To believe that kids sat inside supermarket trolleys is disgusting

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Just that really.
Never allowed my DC to do it.

I think it is gross that some guardians allow children to sit amongst the groceries in the supermarket trolley.
Makes me shudder that they could have dog shit or other unmentionables on their outside footwear. This would contaminate their shopping and the next unsuspecting persons. I also think it's dangerous having a kid hanging off the edge of a trolley. Pisses me off to see this. Am I alone?

We have to use the trolley that’s holds a car seat which means there’s no seat for the toddler so when she gets bored she wants to sit in the trolley so you are being a bit U

Surely in that case the car seat would be safer in the trolley with the toddler in a seat?

The trolleys are kept outside. Rats and birds can shit and piss in them at any time. Your food is in packaging...

fabric come to our local Waitrose
Yes, children sitting (or standing) inside the trollies.
The OP talks about children sitting among groceries.

I can't say I've ever thought of it being disgusting. TBH most foods are so wrapped up in packaging I don't think they will be contaminated in that way. Anyway whos to say the person before you using the trolley didn't wash their hands after the toilet?

I've no problem with children sitting in trolleys, keeps them running up and down the aisles, getting in the way and then getting lost. And supermarket stuff is packaged.

No, my gripe is when they stand up on bus seats. I really don't want the muck from their shoe bottoms transferred to my clothes

I saw a fox taking a piss against a shopping trolley at the weekend. 🤢

If your kid is wiggling about so much the trolley might topple then they shouldn't be in the trolley but I've seen more kids walking and getting in the way than trying to topple the trolley so yabu on this one.

I read something about the cleanliness if trolleys and the handle is apparently the dirtiest bit. They found traces of human poo amongst the other nasties.

I do it and i hate it but i have two under 4. They cant sit in the double seats without fighting. I cant let bigger one walk because she would bolt and cause chaos and little one is too small to manage yet so bigger one sits in the main bit and gets made to sit down

Some of the replies to this thread are hilarious! FWIW my children have been allowed to ride in the trolley, even in Waitrose!! I really have better things to worry about than Pearl Clutchy judgers.

Try having a 7 year old and 4 year old with Autism. Both cannot walk through a Supermarket on most days. There isn't a special needs trolley with more than one seat in existence. I'd love to buy online but trying to do that with those two around is impossible and my eldest and I have coeliac diease so substitutions are fraught.

The germs on the handle bother me much more. Same with hand rails on escalators. The number of people who don't wash their hands after going to the toilet is astronomical. Worry about that instead op.

I doubt the trolleys are ever cleaned, so I don't think it'll make any difference. Aren't drink cans supposed to be covered in deadly bacteria and rat poo and stuff anyway?
I don't mind it at all, unless the child is way to old, but, even then the parents probably have their reasons.
I like Lidl trolleys, they have a step bit on the back designed to be ridden on. Makes life much easier.

handrails on escalators,etc....in NY the way the cognoscenti pressed the lift buttons was with their elbow, when I was there

Well I have never seen a Fox in a shopping trolley, but turns out I haven't lived....

I worked as a TA for 8 years and saw a variety of limb twisting, head denting and blood producing accidents more than once per week in the school. 20+ hospitalisations. (Including DD3!) - school - that safe environment ....

I’ve been going to supermarkets for 40+ years and never witnessed a trolly related accident involving a child.

Not saying accidents don’t happen but it’s hardly an extreme sport!

YANBU OP.

I think it's worse than people putting their feet on the seats on public transport (fairly universally considered not OK, I think?) because it involves food.

Just because it's more convenient for some people to put their children inside a trolley than bother to parent them properly / arrange childcare / just do an online shop, it doesn't make it hygienic.

But trolleys aren’t hygienic anyway. They are left outside for birds to shit in rinsed only by rain.
And we are a family who don’t wear shoes in the house. That is because I clean my floors and don’t let wildlife shit on them so they are as hygienic as floors can be.
I’d much rather parents comtained their children in supermarkets than let them run riot getting in everyone’s way or ‘helping’ as their parents might call it.

Why can't the kids just walk next to the trolley with one hand on like I did as a child. I agree with the OP. It's dirty

Trolley’s are disgustingly dirty anyway. Children sitting in them is the very least of your worries.

I don’t like it either and agree with Blithering idiot.

I have also seen a kid fall out of a trolley.

I agree. It's disgusting and just why.

Put a kid in a supermarket trolley with the produce sold by the supermarket, and yes, there's a real danger.

However, the danger is to crap you're likely putting into the child, not the other way around.

p.s.
World's gone mad.

In the US, a study found 24,000 injuries in children per year due to shopping trolleys. The majority of injuries were due to falls from the trolley, and the head was the most injured area. I think there's a lot more awareness of this issue in the US, with shops making announcements and staff being asked to approach parents using trolleys incorrectly. Much better to use the actual trolley seat and safety belt or use a pushchair. This is an entirely preventable form of accident.

They can but then the trolley plus child takes up the whole aisle. What on earth is wrong with a child’s shoes touching something already riddled with germs? Does the op have an issue with kids walking on the floor as well in case they contaminate it with their shoes?
Unless anyone is planning on licking the inside of the trolley or performing surgery in it there is no need for it to be sterile.