Vent! Tesco and carrier bags (and lying staff)

MickMun

marleyboy wrote: »

I would suggest you read the OP again, unless you consider blatantly lying to customers as part of the job.

My comment was not directed to the OP, but other posters who have made clear they would rather leave shopping than pay for bags for life or remember their own.

ScottishChick

beth464 wrote: »

Exactly. I worked in a supermarket for a few months and people don't realise how much stuff there is to remember, and how hard it is physically to put that many things through in a 6 hour shift, whilst being pleasant, making sure you give the right change, packing for the people who want it etc etc.
It was always the people who I didn't think would want help packing that did.
I also thought one busy Saturday afternoon I was doing a great job of getting the stuff through the till nice and fast (obviously if it started piling up you slow down to give them a chance) until a customer complained to a manager that I was doing it too fast. You just can't win!

I also remember that we had an "average scan rate" where the computer would work out how many items you scanned per hour on average, if you were above the optimum average then you got a row for going to fast, if you were below the optimum average then you got a row for going to slow :rotfl:

Andy_Ches

Our tesco only sells the 35p odd bag for lifes recently, so when I do a £100 shop I'll just pay for 20 bag for lifes :rolleyes:. and I also don't want to be carrying around empty shopping bags everywhere I go because I do my shopping off the cuff rather than planned.

sporedude

Sylvester wrote: »

This makes me chuckle as something happened to me yesterday in Tesco.

I went in to get some food in for the bank holiday weekend, hoping tomorrow and Monday will be good for a BBQ or two!

I go to the checkout and i'm offered 3 bags for a rather large amount of food, with additonal dog tins and cat pouches,

Now these Tesco carriers aren't that strong and I was told I could have no more, however I could purchase other bags.

I asked politely again for some more bags, but was told 'no'.

So, I told the miserable checkout woman to stuff the burgers up her fat behind and walked out.

I got home 2 hours later, having been to Morrisons, Asda and Wilko (for pet food) and came online to see how much those shops offers had saved me, and it was approaching £12.

£12 may not sound like much when I spent rather alot on BBQ stuff, but the Wilko offer on Felix as good as it looks made a nice help in that saving and I think I have more burgers/sausages than had I bought in Tesco.

I'm planning on popping back in Tesco sometime to give the old bat a cheeky wave.

I think if we spend our money in these places, we deserve the bags required to transport it out of the store.

Like the OP, i'd forgotten to take my bags for life with me.

You know its not the checkout persons fault? They are under instruction by the company as to how many bags to give out. But going by what you said to the checkout person your too far up your own !!!! to realise it. Moron.

fiveyearplan

MickMun wrote: »

My comment was not directed to the OP, but other posters who have made clear they would rather leave shopping than pay for bags for life or remember their own.

Shopping trips aren't always planned and yes, if I do spend my money in a shop I expect to get bags to carry them home. I wouldn't go buy goods in any other place and not be given a bag why should a supermarket be any different.

BTW I don't believe in waste for the sake of it, if I only get a couple of things I just carry them myself. I also reuse the bags for other things and I have never discarded them in an unsuitable manner - you'll never see one of my carrier bags hanging from a tree.

black_paw

i've had to buy bin liners this week first time in years as carrier bags have run out ? it makes me so cross to be given just 2 bags and soon maybe none, i just leave the stuff on moving belt and walk out !

black_paw

poor sales asst. having to put up with this too . makes everyone grumpy . bring back bags

bubblegumcola

My DH goes absolutely nuts when they offer him a carrier for a couple of newspapers and a couple of pints of milk which he can easily carry without a bag. He usually says no thanks but sometimes they put the stuff in and once he pays he takes them out and hands the bag back (that really gets them riled). They are always offering poly bags at my local Tesco Express and he gets very annoyed about it. The cashiers don't seem to have any problems with the amount of bags they hand out and often get very annoyed if you ask for green points to be added when you use their own bags and they've forgotten to do it cos it means you have to get a supervisor, usually hiding in the back and they don't want to come out of their cosy office!

whitegoods_engineer

It makes me laugh how people justify their lust for free plastic bags by saying that they use them as bin liners etc so that makes it ok!

So you have 'recycled' them eh? So presumably the bags you have 'recycled' magically don't therefore appear in landfill sites and/or polluting the sea/countryside/everywhere??

Just WHY should you get FREE bags anyway. I would slap a 50p tax on all 'free' bags and you would soon stop this selfish expectation of free bags and start bringing your own ones when you go shopping.

The days of free bags are drawing to an end. Get used to it.

Ps, some of your attitudes to hardworking store staff are disgraceful. You really are so up your own a r s e s!

viktory

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

The CS Manager agreed and refunded the 9p for my unnecessary second bag.

:eek:Did you take it?