I see grocery shopping as the most dangerous place to catch the virus. All kinds of infected hands have touched the products you handle and contaminate your hands when you pick them up. Your grocery bags become a incubator of countless hands that touched your groceries. I am sure you have the result of someone who grabbed that snot rag from their pocket and wiped the snot from their nose after a healthy sneeze. You never know what all those hands in the store have touched and what ends up on your groceries.
I have sanitizer in the car and use it (including on any door handles I touch) when I hit the car.
I’m giving anything brought home from the grocery a good washing or other decontamination (let set 5 days in a warm room, in the sun, whatever works out best).
Bags to re-use go in a que for later use, or in the back of the spare car to cook on a sunny afternoon.
Produce and date coded perishables like milk are a big problem to buy online. Who wants to stock up on milk that is going to expire in 5 days?
You never know what all those hands in the store have touched and what ends up on your groceries.
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Yes. There is a great youtube video on how to properly sanitize after a grocery run.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-RIOXD2gjc
You are SO right - grocery shopping (or going into any store - home improvement, etc) is one of the highest risk ways to catch this.
A lot of people don’t seem to grasp yet that this spreads simply by BREATHING or TALKING, in addition to the obvious ways (someone coughs or sneezes and doesn’t cover..or, touches something [like a stock clerk] that you then pickup). Plus, the virus hangs in the air for up to 3 hours. So, infected person (who probably doesn’t realize they are infected as many cases are asymptomatic) walks down an aisle close to you..says hello..or asks the friendly grocery clerk where something is. You’ve been exposed..
I personally think Walmart has a really good idea here and would love to see my local Kroger and Home Depot do the same.