It should be noted that some carriers charge you to not have a contract. When I worked for Sprint, it was $10 per month to run without a contract bringing in a phone that you paid full price for somewhere else. If you tried activating the phone, it wouldn't let you tender the transaction until there was a 0 yr placeholder in the contract screen. MRC=$10. I only ever had one guy ask for it and I thought he was going to punch me in the face when I told him. I let him look at the screen and the codes I had to choose from. We were both shocked. That was the beginning of the end for me with wireless.

You can grocery shop with an 18 wheeler just fine. You just have to put the tiny tires on.