Ewwww.....primary school kids in shopping trollies

Loose fruit and vegetables!! lol! So clean, growing in fields literally covered in shit, or in trees full of birds and insects pooping on them.

Humans live in a world where every surface is covered in bacteria, viruses, fungi, spores, pollen; so much living microscopic life everywhere.
Thinking we should live in a sterile environment of aseptic surfaces is where insanity starts.

Poor little primary kids, it’s rubbish going to the supermarket.

If you see me in a supermarket with my child ever, best beleive I've done everything I can to avoid going with them in the first place. I bloody hate shopping with my kids and will go in the middle of the night when they are in bed rather than take them.
If my child is in the trolley, it's only because I had no choice but to take them and I am getting through the horrid expereince in the quickest way possible which doesn't involve them moaning, dragging their feet, getting in people's way and picking up random items of the shelf, then begging me to buy them.

If this makes people think we are unhygenic then fine because frankly it was a bit silly of them to assume a shopping trolley is clean anyway, whether my child's feet are in it or not

Bus/train/tubes are also already very grim.

Do people allow their children to stand on them?

what are you talking about? No human is shitting in the trolleys. You were claiming that a child is somehow making the trolley less hygienic and thus unsuitable for unwrapped food. My point is that they are already unhygenic due to the rats/pigeons and staff using them to carry rubbish bags.

Why add t the pigeon and rat waste; animals do not care where they pee. Humans are slightly more civilised, that why we have lavatories.
It also means that just becausr a rat shits in a trolley, humans do not have to do the same

Haha.

But you shouldn't. Whenever this topic comes up, I'm always amazed by the number of people who genuinely don't realise how filthy they are.

I don't think I'll ever look at a shopping trolley the same after this thread.

My supermarket trolleys are rusty and have mould growing in the handles - I'd say a child sitting in it is the least of your worries. Please don't put unwrapped food directly in the trolley - they are left outside all the time.

A child in nappies is far cleaner than rubbish bags and what the rats and pigeons do. You're spectacularly shortsighted if you think a trolley is in any way clean regardless of whether children are in them.

They shouldn't be in them for safety reasons though.

Whether you need to wash food as a matter of course is neither hete nor there. Children, particularly those in nnappies, should not be in the bit where food is placed

My DD when little was about 3 when i stopped putting her in trolley seat ..she was a tall lass though. I used to work with fruit and veg packaging and believe me, youll want to wash those things before you eat them...some that worked there...not hygienic. There's worse things in your shopping trolley

How very dare you criticise children and parenting??!!!
I tease - i have bought this up in a previous thread and was shor down in flames. Apparently the world revolves around what 'I' want to do, and fuck the reast of society,so if my toddler still in nappies sits in the main basket where the food goes, tough shit for you.
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Oh well, a lot of the supermarket goods have had vermin running over them at some point in transit or in warehouses… Just wash everything when you get home OP.

My 7 yo sometimes climbs in the main bit ... mainly for novelty, didn't consider the hygiene aspect but then ive seen and complained about the sainsburys worker picking their nose and eating it while filling the freezers so my childs probably fine

There are safety issues, but a grubby 5 year old is unlikely to be the most minging thing a supermarket trolley has ever contained.

The loose veg (and fruit) all originated on a farm somewhere, and much of it will have had to be picked by humans who didn't have access to sparkly clean loos and hand-washing facilities. Letting kids stand in the trolleys is not going to cause a material increase in risk really.

Mine used to sit in the trolley, why? Because he's disabled and couldn't walk around the whole supermarket and I'd 9/10 times be on my own.

I’m really hygiene conscious but as those trollies have been touched by scores of unwashed hands that have been touching god knows what and had peoples bags and shopping all
over them I just think all the dirt/germs in that category is going to be dirty and germy all the same. Are a child’s school shoes always worse than someone who’s freshly coughed or sneezed over the same trolley? I dont know. First thing I do when home from supermarket is take off my outdoor clothes and wash my hands.

My nine year sometimes sits in the trolley and I whizz around really fast in the quiet aisles or in the car park. Life is too short to pay attention to pearl clutches

It makes the trolley go wonky though. So keep the kids out. Mine have never sat in one once they were too big for the seat.

You miss the point. The OP is talking about kids sitting in the actual trolley not the chair in the trolley

I just came here to say that I’d probably be more bothered about what my DC might catch off of the shopping trolley, rather than DC contaminating it 😂😂

Really? I think you need to get bigger problems in your life if you worry about that! Think of all the people who go to the toilet and don't wash their hands that pick up the food you buy, that pick up shopping baskets and trolleys! People need germs to build an immune system! The most sickly people I know are the ones that are scared of germs (I'm not putting people whose immune systems are suppressed in this same category)

My 7 year old autistic daughter sits in the trolley, I’m a single mum and I work full time so if we go food shopping, she’s with me. Only way to avoid a stressful meltdown is to sit her in the trolley with her ear defenders on. Seriously, do better. Don’t be so judgemental.

What kind of school did you go to????