News Warning: Loss mentioned Do not put car seats on top of grocery cart

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TechnoGranola

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I am surprised they didn't have a policy in place for employees not to push carts with babies/children in them. I bet they will make a policy now.

Horrible, horrible, horrible. :(
 

livsmum

New member
That's so sad.

I really feel for the employee. For all we know, it could've been some 17 year old kid who had NO idea how dangerous the seat being there was. She/he will never forget this.

I cringe every time I see parents placing the seat up there. And especially when the seat isn't even straight.
 

Kobain's Mommy

Well-known member
The question shouldn't be a policy about employees pushing a cart out (which should be without children in it), but should have huge disclaimers about infant car seats do not belong on the seat part of the cart. Make the parent liable in the case of an accident.
 

tjham

New member
Aw, poor baby! What a tragic loss.

And that poor employee!


If the parent decides to sue (him, the store, whatever), I hope the store's lawyer brings up the fact that the car seat manual says NOT to put on top of grocery cart. They all do say this now, don't they? And I have seen some carts that say not to put an infant seat on them but not many.
 

creideamh

Well-known member
I see this EVERY time I go to a store. At least once, usually multiple times. My OnBoard Air said NOT to put it on the top of the cart, FWIW.

I feel so awful for the employee.
 

bnsnyde

New member
How did the child fall, exactly? Position? Hit head where? Upside down? Not strapped in? Maybe we don't know.

I'm wondering if the carseat offered any protection or didn't?
 

TechnoGranola

Forum Ambassador
How did the child fall, exactly? Position? Hit head where? Upside down? Not strapped in? Maybe we don't know.

I'm wondering if the carseat offered any protection or didn't?
The article said the employee went over a speed bump and the infant seat tipped out on the ground with the infant in it.
 

trippsmom

CPST Instructor
How terrible. Stories like this make me so sad because of how often I see seats propped on carts.

Just last week I was shopping the graveyard with dd2, and had forgotten a carrier so she was in the basket in her seat. The bag person put our things in the basket on a new cart and tried to put her on the seat/handle portion. I stopped her and carried dd2 to the car. I don't know that I have ever let an employee push my kids. Just makes me nervous.

¡May contain dyac moments!
 

Keeanh

Well-known member
My car seat manual says TO put it on top of the cart.

Yep, I saw that in one of my old manuals too. I never did it though. What I thought was really crazy were the carts at Save-On-Foods that had infant seats WELDED to the tops of the carts!!
 

cupcakepirate11

Active member
How did the child fall, exactly? Position? Hit head where? Upside down? Not strapped in? Maybe we don't know.

I'm wondering if the carseat offered any protection or didn't?

Carseats actually cause more damage from a short fall because the child is restrained in their seat so they feel the impact more where as if they were to just fall out sans car seat (i hope i didn't say that wrong it is what i read a while ago about it)
 

Traquy

New member
I used my Britax Companion seat on the metal shopping carts, but the back latches would click into place on the cart, keeping it from coming off unless I pushed the release handles. If it didn't click on I would put the seat in the main compartment of the cart.
 

littleangelfire

Well-known member
I used my Britax Companion seat on the metal shopping carts, but the back latches would click into place on the cart, keeping it from coming off unless I pushed the release handles. If it didn't click on I would put the seat in the main compartment of the cart.

Even if it latches in, b/c it makes the cart very top heavy, it still poses a risk for injury. Add that to the fact that shopping carts often put an infant seat at an odd angle, either overly upright or too far reclined. Add that to another kid playing on/in/around the cart, the fact that many parents don't see the need to buckle the child in the seat when it's not in the car, and any other little thing and it's a recipe for disaster. And I see it every time I go to the store. Saw a noob in one at Walmart today, incredibly loose, albeit buckled, harness, baby overly upright. Saw one a few weeks ago, lying so reclined the butt was above the head, can't imagine what that does to a baby's tummy.

But I don't say anything b/c I don't see how I could. does anyone else ever say anything? And yes, I know we've had this conversation before.
 

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