Hygiene and supermarket trolleys

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I would like the government to make it law to stop children standing or sitting in supermarket trolleys, this is very unhygienic.Children step in all sorts, dog poo, spit, vomit and then with their grubby feet stand in a trolley, at times when I see this I want to say get your child out of the trolley, it really gets on my nerves, anyone else agree, especially with Covid 19 rife.

Pre COVID my kids lovers riding in the trolley after a while they’d get bored with having stuff on them and get out and”help”

You know some trollies have actual seats for children?

Why are people even taking children to the supermarket 🤔 they should be seen and not heard too 😂

Yes, my faith in AIBU has been restored-a proper blast from the past, old school, non covid related rant about a MN favourite subject.

1/10 for originality

Most supermarkets around here, Tesco, ASDA and Sainsbury's for certain allow you to use your phone or a handheld device to scan and pack as you go. Your goods would then go straight in the bags and when you get home don't put the bags on the kitchen worktops

It's great, saves getting everything out of the trolley, cashier scanning it and then putting it all back in. So yesteryear!

Is this for real? I don't understand the issue here. Food is wrapped and if its not you are surely washing it at home?? You aren't putting unwrapped ready to eat food in the trolley? My 2 year old has stood in the trolley once (doesn't really get out the shops these days considering the circumstances) and it was the easiest shop I'd had with her, she was delighted to be in a pirate ship! The thought that people were thinking we were disgusting and it should be illegal.... Good grief.

The trolleys are stored outside overnight. It will be darker on by rats and all sorts.

Standing in trolleys is very dangerous and it doesn't make much for the trolley to tip over and the child to get a nasty injury. Making it illegal though? Smacking isn't even illegal in England yet.

Sorry all, I agree the making law bit is extreme but as well as the hygiene issue, health and safety if a child topples over and hurts themselves is an issue.

Personally, I think the multiple hands pushing the handles and people handling/coughing over the vegetables is far less hygienic. If you're happy to buy this and put your ungloved hands on the handle of a trolley, you're probably at more risk than taking a trolley that had previously had a toddler in it.

Just do what I do. Lick your trolley clean, all sorted.

Ah. Now you've conceded making a law is ridiculous,
I do agree about the safety aspect - I always wince a bit when I see dc standing up in the body of a trolley. It is a dangerous thing to do.

YADNBU!! I hate this! There is a seat for a young child to sit in and any other child that is too big for that needs to walk...I saw a girl of about 13 in there the other day. She pretty much took up the whole trolley!

A few years ago a cashier asked a mother why her child wasn’t at school and she said that said child (about 9) had a stomach bug...he was sitting in the trolley🤢.

YABU

Those trolleys lie outside all night and invariably are covered in bird shit. In fact if you tested them they'd probably be covered in all sorts. Rat and mice pee not to mention the shit covered hands of a huge chunk of the population who don't wash post poo!

This is the silver lining of covid. People clean trolleys now.

Kids feet are the least of your worries.

@CherryRoulade

Yes old enough to stand in a trolley means old enough to walk beside one and behave.

That's very ablest thinking.

Btw I’m abroad and we do have sanitizing wipes at the entrance of supermarkets so I always sanitize the handle...everyone then has to have their hands sanitized when they enter any shop...

YANBU but not for hygiene reasons. I’ve seen a couple of children topple out of the shallower trollies when they’ve been trying to stand up or lean over. One child’s head cracked off the floor with such a noise I was convinced they’d been severely injured. It’s not safe for them to be sat in there.

Now people who sit their kids in the packing area are a different story, that’s bloody grim. Get your kids arse off my till .

I dislike it, but it's better than having the little darlings scooting up and down the supermarket aisles with sod all supervision.
Assuming of course that they can't be left at home with other parent in the first place (and I know there's a zillion other threads as to why that isn't possible for everyone).
Making it law would be mad - who is going to enforce it? Supermarkets don't often remind people about masking, and I have seen some mask wearers be very shouty and abusive when asked very politely, so I can't say I blame the supermarkets.

& I agree with blusterylake on the loons that prod every single unwrapped vegetable.

Thought this was going to be about COVID not kids

Should just ban shopping. And why not ban children too? They will be the future CF parent shoppers and covid spreaders of the future after all

While I take your point, supermarket trolleys are pretty grim anyway. At least at the moment there is sanitiser - you could squirt the bottom of the trolley too.

I'd like them riding on flatbed trolleys to be banned. I used to work in a hardware store and parents were forever telling us to fuck off when we told them to get their kid off the trolley. Signs everywhere warning that its dangerous and not to let them ride on them. Then one afternoon, parent came running in carrying a shrieking little girl with blood pouring down her front, absolutely hysterical. Turns out she'd been sitting on the flat trolley and as her dad pulled it over the speed hump in the car park, the jolt had unbalanced her and she had been smashed in the mouth by the bar.

They also have a spring mechanism underneath that is excellent at trapping fingers and depending on the weight of the load could probably sever them. I've bandaged many a child and explained how weight and gravity works to many a fuckwit parent but still they just let them jump back on as soon as they think I can't see them.

I dont care about this. Things like packets of raw meat leak on to trellises and they don't get cleaned, and most food is bagged. If you really want to eat something that's been in direct contact with a trolley, I'd be more worried about this

I think all supermarkets should provide free helium balloons (I know helium is a limited resource but this is important) and when you enter with a small child you tie enough balloons to them so they float. No need to put them in the trolley anymore.

I do accept it is not a perfect solution as you could get a knot of strings when passing other floating children - a bit like when you used to play conkers. There may be an issue with babies and leaking nappies too, but on the whole I reckon this could work, I think.

Do you think supermarket trolleys are clean?! They really are not - regardless of kids standing in them. The good is packaged anyway, so I don’t see the problem.