Shopping Injuries

Shopping injuries can happen anywhere from a grocery store to a mechanic shop. Have you ever seen a puddle of water on the floor of a grocery store? Have you ever slipped on a grape in the produce section of a grocery store? These are all too common situations in which shopping injuries occur when visiting the local store. Unfortunately, every year hundreds shoppers are badly hurt from these very situations.

There are many factors that can cause a store to be a factor in shopping injuries. These factors include foreign substances on the floor such as spills from broken containers, merchandise stacked in an unstable way, damaged flooring, poor lighting and lack of adequate warning signs in the appropriate places throughout the store. These situations can and often do cause shopping injuries such as tripping, slipping, or falling and severely hurt themselves. If the store has any one of these factors, the store can be a very dangerous place for its customers.

The law says that the owner of any public business establishment has certain responsibilities toward the customers that are invited to the establishment to conduct business. Among these, the business must: 

• Use reasonable care to ensure the safety of those invited to the place of business
• Use all diligence to correct any dangerous conditions once the owner is made aware of them
• Warn any potential customers who may face injury because of any known hazardous condition