Baby Dies After Falling Out of Grocery Cart

[a1tinkfans]

Someone is going to be rich after this...

seriously???

Tragic accident that could have been avoided. And on that topic...
I cannot tell you how many times I see kids STANDING in the carts, perhaps parents think their kids are contained but often they lean out and can easily fall out...the head area is heavy
Tragic losses have occurred for this exact reason. Seeing it is something you never want to see!!! It is UNthinkable...so avoidable....

so ALL caregivers, please dont let your kids STAND in a cart, ever..its not cute, its not safe, they may "look" safe, but its an honest to goodness false sense of security. Dont let it be your child that has head damage or worse

 

[dzorn]

Someone is going to be rich after this...

A I bet they would give it all and much much more for it to never have happened.

Denise in MI

 

[myheartlivesatwdw]

She's confused because we live in Boston, where a grocery store employee would NEVER help you out to your car or lay a hand on your cart with a kid in it. I remember the first time I shopped in a Publix in Florida and someone offered to take my groceries out to the car. I wondered if I looked handicapped somehow.

This is just a terrible tragic story for everyone involved. That store employee will never be the same.

Yes. Thank you.

 

[taekwondo mom]

How sad, so tragic ... Bless the family and the employee

 

[Robinrs]

This Kroger is within sight of my mom's flower shop in Macon. We did 2 floral arrangements for the family and delivered them yesterday. The family lives in a neighborhood VERY close to the Kroger and I'm sure that's where they do the majority of their grocery shopping, we were told that the person pushing the cart is a family friend. I'm sure they are absolutely destroyed by this. Accidents can just happen in an instant. The whole time my mom was making the second arrangement to take to the family she kept saying "how do you make something like this for a grieving family........." It broke both of our hearts, we were at the shop when it happened but we hear so many emergency vehicles driving up and down that road everyday we didn't think anything of it. The baby would have been baptizer this Sunday.

 

[dogluva]

She's confused because we live in Boston, where a grocery store employee would NEVER help you out to your car or lay a hand on your cart with a kid in it. I remember the first time I shopped in a Publix in Florida and someone offered to take my groceries out to the car. I wondered if I looked handicapped somehow.

This is just a terrible tragic story for everyone involved. That store employee will never be the same.

I live 30 minutes north of Boston and I shop at Market Basket. I always have someone ask me if I need help. I also have had them help me load my car. Must be a "Boston" thing.

Very, very sad story.

 

[ems_mom]

I live in the megalopolis area of DC/MD/PA/NJ and at my closest grocery store I am happy if carts are available; sometimes we (collective we) have to wait out front for someone to leave so we can grab a cart.

No one in my almost 50 years of living in the area has offered to take my groceries out to my car. Maybe 20-25 years ago an employee would help you load the groceries if you pulled your car up to the curb - for a tip. But this stopped a long time ago.

So sorry to hear of this tragedy. But even if I lived there would never let a virtual stranger have care/responsibility/possession of my child.

 

[eliza61]

sad yet I am confused....Why is the employee pushing your child and the child wasn't strapped into the seat itself?

I think it depends on where you live. I have a small, family own grocery store near my house. Store employees push carts for moms all the time. some times if mom has an extra toddler holding her hand then baby stays in cart.

There really are places in this country where neighbors and strangers do things for you and the first thought isn't "somebody will do some thing to my kids".

Whole foods in south philly prides itself on small town service, they have a kids center in the store where parents leave the kids while they grocery shop.

It doesn't mean that parents are abdicating responsibility of their kids. Heck, when I was growing up in NYC we had and still do have places that will bring your groceries to your building.

 

[DebIreland]

This Kroger is within sight of my mom's flower shop in Macon. We did 2 floral arrangements for the family and delivered them yesterday. The family lives in a neighborhood VERY close to the Kroger and I'm sure that's where they do the majority of their grocery shopping, we were told that the person pushing the cart is a family friend. I'm sure they are absolutely destroyed by this. Accidents can just happen in an instant. The whole time my mom was making the second arrangement to take to the family she kept saying "how do you make something like this for a grieving family........." It broke both of our hearts, we were at the shop when it happened but we hear so many emergency vehicles driving up and down that road everyday we didn't think anything of it. The baby would have been baptizer this Sunday.

Hugs to you and your mom too. It's a very nasty shock to hear of something so tragic happening near you.

 

[DebIreland]

I live in the megalopolis area of DC/MD/PA/NJ and at my closest grocery store I am happy if carts are available; sometimes we (collective we) have to wait out front for someone to leave so we can grab a cart.

No one in my almost 50 years of living in the area has offered to take my groceries out to my car. Maybe 20-25 years ago an employee would help you load the groceries if you pulled your car up to the curb - for a tip. But this stopped a long time ago.

