adapted to travel through the lane defined along the longitudinal side of the counter to an unloading end of the counter. The shopping basket includes a chute-like bottom portion inclined at an angle of at least 15 degrees from the horizontal. The bottom portion includes an upper transverse edge. A tracking arrangement is provided positioned adjacent the upper transverse edge. A track is disposed transversely in a substantially horizontal position on the unloading end of the counter, the tracking arrangement engages the track for positioning the upper transverse edge of the basket adjacent the unloading end of the counter.