Ewwww.....primary school kids in shopping trollies

[CanIbeRio]

I may be classed as a pearl clutcher and am prepared to maybe be told so but...

Does anyone else think it really unhygienic when you see primary school children riding in the basket of a shopping trolley? As in dressed in their school uniforms where mum has popped in for a few bits on the way home.

Bless them, been at school all day walking and standing in God knows what - in and out of the loos with possible wee, poo, vomit covered floors, walking by dog poo and possibly stomping in muddy puddles on the way to the shops. 😖

This is where we then put our food....sometimes unpackaged like loose fruit and veg. Yuk!!

Hate to tell you...they're filthy whether a kids been in it or not! I always put my shopping directly in my own bags.

YABU @CanIbeRio . I assume you’ve never seen all the rats, mice, foxes, pigeons et al. that clamber all over the shopping trollies out of hours?

Ah. You live under the belief that if you have never seen it happen it can't happen.

Shopping trolleys are stored outside overnight so will have shit and piss from rats, foxes etc on them. Much more likely that the child catches something.

We have rats by our local tesco they built it between a river and a canal we also have ducks pigeons mice flys and loads of other disgusting things we also have scratch and sniff who uses the trolleys too so nothing is paticularly hygienic here

An explanation of scratch and sniff not for the faint hearted

A group of particularly dirty people (they are NOT POOR they CAN afford soap) who scratch inside there trousers and sniff their fingers occasionally they flick lumps out from there (fucking grim) fingernails the original scratch and sniff was nicknamed in the 70s went on to have children who have the same habits they are quite well off buy nice food just have the personal hygiene habits of the undead and smell about the same

This.

However, the hygiene part isn't really an issue. I wouldn't presume a trolley cart is overly,clean anyway.

I am one of the 23% who values hygiene though, or just thinks walking around a supermarket is OK for a school aged child.

Unclench.

I thought this was going to be about safety tbh.

People put raw chickens in the bottom of trollies (and yes they are absolutely contaminated on the outside of the packaging). That's far more likely to make you ill than a 5 year old child.

Interesting, there have been many many other MN threads where lots of people say that children should not be allowed to walk in a supermarket, you strap them in the trolley or don't bring them. Or words to that effect.

If one was the kind of person to live their life according to the MN consensus, what would one do??

Accidents can and do happen. I worked in a supermarket and those have older children sitting in the trolley are asked to remove the child. More than one accident has been caused where the child has leaned over, disturbed the weight balance and the whole thing comes crashing down. All neatly captured on CCTV when parents try to claim compo

I'm clearly in the minority and I accept I am being perceived as making a mountain out of a molehill and missing the point that shopping trollies are, by their nature, germ baths. OK, fair enough.

Some of these posts are coming accross very sarcastic....i certainly dont think children are filthy and "disgusting" ...i just think their shoes, coming fom a school school environment might not be the cleanest, and question should they be in a trolley with said mucky shoes on where food is being put

I bet lots of you take your shoes off when u get home? Or insist guests do? I personally do, but don't make my guests or my family....so no, im not fanatical, but I do like to observe what I think is basic, common sense hygiene. I know we all want to keep our carpets clean and that's one reason, but isn't it also for hygiene reasons cos we all know the soles of our shoes are dirty! I'm sure you wouldn't want to eat off the floor yet we can all be a bit precious about shoes in the house....but it's OK to stomp around a trolley in dirty shoes where food goes 😆.. just saying!!!

But surely you acknowledge trollies are kept outside subject to rain, shitting birds, insects and whatever leaves/crisp packets blow into them? I could understand your position a bit better if they were kept safely indoors and sterilised every day but they’re not. They’re unclean to start with, so luckily food is either packaged or if loose something you generally wash and boil/peel.

But you wash your food before you eat it?

I don't see the relevance of the shoes in the house thing at all. Shoes come off in my house because a) it's comfier and b) I don't want to look at dirty marks, mud, stones etc on my carpet, nor do I want to clean it five times a day.

A better comparison would be, do you wash/sterilise the inside of your cupboards and fridge before you put all your shopping away?

At 50 something years old, having eaten the food which was pushed around a supermarket in a trolley virtually my entire life, I'm not going to start worrying about this now.

I'm with you OP.

My daughter frequently asks to go in the trolley, and I always tell her that she can't, and no one wants to put their shopping on where she's been standing with her dirty shoes.

I'm aware they aren't clean to begin with, I just think it's rude and unnecessary.

Same as kids standing on chairs - do I think the chair is particularly clean? No. Do I think it's gross to allow your kid to stand on chairs - yeah.

I'm meaning no one minds putting food in the dirty trolley where food goes which is then consumed. But can be precious about their carpets at home which is less of a concern as nobody eats off the floors!

I quite agree. The first supermarket to ban children will get my loyal custom for the rest of my life.

So a kid gets in a trolley with dog shit on their shoe. Next user of the trolley ends up with dog shit on their shopping and possibly on their hands. But that's OK because Little Precious HAS to sit in the trolley.
Screw everyone else

My 9 year old sat in the kids' trolley seat when we went to Costco. She is however extremely small for her age and the trollies are huge. Why I have idea really but I don't think it hurt anyone and no chance of her breaking it or toppling it.

Well said @LakeTiticaca ... also, it's not worth worrying about cos what's a bit of dog shit amongst the invisible pigeon poop and rats wee! In for a penny, in for a pound!!!

A child getting in it with dog shit on their shoe and the next user of the trolley not noticing is indefinitely more unlikely to happen than the trolley getting bird shit on it or a dog weeing on it or a person sneezing on it and it then being used for shopping...

There was a child killed about 25 years ago , fell out of the main body of the trolley and landed on his head, killed instantly.

I think you have too much time on your hands.

the hygiene aspect wouldn’t bother me but I’d be concerned for their safety. If they’re small, they should be ok in a trolley.