Published on October 20, 2026
Large-capacity shopping trolley: what size suits your routine?
A few purchases after work, a Sunday market visit or groceries for the whole week?
You don’t carry the same amount every time you shop.
To choose a large-capacity shopping trolley, start with your habits: how many people are you shopping for, how often do you shop, and how do you get home?
At BOMY, we designed a system with adjustable capacity: a bag, one basket or two baskets, depending on your day.
1. How often you shop matters as much as household size
Do you prefer small, regular shops or buying everything in one trip?
Someone shopping for several days may need more space than a couple stopping at the local shop every evening.
An INSEE study of purchases in 2021 and 2022 found that consumers spread their shopping across more visits in response to inflation, buying fewer items each time.
Top-up shopping: one container may be enough.
Shopping for several days: leave room for bulky items.
Guests or a busy week ahead: consider the option of adding another container.
With BOMY, you adapt your setup instead of taking your maximum capacity on every trip.
2. City or countryside: think about your journey
Do you get home on foot, by public transport or by car?
Your chosen capacity also needs to be practical to move.
The CRÉDOC 2017 shopping survey highlights how shopping locations relate to where people live: smaller shops are more common in cities than in rural areas.
Start with your own situation:
Frequent shopping close to home: prioritise a setup that is easy to take with you.
Larger shopping trips by car: extra capacity can help reduce the number of separate bags.
A journey combining driving, walking and stairs: consider how you will carry the containers too.
With BOMY, the shopping bag unclips to become a backpack, and the baskets can be carried by hand. Their capacity remains useful beyond the journey on wheels.
3. Age influences shopping habits without defining capacity
Has your shopping routine changed with your lifestyle?
A FranceAgriMer study published in 2026 on older consumers found that they favour fresh food, specialist retailers and smaller shops more than the population overall.
That does not mean there is an ideal trolley size for a particular age. Household size, the meals you prepare and how often you shop remain key factors.
With BOMY, you can keep the same trolley and change the containers: one basket for some trips, two for others, or the shopping bag to suit your route.
4. Market, supermarket or local shop: the contents change too
Are you mainly carrying vegetables, bottles, chilled food or bulky purchases?
CRÉDOC also describes shopping routines involving several retailers, depending on the products people want. Your needs therefore go beyond the number of items you buy.
At the market: allow room for vegetables and protect delicate purchases.
At the supermarket: separate heavy items from anything that could be crushed.
At the local shop: choose the container that suits your top-up purchases.
At BOMY, organisation works alongside capacity:
Open baskets: keep your shopping visible and let you divide it between containers.
The shopping bag’s dedicated fragile-item compartment: separates delicate purchases from the rest.
The separate 11 L insulated bag: groups together items that need thermal protection.
Having enough space matters. Being able to use it without piling everything together matters too.
5. Which BOMY capacity should you choose?
Your shopping needs change from week to week. Your equipment can adapt.
One basket: for trips where a single container is enough.
Two baskets, providing up to 100 L in total: for bulkier purchases or dividing your shopping between two containers.
The 60 L shopping bag: for a setup you can also carry as a backpack.
The additional 11 L insulated bag: placed inside the shopping bag, attached to the trolley or carried on its own.
Litres measure available space, not a target weight. Bottles can be heavy without filling a container, while salad leaves take up plenty of space for very little weight. Always follow the maximum load limits for each component.
With BOMY, extra capacity becomes a choice
The right capacity depends on your shopping, your journey and how you like to organise your purchases.
BOMY’s modular design lets you choose your capacity for each trip, then fold and store unused elements separately.
A quick top-up today, the weekly shop tomorrow: keep the same system and adapt your setup.