plastic bags

[^woody^]

Asda are asking if you want the [thin] bags or you can buy the thicker re-useable ones.

The last operator we spoke with said they may be phasing the free bags out.

We do a 3-weekly shop and use loads of bags. I'll be fooked if they expect me to carry a load of bags back to the shop to re-use.

I'll just pay the 5p per bag and lose the cost in the shop. Fook the environment and this poxy idea

 

[breezer]

alegedy M & S have lost sales since they started charging 5p / bag

serves them right.

I am seriously thinking of bringing the Tesco trolley home, its less than 1/2 a mile away. Keep it and use it again next time

 

[Shytalkz]

Shop online, saves visiting the vast swathes of tarmac, steel and brickwork. And it all comes in nice baskets, not a placcy bag in sight.

 

[megawatt]

Allegedly M & S have lost sales since they started charging 5p / bag

I popped in to the foodhall of M&S last weekend and the person in front of me at the till had a huge trolley full (an annoyance as I only had a few snack-like bits but ho hum).
She asked the girl for some bags and, when she was told she had to pay for them, told the girl in no uncertain terms what she could do with the food, left it all on the conveyor and promptly walked out ... And everyone else waiting to be served at the time clapped!

When the manager came out he got set upon by a gang of irate women

Classic.

I guarantee that if shoppers were to boycott M&S for a single day over this issue bags would be free again ... But the people of this country aren't that clever I'm afraid and will just accept whatever injustices come their way.

MW

 

[Shytalkz]

Apparently, if plastic bags had been buried in landfill when Henry VIII was on the throne, only now would they be starting to decompose. That's pretty pants, by any standard.

What's wrong with paper bags? Or taking your own? Or previously-used placcy bags?

 

[mattylad]

The next time your in or near Ikea, get some of the Ikea bags.

They are only 19p each & are an excellent long term alternative.
I keep 6 plus a large one (35p) in the back of the car.
Although I usually forget them when going into the supermarket, I simply put stuff back into the trolley, push it to the car & bag it up there.

AFAIK when Ireland banned plastic bags the sale of small bin liners rose by 60%

 

[FourFootMedia]

Shop online, saves visiting the vast swathes of tarmac, steel and brickwork. And it all comes in nice baskets, not a placcy bag in sight.

We do this, but even after selecting the option not to deliver in plastic bags, we still get it delivered with about 2 items per bag... ah well

 

[tim west]

Apparently, if plastic bags had been buried in landfill when Henry VIII was on the throne, only now would they be starting to decompose. That's pretty pants, by any standard.

The plastic bags used today are far superior to those used then and will decompose a lot quicker, besides Henry VIII should have been using those bags for life, not the flimsy plastic ones, cheapskate!

 

[Deluks]

when she was told she had to pay for them, told the girl in no uncertain terms what she could do with the food, left it all on the conveyor and promptly walked out ... And everyone else waiting to be served at the time clapped!

When the manager came out he got set upon by a gang of irate women

Classic.

MW

Appalling behaviour. Just goes to show how stuck up the average Marks & Sparks customer is.

the people of this country aren't that clever I'm afraid and will just accept whatever injustices come their way.

MW

Having to pay for a carrier bag is injustice? WTF? Lidl's charge for all their bags and I've never seen anyone kick up a fuss in there.



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Ikea, I was gonna say that.
The big Ikea bags can be used in the bottom of the trolley, and makes it easy to get loads of stuff from shop>car : Car>house.

 

[wobs]

We do a 3-weekly shop and use loads of bags. I'll be fooked if they expect me to carry a load of bags back to the shop to re-use.

And that would a problem because?

We've used the reuseable bags for years, and found them to be more practical, as you can get more in. You end up with less plastic bags in the cupbaord or bin and yet we still find ourselves with enough plastic bags to use as bin liners somehow.

At the risk of coming out with a mantra: There's no such thing as a free plastic bag.

 

[Deluks]

We do a 3-weekly shop and use loads of bags. I'll be fooked if they expect me to carry a load of bags back to the shop to re-use.

And that would a problem because?

Woody is suggesting that the bags weigh more when empty than when full up with shopping.

Must be something to do with conveyor belts. Or something.

 

[Francine]

I can never understand why people want to carry away loads of flimsy plastic bags with the sharp corners of packets sticking out and the bread squashed ! Not to mention that they disgorge their contents if laid down. Just invest in a few of the strong gusseted bags with strong handles (M&S and Tesco sell them for a pound or so, don't know about Asda as I am not near one). Not only do you get far more into a bag because you can pack properly but you arrive home with unbroken eggs and no mis-shapen bread. It is not a huge hardship to pop them back in the boot when emptied and put them into the bottom of your trolley when you you collect it on your next shopping trip.

People say they use the plastic carriers for lining the pedal bin but storing a load of them is a pain and a tidy roll of pedal bin bags can be bought very cheaply - in the pound shop if you begrudge the cost !

It won't be long before the government imposes a 'tax' on every plastic bag as I believe they already do in Ireland (ostensibly to stop plastic bag
litter but a nice little earner too) so you would be doing yourself a favour by buying and getting used to the strong gusseted re-usable bags. As you will have guessed, I am a total convert. I also have some of the collapsible plastic boxes in the boot. I assure you food shopping is much less stressful as a result !

 

[megawatt]

Gusset ... What a lovely word

 

[securespark]

MW...

Don't know your age, but when I was a kid in the 70's, we always paid 5p for a carrier bag and our local independent supermarket had biodegradable ones.

Seems like since then we've gone backwards, only to start reverting to where we were (in terms of charging for carriers & the availability of biodegradable plastics) 30 years ago.

Are the noughties the new seventies?

 

[FourFootMedia]

It is not a huge hardship to pop them back in the boot when emptied

What if you don't drive to get your shopping? How many people want to walk to town with pockets full of bags...