aibu to hate seeing kids sitting in shopping trollies?

[mrsfuzzy]

shoes that have walked in god knows what and in the trolley where food goes, never thought about it until i saw a trolley with mud in it at local supermarket !

I don't want my own child squashing the fruit I'm about to buy! It doesn't bother DH, though. We don't all go shopping together very often

I prefer kids in trolleys rather than running around shrieking.

Doesn't bother me. I used to put mine in when they were feeling tired.

I don't like it either but only because of the safety aspect. What if the kid falls out? You know they're going head first out of there and supermarket floors are the hardest surfaces known to man!

At our local big 4 supermarket the crows sit on the trolleys by day and the kick ass big rats run through them at night I don't like children and their shoes in the body of the trolley but suddenly I'm not sure they are the worst thing.

The trolleys are outside, where it rains and shit. YABU to worry about shoes.

Not something that bothers me in the slightest.

I remember back in the mid eighties my university boyfriend (now my husband) wheeling me along the road in a Sainsbury's trolley. It was after a particularly drunken student party at Warwick University. We got stopped by the police, unsurprisingly, and had to turn it in at the local nick.

Well as said already the food is in packages and the trollies have been stored outside with all the outside stuff like pigeons, rats and exhaust fumes.

But aside from that surely when your child is sat in the seat their shoes are outside the trolly.

I promise my shoes were clean beforehand.

Meh can't get my knickers in a knot about this one tbh, but glad to see it's still a thread topic that regularly pops up. Reminds me that I haven't seen an "is eating grapes in the supermarket stealing" thread for yonks, they were all the rage when I first joined MN

I love putting mine in the trolly. all three of them. Even the ten year old. Then we roar up and down the aisles knocking down old ladies and cutting up mumsnetters.

It's brilliant

Ubik - DH runs through the car park pushing the trolley till it's going good and fast and then hops on the back for a ride

he's 47 and sometimes I push him

If I believed ds would sit down and not mess with the food then I would do this. Sn buggy in one hand and basket in the other is hard work.

Doesn't bother me in the slightest. As others have said, they're out in all weathers, so hardly hygienic to start with.

Along with petrol pumps, aren't supermarket trolly handles in the top 5 things that have been found to have disgusting stuff on them? Compared to that, child cooties doesn't seem so bad.

Something like 80% of handles of shopping trollies have faecel matter in them. More in Asda, less in Waitrose apparently.

I'd be more concerned about that if I were you.

From the thread title I thought you meant in the seats, and was

But in the main bit, argh. My health and safety senses tingle also they might sit on the crisps and crush them.

I'm oversensitive about trolleys as DB overbalanced one as a toddler and still has the scars.

More in Asda, less in Waitrose apparently.

Stirrer!

It's a pet hate of mine also, especially large children. If they are too big too sit in the trolley child seat, then they are old enough to walk around sensibly. I know,food is packaged, but I still think it's unhygienic.

Surely it's one of the joys of childhood to be sitting in the trolley?!

I think I can still remember sitting in the bottom of what seemed like a giant cage and being pushed by my mother

Great fun- kids love it. My kids loved sitting in the trolley surrounded by piles of food- wearing a bunch of bananas as a hat and chewing the end of a baguette.

Lighten up.

But river, as much as I don't like seeing children sat in the main body of the trolley it isn't always as simple as your suggesting. Ds is 5 and often struggles to walk around the store he is still small enough to just about sit in the seat but when he no longer fits we will have a problem.

For some children a trip to the supermarket can be a physical or sensory nightmare, one that's not always avoidable, so sometimes parents may do things like allow the child to sit in the trolley just to try to make life a bit easier. What we really need is more trolleys which are suitable for older children with additional needs,

I don't like it from a mucky shoe point of view.

However 6yo dd runs amok in the supermarket, I can still slot her into the baby seat, but I think that soon she'll need to be plonked in the main trolley.

I can't believe the number of people round here who are obsessed with the hygiene implications of shoes.

Agree with sirzy we need more trollies for older children with additional needs , but those who do it for fun , er no , not acceptable