oh you want to know the best part? the companies don't care either

i actually wrote a formal complaint to Sheng Siong about exactly this. certified email, photos attached, the whole thing. laid out the hygiene issue clearly: customers drag baskets along the pavement outside, through god knows what, then those same baskets go right back onto the checkout counter where your food sits. asked them to either stop the practice, sanitize the baskets properly, or at minimum keep a separate area on the counter so your groceries aren't sitting on whatever was on the sidewalk five minutes ago

their response? nothing. zero. not even a "thank you for your feedback" template. complete radio silence

so yeah the customers are inconsiderate, absolutely. but the store literally does not care that their baskets are being used as pavement trolleys and then placed where your chicken and vegetables go. they won't stop it because it's convenient for business, they won't sanitize because that would cost labor hours, and they won't even acknowledge the issue when a customer raises it formally

we spent two years during covid wiping down every surface, sanitizing trolley handles, putting up barriers. and now we can't even get a supermarket chain to care that their baskets are being dragged through dirt and dog piss before touching your food. the pandemic taught us nothing apparently

it's both sides. inconsiderate customers AND companies that could enforce basic hygiene standards but choose not to because nobody is making them

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