To tell you not to go to Costa coffee in the Trafford centre

I boycott Costa anyway because they glorify breast binding and mutilation. So they can have all the rats they want as far as I’m concerned :)

I realise that’s not helpful for people who choose to give Costa their money, though.

They are absolutely everywhere. When I went to Disney Paris years ago they were running everywhere near the food area, you could sit outside and watch them going backwards and forwards. They can get through any small space, climb, jump and swim. It's inevitable they will occasionally get into shops and cafes -doesn't mean it's an infestation. Wouldn't bother me personally, but I have horses so see them all the time. I even had one run up my leg and back down again.

Go to any supermarket carpark or shopping centre at 3am, you’ll see so many rats 😬 they’re everywhere

Probably best not go anywhere, ever.

At least this place dealt with it swiftly.

I worked in a shopping centre and had to report a sandwich shop to environmental health because they were rife with them and did nothing about it, I saw them scuttling along counter tops and all sorts.

Don't go on the London Underground, Op! I've seen some huge Rats there.

I once pointed out an enormous one and a woman stood near us on the platform, screamed and fainted!

When I lived in Manchester as a young woman I had a rat that hung out in my oven. I used the same kick and wait method when I wanted to make my tea.

OMG I'm always in there when I shop there.I would seriously die if I seen that.Time to find a new pit stop.

They're everywhere OP, especially in big cities.

When I worked retail, one of my jobs used to be getting rid of the rubbish - we used to have to kick the bins to get them to run off before we opened the lids!

Wouldn't bother me.
We have them in our garden (fields).

Mouse or rat, to be fair - they're very common.

You would be insane to try to catch a rat in a coffee cup and I'd wager its also impossible. Some are over a foot long for a start with the tail

Rats are everywhere. Ask any builder who works in London shopping centres what they have seen in the basements.

All these large buildings have monitoring stations and try their best ( I hope). I hate wild rats, we have a few get into our various houses in the countryside, in a large town, in a village. One was bigger than a black bin lid. It was caught and hanging over the sides of the bin lid in the photo taken by the person who caught it

A mouse wouldn't bother me, but I'd never go to any branch of Costa because their coffee is disgusting, cold & slimy 😂

Have you seen the number and size of rat bait boxes around supermarkets and fast food drive thrus ?

There’s a saying that you’re never more than 5(?) foot from a rat. Shopping centres are going to have plenty of them - especially in urban places so yabu to think that a coffee shop will never have pests.

I’d advise anyone against going to Costa anyway as they promote mutilation of healthy young women and they’re misogynistic. Plus their coffee is fucking rank.

Mice and rats are everywhere op. There is little to nothing they can do to sort it, it is not something they did to cause it either.

Used to go to Costa in the Arndale in Manchester years ago early on my way to work. In those days (don’t know what it’s like now) it was just chairs and tables and counter in an open space so not behind doors Saw a mouse run across the floor. Staff said they are everywhere in the Arndale.

If one cafe in the Trafford Centre has rats, they all have.

I don't think it is a Costa issue.
Rats are everywhere where lots of people are.

Most shopping centre has issues with rats. There is a lot of food waste which attracts them, as do,city centres full of shops, restaurants and bars.

I know Meadowhall near Sheffield also has rats seen, as does the city centre.

At least the Costa you visited was sorting the situation out - they temporarily closed, sorted it, cleaned and reopened.

Yes have seen rats in the car park of my local Tesco Extra.

They have had micein the Traff before .. they were upstairs in the food court. Places were shut down, and problem dealt with. It’s one of those times things.. it could have walked in through an open door as long as they close down and deal with it.

TBH .. I’m baffled how it got there.. Costa in Next is up above the first floor. Plus you can really shut it down as it’s straight into the shop ..

There’s rats and mice everywhere

DP used to work for a waste contractor where his job was to collect bins from restaurants, cafes, takeaways etc.

When he was being shown the route and what to do, his colleague told him that he had to go in, give the bin a kick and step back to wait for the rats to run away

You should see the rats running around the delivery areas of most supermarkets! Rats are everywhere as long as it's not on your food and they washed their hands it's a non issue. It's only because you can see it that's it's given you a bad feeling, those coffee beans have travelled a awful long way there's no chance they have been kept away from rats the entire distance, same with the giant bags of flour that the cakes would have been made from.

YANBU <runs away screaming >

Yup!