The best thing about going to Walmart last Saturday was a worker there named "Eric." He was very concerned after he was informed that the grocery cart I had selected had some sort of feces on the bottom part of it. Luckily, the items I had placed were inches from it and not directly in it. I had not noticed until I began filling up the cart and was running out of space. There was obvious poo. I told my mother I would find someone to help and get us another cart. When I informed Eric, he said this poo might have come from a child, but "it may have come from a dog." He was the best worker in Walmart I have ever encountered. He got us another cart very quickly, a clean one and took the hazardous-waste cart away.
I am very concerned about Walmart allowing dog owners to enter with non-service animals and allowing there dogs to ride in grocery carts. Dog coming in contact with the carts can spread through their paws, butt, mouth and fur contaminants to fresh food and to the wrappers of food. You touch the wrapper and then the food and guess what, the poo gets into your mouth. If seems so strange Walmart would allow this. Also, allowing children into the portion of the cart where feet ca touch can spread feces and other contaminants to the cart. Then, anything you place into the cart comes into contact with the poop, vomit, whatever nasty you can see with your eyes or under the microscope makes its way to your hands or mouth when the apple you bought touches the nasty. Even if you wash you food you are still going to contaminate your kitchen and car with whatever the dog or child puts into the cart via feet or through defecation.
These carts should be sanitized for each customer. I once saw a cashier wiping his nose on a cloth handkerchief. Then, without using hand sanitizer, handed me my change. He touched everything in my cart with his mucus-hand intermittingly wiping his nose with the snot rag. That was at a different Walmart in Chapel Hill. The feces incident was at the Walmart in Salisbury, and three weeks prior to this what looked to be urine from a child was decorating the floor, and there was only a second's warning to avoid it. I have seen in another Walmart packages of meat moved to candy sections and just left there. Nearly two years ago, I saw while in parking lot a teen throwing and breaking beer in bottle and yelling, "This is going to be a sh--- show." Of course, I called management to come outside. It turned out she was an employee of Walmart. read more
