Lidl & Netto Paying For Carrier Bags

DCFC79

honeyD wrote: »

Are you sure? We use asda all the time for home deliveries and you wouldnt believe the amount of carrier bags they give! Bananas get their own bag, 1 tin in its own bag, things like that. Its ridiculous lol. I know my mum shops at asda daily but she hasnt mentioned paying for their bags now, I know I wouldnt be willing to.. they break too easy lol.

i know asda have removed they're bags from display

uktim29

DCFC79 wrote: »

i know asda have removed they're bags from display

Just been to Sainsburys, they have now as well.

vikingaero

Lidl, Netto and Aldi pay their staff very well compared to Tesco. Most staff are on £7.50 to £9.50 per hour. But they are expected to multi-task and do the tills, stock, cleaning, whatever needs doing. But whilst paying staff well they do expect minimum shifts and are pretty mean and strict with their staff.

Compare that to Tescos where most cashiers are on little more than the minimum wage and would refuse to do any other job in-store.

AndysDad

Last time I was in Lidl's they charged 3p for a normal bag and 9p for the larger/stronger bag.I always use their boxes and then put them in with my paper/cardboard for re-cycling.

ManAtHome

I remember most supermarkets charging in the 60s and 70s as well - I think it was us lot who invented the padded jacket (normal jacket with a plaggy bag in each pocket).

For the 'supermarket hall of nostalgia', I nominate Grandways - think it was the first one in our area.

Horace

I don't see the problem with Lidl, Netto or Aldi charging for carrier bags, the trick is to take your own or to use an empty box and they have plenty of them hanging around. A cardboard box is easier to dispose of than a plastic bag anyway and probably has more uses.

If you visit the continent you don't get free shopping bags, you have to pay for them even the cheap flimsy ones.

I can remember the days of the supermarket Fine Fare who instead of plastic bags had brown paper sacks - its a far better idea and more environmentally friendly.

mustrum_ridcully

As a long time lidl and aldi shopper it's quite interesting seeing all the new people who've been shopping there recently and their expressions of horror that they have to pay for their carrier bags

Personally I just re-use what ever carrier bags I have, I bung em all into one carrier bag that I keep in the boot. So I do my shopping then go and do my packing when I get to the car.

Horace - Fine Fare! Now there's a name I haven't seen for about 20 years!

sarah1980

mustrum_ridcully wrote: »

As a long time lidl and aldi shopper it's quite interesting seeing all the new people who've been shopping there recently and their expressions of horror that they have to pay for their carrier bags

Personally I just re-use what ever carrier bags I have, I bung em all into one carrier bag that I keep in the boot. So I do my shopping then go and do my packing when I get to the car.

Horace - Fine Fare! Now there's a name I haven't seen for about 20 years!

Trouble is, our Lidl is in the middle of a pedestrianised shopping precinct and the car park is a multi-storey - you can't take the trolley in the lift.

The "discount" supermarkets may pay all their staff better than the big supermarkets, but I have never seen a single member of staff in my local Lidl crack a smile. They look really unhappy, and also all the checkout staff are Eastern European, which can often signify lower wages or poor working conditions (no offence meant to Eastern Europeans).

But I guess customer service is another thing I pay for at Sainsburys

DCFC79

vikingaero wrote: »

Lidl, Netto and Aldi pay their staff very well compared to Tesco. Most staff are on £7.50 to £9.50 per hour. But they are expected to multi-task and do the tills, stock, cleaning, whatever needs doing. But whilst paying staff well they do expect minimum shifts and are pretty mean and strict with their staff.

Compare that to Tescos where most cashiers are on little more than the minimum wage and would refuse to do any other job in-store.

thats because in my experience the females on the checkouts will turn they're noses up at doing any work whereas at aldi or lidl the females are expected to do manual work as well as the men,

ManAtHome

Horace wrote: »

If you visit the continent you don't get free shopping bags, you have to pay for them even the cheap flimsy ones.

Dunno - in Spain and Greece I still get odd looks when I tell them I'll just bung the stuff in my rucksack (suppose it could be connected with being out in the mid-day sun...)