"Shopping carts
are dirtier than
public toilets."
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Your vision is our mission
We believe that a single retail-acquired infection is too many
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And we think you'd agree. Every day, parents obliviously place their children into the baskets of shopping carts, never giving a thought to who might have had their hands on the handle last. When University of Arizona researchers examined shopping cart surfaces in four different states, they found 50% had E. coli and 72% had fecal bacteria. That’s more than the toilet handles of public restrooms.
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We invented QUaZar UV-C TUNL to give retailers the power to provide their customers clean, disinfected shopping carts as quickly and efficiently as possible.
It's not like anybody actually believes that
shopping carts are clean
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We see the disinfecting wipes at the entrances, the hand sanitizer pumps scattered around the isles, and the store associates wiping all the carts (with the same soggy rag.) None of these are stable solutions to the eternal problem: Contagious diseases thrive on shopping cart surfaces.
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And they're not very economical for your business, either. That's why Monaco Technologies engineers devised a system for sanitizing carts in volume for pennies per load that doesn't waste product or leave behind nasty residue.
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Stop kicking the cart down the road
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In the age of the Covid-19 pandemic, critical urgency has shined new light onto the age-old, troubling discussion: Have retail stores become microbial breeding grounds?
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At Monaco Technologies, we believe there will never be a better time to address the inconvenient truth that tretail environments can double as vectors for microorganisms to transmit and infect shoppers. And the makeshift fixes today's industry leaders are scrambling to implement are like putting a worn-out bandage on the bleeding wound of an otherwise streamlined system - they just don't work.
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Book a demo now to see why QUaZar UV-C TUNL is the most important thing your stores need right now.
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What's wrong with chemical disinfectants?
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A lot is wrong. Increasing evidence shows that chemical cleaning agents such as bleach, chlorine, alcohol, etc. (regularly used in shopping cart disinfectant solutions) create Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) which have been found to have negative health and environmental effects. Chemical burns from shopping carts are also increasing amid growing use of chemicals on carts.
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Further, they're costly, wasteful, bad for the environment and leave messy chemical residues that can drip onto the floor or get on your customers' skin and clothing.
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The cart's out of the bag
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Previously a mindless activity, grabbing a shopping cart and pushing it around a store has become an exercise in overcoming our fear of infection. Even before we walk into the store, we grip the handlebar of the cart and proceed inside where we are greeted by a can of wipes.
It’s too late. Our hands have clutched this handlebar for no less than a minute. Was it wiped down with chemical disinfectant after the last person was done? Was the last person who touched it infected with the coronavirus? Assuming the cart was sprayed, did the disinfectant can have enough of the juice to kill the coronavirus bacteria lurking on this handle? Or was the can almost empty?
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