trollies

Silvertabby

This is one of the reasons why I only use a small, shallow trolley - unlikely that even the most badly behaved child will trample muck all over the base of one of these.

Mind you, the main reason is that, as a shortie, I struggle to reach small items in the bottom of large trollies. The few times I've tried to do that, I've nearly gone apex over elbow.

baza52

dont worry about the trollies, you should see how food is often treated before it gets on the shelves in the shop.
I worked in retail when i left school years ago and they were often stored on the floor, in dirty cages or delivered on dirty pallets.
Use scan as you shop and put the products directly into you're bags if you are that worried.

[Deleted User]

All you people worried about dirty shoes in trolleys.... think about all those door handles you touch when someone’s been to bathroom and not washed their hands.

Get a life :rotfl:

Manxman_in_exile

baza52 wrote: »

dont worry about the trollies, you should see how food is often treated before it gets on the shelves in the shop.
I worked in retail when i left school years ago and they were often stored on the floor, in dirty cages or delivered on dirty pallets.
Use scan as you shop and put the products directly into you're bags if you are that worried.

I once worked in the bottling plant of a brewery during my school holidays. After that experience I would never drink straight from the neck of a bottle! It always amuses me to see people doing this...

Manxman_in_exile

Deleted_User wrote: »

All you people worried about dirty shoes in trolleys.... think about all those door handles you touch when someone’s been to bathroom and not washed their hands.

Get a life :rotfl:

I'm not too worried about that. I'm more concerned with the "dogturd" residue problem mentioned by coffeehound. I'm hoping that most people who pick up dogturds use bags and/or gloves and wash their hands afterwards.


Now you've got me worrying...

baza52

Manxman_in_exile wrote: »

I once worked in the bottling plant of a brewery during my school holidays. After that experience I would never drink straight from the neck of a bottle! It always amuses me to see people doing this...

exactly,
Same as people that open a can of drink and put their mouth round the outside of the can lol.
Even opening a bag of crisps means you touch the outside of the bag before you pick up the crisps inside.

If we all worried about things like this then we would not eat or touch anything that had not been sterilised first.

Manxman_in_exile

Silvertabby wrote: »

This is one of the reasons why I only use a small, shallow trolley - unlikely that even the most badly behaved child will trample muck all over the base of one of these.

Mind you, the main reason is that, as a shortie, I struggle to reach small items in the bottom of large trollies. The few times I've tried to do that, I've nearly gone apex over elbow.

You wouldn't want to see little Sebastian or Samantha in our local Waitrose then. (But it is one of the reasons why I also opt for the shallow trolleys).

suki1964

Ive worked with food most of my life, from butchering, to cutting cheeses, working on deli counters, supermarkets, kitchens and factories

Believe me, you wouldn't eat a thing if you are so worried about kiddies in trollies

Krojan

As a "trolley guy" at a major supermarket, I know what you mean, its not just unhygienic but unsafe too...

BUT You think kids standing in the trolleys is bad? that's nothing compared to the amount of rubbish the public dump in them from simple things like till receipts boxes and carrier bags to things like banana skins, half eaten apples/pears, orange peel, sweet wrappers, fast food waste, used coffee shop cups, empty and part empty drinks cans & bottles, used nappies, bags full of rubbish they've had in the car, empty bottles of motor oil, car batteries, broken umbrellas, bags of dog poo... to name a few I've personally experienced.

I know our trolleys have signs on the handles which clearly state against this (mis)use but nobody nowadays gives a monkeys or has any respect to actually follow the recommended uses.

In my store we usually have only one of us on trolleys at any given time, constantly shifting around trolleys back and forth across a car park where despite our high-vis jackets we're apparently invisible to the many moronic drivers whom I'm sure got their licences by sending in 12 tokens from kelloggs cornflakes or trying to avoid the idiot phone zombies, uncontrolled feral kids etc, plus we do have other stuff to do too we don't just "do the trolleys", babysitting customers and their kids and/or telling them how to or not behave isn't one of them.

Quite frankly it's not our job to go to someone who blatantly doesn't give two hoots about the safety of their kid and "have a word" because in all likelihood we'll be told to "go forth and multiply" or they'd simply ignore us and carry on, just the same response you'd get if you approached them.

We don't have any magical authority over joe/joanne public, I honestly wish we did, I also wish we could do stuff such as give tickets to the idiots who park over two or more spaces, park in parent & child bays without a kid, same for disabled bays etc but we're just the poor guys who have to clear up after all the people we get through our doors and try and clean the damn trolleys and work in all weathers and try not to run over someone with them (which is REALLY tempting sometimes) or get run over ourselves.

DCFC79

unforeseen wrote: »

It is banned, just not enforced surprisingly. I would have thought supermarkets would clamp down on it on safety grounds alone.

But then why can't the parent act responsible and tell the kid/s not to stand/sit in the trolley from a safety perspective.

Why should the retailers be all "big brother" and tell the parents to take the kid out of the trolley.

I think part of the problem is the parents give in too easily to the kids rather than say no and have the kids kicking and screaming they let them sit/ stand in the trolley.