PLEASE READ: Shopping Carts

[nyyankeegirl]

I don't remember where I read it, so I may be wrong, but I read that the manufacturers of grocery carts are actually changing the measurements of the top part of the basket so that infant seats will not fit on them. It's a tip hazard, and a lawsuit danger for the stores and cart companies, so they're forcing the parents to put infant seats in the basket part of the cart, rather than the top part. I've had people actually get hostile with me at work (where we sell infant seats) because we "sold them a seat that won't fit on a grocery cart."

Seriously? It's my fault? That's right, because I manufacture them in my garage. I forgot.

Dare I say....morons.

My DS is 3 now, but when he was a newborn it drove me crazy that his infant seat would not fit up front, at our local grocery store. I always had to put his carseat in the basket part, which limited me on the amount of groceries that I could buy. But at least he was safe!

Another story -- from the same grocery store.... DH & I were shopping with our 2 boys. The older was probably around 4 1/2 , the younger 1 1/2. The older was walking with us, the younger was sitting up in the front part of the cart, strapped in, I might add. But what we didn't realize was that the cart was missing one of it's front wheels. Halfway through the store, DS4 stepped up on the side of the cart, and it flipped over on it's side, w/ DS1 still buckled in. Thankfully DH was there to help me left it up, but I was hysterical. You'd be surprised at how many people were just standing there stareing at us- not offering to help. In my hysterical state, I gave them a piece of my mind, which is not normal for me. The store manager created a report, but that was all. I was just happy both boys weren't really hurt.
CHECK THOSE WHEELS!!

 

[famofsix]

I'm so with you. This drives me mad. They aren't meant to go there! Know what else bugs me? When people turn those wooden high chairs over in restaurants and put their infant seat in them. OMFG people are you daft? The base should be wider than the top for a REASON. People!

I went to a restaurant where the employee insisted that the high chair was DESIGNED to do this. But safety and a dirty high chair bottom won out for me and I put the infnat seat near me. Then the employee gave me a hard time that someone could trip on the seat (we were sitting at a table with chairs and the baby was sleeping). I didn't want to wake the baby so I put the infant seat on the table with the safety strap down so it wouldn't move.

I used to have an infant seat with clips that attacted to the cart. I never had a tipping problem thank GOD!

I always strapped the kids in when the were in the seats and I am thankful for the two seaters because sometimes you have to shop with the kids in tow.

 

[princessmom29]

I went to a restaurant where the employee insisted that the high chair was DESIGNED to do this. But safety and a dirty high chair bottom won out for me and I put the infnat seat near me. Then the employee gave me a hard time that someone could trip on the seat (we were sitting at a table with chairs and the baby was sleeping). I didn't want to wake the baby so I put the infant seat on the table with the safety strap down so it wouldn't move.

I used to have an infant seat with clips that attacted to the cart. I never had a tipping problem thank GOD!

I always strapped the kids in when the were in the seats and I am thankful for the two seaters because sometimes you have to shop with the kids in tow.

FYI those wooden high chairs are designed to do that and are safe from what i read when DD was an infant. I teach high school physics, and from a physics standpoint, the bas being narrower than the top in an of itself does not necessairly pose a tipping hazard. It is about center of gravity and weight distribution. An infant in a carrier generally will not throw off the center of gravity enough to pose a hazard. I used them with dd all the time with no problems. I never felt they were unstable or unsafe, and beleive me i checked them for tip points ect.