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Clean Shopping Trollies

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ForFluentLimeFatball · 09/11/2025 18:05

Any body dislike children standing in shopping Trollies, contaminating them with their dirty shoes?
Now, I put my food straight in to bags once scanned but when I think what is likely to be on kids shoes I get the ICK

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Aparecium · 09/11/2025 18:19

Why worry about their shoes, when the trolley handle has been held by people who don’t wash their hands after doing a poo, people who sneeze into their hands or pick their noses, people with pets, children?

WonderlandWasAllAHoax · 09/11/2025 18:20

Children's shoes are probably amongst the cleanest things that go in there.

Rats piss, anyone?

Topseyt123 · 09/11/2025 18:22

I don't worry about it at all. Or even think about it.

I pack my purchases into my reusable bags and most are pretty well wrapped in packaging anyway.

Stressedoutmummyof3 · 09/11/2025 18:24

I'm more worried about the rats that piss everywhere the bird that have probably shit on the trolley too.
I hate seeing kids standing in trolleys incase they hurt themselves. Their shoes are less dirty than the vermin that live by supermarkets.

TheLocust · 09/11/2025 18:26

Doesn't bother me. On the other hand, people leaving rubbish (discarded shopping lists, receipts, crisp packets, banana peel etc) in the trolleys really irritates me. Lazy, grubby sods.

Icecreamandcoffee · 09/11/2025 18:29

Do you also get the ICK when you know the rats have pissed over them, the pigeons have shat all over them. Dirty buggers have coughed/ sneezed over them. Some have been sicked on. I've witnessed bored teens spitting on the trolleys too. Shoes are the least of my worries.

youalright · 09/11/2025 18:31

Children shouldn't stand in trolleys as its dangerous but where your food is stored is a lot dirtier then kids shoes have you ever been in a stock room

TheatricalLife · 09/11/2025 18:42

They are absolutely filthy anyway, so it doesn't really bother me.

Arlanymor · 09/11/2025 18:45

TheLocust · 09/11/2025 18:26

Doesn't bother me. On the other hand, people leaving rubbish (discarded shopping lists, receipts, crisp packets, banana peel etc) in the trolleys really irritates me. Lazy, grubby sods.

Yes, same - even more irritating given that supermarkets have plenty of bins available outside. I feel the same when I see takeaway coffee cups/bubble tea cups that people think it's completely fine to just discard on a random shelf.

weericky · 09/11/2025 19:06

I don’t give the cleanliness of a shopping trolly a single thought tbh.

TheBeaTgoeson1 · 09/11/2025 19:35

Never given it any thought!

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