Grocery stores are a great refuge for rodents like mice, rats, and cockroaches because they provide an almost infinite supply of food and water. However, once these pests have gained access to your facility through cracks and crevices, they can cause extensive damage to your business.

Mice and rats contaminate about ten times as much food as they eat by consuming items intended for sale. In the meantime, they will eat inorganic, indigestible materials, causing damage to wiring, drywall, insulation, siding, and wallboards.

Rats and mice may also cause allergies and transmit diseases such as rat-bite fever, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and E. coli infection, as well as parasitic insects, ticks, and mites. Worse, certain mice can bear and spread Hantavirus, which is a rare respiratory disease with no proven cure that can be fatal in humans.

Cockroaches, on the other hand, are highly unsanitary, contaminating food and spreading diseases like dysentery, typhoid fever, and cholera. Customers or workers who are exposed to cockroaches on a regular basis may experience serious allergic reactions.

However, certain rodents have a natural aversion to bait and traps, and cockroaches are among the most adaptable creatures on the earth, rendering many of these pests impossible to eradicate, let alone prevent their return. Professional pest control services are needed to completely eliminate these pests.