Shopping Trolley Hire: Ensuring Disinfection and Cleanliness to Fight Covid19 and Other Unwanted Diseases

August 31, 2020

The threat of COVID-19 is still out there. And while people around the world are waiting for the vaccine, different government and health authorities continuously come up and implement a set of guidelines that prevent the virus from spreading further.

For stores and supermarkets, they are required to be open just to cater to the basic needs of customers. Since they have now the opportunity to operate for the public, they must now make sure that their operations will strictly adhere to the protocols established by the authorities. One key element that they must watch out for is the disinfection and cleanliness of their shopping trolleys.

Frequently Used Shopping Trolleys

Shopping trolleys play a huge role in stores and supermarkets. They help customers carry all the things that they will be purchasing and buying to the checkout counter. They also help customers bring all the purchased goods next to their vehicles. And since almost all customers would be using these shopping trolleys, then the store owner must do everything just to maintain their cleanliness and remove any mark of germs and diseases.

Normally, shopping trolleys will be left by customers once they have transferred their goods to their respective vehicles. Store personnel will then return these trolleys to their designated location so that other customers can use them. A store that follows minimum health protocols even before the beginning of the pandemic will most likely instruct its store personnel to clean them first before allowing customers to touch and use them. Unfortunately, some stores do not clean and even maintain their shopping trolleys amidst the pandemic, making them much dangerous to the public.

The lack of disinfection and sanitation often prompts the spread of diseases among store customers, personnel, and their respective family members, friends, and acquaintances.

Ensuring Disinfection and Cleanliness

Shopping trolleys can be easily disinfected and cleaned through the correct cleaning method and disinfecting products. One way to ensure disinfection and cleanliness of the trolleys is through wiping off their surfaces with sanitary wipes. Before returning the shopping trolleys to their designated places, store personnel must wipe every surface that must have been touched by customers. Through this act, any disease that can still infect people, which includes COVID-19, are easily eliminated.

The use of alkaline detergent and quaternary ammonium in washing them and maintaining them can also remove microbes and contaminants that can not only harm people but can also affect fresh food products. High-pressure cleaning can also be maximised and utilised to effectively clean all the accumulated stain, dirt, and streak that can be found on shopping trolleys.

Apart from these cleaning procedures and their associated products, stores and supermarkets can likewise maximise shopping trolley hire to ensure disinfection and cleanliness of trolleys are effectively met. Shopping trolley hire can provide establishments additional shopping trolleys and baskets that are already well-cleaned and maintained. Moreover, some of them can deploy their own personnel to regularly disinfect these trolleys just to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other unwanted diseases.

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