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!!

Well yes. Food in a trolley is either in packaging or you can wash it when you get home. Hardly comparable to eating straight out of the trolley. Nobody is eating off their carpet or straight off the carpet so it's irrelevant

Or perhaps you could just parent your child and teach them not to touch things or wander off?

That's a lot of people not noticing the smell of dog shit. Sorry I might have apparently missed this one day and poisoned some poor innocent when I needed to put my little precious aka disabled 5 year old in the trolley so that his disabled mum aka me could get around the shops. I'd swear he was never covered in dog shit but apparently we wouldn't notice this, maybe because we think even shit smells good on our little precious. I've now said precious so many times I feel like Gollum, but thanks for the laugh.

So so judgy people like you dereve a huge fucking wake up call. My daughter is disabled has a list along as my arm of diagnosis but the crux of it is she looks normal!!! She's 8 years old in chronic pain with her very low muscle tone, severe asd, tube fed and mentally 2 to 3 years old. Do you know how many disabled child trolleys they have in BIG superstores!! ONE and they are shit to use, impossible to steer and we get so many also disapproving looks because my *normal child is sat in it with an ipad, my ONLY choice for doing a shop is putting her in the main cart sitting on my shopping bags. It's OK to use a trolley left outside with bird piss and shit on it but not a child that's sat in it fucking hell nightmare

It would certainly be nice if trolley higeine was the top of my worry list instead of my abusive ex, my SEN kids, my brain which is losing everyday words and Im having to google search with the microphone to find out how to spell words my 10 year old knows.

I agree, the trolleys are not hygienic in the first place. I think you are being ridiculous.

The trollies are disgusting.
I'm fine with children who are old or calm enough to sit down in them, but any child who can't be trusted to do that the entire time shouldn't be in the main basket, they can and do tip and it's not safe for the child or anyone else around them - those trollies are HEAVY and will gouge a chunk out of your ankle given half a chance.
Source: worked in a supermarket for many years, probably 1 in 3 kids actually stay seated, seen them tip multiple times. Much sympathy to anyone with wriggly kids who are nightmares on shopping trips, but supermarket floors are HARD.

Wouldn't bother me at all. It's not really something to get annoyed about tbh. I've seen junkies pissing over them before in the car park. Don't think a child makes it any more unhygienic 😂

Can't stand it either and primary schools are full of grots. Toilets are grim and young kids will just walk through anything. Sorry to be grim.

With a few exceptions, most primary children can walk around the supermarket.

And quite a few germs from those filthy trolley handles😄 I try very very hard not to think about stuff like that.

The trollies have probably seen much worse than primary school children.

we used to use our local supermarket trollies to play hungry hippoes on a night out.

think of almost adults who had had just enough drinks to make this sound like a good idea.

I wouldn't do it but I couldn't care less if others do. It's not a metric I'd use to assess someone's parenting or hygiene. And if you think trolleys are a germ free sanctuary to begin with then that would be a mistake.

The weight limit of a standard supermarket shopping trolley is around 100kg. Not sure whose primary aged child is going to weigh 16 stone and therefore be too heavy to sit in the main part of the trolley when their femur length is too long to fit into the seat (which has the weight limit of 15kg-ish).

I don't particularly worry about the hygiene aspect - the trolley is not going to be all that clean, regardless.

But I don't like seeing primary school aged children taking up most of the trolley, while food is packed around them. There really is no reason why they can't walk around (in almost all cases).

It's not my business obviously, so this is just my inner thought, and not something I ever express or let show on my face!

@CanIbeRio

I agree with you,

Shoe muck, and potential dogs crap 💩 could step on outside,
B.O sweat

Trolley shop hygiene

Also potentially dangerous 😳 if child topples over too..

How fortunate you are that you haven't seen this. Because I have, and the resulting thud will stay with me for life.

Child left in trolley, Mum turning around to get items off other shelves and child leans over towards a display of birthday cakes, tipping the trolley and landing heavily head first.
I worked at that particular store at the time. Wasn't the first child and wasn't the last. Fortunately they got away with a concussion and a large egg on their head.
I've also seen kids go backwards riding the end of trollies because some of them tip that way too.

They are designed to carry shopping. Not your children.

It pisses me off from a safety standpoint, having seen the injuries resulting from children riding on trollies but not hygiene. Those trollies get mobbed by rats on a nightly basis, they're far from clean.

You see, I thought I had a reasonable assessment about the uncleanliness of shopping trolleys but it never really extended to mobbed by rats 🤮

If only there was a third way - like, I don't know, getting your child to behave?

I told my children anyone aged 3 and over is not allowed in.

It’s gross. Even smaller kids in there are disgusting when they stand in the trolley with their shoes.

Loose fruit and veg has been grown in a field, fertilised with manure or worse, then stored in a warehouse where there may be rats or other rodent life. It may have been pooed on or pecked by birds while being got out of the ground.
I would wash it before eating, not worry about kids in the trolley.

YANBU op

it’s grim

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Personally I prefer to carry my primary aged children in shopping baskets.

This is really sweet and random - what made you consider wear and tear on the trollies? I can’t imagine that would have crossed my mind unless I was considering buying a supermarket

Presumably the cost of trolleys is eventually passed on to customers. The longer they last, the less often they need replacing and the lower the cost to us. Hopefully anyway!