Tesco stopping free plastic bags - by stealth?

staffie1

Exactly - I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
We need to stop relying on plastic carrier bags, and the retailers are right to limit their issue or stop providing them altogether.

We all know about the environmental issues of the day, and as intelligent people we should make sure we have something to take the shopping home in. Doesn't matter about the advertising on the bags, etc. If it bothers people that much, for Christ's sake get the bag home and paint out the word TESCO or SAINSBURY'S or whatever - but use reusable bags.

before_hollywood

its not really very easy for us blokes, we dont have handbags and if we take a backpack or holdall in a shop we are suspected as shoplifters lol

staffie1

before_hollywood wrote: »

its not really very easy for us blokes, we dont have handbags and if we take a backpack or holdall in a shop we are suspected as shoplifters lol

I'm a bloke and I manage it without any probs whatsoever

OrkneyStar

before_hollywood wrote: »

its not really very easy for us blokes, we dont have handbags and if we take a backpack or holdall in a shop we are suspected as shoplifters lol

I carry a backpack and no-one has accused me of shoplifting recently.
If you keep it on your back then it would be hard to put things in it to steal surely ?
Lame excuse lol....go out and get yourself a 'manbag' .
(Ps I am not a man)

patchwork_cat

It is a fair point about the time you forget or if you don't carry a handbag (which I don't mostly just my purse and keys), but we have got to change the way we live and plastic bags are only the tip of the iceberg.

Sylvester

OrkneyStar wrote: »

It is up to you to get your shopping home.
You can buy a reusable bag, and hopefully re-use it!
If reusable bags were free people would probably end up not reusing them!
If you stop shopping at places where you get free plastic bags you may well run out of places to shop!

Whilst this is true, whilst some shops still hand them out, I shall use those shops, then I shall shop online.

More important, is to get people to carry their shopping home, rather than rely on cars.

Cars should be for long distance and not less than a a mile or two. Public transport is there for that.

I feel that is an even bigger concern to our environment.

Sylvester

staffie1 wrote: »

Exactly - I don't understand what all the fuss is about.
We need to stop relying on plastic carrier bags, and the retailers are right to limit their issue or stop providing them altogether.

We all know about the environmental issues of the day, and as intelligent people we should make sure we have something to take the shopping home in. Doesn't matter about the advertising on the bags, etc. If it bothers people that much, for Christ's sake get the bag home and paint out the word TESCO or SAINSBURY'S or whatever - but use reusable bags.

I'm all for it, if it becomes law.

Then people must stop using cars for shopping.

patchwork_cat

Sylvester have you tried to take a family of four's shopping for a week home on the bus?

sablelady

Free carrier bags from supermarkets have only been around for about 20 years. Before that i can remember my mum using one of those old fashioned trolleys. I don't object to paying for a carrier bag but the ones availiable are very flimsy and you don't get much re-use out of them.

Does anyone remember the virtually indestructible carrier sainsburys used to sell many moons ago for around for around 9p?

MrsE_2

patchwork_cat wrote: »

Sylvester have you tried to take a family of four's shopping for a week home on the bus?

I wouldn't be able to shop late on a Saturday, the last bus to the village is 3 or 4:eek:

None on Sunday.

By the time I finish work during the week I wouldn't make it home on the last bus which is aboout 6.30:rolleyes: