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

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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!!

YABU. What makes you think trolleys are already hygienic? Just think of all the packs of raw chicken and meat that go in trolleys that often leak a bit of blood

My husband once watched a seagull eat a dead rat in shopping trolley while it was outside the shop.

I wouldn't worry about kids.

The problem with this is to "teach them" they have to actually do it so you have a teaching opportunity......so the previous poster is being considerate to other shoppers.

Yes it's lazy, chavvy and unhygienic but it will never be policed by the staff. They are not paid enough to deal with the ignorant customers and their little darlings.

DH used to work at a supermarket collecting trollies in his youth, I asked him about this and he laughed and said if kids with their shoes on sitting in the trollies is enough to disgust people, then he'd hate to see their reactions to some of the 'filth' he had to wash off them in the past (dead seagulls, drunk people's vomit etc) he actually spoke to the managers because they never seemed to dispose of any of the trollies no matter what was on them, they just said as long as they had been 'cleaned enough' they were still ok for the public to use 😬

Do people really believe shopping trolleys are hygienic?

Shopping trollies aren't clean, I know we did the whole washing stuff down during lockdown but things outside are not clean. As long as you wash your hands before you eat, and wash your fruit and veg before you cook and eat it, you will be fine.

I don't like it for the safety aspect for the child, don't think the hygiene aspect is that significant

No I could not give a shit.

I always learn things on MN, and one is how much some people think about hygiene. Like it seems like a big preoccupation for some. I just don’t think like this at all. Probably I worry about different things these people don’t, but I find it hard to relate to.

Who knows what has been in a trolley before you anyway? Definitely not expected to be clean., I wash anything loose before use and virtually anything packed come to that.

I've just had a relative come to stay who is obsessed, even made the kids change their clothes after going out because 'they were sat on the dirty bus seat', they do have immune system issues but its incredibly draining with the constant talking about cleaning and I'm sure some of it is OCD because they totally cleaned an already clean guest room.

That’s sad for these poor kids, makes the world a scary place for them 😕

I agree

They shouldn't be in there (full stop)!
I had a friend who always used to let her child sit in the trolley when she was too big for the toddler seats.
Until 1 day she was shopping with her 2 daughters. The younger one was in the toddler seat and the older was in the main bit. She stood up and was leaning over the side, tipped the trolley up sending both children out, cracked her head open and was rushed to A&E for stitches!

This is why I do it. My child cannot control himself in the supermarket. He is too big for the child seat.

Chavvy and lazy? Fuck off. A PP has said they sat their autistic child in there and that's what I also do. He doesn't wear a sign around his neck that says "I'm autistic!" but you keep on judging.

I’ve seen kids fall out twice as I used to work in a supermarket, the noise, the blood, the screams…yeah it’s awful. Have also seen fingers broken/crushed where kids have hung onto the side and the trolley has bumped off something else. It’s also a dander in an evacuation as it takes longer to lift a child out of a trolley than it does the seat at the front. Also folk may shove past the trolley and your child can slip whilst you are trying to lift them out.

Hold on a minute! If food is not packaged then it either has peel or skin or you wash it before eating it!

When I worked in a supermarket, I'd wash black off my hands washed by the end of my stint on tills. If you don't wipe down your shopping, the grime from everyone's hands, credit cards, cash, not to mention all the transit grime, shelf stacking pallet lurgies go all over your food. I really wouldn't worry about kids in trollies. With any luck they'll lick them a bit cleaner.

I do worry when people say they do it because they can’t control their child, to me (as the mum of an autistic child who struggles with shops massively) if a child is that disregulauted then sitting in a trolley which is unstable isn’t a case place. They aren’t designed to be stable enough for a child.

Very unhygienic and dangerous. Fortunately, you rarely see it. It's really bad parenting. I remember my DPs frowning on this when I was a small child.

LOL

Did you know, if you buy cans of fizzy pop, rats have probably run all over the rim whilst they've been in a warehouse, and maybe even peed on it!!

Nobody is dying from dirty trollies, whether the dirt has come from those disgusting little ragamuffin children that live near you, or the rat eating seagull per PP.

I say no to my youngest as I know there are people like you who would give me filthy looks all around the supermarket.