Shopping Trolley Hygiene. Ibis Don't Look!

[icyfroth]

MOST of us don't think twice when putting our groceries - and often our children - into shopping trolleys.

A fortnight ago, Mango Hill mother Michelle McPherson was one of those people. That was until a Halloween shopping trip left her with a feathered fright and a dead bird on her hands.

"We dropped into a shopping centre in Deception Bay to grab a few things for Halloween," she said.

"We did our shopping and came out and there was a trolley parked right in front of us.

"I went to move it and thought there was a Halloween costume or something in there."

Upon closer inspection, Ms McPherson discovered an ibis lying lifeless in the trolley.

"It looked like it must have been road kill," she said.

Posting her gruesome grocery find on social media, Ms McPherson said she was concerned about the health risks posed by shopping trolleys.

"Here's a good reason why shopping trolleys might not be the best place to hold your food," she posted.

"I don't know how many times I've seen little kids sitting and eating in them."

Parenting blogger and founder of the brisbanekids.com.au website, Ngaire Stirling, described the dead bird incident as an "extreme situation" and labelled concerns over trolley hygiene as an overreaction.

"I wonder what people would have the alternative be … spray the trolleys with Glen 20?" she said.

"I don't doubt my children have caught gastro from a shopping centre but what do you do … keep them at home?"

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DO YOU WORRY ABOUT GERMS IN PUBLIC PLACES?

[***super_nova***]

I think we are all too worried about germs.  Studies show that kids that are in regular contact with farm animals have considerably lower incidents of asthma and allergies.  Some 50 years ago many people still had a dunny with can in their backyard, now we are getting neurotic about germs flying around when we flush the loo.

[latina4621]

i once saw a lady take a jar of mayo off the shelf open the jar stuck her finger in had a couple of tastes then put the lid back on placed it back on the shelf

i reported her to the manager and i would also repot anyone else using stuff off the shelf then putting it back.

[happyroo_bunji]

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@*countessa* wrote:

i once saw a lady take a jar of mayo off the shelf open the jar stuck her finger in had a couple of tastes then put the lid back on placed it back on the shelf

i reported her to the manager and i would also repot anyone else using stuff off the shelf then putting it back.

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Thankyou countessa.  I sometimes work as a supervisor on duty in a supermarket and things like you describe pee me off no end.  People like the above and joono cost the company money in write offs, which in an independent supermarket equals price rises.

[i-once-was-bump]

When I go into the supermarket I get an incredible urge to help myself to a ruler from the stationery section and then go around hitting people (including children) on the fingers when they put their fingers in or on food that is sealed.

[latina4621]

very true happyroo,

how hard is it to carry around with you some baby wipes or you can get purse size sanatizer.to put in your bag.

or if you want to try it buy it.

[lis351]

DO YOU WORRY ABOUT GERMS IN PUBLIC PLACES?

At the moment I am incredibly aware of what I am touching/picking up. My boss is undergoing chemo ATM so Im trying to avoid picking up anything that could lead to him becoming ill. Hand sanitizer all round here.

Ive always been slightly germophobic though, hate touching anything in public that others might have touched. Bus bells (do they actually have a name??), train door buttons, ATM's, hand rails, the thought of all those make me feel ill.

[*elizabeths-mum*]

I hate seeing cold foods left in the normal aisles, especially food which has been weighed out for the individual.

[i-once-was-bump]

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@lis351 wrote:

DO YOU WORRY ABOUT GERMS IN PUBLIC PLACES?

At the moment I am incredibly aware of what I am touching/picking up. My boss is undergoing chemo ATM so Im trying to avoid picking up anything that could lead to him becoming ill. Hand sanitizer all round here.

Ive always been slightly germophobic though, hate touching anything in public that others might have touched. Bus bells (do they actually have a name??), train door buttons, ATM's, hand rails, the thought of all those make me feel ill.

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I spend my whole life trying to avoid any sort of infection so I find the little bottle of hand sanitiser that clips on my bag very handy, even so I usually have 3 or 4 infections each year but haven't had a really bad one since May last year so I think the sanitiser must help a bit.

[j*oono]

The sanitiser does help Bump.  Especially when it's free.

I will be away for a couple of days.  I've just gone down South To Denmark.  I haven't absconded to Rio de Janeiro.

[i-once-was-bump]

Where in the world is j*oono?

If Denmark is south, were you in the Arctic somewhere?