beth_parker's Blog

Amen GrandmaM. My wife carries the sanitizing wipes with her, for the grocery store,etc, and especially when we eat out. You see the table tops get wiped down, but they NEVER clean the menus, salr & pepper containers and very seldom the chairs. And almmost every patron handles them.

Not just flu, colds etc, remember the kids wearing diapers sitting in the cart .. eeww, I never leave my purse in the cart either ...

I saw the story on the news yesterday, and this has been bugging me ever since....

The carts are pushed through a cleaner thingy that sanitizes and rinses them. So do the store personnel who puts the cleaned and sanitized carts to wherever they are stored for customers wearing gloves? It's okay if they have their dirty, germy hands on the pre-sanitized carts, but if they use their same dirty, germy hands on the cleaned carts, doesn't that defeat the purpose of sanitizing them in the first place?

Starr, like I said, I don't mind if the store personnel handles them without gloves BEFORE they are sanitized, but how do they handle the carts AFTER they are sanitized?

And what about those little shopping baskets some stores provide? Are they sanitized as well?

Regardless of whatever cart sanitization practices supermarkets will put in place, I still wash my hands when I get home. And like Grandma, I use wipes or gel on my hands after I touch things like meat packages in the supermarket.