A mum has issued a warning to all parents after her four-year-old son was left covered in a painful rash from playing outside.
04.05.2022 - 15:39 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Deliveroo bags used to deliver food across the city are being left outdoors overnight in unsanitary conditions, chained to dirty railings behind the Arndale. According to local residents, it’s a practice that has been going on ‘for months’.
PR consultant India Morris, who lives nearby, says that the bags are left there by delivery riders, and that the number of bags varies every day, suggesting that they are in use and not simply discarded kit. Posting a shot of the bags to Twitter, she tagged in the multi-national company to bring the problem to their attention, with other users noting that they 'see it every morning'.
She was then shocked when the company’s ‘escalation team’ got back to her and asked to dispose of them herself. Deliveroo also offered her the option of prepaid postage labels to send them back to the company.
She told the Manchester Evening News: “It’s an ongoing problem. Deliveroo riders will go there and leave them, and it’s not the same amount every day. They are being taken, left there and bike locked.
“Where they are is down over the Met lines, down in that little alleyway where everyone wees, by the carpark entrance to the Arndale. It’s a dirty place, it actively smells like urine when you walk down there.
“The bags get left for hours, and sometimes they get left there overnight. I think it’s why my tweet got so many likes, because so many people are aware of it. Even if you’re not using Deliveroo, other delivery drivers will turn up using Deliveroo bags. There don’t seem to be any rules. It’s the wild west.”
In emails to the company, Morris told Deliveroo that the bags are definitely in use, and had not simply been discarded. But despite this, she was told: “We give all riders access to
A mum has issued a warning to all parents after her four-year-old son was left covered in a painful rash from playing outside.
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