So sorry to hear of this tragedy. But even if I lived there would never let a virtual stranger have care/responsibility/possession of my child.

He was a family friend.

That poor baby. That poor family. It's heartbreaking.

 

[bgirldeb]

I live in the megalopolis area of DC/MD/PA/NJ and at my closest grocery store I am happy if carts are available; sometimes we (collective we) have to wait out front for someone to leave so we can grab a cart.

No one in my almost 50 years of living in the area has offered to take my groceries out to my car. Maybe 20-25 years ago an employee would help you load the groceries if you pulled your car up to the curb - for a tip. But this stopped a long time ago.

So sorry to hear of this tragedy. But even if I lived there would never let a virtual stranger have care/responsibility/possession of my child.

"Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up. "
- Raymond Chandler

 

[YodaGirl]

DD's carrier fit in the cart really well.

DS's carrier didn't fit so well. It moved around where as hers did not. I refused to sit it by the handlebar because it was obviously not secure. I guess it was the way the bottom of the seat was made.

DH thought that I was crazy until I read him this news story. So tragic and sad.

 

[C.Ann]

Someone is going to be rich after this...

Not everyone in the world is "sue happy"..

What a horrible tragedy for everyone involved..

 

[Coconut36]

It was always my understanding it was considered unsafe to put the infant bucket seat in the cart as they have a high risk of falling and especially once a baby gets older could easily knock themselves out of the seat. I carried it on my arm (and I had hefty babies..my first was almost 10lbs at birth) for the most part and pushed the cart. If I asked for help out I would have likely carried my baby personally. I am not blaming though as many don't know and wouldn't think something bad could happen.

It's common in every store I shop at (Frys (Kroger), Albertsons, and Safeway) to offer assistance to your car. So I don't find that unusual.

What a terrible and tragic thing to happen and I feel horrible and sad not just for the parents but for the employee as the guilt and heartache they must feel has to be great as well.

 

[SandrA9810]

Living in Florida, and part of Publix's motto of "shopping is a pleasure", there will always be a bagger available to bag your groceries, and more often than not, they don't ask you if you would like help out. They also have a button on their shirt that says no tipping. It is part of their job and responsibility to take your groceries out.

I can picture the whole scenario. I don't know of many grocery stores without speed humps in front of the building. A lot of times, they are at the start of the crosswalk from the doors. To help remind drivers they need to slow down and stop for pedestrians.

What I don't get, is how could the baby have fallen face forward out of the cart if the employee was pushing the cart from the handlebar. He would've been in front of the child to catch it or at least break the fall.

I don't ever recall an employee pulling a cart, they always grabbed the cart by the handlebar, the proper way. At least at Publix.

 

[LuvsDragonflies]

Originally Posted by mickeyM00SE View Post

Someone is going to be rich after this...

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There isn't enough money in the world to make this better.

 

[fairestoneofall]

Someone is going to be rich after this...

you know, i think that family is probably a little more concerned about the loss of their child than money. no amount of money in the world will ease their pain.

DS' car seat does not fit into the cart so i put it into the big basket. at target the other day, the SA got a cart for me and then looked at me weird when i put DS in the main part of the cart. oh well. i'd rather him be safe. he is definitely not secure in the top part.

 

[Hannathy]

you know, i think that family is probably a little more concerned about the loss of their child than money. no amount of money in the world will ease their pain.

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Give them a few weeks. Thanks to the glut of lawyers and the insanely generous juries, I certainly wouldn't be betting my house there won't be a lawsuit.

It is almost a given.

 

[Hutchy]

I would be very surprised to hear that this family decided to sue from what I've heard about them but I could be wrong. I truly don't think there is enough money in this world to make this any less painful for the family.

The "speed bumps" that the cart hit were put in just recently (in the last year or so when they remodeled the store if I remember correctly) and aren't huge bumps, actually pretty low and gradual, and I was surprised when we found out that they were the cause of the accident. Originally we had heard that the person pushing the cart had tripped and in the process of falling had jerked the cart knocking the baby out but we found out later that was incorrect but we still haven't heard the full story of what happened.

Doing funeral work for babies and children is always so hard, it's my mom's least favorite part of the floral business and she almost always cries for the family at some point.

 

[DeniseinNS]

I'm shocked by how many people I see putting their infant seat on the top part of shopping carts, IT IS NOT SAFE even if the seat does "clip in". The clip on the back isn't made for the seat to snap onto a shopping cart the way the seat snaps into its base in the car. Even if the seat did clip onto the shopping cart securely, putting a car seat up there changes the center of gravity of the shopping cart, the cart becomes top-heavy and is then more likely to tip over, injuring a child sitting in the shopping cart or riding on top of it in their infant car seat.



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