Children in shopping trolleys

Aldom

With regards to hygiene I would suggest that children in trolleys are the least of our worries. Trolleys are stored under overhead cover outside at night. They are open to wildlife, especially rats which are bound to frequent areas such as trolley bays, because the trolleys will carry residual food smells.
I'm against children in trolleys, but for the obvious safety reasons.
Parents need to be vigilant in supermarkets. Someone I know stepped back from looking at the shelves and fell over a small child who was sitting alone on the floor.
Thankfully the child was not hurt, but the lady broke her arm.

Well had said small child been inside the trolley that wouldn’t have happened!

Correct, Cossy. I'm very well aware of that, but also aware that small children can and have fallen out of trolleys. So that is why I am against little ones being in trolleys if not in the actual seat provided.

I that's all you have to grouse about, lucky you.

mabon1 I am not aware that I am 'grousing' as you put it. Just sharing a thought about the safety of children.
If it makes you feel better I am the mother of a dead child and have been widowed twice. My grandchild has brain damage. But I get on with my life as positively and as cheerfully as I possibly can. Please think before you post. My life has not been easy.

mabon1

I that's all you have to grouse about, lucky you.

I don't understand why people post things like this. Surely this is a discussion forum and people are just airing their point of view

Thank you Pandapatch. .

I’m now trying to think what I did when I took my three under 4s shopping on a Friday morning. It was quite an adventure. We used to get a designated double decker Asda bus that set off from the pub just up the road, and of course we had to climb upstairs to sit on the front seats. I remember my two little girls helping carry the bags back home, bless ‘em. At the store I’m pretty sure the baby would have been in a sling and both girls in the trolley, one in the seat, one in the main bit, never standing up though. The alternative was DH getting a big hold-all full of shopping in after work, schlepping it through town and bringing it back on a crowded service bus. He once got distracted and got off without it - he’d to intercept the bus on its way back to town. Happy days, but life was so much simpler once we eventually got a car!

I don’t remember anyone ever criticising my poor parenting, but they probably did under their breath.

mabon1

I that's all you have to grouse about, lucky you.

What a rude and totally lacking in sensitivity post. I really cannot stand people who make this kind of supercilious comment and, given the response you received, I hope you are thoroughly ashamed of yourself and will think and post more carefully in future.

Vintagejazz my thanks to you for your thoughtful post.