Not just in Texas, but this is increasingly a common sight in many places in the United States:
In Texas we might say something like: This ain’t worth a hill of beans. The overwhelming majority of easily transmissible infections are URI’s, or upper respiratory infections – and the overwhelming majority of them are caused by viruses, not bacteria, that are not affected by topical alcohol.
NOTE ADDED MAY 2025 – As I look back on this snap, I realized I took it more than a year before Covid. So now in fact this is a common sight just about everywhere you find shopping carts.