Filthy Supermarket toilets

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I can’t be the only person who finds supermarket toilets absolutely disgusting. Used some in a Sainsburys today, filthy beyond belief, stank of god knows what and the hand soap dispenser seemed to be filled with water, had those awful toilet paper dispensers you have to pinch out of instead of a normal roll.

Why are they all like this? Always warm/ stuffy too.

The mens are even worse according to DP. Disabled/ family toilets are always filthy too no matter which store you go to. I can let it slide if it’s a busy city store but when you’re in an allegedly middle class area and the cafe is outside the loo I just don’t get it.

Tesco - horrific
Sainsburys - horrific
Asda - wouldn’t even dream of trying
Morrisons - horrific
M&S - abysmal if it’s an older store

Stank of urine, sticky floor,
Toilet rolls not in proper dispensers so handled by dirty hands. One on sink, other on floor.
Disgusting loo brush. Should be thrown out. Surely disposable brushes have been invented.
Spattered toilet.
Dirty looking soap dispenser
Notice on wall with lots of ticks saying the toilets are regularly checked!
Emailed the supermarket manager who profusely apologised.
On next visit, very little improvement.

Caffè Nero always have awful toilets

Slightly off topic.
One of my pet hates is seeing restaurant / kitchen staff who are wearing wearing aprons use the loo without removing them. They will get contaminated by touching toilet, floor, sanitary bins and unwashed hands, then staff go back to the kitchen spreading bacteria. Do they not go on hygiene courses, though it’s common sense really!

Sainsburys toilets in Sittingbourne are disgusting. I complained about them months ago and nothing was done. They need a deep clean. Dirty toilet brushes, pink limescale clogging up the plug holes of the basins, grey ingrained dirt around the sinks etc. Some of it is customers but mostly it just hasn't been cleaned thoroughly. Glad it's not just me who finds it gross.

Services toilets need their own thread. They’re just diabolical. It’s like a huge swathe of the population just can’t use a toilet without leaving it in an absolute mess.

As for the smells, I mean what the hell are people eating / drinking for their bodies to create such a wretched stench. 🤢

Yup all absolutely disgusting around here too. Same for toilets in places like pret (was in a horrific one in London last week) and to a lesser extent costa.

They are cutting costs down to the bone so probably slashed the cleaning budget.
But yes it's true its the customers that make the mess in the toilets!!

The supermarkets do budget for cleaners it isn't the cleaners or staff that go in and throw toilet paper around , shit on the seat, piss on the floor, shoot up, drink stolen alcohol and occasionally have a shag. But the poor cleaners do have to go in and deal with the aftermath. And certainly our supermarket isn't all
allowed to use bleach incase of allergy/ injury

I find this astonishing... maybe I just happen to live in a super-clean city.

I rarely use public toilets, but the two I checked (Walmart and Tim Horton's (a coffee shop chain)) are absolutely pristine. Tim's had a sign "serviced every hour" with a clipboard for the janitor to note the time.

Please note I am in Canada, in a mid-size city.

Locally our council had a sign up service for local businesses to offer their loos for £200 a year I think. It didn't work. One friend who worked in a dress shop had to close twice because of the mess on the floor and up the walls. She rang the boss telling him she wasn't cleaning it up. Both cases it was women.

Friend worked in a small factory, fifty women, the mess could be awful. The boss would shut the loos for the time it took to find a volunteer to clean up after their colleague. They then took it upon themselves to find the culprits.

Our shopping centre loos are spotless but are cleaned hourly. Weird blue lights in there though.

I work in retail and the toilets and indeed the whole store would be spotless if it wasn't for customers.

I often wonder what people's homes are like because if they behave like they do in supermarkets then they must be disgusting. Our toilets are checked every hour but the cleaner could walk out and a member of the public will walk in and for some unknown reason, destroy the toilets.

It's almost as if the public forget basic hygiene and manners once they step foot in store.

Sainsbury is so smelly and utterly disgusting - it make me wonder how the back of store is where3 food is held out of sight.

M&S is clean

I don't shop at Tesco or Asda so not sure and Morrison was ok

The weird blue lights are to deter drug users injecting as it is harder to see the vein

I work in retail and the toilets and indeed the whole store would be spotless if it wasn't for customers.

whilst I can accept that as I work in a pub, the toilets in my local Sainsbury not a case of the customers leaving them in a state - they are not cleaned, they often don't have loo paper, the doors are broken the taps on one sink don't work and they need an overhaul. No amount of cleaning really would make them much better - they need refurbing. They put flowers in a vase tin eh loo sometimes and its really like they are trying to polish a turd

Well the hospital toilet I went in today had sick all over the sanitary bin and no one seems bothered when I reported it. No do not use or out of order sign an hour later when I left and sick still there Grim.

Near us:

Tesco is always grim.
Asda is grim.

Sainsbury's is fairly good

Morrisons is old and grotty but alway clean and well stocked.

Waitrose is sparkling
Lidl is sparkling

It must depend on who they have to clean it.

Sainsbury’s marks and tescos where I live are all really clean.

@MikeRafone worked in supermarkets for many, many years. Trust me. Customers frequently shit on the floor. Wipe shit on the walls. Jack up and leave blood spatters. Piss all over the toilet and floor. Wipe period blood all over the walls. Piss and shit in sinks. Leave shitty nappies wide open on changing tables.

Trust me. It happens. Every day. And this was in very "naice" supermarkets. Which were cleaned every 2 hours, absolutely without fail.

You would be shocked if you had seen what I've seen.

Some toilets are vile. Really customers should make an effort to not pee all over seats and supermarkets should pay for them to be more regularly cleaned. I think they are seeing more use nowadays as all the public toilets have closed.

The ladies have always been fine in our supermarket.

I was in the supermarket gents once (ladies out of order and ds 4 was desperate, so security checked they were empty and let me take him in while they watched the door), and omg, they were vile. Stank of stale wee so strongly I gagged and I dread to think why the floor was so wet.

Ugh the giant fucking sunflowers in our local M&S toilets do not fool me..... they are grim..... although none as grim as a pub called "The Air Balloon" in Filton, Bristol.... luckily enough their food is great..... but its a standing joke with me and my mates that "we need to go home now because we need a wee" 😂

Funny though, Lidl and Aldi loos are ALWAYS sparkling, never stink (in fact one near me has a lovely jasmine scent sprayed every 30 mins or so) and are very accessible.
On the other hand M&S and Sainsbury’s are utterly disgusting and makes me pity for the future of the human race.
makes you think when these “discount” stores are doing their toilet cleaning right whilst the typical old school shops arent…

Muslims don't stand on the rim of the toilet. I don't think that was the culture the PP was referring to (hopefully).

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