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Original poster

Its not okay is it? sitting/ standing in the shopping part of the trolley?

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Feminine · 30/09/2013 11:46

I'm sure this has been done many times.

I'm thinking about it today though Grin

If your child is too big to want or can't fit in the seat part you don't then let them climb in the other part of the trolley?

Filthy dirty feet where I'll put my food.

Standing up (dangerous)

I'm not being unreasonable to suggest that its the seat, or walk right?

I saw this with several families yesterday...it got up my nose Wink

Oh and I know there are germs everywhere... this makes it worse

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maillotjaune · 30/09/2013 12:58

Couldn't care less if small children put their shoes in trolleys - other people's rubbish left in there bothers me less.

But I don't put mine in the trolley just because I have seen a child fall out and falling is THE accident that gives me the collywobbles for some reason.

I suspect the trolleys in my local waitrose are much filthier than in the local LIDL because of the precise location (outside in car park next to busy road vs indoors)Grin

PeggyCarter · 30/09/2013 12:59

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Rachel778 · 30/09/2013 13:01

Roll your eyes all you like . . Its offensive . Joke or Not . .

Oh and re the germs .. Thought of wrapping your DC up in cotton wall maybe ?? Joke .

TheBigJessie · 30/09/2013 13:01

missmarple each of my children is small enough to fit in a designated child's space- even the designated spaces on double trolleys which are always each slightly narrower than the space on a standard trolley. Unfortunately small supermarkets don't stock doubles, and bigger supermarkets can't control their customers.

Would you like to write to your local supermarkets, asking them to provide more double-seat trolleys?

elfycat · 30/09/2013 13:03

There are people who think it's unhygenic to walk around the house with shoes on. I rather thought that was what floors were invented for.

I'm going to say that my DDs do not stand on kitchen worktops. Sometimes they get food from extremely high cupboards, but they must do this through the power of telekinesis rather than using the washing machine door as a step (they've been told not to do this very sternly so of course they'll be obedient and well behaved).

littlemslazybones · 30/09/2013 13:04

I can't think of one food that isn't already pre-packaged or, if the item is loose, that I don't pop into another bag.

I suspect that if I had an issue with germs then I'd have to do my shopping online. I think I'd be more concerned by the hundreds of other biohazards ( sorry, people) coughing and spluttering around the store and putting their unwashed urine/ feaces covered hands on the shopping trolley handle to give a middle-class rat's ass about shoes in the trolley.

2tiredtocare · 30/09/2013 13:04

Can I stuff myself in your trolley babydubs, sounds like fun

lljkk · 30/09/2013 13:05

I profoundly don't care about it.

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Feminine · 30/09/2013 13:05

rachel do one. You are barking up the wrong tree love!

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maillotjaune · 30/09/2013 13:05

Elfycat it happens in Waitrose here. People tut. Just as they tut at noisy children (I have been told off several time for mine singing / screaming by random customers). As I distinctly remember me / my sister / other children doing the same in shops 35-40 years ago I'm not sure what golden age of well behaved children these people come from.

Mintyy · 30/09/2013 13:06

I don't feel as strongly about it as MissMarple, but I hate seeing it too. Would never say anything about it to a parent/carers face but I can say I don't like it here because that's the beauty of being online, isn't it?

And hopefully no one will think that I shouldn't have the right to very mildly judge in this way and go nuts and shriek at me for having this opinion.

Grin
pookamoo · 30/09/2013 13:07

I have to have DD2 in the backpack when we're in the supermarket or she dive-bombs out of the seat. Undoes the clips and climbs up. I don't put the DC in the main bit of the trolley, and I'm sure even if I did, she would jump out of that like she did to DH in B&Q

For all those who say "the food is in packaging so what does it matter", do you unwrap and upack all the food before you put it in the cupboard or fridge at home? Do you want dog poo off shoes in your fridge from the bottom of a packet of yoghurts? Probably not...

I did once see a bare-bummed kid in the food part of a trolley, after he'd had a wee accident on the way in to the shop. I have to admit I mentioned it to the checkout supervisor who went and asked the mum to make him walk (he was about 6).

Mintyy · 30/09/2013 13:08

Hang on a second?!?! I've just read back a bit.

Someone lets their 8 year old sit in the trolley!

Sorry but that is utterly ridiculous.

pookamoo · 30/09/2013 13:09

elfy bare-bum boy was in Waitrose...

2tiredtocare · 30/09/2013 13:09

Ewww

LimburgseVlaai · 30/09/2013 13:10

Has anyone mentioned yet the horror of the child sitting in the trolley eating grapes ????

Shock Shock Shock

2tiredtocare · 30/09/2013 13:12

Whilst wearing nothing bar a filthy pair of willies....

2tiredtocare · 30/09/2013 13:13

Argh, wellies damn auto correct

LimburgseVlaai · 30/09/2013 13:13

A pair of willies arf. That's something I'd like to see.

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:13

s long as they don't puke/wee/wet themselves/smear dog shit on trolley where you put the food I don't care.

unless the monster is hiding in the trolley! I had this a few months back - there was a pile of clothes in the main part and food in the end bit - suddenly a 3 year old boy (we were at checkout) roared and reared up out of the pile of clothes. shocking the life out of his mum and me. LOL. he'd been in the child part but obviously got out and into main part so it seemed. He had also managed to squash some other food and all the mum could say was "he was in the seating part 2 minutes ago"! little Houdini there...

LimburgseVlaai · 30/09/2013 13:14

... then going to the loo and not washing hands afterwards...

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:14

Lilmsberg - what's so awful about the child eating grapes? at least they eat fruit. or is it because you haven't shock horror paid for them yet??!!

MissDD1971 · 30/09/2013 13:15

Limsburg - isn't that par for the course for most kids re hand washing? hence most parents I know carry sanitizer even though swine flu/sars whatever seems to have gone now

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Feminine · 30/09/2013 13:15

pook that is my point really.

Where/when does it stop?

I still think 5/6 is the correct age to learn how to behave in a supermarket. It is out in public. We teach our kids how to behave in other public places don't we?

We don't let them scream loudly in the library....we don't allow them to run all over buses -jump on seats?

Why can't the supermarket be the same? Just because it is more stressful than many things we have to do and teach for us does not negate the importance surely?

I am light-hearted about this though, and have taken on board differing opinions :)

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LimburgseVlaai · 30/09/2013 13:16

MissDD eating grapes before paying for them is one of those recurring threads on mumsnet, as is the standing up in trollies one in fact.

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