Just had a Tesco delivery, cat got in delivery van where food is stored and walked all over food.

[MollyBunny154]

I appologise in advance if I'm posting this in wrong place. I hoping I can get some advice.

I just had a tesco delivery, when I was taking food in to house my son was helping me, he suddenly noticed there was a cat inside delivery van where customers food is stored and it was walking all over another customers food.

We told the delivery driver and pointed out the cat, at first he didn't seem that bothered even joked that it happens often. Eventually he slowly walked back to van and instead of trying to get cat out quickly, he tried to stroke it, cat eventually jumped out and ran away.

I'm pretty sure it didn't get near my food but feel sorry for the other customers who have no idea a cat has walked all over there food.

Should I contact Tesco's and say something or just leave it.

What would you do.

Id forget that in a nanosecond !
everything is packaged

You beat me to it. It's a while since I saw a genuine flounce.

Jeez OP, do you know where most of your food comes from? A cat walking in a delivery van is nothing. Furthermore, what can the driver/company do about it? Anything could hop in the van when the doors are open. We are part of a bigger world. The fact he tried to stroke it was probably his way of enticing it out, what did you expect him to do?

I would be more concerned about the crate and the bacteria it harbours in there.

Yeah you have never worked in a supermarket or in distribution.Wash and peel…

Because no one is as horrified and disgusted as she is 😂... let's hope she doesn't observe the pick n mix at stores - that would require therapy.

Yes, this guy who worked in a pub told me never to drink straight from a bottle as rats and mice might have urinated on it.

If it was a cat this big I might call someone

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It’s not a mouse or a rat why on earth would it wee on the food?

You want to report a knackered, underpaid Tesco driver for a cat getting in his van. And then him being kind to an animal?

Exactly this. Unless they have some sort of medical condition or feline senility, cats generally do not just wee anywhere. Even If they did, the smell would alert you to it straight away, so you would be unlikely to accidentally eat something that had been contaminated.As someone else said, where hygiene is concerned, a cat would be the least of worries! Hope this is reassuring a bit OP.

Tesco probably uses the cat as pest control, they know customers would prefer to see a cat in the van rather than a rat or mouse.

Yes, it can be enough to trigger an allergy! But more than that, I don't want random animals walking over my food, wrapped or not!

This. It’s not that big a deal. I doubt people are going to die because a cat walked on their food.

Most people wash unwrapped food before eating anyway.

Then you better stop buying food. 🤷🏻‍♀️

As PP have said, if you worked in retail and saw the warehouses, home shop pods and so on that your shopping has passed through I’d hazard a guess that Mittens there is one of the more hygenic things it’s touched recently. Might’ve even cleaned it up a bit.

You see it all sat on the shelf or in the crate and think it’s grand but it’s been stored in a warehouse that would have you running for the bleach. Despite best efforts we had a bird invasion in our warehouse. Took weeks and a local wildlife charity diligently hunting them like Tommy Lee Cooper in The Fugitive to get those bastards out. So much poo.

omg don't be ridiculous

Do you realise the reactions of the people you would be complaining to? They might be polite while they are talking to you, but I can see the rolling eyes from here. People who complain about the slightest little thing soon get a reputation and may just find that when they complain about something worthy of a complaint they don't get taken seriously.

Yours sincerely,
someone who worked in customer servce for many years.

Good god, I think ive given up. Are you actually serious?

I would be more concerned about the crate and the bacteria it harbours in there.

I remember watching something on tv about that years ago. They swabbed the crates and sent them to a lab and it's wasn't pleasant. I think Asda's were the worst. You just have to not think about it too much, our bodies do a good job at protecting us.

This.

The road I used to live on was also the back entrance to our local minimart. Mice would scurry in and out under the badly fitting shutter. I once took the back entrance to our local supermarket and a large rat ran across the path in front of me towards the warehouse area. A cat is probably one of the cleaner animals to have come into contact with the food in that van.

I'd expect them to let people know because of the allegen risk, the same as if peanuts or milk had spilt all over shopping. But realistically its too obscure of an incident to expect the driver to think about it. Ideally you should have said at the time for him to tell subsequent shoppers incase of allergies if he wasn't seeming to realise it could be an issue.

It wasn't one of mine! Honest! 👀 😹

Food is fertilised with shit, some food IS animals and humans are animals too so keeping ANY of these things away from your groceries is pretty much impossible.

Perhaps it was a substitute item. Catsup?