Vent! Tesco and carrier bags (and lying staff)

sporedude

bubblegumcola wrote: »

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!

Lol sad, And I agree with whitegoods_engineer, Get used to times changing and get over it.

JoeyG

seriously, does no-one see the connection between paying rock bottom prices and having totally untrained staff?

marleyboy

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

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!

I am assuming in this you are including Bin Bags, you know those black things the Council INSIST you put your rubbish into, or they wont take your rubbish. As well as the packaging on EVERY item of food bar tins, the supermarket INSIST on selling their products in. Are we all somehow going to find the re-introduction of the paper bag, milk bottles, and cardboard packaging, that we were all so happy to have, before these supermarkets discovered a cheaper way of packaging products, like Milk. insisting PLASTIC was the way of the future.

Or do these not count in your equation?

P.P.S. As th Op quoted and as I will repeat to you, Storestaff who blatantly tell customers LIES (the word you seem to have omitted so graciously) should be SACKED!

GreenNinja

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!;)

This gave me a giggle :rotfl:

Tigsteroonie

viktory wrote: »

:eek:Did you take it?

But of course - as Tesco say, every little helps! That's 9p saved :money: I'm on here for genuine MSE reasons :money:

Tigsteroonie

DCFC79 wrote: »

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

No. If you read my original post, the thread was over "being blatantly lied to" by a member of Tescos staff.

Andy_Ches

whitegoods_engineer wrote: »

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!


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

Thanks for the post :rolleyes:

Yes some store staff attitudes are the same towards hard working paying customers.

theduke88

i remember Aldi saying in their ethos that other supermarkets factor in the cost of carrrier bags into the cost of the food. i would agree with this and for anyone who says we get stuff at rock bottom prices has quite literally been hit about the head with a rock.

as for rude staff , i have encountered this at asda , morrisons , aldi , lidl

and the best shop for no hassle carriers is farm foods - the bags are strong as well!

Andy_Ches

theduke88 wrote: »

i remember Aldi saying in their ethos that other supermarkets factor in the cost of carrrier bags into the cost of the food. i would agree with this and for anyone who says we get stuff at rock bottom prices has quite literally been hit about the head with a rock.

as for rude staff , i have encountered this at asda , morrisons , aldi , lidl

and the best shop for no hassle carriers is farm foods - the bags are strong as well!

farmfood bags are just like bags for life so you can re-use them again and again they are that strong and they are free

Churchmouse

Let me start by saying I reuse bags. In my handbag I have two bags that fold down into their own little pouches.:D Sometimes, shock horror, I buy more than I intended and need another bag. I expect this to be free. However I can't help thinking this obsession with supermarket bags blinds people to so much else, for example the excess packaging already mentioned in this thread. I believe a lot of shops are only anti plastic bags on cost grounds. It is now spreading to Lakeland and TKMaxx who also expect you to pay for a bag. Are those so in favour of no free bags really saying they want this extended to every shop of every type? There would probably be a premium to be paid in Early Learning centre when you've bought two or three overpackaged toys, and need one of their huge carriers.

And back on topic, I think the OP was absolutely right to be annoyed at being lied to. Strangely, I've just come back from Tesco ( hardly ever shop there but had a £9 off a £60 shop voucher) and the young man on the till shoved about 10 bags at me until he saw I had my own.