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Sami_Bee

TK maxx have a store feedback thingy here http://ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=347971026
if you want to make ur feelings known
I wouldn't mind paying for a bag if its one with 'good handles' and only 5p but do think it's taking the P a bit :rolleyes:

The bag issue that annoys me is currently with Tesco the quality of their bags has dropped dramatically and I now have to double bag anything remotely heavy like milk or wine hardly helps the environment when I need to use extra bags!!

oh and in M&S I find it quite exciting seeing how much I can fit into one of the free little bags :rotfl: last night the cashier took pitty on me and let me have two of the small free ones :T

I have been known to use nappy sacks too coz I always have some of those one me!

soolin

Once when it was raining I asked Primark if they had any plastic bags instead of their silly little paper ones that fall apart. They ended up giving me two huge sacks as big as bin bags. I put all my items in just one of them.

I then went into M and S and I don't think the security guard knew what to make of me filling the other huge sack with food in the self service till, he actually came over and had a look! I think at one point he wanted to tell me I couldn't use a sack, but I sort of gave him a look and he wandered off.

soolin

Oh and don't get me started about milk, the bags I've ruined in Tesco as their milk has a habit of leaking. I don't mind if it is one of the bags for life as they replace them, but I like the strudy blue bags at 40p each and they won't replace them at all.

So far as well I've had two lots of bags removed from my trolley when my back was turned which meant I had to buy all new ones.

SueC_2

The whole 'thing' over carrier bags seems to be getting obsessive. It is completely and utterly ridiculous to buy anything and then have to pay further for a bag to take it home in.

I wouldn't mind so much if I thought this was a genuine move towards 'save the environment' but I'm too cynical for that and see it purely as a move for retailers to save (ie. make more) money.

I like to think I'm playing the supermarkets at their own game though. I still unashamedly help myself to bags everytime I shop. Then, rather than stick them in a drawer, or in the cupboard under the sink (let's face it, we all have a stash somewhere) I use them as bin liners around the house, meaning I don't have to buy the 'proper' liners. This way it's ME that makes the saving, not the supermarket. Eat dirt Mr Tesco.

On the subject of supermarket cutbacks... anyone else noticed how you now have to pay a pound to get a trolley and take it back to the trolley park to get your quid back? They used to employ someone to go round collecting the trollies. Where have the savings generated by that cutback gone? Not on the bottom of my shopping bill, that's for sure!

Ste_C

SueC wrote: »

This way it's ME that makes the saving, not the supermarket. Eat dirt Mr Tesco.

Yea, screw Tesco and their miserly £3bn profits. We're the real winners with not having to pay for bin bags! :cool:

Dave101t

i suppose if lidl charge for bags, thats why their goods are so cheap! i wonder what tesco's excuse is?

SueC_2

Ste_C wrote: »

Yea, screw Tesco and their miserly £3bn profits. We're the real winners with not having to pay for bin bags! :cool:

In the words of Tesco themselves "Every Little Helps"! :rotfl:

weegie.geek

The idea's to take bags with you. I try to take one or two of the sturdy jute bags with me. If I forget, it's my own fault and I have to pay for a bag. Fair enough.

What I don't like is the idea of the shop making a profit from the bags. A bag costs a fraction of a penny for them to buy. Anything over and above that should go to recycling or some other "green" thing. If I'm paying 5p for a bag, I don't want 90% of that to go in the shop's pocket.

The paying a pound for a trolley thing always confuses me too. Some supermarkets have it, some don't. What's the purpose? To stop people stealing them? Surely better to use security cameras to catch the people stealing them, and do something about it, no? If I particularly wanted to steal a trolley, it costing me a pound would be a small price to pay. Hell, you can get those keyring trolley pound things for 35p, less if you buy multipacks of them.

Is the problem really kids stealing them and chucking them in the river? What's the scrap value of a trolley? Anyway, I've never had a good look at the release mechanism, but I'm sure that with a screwdriver or two I could trigger it.

All it does is !!!! off the people who don't have a pound coin on them, which surely isn't uncommon in these days of using plastic to pay for things...

Sami_Bee

weegie.geek wrote: »

The idea's to take bags with you. I try to take one or two of the sturdy jute bags with me. If I forget, it's my own fault and I have to pay for a bag. Fair enough.

What I don't like is the idea of the shop making a profit from the bags. A bag costs a fraction of a penny for them to buy. Anything over and above that should go to recycling or some other "green" thing. If I'm paying 5p for a bag, I don't want 90% of that to go in the shop's pocket.

The paying a pound for a trolley thing always confuses me too. Some supermarkets have it, some don't. What's the purpose? To stop people stealing them? Surely better to use security cameras to catch the people stealing them, and do something about it, no? If I particularly wanted to steal a trolley, it costing me a pound would be a small price to pay. Hell, you can get those keyring trolley pound things for 35p, less if you buy multipacks of them.

Is the problem really kids stealing them and chucking them in the river? What's the scrap value of a trolley? Anyway, I've never had a good look at the release mechanism, but I'm sure that with a screwdriver or two I could trigger it.

All it does is !!!! off the people who don't have a pound coin on them, which surely isn't uncommon in these days of using plastic to pay for things...

Kind of ruined ur own argument there ;)

My local Tesco doesn't have the pound things but has big magnets buried around the perimeter that make the trolley wheels lock if you try to nick 'em only problem is I've seen the local scallies get around these... if you lift the trolley over a bout 3ft the magnet isn't strong enough to lock the wheels - not as stupid as they look :rotfl:

Tea3

I think the pound thing is also so if local (young) kids find them in streets etc they will take them back to the store to get the £1 - costs the store nothing as the last person using it would have put in the £1 but means the shop saves a fortune replacing all these 'lost' trolleys. I live near a supermarket in housing estate and regularly see local kids rounding up and returning trolleys people have taken home for one reason or another.