Children in shopping trolleys

Perhaps the rule should be "Take their shoes off"!

Oh for goodness sake! How precious can you be!
My granddaughters love taking blankets from the car and nestling with them in the trolley. I can't see that shoes are a problem - who on earth would assume that trolleys were clean anyway? As for health and safety, there's usually some way that fun things can be dangerous. You just have to watch them - and get a life!

Surely that is what trolley seats are for. They even do special trolleys for babies. No need to sit them in the trolley itself, is there.

I used to avoid taking mine and shopped on the way home from work.

Guilty as charged. It’s not something I did with my own children but I have done with my grandchildren. I am no longer physically able to lift an 18kilo toddler high enough up to get into the actual seat, let alone hoick him up to get him out again. Also being on the 97th centile for height and weight, he’s such a big lad he doesn’t fit in.

I can’t lift him into his car seat, either, he has to climb in himself.

I suppose I could let him charge around the supermarket tripping up people and taking bites out of apples and loaves of bread etc but I expect someone would moan about that, too.

SueDonim

Guilty as charged. It’s not something I did with my own children but I have done with my grandchildren. I am no longer physically able to lift an 18kilo toddler high enough up to get into the actual seat, let alone hoick him up to get him out again. Also being on the 97th centile for height and weight, he’s such a big lad he doesn’t fit in.

I can’t lift him into his car seat, either, he has to climb in himself.

I suppose I could let him charge around the supermarket tripping up people and taking bites out of apples and loaves of bread etc but I expect someone would moan about that, too.

Yes, I think you should let him run round, bashing into people, nicking food, spreading dog poo from his shoes, spitting in the fresh food aisles whilst singing “old macdonald had a farm” at the very top of his voice

At least people would then have something real to moan about.

His dad’s a farmer so Old MacDonald would be just the ticket! I forgot to mention grapes, he manages to shovel a fair few of those down himself when he gets the chance. And he’s newly toilet-trained so there might be a wee accident or two. 😂

SueDonim

His dad’s a farmer so Old MacDonald would be just the ticket! I forgot to mention grapes, he manages to shovel a fair few of those down himself when he gets the chance. And he’s newly toilet-trained so there might be a wee accident or two. 😂

Even better 😂😂😂

Amongst all the criticisms on both sides of this discussion, only Freya5 and I have made the obvious point that supermarkets provide trolleys with child seats, so there should never be a need to put a toddler in the trolley !

Posters haven’t been confessing to toddlers in the trolly - more tired cranky 4 year olds

Iam64

Posters haven’t been confessing to toddlers in the trolly - more tired cranky 4 year olds

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Iam64

Posters haven’t been confessing to toddlers in the trolly - more tired cranky 4 year olds

Abso-bloody-lutely 👏👏👏

In the big scheme of things this problem is minuscule.

JenniferEccles

Amongst all the criticisms on both sides of this discussion, only Freya5 and I have made the obvious point that supermarkets provide trolleys with child seats, so there should never be a need to put a toddler in the trolley !

And you have not acknowledged my post that a) I cannot lift my 18kilo 2yo GS into a trolley seat and b) he doesn’t fit in them (or highchairs) any more.

JenniferEccles with two neurodiverse GC, as soon as they were too big to go into the seat at the front of the trolley the safest place for them was/is to sit in the trolley itself.

Both their parents and us as grandparents would/do avoid taking them to supermarkets, but sometimes it is a necessity.

Please give parents/grandparents a break.

Life is hard enough without condemning them for where their children sit in a flipping shopping trolley!

Exactly

I get more upset about children being given free food by parents and leaving the wrappers on the shelves

It is extremely dangerous for children to be in the main part of the trolley. If the child falls out and gets injured the parent would probably want to sue the supermarket when it is fully the parents fault

PhilJaz

It is extremely dangerous for children to be in the main part of the trolley. If the child falls out and gets injured the parent would probably want to sue the supermarket when it is fully the parents fault

It's extremely dangerous to do many things.

Just walking along the pavement, crossing roads , being in car accidents etc cause far more deaths than shopping trolley accidents .

I don’t think children are supposed to be in the trolley for safety reasons, I’m sure supermarkets have signs indicating this.

They also have signs saying no shop lifting 🥴

pandapatch

Just been reading the thread about dogs in cafes. Another thing that annoys me hygiene wise is children sat in shopping trolleys. Not toddlers sat in the proper seat but actually IN the trolley with their shoes on

Let’s look at this for a minute , Why does it annoy you ?
As others have said ,toddlers/ pre schoolers are often a trial when shopping for both parents &’other shoppers . Running amok , scooting around with mini trolleys etc etc .
For a parents piece of mind sitting them in a trolley (not in the seat ) is a safer option .
When at a large Tescos some years ago my DD & myself saw rats in the trolleys sat in the outside car park !
That’s concerning, You can now do your shop & place items directly in your own shopping bags - avoiding the items being placed directly into the trolley .
I think the OP worry is over something & nothing .

Quokka

No way! If they are small enough to sit in the seat fair enough. Otherwise it’s against health and safety anyway. These mums or dads would be the first to shout ‘compensation’ if their little dears were injured.

Against health & safety ?
Is that a written thing or do you mean common sense ahould be used ?

I agree. Children in trolleys isn’t the way to go! If they’re too big to fit in the seat, they need to be walking…..and if they are uncontrollable walking with an adult, it raises a lot of questions. Perhaps some self discipline comes into it. To me, it’s a bit like people going into supermarkets in their pyjamas….its not really harming anyone, but a line needs to drawn somewhere…