Asda - carrier bags

mistyarthur

Its not a bad attitude of the staff to suggest maybe keeping a few bags in the car. They offered a bit of advice on just keeping a few in the car and thats offensive and lecturing.....It's called raising awareness, and if you know all about recycling why didn't you keep a few in the car in the first place?

JoolzS

I completely appreciate your frustration.

A week or so ago I got mildly annoyed at being given a "Well done" by two different checkout staff in two different types of stores. The thing that was "well done" was me having my own bags. I might have forgiven the second one because it was in Sainsburys, but the first one was in a PDSA shop.

I don't need to be told it's good to use my own bags - I've been doing it for over ten years! Being told "Well done!" by someone on a till is just patronising.

I have absolutely no doubt that the person on the till has been told to say those words so I have nothing against them personally - but I do hate the company they work for, and that gives me a problem when it is the PDSA. As I write this I realise that the PDSA guy probably got a "well done" when he did his shopping and it made him feel good so he tried to pass it on.

I won't stop hating any supermarket checkout person saying "well done" to me for using my own bags - but I will probably always forgive it in charity shops, unless the person behind the counter is an !!!!!!!.

Julie

roddydogs

Never had any problem in my ASDA.

PopeSock

You should have told them you were going to use the bags to suffocate a seal.

andyrules

lol, op I hope you feel better for that. That last post made me laugh.

I think the day supermarkets demonstrate their allegiance to the earth will be the day they get permission to be patronising to customers. ie when they stop only selling highly perishable products like salads in huge bags, a dozen tomatoes on a plastic tray and cellophane over etc.

Me, I've gone from the plastic carriers to reusable ones, just so I'm not the Tesco pariah, however, now I pollute the earth with buying separate bin-liners! D'oh!

soolin

I have an Asda in my local town and often used to stop by on my way home from work, or if I had a free 'hand' after shopping elsewhere. Since they have stopped giving bags out on request and since I also got lectured about it I just don't bother. I'm not just saving the environment now I am saving a fortune in housekeeping money as I have no impulse buys anymore.

I do carry a bag around with me usually, but on my way home from work I often don't have it with me or else I have used it to carry papers home from a meeting. It is an odd 'green' response to suggest we leave them in our cars..some of us prefer to shop on foot you know!

I have also annoyed Asda by buying some meat trays and then taking them back into the shop to browse the clothing sale rail, the security guards don't like that at all and the staff are worried about 'blood' on the clothes and lecture me about using a bag. I have also left some shopping before now where I had a couple of fold up bags and bought clothes as well as groceries and they wouldn't even give me a bag for the clothes, so I told them I would take enough food to fill one bag, use the second bag for the clothes I had bought and they could take back the rest of the food. I did get a bag for the clothes for free that day!

ChrisCobra

Ha , Cwmbran is my local ASDA as well and the staff there have never moaned at me about plastic bags , tbh ive found it hard to get a word out of them at all.

Maybe their supervisor was watching them "push out the policy" and had to tell you off , or they had a bad day. Im all for using reusable bags but ASDA dont need to ram it down our throats or they might lose cutomers if they try and be rude about it...

Bronnie

The day the supermarkets take seriously the issues of excess packaging of their goods is the day I will take seriously their policy of reusing their carrier bags.

I use new carrier bags most times I shop and reuse them at home as bin liners, which I never buy.

Do they similarly feel obliged to instruct their customers on the 'green ' credentials of the vehicles they will be carrying their shopping home in as they enter the supermarket car park. Since their massive edge of town supermarkets necesitate the use of the car for shopping trips for the majority of people.

Beyond the diversion of the carrier bags issue, the attempts by supermarkets to influence and control should be resisted as much as possible.

sidefx

I do believe re-using carrier bags when possible is a good thing. But on occassions when I don't have one I just ask for one, even if I am given a dirty look it wouldn't stop me shopping there as the OP has done. Really, life is too short!

But I do agree with you Bronnie.

williham

lol, recycle and stop complaining.