Cleanliness

Ooh, something I forgot to add about my Grocery Store Experience the other night: They had special free sanitizing wipes at the front door for you to wipe down the handle of your shopping cart so you didn’t pick up germs from other people. Is this an LA thing, or is this now de rigeur at all American grocery stores? I’d never seen such a thing in my life before. (Heh. The carts we normally use at Broadway are probably FILTHY. Everyone in, like, a ten block radius feels entitled to push their stuff all the way home in the cart. Then a little man in a truck drives around the neighborhood every day, collecting the carts and driving them back to the store. I doubt they get wiped down in the slightest. So not only have other people touched them, they’ve probably been sitting out all night in the elements too! Horrors.)

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8 responses

  1. I find it pretty common at grocery stores in Virginia – I think it’s pretty common around the U.S.

  2. We’ve got the wipes at most places here in Madison, WI. Forget about the cart handles, do you ever think about how dirty money is? Ick.

  3. They’ve been a standard for a few years here in FL.

  4. Wow – i wonder if this will make MRSI more common?
    I was reading somewhere that the use of anti-bacterials everywhere is now making only the strongest germs survive, and also means we miss out on getting immunity to bugs…

  5. Rachel

    viva the superbug! What next, free santitised wipes when you get on a bus to wipe down seats and handles. I think this is ridiculous. Honestly what are our immune systems for?

  6. I’m with you, Rachel. Hate all that ‘anti-bacterial’ crap. Fine in theatre, where you really want to minimise all the bugs, but in the supermarket? the kitchen? Insanity!

  7. Aunt d

    Here in Lagrange, Indiana our grocery store has the wipes. I bet if you were still working at the IGA you’d get be the one refilling the wipey container.

  8. Emily – by “theatre”, do you mean “operating theatre”?