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!!

My 7 yo sometimes climbs in the main bit ... mainly for novelty, didn't consider the hygiene aspect but then ive seen and complained about the sainsburys worker picking their nose and eating it while filling the freezers so my childs probably fine

Oh well, a lot of the supermarket goods have had vermin running over them at some point in transit or in warehouses… Just wash everything when you get home OP.

How very dare you criticise children and parenting??!!!
I tease - i have bought this up in a previous thread and was shor down in flames. Apparently the world revolves around what 'I' want to do, and fuck the reast of society,so if my toddler still in nappies sits in the main basket where the food goes, tough shit for you.
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My DD when little was about 3 when i stopped putting her in trolley seat ..she was a tall lass though. I used to work with fruit and veg packaging and believe me, youll want to wash those things before you eat them...some that worked there...not hygienic. There's worse things in your shopping trolley

Whether you need to wash food as a matter of course is neither hete nor there. Children, particularly those in nnappies, should not be in the bit where food is placed

A child in nappies is far cleaner than rubbish bags and what the rats and pigeons do. You're spectacularly shortsighted if you think a trolley is in any way clean regardless of whether children are in them.

They shouldn't be in them for safety reasons though.

My supermarket trolleys are rusty and have mould growing in the handles - I'd say a child sitting in it is the least of your worries. Please don't put unwrapped food directly in the trolley - they are left outside all the time.

I don't think I'll ever look at a shopping trolley the same after this thread.

Haha.

But you shouldn't. Whenever this topic comes up, I'm always amazed by the number of people who genuinely don't realise how filthy they are.

Why add t the pigeon and rat waste; animals do not care where they pee. Humans are slightly more civilised, that why we have lavatories.
It also means that just becausr a rat shits in a trolley, humans do not have to do the same

what are you talking about? No human is shitting in the trolleys. You were claiming that a child is somehow making the trolley less hygienic and thus unsuitable for unwrapped food. My point is that they are already unhygenic due to the rats/pigeons and staff using them to carry rubbish bags.

Bus/train/tubes are also already very grim.

Do people allow their children to stand on them?

If you see me in a supermarket with my child ever, best beleive I've done everything I can to avoid going with them in the first place. I bloody hate shopping with my kids and will go in the middle of the night when they are in bed rather than take them.
If my child is in the trolley, it's only because I had no choice but to take them and I am getting through the horrid expereince in the quickest way possible which doesn't involve them moaning, dragging their feet, getting in people's way and picking up random items of the shelf, then begging me to buy them.

If this makes people think we are unhygenic then fine because frankly it was a bit silly of them to assume a shopping trolley is clean anyway, whether my child's feet are in it or not

Loose fruit and vegetables!! lol! So clean, growing in fields literally covered in shit, or in trees full of birds and insects pooping on them.

Humans live in a world where every surface is covered in bacteria, viruses, fungi, spores, pollen; so much living microscopic life everywhere.
Thinking we should live in a sterile environment of aseptic surfaces is where insanity starts.

Poor little primary kids, it’s rubbish going to the supermarket.