AIBU to object to an older child sitting directly in a food trolley?

Tragic - but extremely rare (according to the Trolley Data Management Network and other sources).

My immediate reaction when I see a large child in a trolley is, for goodness sake, get out of the trolley; it's a trolley, not a go kart centre. But my rational side is that the child's shoes are no more dirty than a trolley would be anyway.nAnd not my circus, not my monkeys

😂 just a tad

I don’t care about the hygiene aspect but an 8 year old should not be sat in a trolley.

covered in dogshit and wee

Bit of an exaggeration, that.

@localnotail
Yep, I totally agree with you!

Thought this was a joke - not your business and absolutely unreasonable. Most food is in packages and if not, it’s rinsed before eating. I feel bad towards the grandmother and granddaughter - having a lovely time together and ‘delighted with herself’ as you say only to be judged and interrupted by a curmudgeonly stranger. Get a life for goodness sakes

In the UK?

A ten month old baby was severely injured in a shopping trolley, but he was securely fastened and it was considered a faulty trolley. I can't see any fatalities in the UK.

There are cases in other countries, but not with our safety standards.

They stand up, lean too heavily against one side, reach over for something, they're not that stable and tip quite easily, they aren't designed to take weight that moves around.

Even the seat is designed for babies and toddlers. Not an 8 year old.

Even that thing that elderly/disabled people often do, makes me cringe as they can and do flip trolleys backwards. You know, when they lean over the trolley and rest all their weight on the handle?

You do realise people go to the toilet, dont wash their hands and then push the trolley which is then touched by your hands? I would guess that the trolley handle is far more ridden with actual germs and bacteria than the inside of it 🤣

For children too big to sit in the child seat who are disabled in whatever way there are wheelchair trolley so no need to stick them in the trolley which is dirty and dangerous

Omg I never thought about this happening 😢 That's so horrible. How can it tip over when the child's weight at the bottom of a trolley presumably evenly balances it? Did the child stand up?

But you shouldn't sit him in the body of the trolley.

Trollies are just fundamentally disgusting. At our M&S they’re kept next to the multi-storey, near the bins, seagulls and bird poo regularly, foxes and badgers have the bins out all over/around them. There’s a homeless man with a very large dog and I’ve walked past a few times when there has been obvious dog shit on the trolley wheels. Fairly certain an 8 year olds clothed bottom and her crocs are the last things to worry about.

Gross. Trolleys are germy anyway, I always anti bac mine before using but never seen anyone else do the same.

I would have told you to stuff off and get a grip. How dare you passive aggressively say that to a child.
I would love for my life to be so simple that I could worry about the cleanliness of the trolleys.
i have 3 kids, 2 of them are autistic and run away. They are too big for prams. I often have them in trolleys. The alternative is they run around the store screaming and then other people get angry I cannot “controll” my kids.
take some hygiene wipes with you and wipe down and trolley and consider yourself lucky you are not so desperate that letting a kid ride in a trolley is the only thing that saves your sanity.

I couldn’t get bothered about this. Shopping trolley are generally manky. Imagine how many hands have been all over the handles.

I hate to see kids in the main part of trolleys, mainly from safety aspect. But the hygiene aspect can work both ways if they are touching it where rats have been

Fucking ridiculous. Mind your own business.

Isn’t it funny the stuff that winds people up? And how angry people are? If I had seen a granny and an 8 year old girl shopping on a summers day in M&S I would have smiled.

Crocs are piss easy to keep clean, I put my kids crocs in the washing machine all the time, they’re plastic with very little grip on the bottom, there’s no where for pigeon / dog / fox shit to even stick, it’s not like a pair of trainers. Just run them under the tap and they’re clean again.

Just have a day off.

Do you really think supermarket trolleys are sterile and clean. ? the trolley and groceries will be contaminated with dirt, food debris, bacteria, animal faeces etc through the supply chain already. Same as the kids shoes.
it’s Illogical to think a trolley is clean and suddenly contaminated by the presence of a kid sitting in it.

As others have said, a child with shoes on is the least of your problems when it comes to trolleys and hygiene. You need to wash your food, if not packed. Unpacked bread I normally don’t buy for hygiene reasons, and if I do, I don’t put it in the trolley.

The trolleys are not sterile!
They are stored outside and exposed to all weather conditions, so it is impossible to know what they may have been exposed to.
It was also inappropriate for you to make that comment to her. It was not your place to do so.

TBH I'm less bothered about kids IN trolleys than about them running round unsupervised with those thrice damned mini versions which M&S seem to think are fun

Fun for the kids perhaps, but not for those who get rammed

It might be more acceptable in Asda rather than M&S.

I absolutely hate seeing this but I wouldn't have bothered saying anything