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

They need to hire specific cleaners on a good rate of pay similar to what a private cleaner would cost and provide as many tools as that cleaner needs.

I have just cleaned some toilets at work. At home I clean the floor on my hands and knees. Not doing that here so used a not particularly clean mop. I use bleach and rim blockers at home. Can't do that here. I have a reed diffuser, use room spray and open my bathroom windows to keep it smelling fresh. I can't use scents here and the room is windowless so no fresh air to circulate.

However great their food is, the state of the toilets is an indication of the state of the kitchen, so I’d never eat there!

If a thousand bums use the toilet they don’t have to pee on the seat and floor!

It’s horrible, if you’re in a hurry and forget to hitch the legs of your loose fitting trousers up as you sit down, and the hems descend onto stinking pee!

Supermarkets need to employ a custodian; a bloke for the gents and a woman for the ladies to ensure that loos are cleaned as soon as they are used and to ensure that members of the public behave properly and leave them as they found them. A bit like Madame Pipi in France but with proper wages. I'm sure they can afford it with all of the profits they cream off their producers.

I agree OP. I had to go in m&s yesterday, floor soaking wet with god know what, unflushed toilet with pee all over the seat, no soap, nowhere to put your bag, just awful

See also Costa / Starbucks. Toilets are always rancid (and you often need to purchase to get the code to use the filthy toilets that are usually combined unisex and disabled).

Companies are are telling us - quite literally - they don't give a shit about us. They are happy to take our money but unwilling to offer us decent facilities.

I do think the loos should be clean but fair enough reserving the toilets for customers only. Imagine how vile they would be if everyone just wandered in to use the loo.

Every single Asda toilet that I have used has been absolutely gross. That goes for the disabled ones too.

My local Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Asda public toilets are always fine. Not perfect but often clean (and I think that Morrison's free sanitary pack for girls/women who come on their period suddenly and unprepared is a brilliant idea).
There was only one supermarket toilet I've been in that was so disgusting, I actually walked straight back out, despite being desperate - that was the town centre Asda, where the toilets were overflowing and the cubicle I chose even had someone's used pregnancy test on the floor, chucked behind the loo.

I agree, op. Can I name and shame? The worst one I've ever seen is Sainsbury's in Market Harborough.

Locally they aren’t to bad, Sainsburys slightly worse than Tesco. A few years ago I was in another town and accidentally walked into the men’s instead of the woman’s in an Asda, it was horrific, awful smell, sticky floor-I’m still traumatised!!

Always filthy. I dread the kids saying they need a wee. It’s awful.

It's a sign of the times; in the past people seemed to respect communal spaces and now they expect others to clean up after them. It almost seems that some people feel they are making some point by acting in a way they never would in their own homes as well.

In one small local town they had to close the public toilets because they were vandalised so regularly that they ran out of money to have them repaired; not just door locks & loo roll dispensers broken, but the basins ripped off the walls. Toilet roll unravelled & strewn about the floor and into the pathway outside on the few occasions they were actually open.

An Asda in another local town found that after lockdown they were the only loos people could access in that town. When they had built that Asda there was an assumption made on toilet visits per hour with a large contingency built in, but were finding that with over 4 times the number of users than expected the sewage system just couldn't cope on market day.

We have fabulous cleaners at our office, but they only work until 10am. Within an hour you can find at least 3 toilets where the paper hasn't been flushed, and usually at least 1 "floater".

In the tea points you'll find tea, coffee, water & milk splashed over the sides that people haven't cleaned up after spillages, and usually a few empty sugar sachets scattered around on the sides or the floor. Sometimes empty sugar sachets returned to the jar (WHY?). And this is a nice office otherwise, with lots of lovely people working there.

YANBU. The hand dryers warm the foul air so its always humid and stinky when you walk in. Busy public toilets should require to be properly ventilated.

It's something to do with squat toilets isn't it that make people stand on the rim but lets face it, everyone is happy to blame a Muslim so I like to get in there quickly!

Computerised system picks up that the floor is wet. Locks door. Announces in Dalek tone "The floor is wet. The door will open when it is clean. Cleaning materials and gloves are on the shelf behind the loo." On repeat until the work is done. CCTV outside the door so that repeat offender can be banned from the shop or whatever.

My local M&S is immaculate thankfully. That's disgusting!

I never ever sit down. Strong thighs are the way forward.

Bloody disgusting! And they sell food 🤢🤮

Same, checked regularly and a sign of there is a problem let them know at customer services.

DH complained to customer services In Sainsbury’s last week as there was poo smeared all over one of the cubicles 🤢 It’s always vile in that shop (both men and women’s) and we only ever use them if absolutely bursting.

Civilised people 🙄 Do they leave skiddies in their own loo at home?