Sainsburys Toilets

I can remember public loos like this here in the UK but back in the 1960’s and 70’s.
it is now pretty impossible to find any decent clean public provision and lots of older people like me now have to ration going out .Many Councils have closed theirs to save money. Salisbury City Council have voted to do the same suggesting tourists can use shop and pub toilets ….yeah that’s going to be popular!
Another death blow to the high street .

There are two Sainsburys near us. The big one and the little one.

The little one's toilets have been out of order with yellow tape stuck across the the door for ages. Must be coming up to a year now. The ancient car park toilets next door were always cleaner than the ones in Sainsburys though. I once had to go to customer services and report a massive amount of vomit all down the back of the ladies' toilet and dripping onto the floor.

The big one's toilets are always clean and nice to use.

@Aquarius1234

So did you write a letter to the store manager with copies to Head Office, staff health and safety rep, local paper and local council.

I agree about the stupid washing facility in Tesco's, useless. I now go into the baby changing room to wash my hands, proper washbasin and paper towels. My local John Lewis has clean loos, but they were run down before covid, I vainly hoped that they would upgrade them during lockdown, no such luck.

There are plenty of public toilets in our town centre that are lovely but the ones inside the Morrisons (a few minutes walk from the town centre toilets) are absolutely disgusting. It doesn't help that the decor is vile, cracked, dirty mirrors, door handles broken, snapped hooks so nowhere to put your bag, no toilet lid. Because Morrisons seem to care so little about the toilets, it seems the customers treat them the same way and will leave piss on the seats or snot on the walls. Gross.

The worst public toilet I've been in recently was Wagamama's in Camden. Absolutely revolting.

I've got three large Sainsburys near me...all of the toilets are always spotless.

Morrisons...different story!

I think there is also a lack of joined up thinking..

eg 'I've just had a wee, so no need to wash my hands'.

Ah- but what about the person before you, who had a poo, got some on their hands, flushed the loo, opened the loo door.
Or they touched the loo handle, door etc which some other person had contaminated 3 hours ago.

And now you've touched it as well.

WASH YOUR BLINKIN' HANDS.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GOING TO TOUCH FOOD OR USE THE CAFE.

Our Asdas is terrible for this. Filthy, stinking and no loo roll.
I just hold my nose and hover. But yeah it's gross.

Our local Sainsbury's loos are also the stuff of nightmares. It's a shame, because it's definitely my preferred supermarket of the six or so we have available, as well as being the closest to home! The store itself seems really nicely kept, always clean with nice displays etc but the toilets are absolutely revolting - small cubicles so you can barely turn around, cracked or missing tiles, loo seat hanging off, no toilet roll, no soap and/or no working hand dryer and invariably a used tampon on the floor for all and sundry. Absolute filth. Other supermarkets seem to take much more pride in their toilets - the Tesco ones are reasonably modern and while they might sometimes be unclean, it looks like recent mess rather than weeks of poor hygiene standards.

Listen up, Sainsbury's! This seems to be a trend.

He would only have done that if he wanted to be sure a person/child didn't see him.

I think there are three problems.

First, on the whole the general public are revolting and incapable of treating things with respect. All forms of human life use supermarkets, and I expect that the majority who use their lavatories are at the disorganised and messy end of the spectrum. Everyone else knows how bad they are and plans around it.

Secondlyas almost all public conveniences have been closed, those businesses that do still provide them end up providing a public service without being paid for it.

Thidly, as almost everyone who works I in a supermarket is paid at or near the national living wage I can completely see why they wouldn’t put much effort into maintaining standards. Would anyone clean up excrement and piss for £11 whatever an hour? And as many are just kids, they probably don’t even do that at home.

Ahhh……….he could have locked the door

Why a pack of pocket pack tissues is always handy, I always carry two, one to give away if needed, an ex contact lenses wearer.

I’ll never forget the time I pushed open the disabled toilet door in Tesco (to use the baby change table) and there was a man in there wanking.

Absolutely stuff of nightmares.

I use a tissue to touch the door handle after washing hands as the thought is just so gross

Me too. No point washing your hands if you're going to touch the door handle on the way out. If it opens outwards I shove it open with my shoulder.

Of course its the people who use the loos fault, and of course its not only Sainsbury's and not all Sainsburys are like that, but also Sainsbury's made 996 million last year, so they could employ some cleaners to keep their loos clean.

This is an issue in all toilets open to the public.

I think you're unreasonable and wrong to say it's only Sainsburys.

It's not them nor their staff that have created this issue - it's the public, who may not even be customers that have done so.

Would you prefer they had no toilets at all? Given how sharply supermarkets seem to be cutting staff they might decide customer toilets are not worth the hassle of cleaning and maintaining them - then we all lose out.

Rail at the revolting individuals that have left the toilets in this state instead.

Not always true, our local Aldi customer toilets are always clean. It is in a generally very well heeled town though.

The toilets in my local Sainsburys are okay. Probably haven't been in them for a year-ish though.

‘Yuk yuk 😷 🤢 🤮
SAINSBURY'S toilets need burning down. The taps to the toilets to the doors going into. Gross‘

Yes, precisely. A 5 year old could’ve written this.

I also think some people do flush but do not bother to check that everything is gone.

Our most local M & S simply food used to have 3 women's toilets in a separate room, men's (no idea how many cubicles or if urinals as well) and a disabled one. Then they changed to 4 mixed-sex cubicles and 2 disabled ones.

The result? All the mixed-sex (I can't comment on the disabled ones) are absolutely filthy and seats and floors are covered in piss. Yes, I've complained.

Agreed- it's revolting the amount of women who don't wash their hands after using the loo- they then put their turdy/pissy germy hands on the door handle to get out.
I use a tissue to touch the door handle after washing hands as the thought is just so gross.

The issue is that very few if any store loos have windows that can be opened.

As someone who does have a bowel issue, with urgency, I am just grateful for ANY loo unless it's absolutely filthy and thankfully I've never seen one- or if it is the cubicle next to it is usually ok.