Anonymous wrote:I use the gloves. I dispose after I load the grocery bags into the car but before I get in the car. I Purell my hands as soon as I'm in the car.

I'd rather everyone in the store wear a fresh pair of gloves than touch items with their bare hands. This is common sense.

Once you start pushing the cart, your "fresh pair" of gloves has contamination, so each time you pick up an item, it is just the same as the person with their bare hands.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not touching my car with contaminated gloves. I’m dropping them where I’m done with them.

We have far more serious problems right now than a few biodegradable latex gloves laying about.

Are you serious? Walk over to the trash can. Carefully peel them off over the trash can without touching the outside.

You just left your contamination on the ground for someone else to pick up...

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt that "all the people wearing rubber gloves to the grocery store" or even a substantial portion of them are doing this.

The last time I went to the store the ground was littered with these things.

I haven't seen this even once. Where are you people?

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The OP probably saw one person do this and is now insisting *everyone* does it. Ridiculous. I went to Giant today wearing gloves. Most other customers were also wearing them. There was no "glove litter" in the parking lot.

OP here.
Never “insisted” everyone was doing it. Just asked people who do wear gloves not to do it.
Didn’t see anyone do it but saw at least 30 pairs on my walk from store to my car and more as I was driving out.
Just because you have not seen it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. Keep burying your head in the sand.
Google is your friend - it is happening across the country.

The glove-droppers are probably the same dainty ladies who hover over public toilets, spraying urine all over the seat for other people to clean up later. And no, this glove-littering is not some made-up issue, I'm seeing discarded gloves all over the place, including along the side of my street.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I doubt that "all the people wearing rubber gloves to the grocery store" or even a substantial portion of them are doing this.

The last time I went to the store the ground was littered with these things.

I haven't seen this even once. Where are you people?

+1
The OP probably saw one person do this and is now insisting *everyone* does it. Ridiculous. I went to Giant today wearing gloves. Most other customers were also wearing them. There was no "glove litter" in the parking lot.

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Anonymous wrote:can you not just throw them on the ground next to your car after you load you groceries.
Be better people. I thought WF shoppers were more concerned about the environment.
Guess that goes out the window in a pandemic.

Actually, the WF shoppers are exactly the population I would expect to do this! Entitled narcissists.

Yep I mean just look at the owner of WF. Entitled, cheating asshole.

Anonymous wrote:can you not just throw them on the ground next to your car after you load you groceries.
Be better people. I thought WF shoppers were more concerned about the environment.
Guess that goes out the window in a pandemic.

Actually, the WF shoppers are exactly the population I would expect to do this! Entitled narcissists.

A lady wearing multiple pairs of gloves mishandled her purchases, dropping a six pack of soda. One shot across the floor 20 feet and sprayed the half dozen people around (including my DH who felt filthy with the combo of seeing the gloves/feeling the wet spray). The old lady was mortified and everyone wished they could just rewind time and have that NOT happen,

You are going to run out of gloves eventually. You might try washing them.

Anonymous wrote:This is Whole Foods.

Organic berries - check.
Responsibly farmed fish - check.
Gluten free granola - check.
Free Range eggs - check.

Own bags with Save the Planet printed on it (give dirty looks to those who don't) - check.

Ask WF staff to take bags to car - check.

Get into luxury hybrid - check.

Dispose of rubber gloves in parking lot - check.

You forgot: Ignoring the shelves of proper organic disinfectant and lamenting the lack of Lysol.

I throw mine on the floor in my car, and then collect them a couple of days later.

Anonymous wrote:I doubt that "all the people wearing rubber gloves to the grocery store" or even a substantial portion of them are doing this.

Not rubber gloves, but the majority of people in my grocery stores are wearing latex and nitrile gloves.

I haven't see gloves or masks on the ground where I am. I see people wearing them so they must be throwing them away. People who are throwing them on the ground are trash boxes, walk up to the trash can and throw them away so nobody has to pick them up. People are gross

I use the gloves. I dispose after I load the grocery bags into the car but before I get in the car. I Purell my hands as soon as I'm in the car.

I'd rather everyone in the store wear a fresh pair of gloves than touch items with their bare hands. This is common sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I wore gloves. I absolutely did not throw them in the store or the road, or anywhere. I saw other people wearing gloves and not a single person just dropped them or did I see a single glove anywhere on the ground. Where exactly did you see this?

I guess it is not happening then. Google it - it is a problem everywhere.

https://www.ctinsider.com/local/ctpost/article/Gloves-used-to-thwart-coronavirus-littering-15164815.php