Vent! Tesco and carrier bags (and lying staff)

eyelinerprincess

They sell them off to be recycled.

Spartacus_Mills

uktims wrote: »

Could then you not be described as a "pathetic officious postsworth"???


I can't see how your attitude is any better? Particually as you haven't considered the below posts:

Actually I have but thanks for trying.

Happychappy

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

Who needs them? You just stack the stuff back into the trolley and take it back to the ULTIMATE BEHEMOTH (4x4, 5.7 Litre, 9 seats) that you conveniently parked in the disabled bay, right by the front of the store, so that you do not have far to push the trolley.

Chuck the 48 pack of lager and 12 bottles of wine (12 to get the 5% discount!) in the back, leave the trolley in the road and drive home, park over the neighbours driveway (closer to home) and unload.

Easy! Some people are just so lazy!;)

Spammy, you forgot to mention to set fire to the settee which you left in the front garden three years ago, and have a bbq careful not to set fire to the 10' x 10' union jack hanging from the bedroom window. :j

fiveyearplan

Tesco in my area are the ones who do give out free carrier bags and Sainsbury's are the ones who are stingy with theirs. If I'm spending money in the shop I expect to be given bags to take my shopping home in. I also re-use the bags at home and don't just throw them away.

Blackpool_Saver - I like your signature - I too, have one of those except he's 18 now. I also knew everything at that age.

MickMun

I think quite a lot of people are getting carried away with their right to have free carrier bags.

Honestly, just buy some reusable bags (as this is MSE maybe you could steal them off some old ladies trolly in Tesco) and then remember to take them with you (its as hard as remembering you need milk).

Then you no longer need to throw a strop in Tesco like a big kid and leave your shopping at the checkout for some poor person whos just doing there job!

DCFC79

The OP asked for a refund of 9 pence, wouldnt have bothered, al this over not being given a plastic carrier bag

lilac_lady

When I'm asked (this doesn't happen often) "do you need a hand to pack?" I usually say "it depends how fast you put items through the till". Generally I get a positive reply and the checkout operator goes a bit slower and sometimes even helps me to pack up.

As far as plastic bags go, I try to remember to take my canvas ones but if I forget or have used them for other shopping I expect a store to provide me with something to carry messages. It's called customer service.

BTW, now that I don't have enough plastic carrier bags to line my kitchen bin I buy a roll of purpose made plastic bin liners so the environment isn't being helped by the carrier bag syndrome.

Andy_Ches

This whole is issue isn't about a 'poxy' carrier bag, its the way the staff speak to the customers and their attitude that stinks. I don't think the actually carrier bags really are the issue. I won't be going to tesco, I'll stick to sainsburys and yes, some people may say its pathetic but at the end of the day, I am the customer, it's my money and I'll shop where the customer is appreciated.

yorksrabbit

I used to think plastic bags "weren't good for the environment" yet without actually knowing why other than the obvious (they're litter, they don't degrade, etc.)

Then a family friend returned from Labrador where he's been working on a marine biology project with lots of super photos of the landscape / seascape. And lots of horrendous pix of a coastline swathed in plastic bags. How the hell they all finished up there, I've no idea, something to do with the currents, presumably. Anyway. Not only was the 'environmental damage' obvious, so was the carnage to marine life and bird life.

After that, every time I look at a plastic bag, those images come to mind. So I would never ask for one of the damn bags again, no matter how short of packing I might be.

That's not a politically-correct, holier-than-thou attitude, more the thought that people's attitudes and conduct only change as a result of specific information rather than vague generalising about "the environment".

Perhaps if every supermarket in the land had a video running on its aisle screens of where plastic bags can fetch up, and the natural life that is wiped out as a result, then we'd all react to the very notion of using plastic bags for shopping with repugnance.

Re Tesco staff. There'll be good and bad in every store operated by every supermarket chain. In my experience, the good far outweigh the bad. Also in my experience, how management deals with an issue is actually more important than the issue itself.

Not long back I (regrettably) lost my temper at a Tesco counter (not till) staffed by two people selling Lottery tickets /check Lottery tickets, cigarettes, sweets and God knows what else. Staff member 1 was rushed off his feet. Staff member 2 -- Mabel, let's call her, though that wasn't the name on her badge -- was evidently delighted to be selling / checking Lottery tickets for a friend or relative and engaged in a prolonged discussion about some family holiday or other.

Staff member 1 changed position and moved further along the counter. The existing queue then broke as various people behind me took that as a cue to form a separate line. At the head of the new queue was someone with a customer return. Which meant the staff member had to break off and vanish. The newly formed queue foot-stamped in frustration. The existing queue grumbled. Staff member 2 ('Mabel') continued on talking to her friend, oblivious to what was going on, or deliberately disregarding it.

I finally cut in on the conversation to point out I was trying to buy something which did not involve a timeshare, and Week 24 at Tesco's. I asked her if she would kindly shut up and do her job. She looked around and said she thought the "other" staff member was there.

A week later, and the woman was no longer employed at the store: I hadn't complained, but apparently someone else did, either one of her colleagues or someone else in the queue. 'Mabel', it turned out, "had been let go".

Well done, Tesco.

ThinkingOfLinking

I don't drive, so it's essential I use carrier bags. I do have BFLs but if I forget them, or am not prepared, eg a friend calls me on my way home and asks to come over, I'll nip into the store to get some bits in, I shouldn't be penalised. The bags are flimsy and half the time, the ones with my 2 litre cola/lemonade bottles in split. Those which survive the journey home are reused as rubbish bags. None go to waste.