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

I don't particularly worry about the hygiene aspect - the trolley is not going to be all that clean, regardless.

But I don't like seeing primary school aged children taking up most of the trolley, while food is packed around them. There really is no reason why they can't walk around (in almost all cases).

It's not my business obviously, so this is just my inner thought, and not something I ever express or let show on my face!

The weight limit of a standard supermarket shopping trolley is around 100kg. Not sure whose primary aged child is going to weigh 16 stone and therefore be too heavy to sit in the main part of the trolley when their femur length is too long to fit into the seat (which has the weight limit of 15kg-ish).

I wouldn't do it but I couldn't care less if others do. It's not a metric I'd use to assess someone's parenting or hygiene. And if you think trolleys are a germ free sanctuary to begin with then that would be a mistake.

The trollies have probably seen much worse than primary school children.

we used to use our local supermarket trollies to play hungry hippoes on a night out.

think of almost adults who had had just enough drinks to make this sound like a good idea.

And quite a few germs from those filthy trolley handles😄 I try very very hard not to think about stuff like that.

Can't stand it either and primary schools are full of grots. Toilets are grim and young kids will just walk through anything. Sorry to be grim.

With a few exceptions, most primary children can walk around the supermarket.

Wouldn't bother me at all. It's not really something to get annoyed about tbh. I've seen junkies pissing over them before in the car park. Don't think a child makes it any more unhygienic 😂

The trollies are disgusting.
I'm fine with children who are old or calm enough to sit down in them, but any child who can't be trusted to do that the entire time shouldn't be in the main basket, they can and do tip and it's not safe for the child or anyone else around them - those trollies are HEAVY and will gouge a chunk out of your ankle given half a chance.
Source: worked in a supermarket for many years, probably 1 in 3 kids actually stay seated, seen them tip multiple times. Much sympathy to anyone with wriggly kids who are nightmares on shopping trips, but supermarket floors are HARD.

I agree, the trolleys are not hygienic in the first place. I think you are being ridiculous.

It would certainly be nice if trolley higeine was the top of my worry list instead of my abusive ex, my SEN kids, my brain which is losing everyday words and Im having to google search with the microphone to find out how to spell words my 10 year old knows.

So so judgy people like you dereve a huge fucking wake up call. My daughter is disabled has a list along as my arm of diagnosis but the crux of it is she looks normal!!! She's 8 years old in chronic pain with her very low muscle tone, severe asd, tube fed and mentally 2 to 3 years old. Do you know how many disabled child trolleys they have in BIG superstores!! ONE and they are shit to use, impossible to steer and we get so many also disapproving looks because my *normal child is sat in it with an ipad, my ONLY choice for doing a shop is putting her in the main cart sitting on my shopping bags. It's OK to use a trolley left outside with bird piss and shit on it but not a child that's sat in it fucking hell nightmare

That's a lot of people not noticing the smell of dog shit. Sorry I might have apparently missed this one day and poisoned some poor innocent when I needed to put my little precious aka disabled 5 year old in the trolley so that his disabled mum aka me could get around the shops. I'd swear he was never covered in dog shit but apparently we wouldn't notice this, maybe because we think even shit smells good on our little precious. I've now said precious so many times I feel like Gollum, but thanks for the laugh.

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

Well yes. Food in a trolley is either in packaging or you can wash it when you get home. Hardly comparable to eating straight out of the trolley. Nobody is eating off their carpet or straight off the carpet so it's irrelevant

the hygiene aspect wouldn’t bother me but I’d be concerned for their safety. If they’re small, they should be ok in a trolley.

I think you have too much time on your hands.

There was a child killed about 25 years ago , fell out of the main body of the trolley and landed on his head, killed instantly.

A child getting in it with dog shit on their shoe and the next user of the trolley not noticing is indefinitely more unlikely to happen than the trolley getting bird shit on it or a dog weeing on it or a person sneezing on it and it then being used for shopping...

My 9 year old sat in the kids' trolley seat when we went to Costco. She is however extremely small for her age and the trollies are huge. Why I have idea really but I don't think it hurt anyone and no chance of her breaking it or toppling it.

So a kid gets in a trolley with dog shit on their shoe. Next user of the trolley ends up with dog shit on their shopping and possibly on their hands. But that's OK because Little Precious HAS to sit in the trolley.
Screw everyone else

I quite agree. The first supermarket to ban children will get my loyal custom for the rest of my life.

I'm with you OP.

My daughter frequently asks to go in the trolley, and I always tell her that she can't, and no one wants to put their shopping on where she's been standing with her dirty shoes.

I'm aware they aren't clean to begin with, I just think it's rude and unnecessary.

Same as kids standing on chairs - do I think the chair is particularly clean? No. Do I think it's gross to allow your kid to stand on chairs - yeah.

At 50 something years old, having eaten the food which was pushed around a supermarket in a trolley virtually my entire life, I'm not going to start worrying about this now.