Do you feel strongly about toddlers inside regular shopping trolleys...

[squatsandcrunches]

...or at least, do you feel strongly enough to have a go at a stranger in the middle of Sainsbury's about it?

Today a very noicely dressed, well spoken lady in her 60's (I'd guess) actually shouted at me in Sainsbury's for having toddler DD in a regular (small) basket trolley without a toddler seat. From what I could make out, she felt that it was unhygienic as "my food goes in there".

(In case it's relevant, I was trying out a little trolley because I've been finding the big ones there increasingly hard to manouvre with my raging SPD - I'm very pregnant.)

I'm not sure I get her logic - surely the vast majority of stuff in a Sainsbury's is going to be packaged; and the stuff that isn't you'd wash before eating anyway? If my toddler had handled an apple (or if it had brushed against her) in a different circumstance would she feel that apple was irreperably damaged?

How sterile does she imagine the trolleys are normally? Does she know they're parked outside where spiders can rub their willies on them with impunity all night?

Very keen to establish whether society at large would consider this a revolting thing to have done. It has honestly never crossed my mind to think that people who do this are doing anything wrong.

Wouldn't cross my mind as an issue. How does she think packaged food and fruit and veg etc are transported?! In a sterile container?

Oh for God's sake these trollies sit outside in all weathers, people need to get a grip 😂

It doesn't bother me but plenty on here have issue with it. Trolleys are filthy anyway, covered in similar dirt to my child.
If she had dog shit on her shoes, I would see her point.

It doesn't bother me, I'm sure most toddlers are no dirtier than anything else in a supermarket where anyone and everyone can touch anything!

I'd be more worried about the safety of the child than the hygiene. I've had to report accidents where kids have fallen out of trolleys onto a hard supermarket floor and there have been some pretty nasty injuries.

I wouldn’t have a go at someone but I would think it was dangerous to have a toddler in one of those trollies.

Never occurred to me to care!

The woman was rude!

I wouldn’t do that with my DC due to safety concerns. DH would and did.

Why you'd risk your toddler being unrestrained in a shallow trolley I don't know. Are you going to use adult seat belts when it's born instead of a baby seat?
Also, it is unhygienic too.
But mostly my concern would be the total lack of safety.

The safety aspect would concern me. I have seen a small child pitch head first out of a trolley and supermarket floors are hard. I’m not worried about hygiene.

I was in a supermarket car park one day near the trolley bay, there was a homeless man standing in there. The next thing I heard water dripping coming from his direction. I looked over and yes, he had urinated in the trolley bay through the trolleys

Meh. Mine go in the (big) ones all the time. If they're in there, they're not getting in everyone's way.

My child would eat his way through all the food if kept in the main part of the trolley :o

Rude and weird of her to comment. Trolleys live outside so they are hardly clean.

It’s a normal thing to do with kids op.My two always sat in the trolley when they were little.
Not big on being berated loudly by anyone in public. They seem to think that if they’re loud and superior sounding then you will meekly back down.
I have a tendency to loudly put them and their unwanted opinions back in their box.
In short, carry on😁

I dont really have an opinion but if you have bad SPD how do you lift a child into a trolley?
(Nosey!)

I would worry more about the safety than anything else.

At the moment my toddler dgd refuses to sit in the trolley seat, runs away if out of it and so her mum has no choice but to stick her inside the trolley or get home deliveries till dgd finishes this phase.
Everything is packaged these days and people thoroughly wash what is not. I think most people understand that herding toddlers is not easy and shoving them in a trolley is sometimes the only way to get through your weekly shop.

Depending on the age of the toddler I might be mildly concerned from a safety angle because it's quite high up and there are no restraints, but wouldn't say anything (not my circus, and 999 times out of 1000 nothing untoward would happen). However, I did get a bit when I saw a woman with her newborn lying on the bottom of her normal sized trolley with food piled around him and a toddler stepping around him in shoes, despite the fact that infant trolleys were available. Still didn't say anything to her though.

Ha ha she should think about the rats pissing on her trolley at night

My friend is a germphobe and this also makes her anxious . (not to the point of berating someone though).

Im sure I read somewhere that alongside petrol pumps trolly handles are covered in germs , as multiple people touch them and they are never really cleaned

I don't like it, but I wouldn't dream of telling someone not to do it. I assume that if the shop has rules against unrestrained children in trollies it is up to the staff to mention it.

She’s a twat! Trolleys are absolutely filthy with bird crap and other people’s litter thrown in anyway. I have to confess that I sometimes sit my 5 year old in the trolly because a lot of people are so careless and in a world of their own that she was regularly getting hit by other people’s trolleys just walking with me.

The hygiene aspect wouldn't bother me. I wouldn't eat unwrapped fruit if I was immunocompromised. That said isn't there a risk of the trolley tipping over?

I have seen rats literally running across the trollers at night. Also seen many drunk students being shoved around in them by their friends. So I don’t get the whole ‘it’s unhygienic’ bollocks. They’re unhygienic anyway 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’d be more worried about a child tipping out if they leaned over tbh but I wouldn’t say anything.

Spider willies

That is all