Tesco free Carrier Bags - grrrrrr

vodkachick68

ChefBungle wrote: »

Tesco carrier bags are now biodegradable (previous ones weren't fully), hence the reason they feel a bit thinner and slightly different.

It may well be a bit of gentle encouragement to get us to use reusable carrier bags/jute bags if the free carrier bags are naff.

Personally, I don't think there's any need for free carrier bags - the majority of them only end up in landfill because people are too lazy to either (a) use reusable bags (b) take free carrier bags back to the store for recycling.

I reckon they should either be withdrawn completely or a minimum charge of 10p levied per bag.

Yes i sort of agree with you,but most of the time i just happen to pop in to the supermarket on the spur of the moment for a couple of things. I don't always think when i leave home hmm...lets take a carrier bag with me!! If i do a weeks shop and i have planned to go then yes i will take my own bags with me.

x.x.x.

deanos wrote: »

I know even when you ask for some bags and you have a trolley full of shopping they give you about 2 and you have to keep asking

In our place, we are only allowed to give 2/3 out at a time, and actually get moaned at if we have several open ready at the checkout with no customers

Contains_Mild_Peril

I usually take a trolley with me, but I sometimes go shopping on my way home from work without my trolley (I'm not allowed to take it to work because there's nowhere to put it there) and I've noticed the degradable bags are very flimsy and customers need more of them for the same amount of shopping. Also, checkout staff at my local Tesco seem to be getting stingier with the green clubcard points. When I use my trolley I save an average of 2 carrier bags and used to be routinely given 3 bag re-use points (sometimes up to 6 if I completely filled my trolley), but now I often only get 1 when I have 2 or more bagfuls of shopping.

DCFC79

Mr_Lahey wrote: »

I am sick and tired of being asked "Would you like a bag" - No mate, i was thinking of just putting a weeks shopping in my pocket.

What happened to the good old days of bags just being there!

the checkout operator has to ask if you would like a bag, the bags are removed to remind people to re use ones frm home

shelly2jn

Mr_Lahey wrote: »

I am sick and tired of being asked "Would you like a bag" - No mate, i was thinking of just putting a weeks shopping in my pocket.

What happened to the good old days of bags just being there!

Where I work, asking if you like a bag is part and parcel of our mystery shopper criteria. We have to ask everyone. Personally I carry a couple of the fold up bags all the time, they don't take up much space and when you think that a normal carrier bag can take hundreds of years to degrade it's not really too much to ask.

Enfieldian

My local Tesco ran a trial at the self service tills.

There were no bags at all and the "floating" assistant had to approach each shopper and estimate how many bags they would need for their shopping, being basket only it was either 1,2 or 3... At the same time she/he had to sort out the numerous "errors" that causes the machine to stall halfway through..... Like the yoghurts I bought last night.

Suffice to say the bags soon returned to the checkouts as it made the "speedy" self service queues even slower.

ellay864

One of the Tescos near me has gone for the ridiculously thin bags so the other day when I ended up popping in unexpectedly (and hence without my own bags) I used double the number I would have done. Also when I do have my own bags even the allegedly refurbished self serve checkouts wont allow me to recognise my own bag so an assistant has to come and sort it out or it tells me there's an unpected item....a store that has always promoted use of own bags finds it unexpected when that's just what I try to do!!!

Storck

Personally I think everywhere should go to the system that M&S have which is to charge for bags. Once it happened a few times people would remember to take their bags with them.

As for Mr Lahey the reason the bags are not there anymore is the Labour government introduced a "voluntary limit" of how many bags supermarkets gave out. If they went above that limit then they were going to pass a law with a tax on each bag.

nico26

Stores here in malaysia have started No bag days. 2 days a week they will not supply carriers bags. if you dont remember to bring your own you have to by the canvas ones. I always keep one folded up in my bag now.

Makeandsave

Henry_Hoover wrote: »

I've noticed that they are much thinner, they split very easily now, and 2l bottles of coke, for instance, have to be double bagged otherwise they split almost straight away.

I do normally take my own bags shopping with me, but if I pop into my local tesco express on the way home from work, I don't always have my own.

99% of the time i take bags to Tescos and re use the bags for life (get points as well) the bags were free as i had loads of vouchers for them. I have had bags split on me and one time i put the vodka in the bag and the bottom just split and smash the whole bottle all over the store floor. I never paid for the vodka the lady got me another one and blamed the bags for being thin. I used to have 100`s of bags in the flat before they held on to them, now i am happy to reuse the bags for life and gain points and x4 them for a meal out my reward for being green a little lol.