Tesco carrier bags

Clowance

Our driver dumps crates outside front door and we have to quickly unload and chuck stuff in hall then cart bits indivdually to kitchen, which is at other end of house so not having bags was a no no for me. Have solved the problem (and several others with deliveries) by going back to instore shopping.

Idiophreak

Tescos bags are thin, yeah...but who uses them anyway? It's *much* easier to shop using grocery totes anyway..and even if I'm there on impulse, I'll happily pay the 9p for a bag for life - fits more stuff in, is plenty strong enough, can be used for something else afterward.

Tesco should just grow a pair and get rid of the standard carrier bag altogether - people will soon get into the habit of taking bags out with them, or become used to paying a few pence for them.

Have to say, I assumed Geordie Joe's post was a joke to start with, but seems it was serious...

The first thing is paper bags - I don't know how technology's moved on, but when I studied materials engineering about 5 years ago, it was *massively* more environmentally friendly to produce plastic bags than paper ones - there's massive amounts of energy needed in the manufacturing process...so I don't think paper bags should ever be provided as a solution.

I'd say this alleged increase in fuel use by me carrying around my 5 totes in the boot is negligible, but in any case - I always manage to carry my stuff up to my flat in a single trip, instead of having to go back and forth to the car, so I'm fairly sure the calories I'll save will balance out any fuel costs (as I'll, ultimately, eat less!)

The point about increasing sales of bin-liners is interesting - and I guess that is a genuine problem - but I'd imagine bin liners are easier to manufacture...and if people move to putting out a bin liner every other day instead of a carrier bag every day, there may not be a lot of difference.

Anyway, I'm not overly concerned about the environment, it just seems that using bigger, stronger bags is sensible. I note GJ doesn't mention breakages in the post, but I imagine a whole bunch less stuff gets broken and thrown straight out using stronger bags - I've certainly had carrier bags fall through in the past, eggs cracked, wine bottles smashed etc - All of this stuff has a cost, both financial and environmental...

raphanius

i noticed how thin they had got in tesco metro the other week and when i put my stuff in i also notied they had got smaller cos i ripped one. i complained and asked for a reusable bag but they hadnt got any. the next time i went in i asked if i could double the bags cos i use the bus and i didnt think the new bags would last the journey. the checkout woman looked at my 8 year old son and said 'next time you come shopping with mummy you'll have to remind her to bring her own bags, won't you' i could have swung for her the patronising so and so :mad:

another reason why i absolutely hate tesco.

Owain_Moneysaver

jb66 wrote: »

Its more enviromentally friendly to use tesco bags as bin bags as they are bio-degradable and thinner than most bin liners

And they're cheaper too ... 1p per carrier bag in clubcard point forgone, most binbags work out at about 2p at least. 2p for a binbag!!!

littlemissbossy

Yep they're like flies wings.

I try to reuse them but my shopping just spills out all over my car then the kitchen floor.

Snakeeyes21

Idiophreak wrote: »

Tescos bags are thin, yeah...but who uses them anyway? It's *much* easier to shop using grocery totes anyway..and even if I'm there on impulse, I'll happily pay the 9p for a bag for life - fits more stuff in, is plenty strong enough, can be used for something else afterward.

And for people on public transport? should they carry a big green box around just incase they pop in to a shop?

The bag argument isnt really an argument anymore, the majority of plastic bags now decompose in a couple of years.

Where as the bin liners that people will be using in bins instead still take 10 - 15 years to decompose.

Nice one tree huggers, get rid of something that takes a short time to dissapear and replace it with something that takes 5 times as long :T

Idiophreak

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

And for people on public transport? should they carry a big green box around just incase they pop in to a shop?

*sigh*

Google "grocery tote"...go on, you know you want to...look at the pretty pictures...expand your mind a little...

Stompa

Idiophreak wrote: »

Tesco should just grow a pair and get rid of the standard carrier bag altogether - people will soon get into the habit of taking bags out with them, or become used to paying a few pence for them.

I do take bags out with me, but those are standard carrier bags (though perhaps not the Tesco ones!) that I reuse. I've yet to discover any alternative that comes remotely close in terms of 'pocketability'.

Idiophreak

Stompa wrote: »

I do take bags out with me, but those are standard carrier bags (though perhaps not the Tesco ones!) that I reuse. I've yet to discover any alternative that comes remotely close in terms of 'pocketability'.

Is pocketability really that important? Think I'd rather just walk to the shops with a couple of bags, then carry a couple of nice, strong bags back, than stuff my pockets with dodgy little carriers then limp back with them cutting into my hands, praying they don't tear, fall through etc...

NatFeerick

To OP - you might as well choose bagless delivery and get the green clubcard points, since if my experience is typical they deliver most of the stuff loose in the crate even when I specify delivery in carrier bags! At the other extreme whatever little they have bagged is often on a one-item-per-carrier basis. Any carriers I get, which have survived the delivery, I use as bin liners - haven't bought a bin liner in years!