Taking your own bags to the grocery store

ivyleaf

This reminded me that Sainsbury's used to give you 1p for every bag of your own that you used, but they've now stopped asking "How many of your own bags have you used?". I'll have to try and remember to mention it next time I'm in there and find out whether they're not doing it anymore, or if it's still in existence but not mentioned by the SAs (like the WH Smith clubcard points!)

metherer

Hi all

For those of you debating the finer points of the eco side of using your own carrier bags, there is a well established thread over on the Green & Ethical moneysaving board.

will definately have to see whether my local store knows about the promotion.

Metherer
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Just_Looking_3

I always use Poundland carrier bags, I have quite a store of them, they are free.

susank

In dublin last year I also bought a wonderful like a bag for life tesco Ireland on it and cheap as chips and brought it home - its better than our bag for life and I use it for all shopping but need usually more bags too - will ask my daughter to bring me more bags over next week when she comes.

canuckone

canuckone wrote:

For those of you out there who are Tesco shoppers, Tesco has just introduced a new scheme where if you bring your own shopping bags, you receive an extra Club Card point per bag. We always bring our own bags, and since the scheme was introduced we did our shop last week, using 4 of our own bags, and got 4 extra points! Every bit helps . . .

Ask in store if you are not offered the points for using your own bags - they should honour this.


Canuckone

I called Tesco customer services and they have never heard of this deal. I pointed out that it was advertised and honoured in my local Tesco Extra, but the Rep that I spoke to could not say whether this was a one-off or what. He had never heard of it and didn't believe me at first!

I called my local store to find out more, but was put on hold for 25 mins, and I gave up. I am going shopping this weekend, so will enquire more about this for anyone who is still interested.

My sincere apologies for providing info about a deal that appears to be local. I think this is a good initiative - hopefully Tesco will do it in all their stores in the future? Its disappointing that they are not doing it across all their stores.

Canuckone

Lillibet_2

No-one knew anything about it in my local tesco (Molesey) but then they're all brain dead clones in there at the best of times:rolleyes:

How would it work if you didn't use bags at all but loaded your shopping straight into a wally-trolley or (in my case) the basket under the push chair?

Baileys_Babe

I usually take my own bags. On the odd occassion I've forgotten I just pack everything back it the trolley to take to the car. Thats when you get some very wierd looks.

twink

i was lucky enough to get two of lakelands insulated trolley bags from my dd gets me through the checkout quicker too

louise_1981

I have to say I currently work for tesco, and have not heard this offer mentioned. And in defence of sales assistants I do comment on how impressed I am with people who bring their own bags (and plastic boxes), as an almost trained geography teacher, I am actually disappointed at how few people bring their own, especially after drumming reuse, reduce, recycle into my year 8's, who ever said it earlier, it IS a question of habit, and changing those habits for the better.

I also think it is a question of style, or not wanting to stand out from the crowd at least(ASDA, take heed). but I do have a solution to this in that the "trend" mags have been giving away free bags with their mags lately, not really suitable for the blokes out there, but perfect to shove in your handbag, so you can refuse a plastic one. (I found Marie Claire on offer in a train station for the magical price of a pound)

Oh well my two peneth worth, of to bed now

KatrinaC_2

ivyleaf wrote:

This reminded me that Sainsbury's used to give you 1p for every bag of your own that you used, but they've now stopped asking "How many of your own bags have you used?". I'll have to try and remember to mention it next time I'm in there and find out whether they're not doing it anymore, or if it's still in existence but not mentioned by the SAs (like the WH Smith clubcard points!)

That was stopped a while back which was a shame as I used to take DS out of the pushchair and make him walk so that I could get those extra pennies!

Kat