A shopping cart assembly includes a shopping cart for carrying purchased items in a retail environment. The shopping cart has a cage and a bottom shelf. A ramp is hingedly coupled to the cage of the shopping cart and the ramp is positionable in an open position for extending into a vehicle thereby facilitating the purchased items to be slid along the ramp into the vehicle for loading the purchased items into the vehicle. A counterweight unit is coupled to the shopping cart and the counterweight unit is actuated when the ramp is positioned in the open position. The counterweight unit transfers counterweight to an opposite side of the shopping cart with respect to the ramp when the counterweight unit is actuated to inhibit the shopping cart from tipping when the purchased items are unloaded from the shopping cart.

A lift assembly for lifting a slide ramp which is positioned on the floor of a basket of a shopping cart. Items for purchase are placed on the slide ramp. The lift assembly is actuated by a hand grip to rotate the slide ramp to an angle from the bottom of the basket. The angled slide ramp slides items placed in the basket to the end of the basket opposite from the handle and allows items placed in the basket to be removed from an end of the basket opposite of the handle.