Honesty, you tell it how many bags you have used
OMG 5p Charge for Plastic bags!
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Honesty, you tell it how many bags you have used
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Rage much ?
Nothing wrong with people who are concerned with environmental issues. We all have to share an ever decreasing amount of space on this planet so it makes sense that we should look after it. Or maybe you just want to live in a cess pit.
The UK is fast becoming a cesspit - re-using a plastic bag will never save it from further becoming a deeper cesspit.
If you want to waste your life being an environmentalist fine, just don't expect me to pay for it.
Where I live , the self service checkouts ask if you used your own bags just before you pay. I've never checked my bill to be honest, but I'm thinking they add a charge if you say no.
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Many shops use the thick paper bags - mostly clothes shops and the like, but oddly not supermarkets...
A 5p charge won't do anything, a switch to sturdy paper bags would solve the problem.
A 5p charge won't do anything, a switch to sturdy paper bags would solve the problem.
As long as this gets rid of the annoying habit of supermarkets insisting on putting the first few items in a bag. Every day I almost have to fight with the cashier at lunchtime not to put 2-3 things in a bag. You know, I can carry them... On the other hand it annoys me when others do use a carrier bag for a packet of crisps and a sandwich... Why!?
So the home delivery service will first come to my house to pick up my shopping bags so I don't get charge? I don't think so.
The BBC also said that Tesco\asda ect can take a cut out of the 5p per bag for themselves hmmmm
Thanks Cameron
The BBC also said that Tesco\asda ect can take a cut out of the 5p per bag for themselves hmmmm
Thanks Cameron
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They don't add a charge.
I think maybe it's for data reasons (i.e this is how they collect carrier bag usage stats in the first place) and in the case of Sainsbury's, using your own bags gives you extra nectar points, 1 point per bag.
I guess they do bag-count on the main checkouts too, just you don't notice.
Frozen/fresh food - water
Problem is for those that don't have a routine and a car it's annoying carrying bags around on the of chance you may go shopping. For example I commute by train and don't carry a bag with me, however will pick up some food on the way back home if I feel like it... Just have to pay the charge but it's annoying bags aren't made out of something else, like paper.
As an aside, if I'm paying for a bag then I at least expect it to be up to scratch. I once paid for a couple of bags in a londis (or similar). Thinnest bags of ever used and as soon as I walked out the door the bottom fell out of one...
As for charity, I'm betting the companies that do give the proceeds to charity don't give it to environmental ones, rather unrelated ones like children saving or something? I like the idea of giving proceeds to charity but the charities should be environmental ones.
Not sure where ッ is but where I am (Southampton) i'm yet to be charged for a bag in any supermarket or retail store i've used.
If its like Sweden were i've been living life in a shell, you buy the bags before you reach the check out.
They have a lot more self service scanners there though. I'm sure they trialed it at my local M&S but it became a shoplifting spree lol
<<<<< I live in Havering NE London.
My local Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, even PoundLand do not charge for bags at the moment. Im sure that with this news they will jump the gun and get in on it.
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This is quite hilarious - if you add up the checkout assistant's time spent asking if you want bags, counting them, the drip feeding them slowly to you, and also the cost on revenue they could have scanned in that time (not counting wasted time of the customer stood thete waiting for the dramatic bag-drip-feed performance) I'd wager that it offsets the cost.
Additionally, for £1 you get a bag for life from Waitrose which is bigger, more durable and even less biodegradable than the micron-thick checkout 5p bags. They're good VFM in comparison, and don't save the environment either, but you're perhaps more likely to retain them.
Additionally, for £1 you get a bag for life from Waitrose which is bigger, more durable and even less biodegradable than the micron-thick checkout 5p bags. They're good VFM in comparison, and don't save the environment either, but you're perhaps more likely to retain them.
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Self service in our supermarkets dont have bags, you either bring your own or pay.
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Everyone is treating this like a joke, I hope this is ok for the family forum? Plastic wrapped penguins and one is clearly hurt
This made me laugh, comedy gold!
I gagged laughing at this.
I don't really care, I already bring my bags when I do the weekly shop.
"Oh **** I left them in the car" doesn't really happen when you walk to small independent stores to get your food, you notice it straight away when out the door.
Only thing close to a supermarket I use is costco for bulk stuff sometimes.
If I'm out on chance without them, 5p is fine, I'll find a use for the bag. Suffocating children or something.
"Oh **** I left them in the car" doesn't really happen when you walk to small independent stores to get your food, you notice it straight away when out the door.
Only thing close to a supermarket I use is costco for bulk stuff sometimes.
If I'm out on chance without them, 5p is fine, I'll find a use for the bag. Suffocating children or something.
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