Felt sick over customers wearing disposable gloves when shopping

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Do they not understand that this is worse for germ cross contamination than bare hands? Doctors, nurses, anaesthetists, dentists, vets etc change their gloves with every patient or more often if a messy job.

Shoppers with disposable gloves touch hundreds of stuff, face, money, cards etc.

This particular couple I saw wearing disposable gloves which had holes in the knuckles. This is caused by sweat breaking down the material in the DG. Then as they left the shop, they took off their gloves with their teeth and popped them into their coat pockets. That made me feel sick

I do wish someone would tell them that their protection is rubbish. I would love to see their faces on showing the results of Petri dishes with their gloves being swabbed v hands washed 15 mins earlier.

Why don't YOU tell them if you're so bothered? 🙄

Have you got ocd? I mean people touch things all the time, gloves or no gloves.

Why do you think this has anything to do with you?

I do wish someone would tell them that their protection is rubbish.

Well it sounds like you had ample opportunity 🤷‍♂️

I can't say the hands of fellow shoppers have ever crossed my mind when I'm in the supermarket.

Then again, I tend not to go round licking the tins of beans or the frozen peas.

As I have only ever seen people wearing disposable gloves whilst shopping in the early days of COVID, I am happy to say this isn't an issue that is high on my list of concerns.

Where did you see these people? It’s pretty strange, but not something I have ever encountered.

can’t remember when i last saw any1 with hand coverings in the supermarket, but i do agree with the repulsion of removing with teeth 🤢.

Feel the need to remind you OP, the petri dish shows all bacteria, so that’s the bad and the good 🧐☺️.

Sod the gloves, as someone working behind the till I wish people would stop licking their fingers to separate notes, and then handing them to me (the notes, not their fingers, I'm not in Zombieland).

Ignore the naysayers op - I agree it’s bloody disgusting. I want to shout at them just wash your sodding hands you mingers.

There's a woman on my bus every morning that wears a face mask and disposable gloves. As soon as she's off the bus she removes it all to light a fag. Clearly wants to choose lung cancer over daily germs. Who are we to stop her. Whatever gets people through their day.

My friend works for a supermarket and she has to tell customers that she won’t accept money, coupons, lottery tickets etc that have been in their mouths. Even in mandatory mask wearing days, she caught customers lowering their masks to hold money in their mouths. Yet these customers denied it. Managers backed my friend and colleagues

YANBU, it’s a vile habit and I thought we’d seen the back of it, but have seen 2 grimy begloved fuckers recently, one in Waitrose and one in Sainsburys.

"Shoppers with disposable gloves touch hundreds of stuff, face, money, cards etc."

But how is that any different to someone not wearing gloves, who will touch exactly the same number of things?

I've never seen anyone doing this! Maybe I'm just unobservant. I've seen quite a few with masks on recently.
DD works in retail and is always ill, much worse than when she was at college or school.

It creates a false sense of security.

Are you always so dramatic?

I think you should get your shopping delivered to your door. It is too stressful for you to shop in a real shop anymore. Would you consider that as a solution to your fears?

People are generally minging.

The worst are the people who go to the bakery, pick up a loaf of bread here, a roll or two there, all unwrapped and on display, have a look at them and then put them back.

Personally I’m amazed that these kinds of bakeries are still allowed under health and hygiene laws.

I’m immune suppressed and am unable to shop there.

And it’s different to e.g. tins of food or packets, this is actual food you’re going to put in your mouth, so the risk of infection to anyone is there.

I work on a checkout and have only seen about five people wear gloves in the last year! Also I don’t think sweat causes gloves to break (worked in labs for years and never heard of it). I’d say try to stop thinking about it

I've never seen anyone wearing gloves in a supermarket. How odd

i used to be a nurse and I agree it’s ludicrous. It’s not a substitute for washing your hands and is utterly pointless. I haven’t seen anyone doing it since 2021 or 2022 though.

Gloved hands give me the gip except for in medical situations and cleaning. All those Insta cooking videos with hideous black latex gloves!! unwatchable for me.

I’ve stopped buying bread that isn’t covered for this reason. I’ve seen people going around squeezing all the bread rolls with their bare hands to “check” them before choosing one . M&S near me stopped covering their bread in recent years and I just stopped buying it. You can’t trust the public around food. I also witnessed someone taking the giant spoon from an open salad bar in asupermarket and using the spoon to taste coleslaw and putting the spoon back into it 🤢

I often wear a FRESH pair of gloves when shopping because i have contact allergies. It’s not about germ prevention. I’m preventing my hands from touching things like trolley handles that can cause reactions.

i had to start doing this when people started wiping down the handles to prevent germs. I am allergic to most of the wipes. Stores that provide them to customers don’t think about the common allergens.

My husband wears those black latex gloves sometimes when he’s chopping chillies or the like. They really unsettle me.

I also have an irrational dislike of masks - the blue ones people used to wear in Covid (me included) or the ones that look like beaks. I haven’t seen anyone wearing a mask for years now, so I don’t know why even the thought of them makes me uncomfortable. Maybe because my dad used to wear the same one every time he went shopping and it was not clean!