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

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CanIbeRio · 12/04/2024 09:47

I may be classed as a pearl clutcher and am prepared to maybe be told so but...

Does anyone else think it really unhygienic when you see primary school children riding in the basket of a shopping trolley? As in dressed in their school uniforms where mum has popped in for a few bits on the way home.

Bless them, been at school all day walking and standing in God knows what - in and out of the loos with possible wee, poo, vomit covered floors, walking by dog poo and possibly stomping in muddy puddles on the way to the shops. 😖

This is where we then put our food....sometimes unpackaged like loose fruit and veg. Yuk!!

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Unexpectedlysinglemum · 12/04/2024 20:59

ZipZapZoom · 12/04/2024 09:56

YABU for thinking that the trolleys are hygienic to start with. Honestly a child, primary age or otherwise sitting in it is the least if your worries.

I agree

Beginningless · 12/04/2024 20:52

That’s sad for these poor kids, makes the world a scary place for them 😕

LivingDeadGirlUK · 12/04/2024 20:46

Beginningless · 12/04/2024 20:39

I always learn things on MN, and one is how much some people think about hygiene. Like it seems like a big preoccupation for some. I just don’t think like this at all. Probably I worry about different things these people don’t, but I find it hard to relate to.

I've just had a relative come to stay who is obsessed, even made the kids change their clothes after going out because 'they were sat on the dirty bus seat', they do have immune system issues but its incredibly draining with the constant talking about cleaning and I'm sure some of it is OCD because they totally cleaned an already clean guest room.

Bumblebeeinatree · 12/04/2024 20:43

Who knows what has been in a trolley before you anyway? Definitely not expected to be clean., I wash anything loose before use and virtually anything packed come to that.

Beginningless · 12/04/2024 20:39

I always learn things on MN, and one is how much some people think about hygiene. Like it seems like a big preoccupation for some. I just don’t think like this at all. Probably I worry about different things these people don’t, but I find it hard to relate to.

Deadringer · 12/04/2024 20:38

No I could not give a shit.

Chasingthewilddeer · 12/04/2024 20:36

I don't like it for the safety aspect for the child, don't think the hygiene aspect is that significant

LivingDeadGirlUK · 12/04/2024 20:35

Shopping trollies aren't clean, I know we did the whole washing stuff down during lockdown but things outside are not clean. As long as you wash your hands before you eat, and wash your fruit and veg before you cook and eat it, you will be fine.

MinervaMcGonagallsCat · 12/04/2024 20:31

Do people really believe shopping trolleys are hygienic?

SantasRubiksCube · 12/04/2024 19:03

DH used to work at a supermarket collecting trollies in his youth, I asked him about this and he laughed and said if kids with their shoes on sitting in the trollies is enough to disgust people, then he'd hate to see their reactions to some of the 'filth' he had to wash off them in the past (dead seagulls, drunk people's vomit etc) he actually spoke to the managers because they never seemed to dispose of any of the trollies no matter what was on them, they just said as long as they had been 'cleaned enough' they were still ok for the public to use 😬

PlipPlopChoo · 12/04/2024 18:59

Yes it's lazy, chavvy and unhygienic but it will never be policed by the staff. They are not paid enough to deal with the ignorant customers and their little darlings.

Robin198 · 12/04/2024 18:52

peakygold · 12/04/2024 12:43

Or perhaps you could just parent your child and teach them not to touch things or wander off?

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The problem with this is to "teach them" they have to actually do it so you have a teaching opportunity......so the previous poster is being considerate to other shoppers.

Robin198 · 12/04/2024 18:50

My husband once watched a seagull eat a dead rat in shopping trolley while it was outside the shop.

I wouldn't worry about kids.

midlifeattheoasis · 12/04/2024 17:12

YABU. What makes you think trolleys are already hygienic? Just think of all the packs of raw chicken and meat that go in trolleys that often leak a bit of blood

IglesiasPiggl · 12/04/2024 17:01

Devonshiregal · 12/04/2024 16:15

This is really sweet and random - what made you consider wear and tear on the trollies? I can’t imagine that would have crossed my mind unless I was considering buying a supermarket

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Presumably the cost of trolleys is eventually passed on to customers. The longer they last, the less often they need replacing and the lower the cost to us. Hopefully anyway!

Devonshiregal · 12/04/2024 16:15

IglesiasPiggl · 12/04/2024 09:55

Children bigger than toddlers are too heavy to be in trolleys in my opinion, but that's because of unnecessary wear and tear as far as I'm concerned. I think your hygiene concerns are a bit precious, since the unwrapped fruit and veg you're putting in has also been coughed and sneezed over, and handled by any number of staff before you pick it up.

This is really sweet and random - what made you consider wear and tear on the trollies? I can’t imagine that would have crossed my mind unless I was considering buying a supermarket

IHateLegDay · 12/04/2024 16:06

Personally I prefer to carry my primary aged children in shopping baskets.

LuckySantangelo35 · 12/04/2024 15:58

YANBU op

it’s grim

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ilikecatsandponies · 12/04/2024 14:56

Loose fruit and veg has been grown in a field, fertilised with manure or worse, then stored in a warehouse where there may be rats or other rodent life. It may have been pooed on or pecked by birds while being got out of the ground.
I would wash it before eating, not worry about kids in the trolley.

LegoDeathTrap · 12/04/2024 13:50

I told my children anyone aged 3 and over is not allowed in.

It’s gross. Even smaller kids in there are disgusting when they stand in the trolley with their shoes.

underscorer · 12/04/2024 13:47

orangeleopard · 12/04/2024 10:00

People can’t win though, it the kids were running around people would complain so there’s one solution by putting them in the trolley and people still moan!

If only there was a third way - like, I don't know, getting your child to behave?

Desecratedcoconut · 12/04/2024 13:45

You see, I thought I had a reasonable assessment about the uncleanliness of shopping trolleys but it never really extended to mobbed by rats 🤮

Balloonhearts · 12/04/2024 13:43

It pisses me off from a safety standpoint, having seen the injuries resulting from children riding on trollies but not hygiene. Those trollies get mobbed by rats on a nightly basis, they're far from clean.

AsphaltBeach · 12/04/2024 13:41

GoodnightAdeline · 12/04/2024 11:38

I must’ve visited a supermarket tens of thousands of times in my life and I’ve never once seen a trolley tip over, where are you shopping?

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How fortunate you are that you haven't seen this. Because I have, and the resulting thud will stay with me for life.

Child left in trolley, Mum turning around to get items off other shelves and child leans over towards a display of birthday cakes, tipping the trolley and landing heavily head first.
I worked at that particular store at the time. Wasn't the first child and wasn't the last. Fortunately they got away with a concussion and a large egg on their head.
I've also seen kids go backwards riding the end of trollies because some of them tip that way too.

They are designed to carry shopping. Not your children.

cerisepanther73 · 12/04/2024 13:39

@CanIbeRio

I agree with you,

Shoe muck, and potential dogs crap 💩 could step on outside,
B.O sweat

Trolley shop hygiene

Also potentially dangerous 😳 if child topples over too..

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