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

If no one is concerned about the hygiene aspect, because bird poo, rats, rats and mice being in the warehouses etc....why do we so many posts with people absolutely raging at the idea of someone taking their dog in to a shop? I mean, a dog is no less hygienic than rats and other animal shit.
Why is the filthy shoe of a child not equally of great concern?

Saying this as someone who has no desire to take their dog to any shop (other than a pet shop)

You know those trolleys sit outside with pigeons and starlings and seagulls and rats cavorting all over them, right?

Well I let both of mine sit in a trolley and it makes for a very peaceful shopping trip and I've never received a comment or filthy look. This is a weird Mumsnet thing.

Mmm, I knew someone who was in a car crash too, ban cars!

Oh well . Had my 4 year old grandchild in a trolley today in Sainsburys. Too tired after nursery and terrible cough…didn’t give it any thought about hygiene! All the rats in the car park at night would concern me more TBH but have been supermarket shopping for 40 years and have yet to pick up any nasty bugs.

A girl I went to school with had an accident in a supermarket trolley (anyone remember Somerfield supermarkets in the 90's?) where she essentially slammed her face into the metal front. I'm not sure if another trolley banged into theirs or whether it toppled.

She had her adult teeth and lost all of the front ones.

I always think of her when I see a child in a trolley. I know the chances are slim but I could never put my child in one. I don't think I could forgive myself if my child ended up with false teeth because of it!

But I don't think the hygiene argument is particularly strong, as anything unpackaged gets washed or peeled etc.

What world do you live in?! 😂

Have you ever smelt dog shit before? This doesn’t happen. Parents do not let their child walk around with dog shit on their shoe, they would notice. As would the next user of the trolley.

What an extreme example. Is this something you have personally experienced for yourself? If not, how on earth did you come up with this?

I think that would be cute

Because toddlers don't toddle about on dirty surfaces, get their hands in all kinds of stuff etc?

I'm with you OP on this, i absolutely hate to see kids sitting fully in the trolley where the shopping should go. It's lazy and unhygienic.
Some supermarkets have little kids trolleys that are great for them pushing round the store, a better option to keep them occupied.

I actually find it really sad that you won’t allow your child to sit in a communal trolley based on the opinions of others. Do people not wash their loose fruit and veg?! Ffs, it’s a trolley, it’s not jet washed after every use!

I let my kids sit in the trolley, shoes and all. I’ve never had a dirty look or anything said to me. I can imagine how silly someone would look if they challenged me on my children sitting in a trolley. Is this really what people think about? How ridiculous.

Trolleys are filthy regardless. Kids don’t make much difference.

Well, hhmmm. Their shoes- where have they walked? Dog poo, and worse.

Can only imagine the outcry if I put my dog in the trolley and she is probably much cleaner.

Totally out of order and disgusting- that is where I put my FOOD! I went shopping this afternoon and there were several in trollies, shoes on and all. Yep, out of order.

I say no to my youngest as I know there are people like you who would give me filthy looks all around the supermarket.

Did you know, if you buy cans of fizzy pop, rats have probably run all over the rim whilst they've been in a warehouse, and maybe even peed on it!!

Nobody is dying from dirty trollies, whether the dirt has come from those disgusting little ragamuffin children that live near you, or the rat eating seagull per PP.

LOL

Very unhygienic and dangerous. Fortunately, you rarely see it. It's really bad parenting. I remember my DPs frowning on this when I was a small child.

I do worry when people say they do it because they can’t control their child, to me (as the mum of an autistic child who struggles with shops massively) if a child is that disregulauted then sitting in a trolley which is unstable isn’t a case place. They aren’t designed to be stable enough for a child.

When I worked in a supermarket, I'd wash black off my hands washed by the end of my stint on tills. If you don't wipe down your shopping, the grime from everyone's hands, credit cards, cash, not to mention all the transit grime, shelf stacking pallet lurgies go all over your food. I really wouldn't worry about kids in trollies. With any luck they'll lick them a bit cleaner.

Hold on a minute! If food is not packaged then it either has peel or skin or you wash it before eating it!

I’ve seen kids fall out twice as I used to work in a supermarket, the noise, the blood, the screams…yeah it’s awful. Have also seen fingers broken/crushed where kids have hung onto the side and the trolley has bumped off something else. It’s also a dander in an evacuation as it takes longer to lift a child out of a trolley than it does the seat at the front. Also folk may shove past the trolley and your child can slip whilst you are trying to lift them out.

Chavvy and lazy? Fuck off. A PP has said they sat their autistic child in there and that's what I also do. He doesn't wear a sign around his neck that says "I'm autistic!" but you keep on judging.

This is why I do it. My child cannot control himself in the supermarket. He is too big for the child seat.

They shouldn't be in there (full stop)!
I had a friend who always used to let her child sit in the trolley when she was too big for the toddler seats.
Until 1 day she was shopping with her 2 daughters. The younger one was in the toddler seat and the older was in the main bit. She stood up and was leaning over the side, tipped the trolley up sending both children out, cracked her head open and was rushed to A&E for stitches!