Asda - carrier bags

melorablack

I think that for every person that shops at ASDA who genuinely forgets to bring their bags but normally do, there will be 10 people who never bother to bring bags.

Of course it's their choice if they do or do not want to bring a bag but they will have to face up to the fact that one day they won't be free.

I remember being charged 1p for a thin plastic bag and 3p for a thick plastic bag in Kwik Save in the early 1990's when I'd go shopping with my mum when I was little. It was a shock for me when I started doing my own shopping and found out they were free I don't want to have to pay for bags every time I shop there so I bring my own, and if I forget I'll pay for one.

Also, I really don't care if a plastic bag has a company name or logo on it - I have honestly never looked at a plastic bag in my life and thought "Oh I just have to shop there" and I doubt many other people do either! :rotfl:

Lokolo_2

People have relied on these free disposable carrier bags for far too long, we need to do what most other countries do and stop supplying them and get people using "longlife" bags!

sheeps68

melorablack wrote: »

I think that for every person that shops at ASDA who genuinely forgets to bring their bags but normally do, there will be 10 people who never bother to bring bags.

Of course it's their choice if they do or do not want to bring a bag but they will have to face up to the fact that one day they won't be free.

I remember being charged 1p for a thin plastic bag and 3p for a thick plastic bag in Kwik Save in the early 1990's when I'd go shopping with my mum when I was little. It was a shock for me when I started doing my own shopping and found out they were free I don't want to have to pay for bags every time I shop there so I bring my own, and if I forget I'll pay for one.

Also, I really don't care if a plastic bag has a company name or logo on it - I have honestly never looked at a plastic bag in my life and thought "Oh I just have to shop there" and I doubt many other people do either! :rotfl:

Maybe but to be reused any bag and not have the option on paying 5p or whatever if you forget etc leaves one in an impossible situation.

melorablack

sheeps68 wrote: »

Maybe but to be reused any bag and not have the option on paying 5p or whatever if you forget etc leaves one in an impossible situation.

If you forget your bag and need one, you will either get one for free or have to pay for one. I doubt they will say "You can't have any bags"

pimento

sheeps68 wrote: »

On that occasion I abandoned my shopping as there was no way of carrying it to the car. What else was I to do?

Why didn't you just push your trolley to the car and put the stuff in the bag you had in the boot?

oldone_2

Meanwhile if you use the supermarkets self service tills, you can help yourself to as many bags as you want.

Stupid isn't it.

Glitzkiss

aaronmanz wrote: »

People have relied on these free disposable carrier bags for far too long, we need to do what most other countries do and stop supplying them and get people using "longlife" bags!

I rely on these free disposable carrier bags as bin liners. In fact ever since one ASDA checkout operator told me they would no longer be supplying free bags from May onwards I have ditched my jute bags and stocked up on free carrier bags instead. I now have a good supply of them so if ASDA stop providing them I can last for a while without having to buy bin liners :money:

btw, previously I used to use jute bags unless I required bin liners

sheeps68

pimento wrote: »

Why didn't you just push your trolley to the car and put the stuff in the bag you had in the boot?

I had a basket as no shallow trolleys. Cant use deep ones!

sheeps68

oldone wrote: »

Meanwhile if you use the supermarkets self service tills, you can help yourself to as many bags as you want.

Stupid isn't it.

Afraid not medical equipment sends the till into manic mode, plus can't physically do that!

DCodd

Recycling has been around for centuries and no one ever battered an eyelid because it made good sense to do it. Even in this "modern" age, as posters on here has mentioned many times, people have been recycling Bottles, Plastic, Paper, clothes etc for years - re-using plastic bags as bin liners being the most relevant to this thread.

When I was a kid we used to pay a deposit on lemonade etc bottles and took them back to the offie to get our money back, we also used cardboard boxes to carry our weekly food shop home, compost veg pealings etc for the garden and of course our friendly milkman picking up our empties. No one charged us to force us to do this we just did it! It stopped because it was not eccononically viable (except the Milkman of course) and why was that? Plastic takes a huge amount less energy to create containers than glass, the rain forest was being chopped down to make the paper for the cardboard and so plastic containers and plastic bags were introduced.

What ever you do, all you do is shift the problem elsewhere. With all these eco bio bags and fuels around the less developed world is clearing huge amounts of forest to grow the raw materials etc etc .

And the Government see that people want to make a small difference and try and change our waste production and they use this bandwagon to their advantage. It is not new, it happened with Nuclear power, Nelson Mandella, Vietnam, drugs and so on and so on. Just take this as it is, a policy to placate a section of the voting public.