The mum did the right thing for paying for items she already used.
I don’t think she should be rewarded for honesty, it’s the expected thing to do.
Even better would be paying for items `before you use them.
Personally I don’t think it’s wise or considerate to take a sick child to the shop

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  • • mom93821 replied
    • 16 Jan 2024 , 6:18 am

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  I agree; particularly with Covid and other illnesses that can be spread from contact with saliva and products that have been handled. Cashier and retail staff should be respected and not expected to handle any products that have been handled by anyone with illness. Cashier and retail staff are often exposed to the public and the possibility of contacting illness. Whenever anyone is sick in our household we go with other options that are now in play for purchasing and receiving groceries and avoid contact with other people.

Firstly, depending on the sickness she maybe shouldn’t have passed over something he had been eating from to the check out chick. Secondly, as long as it’s paid for I bring think it matters. The only thing that would bother me is when customers wanted me to discard it in my very small under register bin. Smelling yoghurt all shift was a huge no from me!

The mum took her child out when he was sick and could make hundreds of other people sick.
She’s assumed that the store wont mind if she feeds her son before paying and teaching him that it’s ok to be entitled.
She’s handed the packaging that her sick son has been slobbering all over to a cashier and expected her to touch her sick son’s saliva.
Then she screams victim.

Would it really have been that hard to walk to the register and pay for the food before contaminating it with germs?
How about telling the son that he has to wait until the item is paid for instead of allowing him to call the shots?
Have people learnt nothing from the covid lockdowns?
No wonder kids are out of control today with entitled people like this raising them.

I worked in retail for years and saw a lot of things that would makle your hair curl and this woman is right up there in the top 10 list of people who shouldn’t be allowed to breed.

Omggg what is the actual issue here? She pointed out the items that were eaten to be paid for? Lol it’s not coming out of the cashiers pocket? And the woman saying this isn’t an all you can eat buffet? Explain that to a 4 year old who sees food and most of the time wants food, they don’t want to wait for it to be paid for once you finish? Geez no issue here, move on nothing to see

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  • • K13 replied
    • 16 Jan 2024 , 12:51 am

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  The issue is that a sick child (who should not have been out in public endangering other people’s health) slobbered all over an item and then the mum expected the cashier to risk their health to scan the item. If the cashier was sick and put her saliva all over your shopping then expected you to handle it, you’d be cranky too. Covid is around again big time, no one wants to catch it but this entitled mum is happy to spread germs all over the place with no thought to how getting sick would affect other people healthwise or financially.

Don’t see the issue so long as it is paid for and rubbish goes in the bin once finished with.
Woolworths and Coles also encourage children eating in store and eating healthy by promoting the free piece of fruit to kids.

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  • • K13 replied
    • 16 Jan 2024 , 12:47 am

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  They don’t encourage sick people to slobber all over items and then expect the staff to handle saliva ridden rubbish. If a cashier spat all over your shopping and then expected you to handle it, would you be so blaise about it?

We do this all the time and I see no problem as we are always paying for the items. I have never had a shopkeeper be upset by this and I’d rather have my 4 year old quietly eating than running around or screaming through the supermarket like some kids do.

I think the honesty of this mum should be acknowledged first and foremost. Given the circumstances that the child was ill then I don’t see the harm on this occasion.

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  • • K13 replied
    • 16 Jan 2024 , 12:53 am

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  The harm is that firstly she is out and about putting other people’s health at risk and then she is expecting a cashier to handle an item covered in her child’s saliva when he’s ill. The only victim in this story is the cashier whose health was put at risk.

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    • • cherz replied
      • 16 Jan 2024 , 1:55 pm

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    well said

I think it would have been so much worse if the mum didn’t pay for the items. She did the right thing. I would have done the same, especially if my child had been sick and not eaten anything for a few days.

My youngest once grabbed an apple and took a bite of it before I could react. I was so embarrassed and went straight up to the nearest supermarket worker who just laughed and said don’t even worry about it.

I’ve never let my kids do this (and I wouldn’t).

No item should be opened or eaten or played with until paid for by people. Children do need to be taught that items need to be purchased in shops and then eaten etc.

This is not something I’d personally do either. Sometimes I will let my children eat the free fruit at supermarkets, but if my child needed the food that badly, I’d probably pay for it, then go back in and do the rest of my shopping. I don’t think it’s right to automatically assume that this behaviour is correct and that you should just be allowed to do it without checking first (just my opinion).

Personally this is not something i do and have never allowed my kids to do however some supermarkets allow kids to eat fruit while you are shopping at no charge. I don’t really have an opinion on this as i can understand this situation an the circumstances are a bit different on this occasion. She did the right thing and ensured she paid for it.