Shopping Cart/Interchange Cookies? (Score 1)

In as much as I [happily] feel I've designed my company's web site, since '97, to conform with all /.s peeves, I'm concerned about this 'cookie' issue. Of over a thousand page site, only our shopping cart (Interchange) requires Cookies. Am I exempt from all your hatred or is there something I am overlooking? ...My browsers are 'trained' to accept all cookies, but I certainly don't want to offend the potential buyer if they need a cookie to add an item to the cart. I'm not a programmer and getting MiniVend/Interchange to work tested what gray matter I have. Can I do a shopping cart without needing Cookies enabled? I think this post is going to go in the wrong place. I've read /. for about two years, but this is my first post. Please don't be too hard on me!