Tesco carrier bags

NatFeerick

BTW - Tesco's policy is to deliver right into your kitchen if you want and if they don't offer you should ask them to bring it through. If you don't want them tramping through your house, I suggest you greet the delivery with a handful of carrier bags to transfer the loose items from your crate to the kitchen - the driver will wait.

Stompa

Idiophreak wrote: »

Is pocketability really that important?

For me, yes.

Idiophreak wrote: »

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...

The trouble with the strong bags is that I'd probably then have no further use for them, so that would be extremely wasteful.

geordie_joe

jenniewb wrote: »

I prefer to jam everything into one bag as its easier to lug around public transport and need stronger bags.

My granny used to say that if you do that you end up with one arm longer than the other.

She wasn't far wrong, it is actually bad for you to carry one heave object in one hand. It is much better to split the load into two bags, hold one in each hand and balance your self.

geordie_joe

Idiophreak wrote: »

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

It as serious, but written in a sarcastic way.

Idiophreak wrote: »

I'd say this alleged increase in fuel use by me carrying around my 5 totes in the boot is negligible,

Maybe it is, but most of these totes have to be transported half way around the world before you buy them.

If you look on the Modbury web site, you will see that they did study every other option to plastic carrier bags. They found the only real alternative to plastic carrier bags is wicker baskets produced in britain, preferably local to where you buy them. Every other type of bag is bad for the environment is some way, so the benefits of not using as much plastic were outweighed by other negative things.

Idiophreak wrote: »

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.

It's not just bin liners. Most people re-use the free carrier bags they get from supermarkets for other things once they get them home. So called "Second use". This includes using them as bin liners, but also for things like putting wet swimming/PE kit in to bring home, taking lunch to work/on picnics. In fact they were used for any situation where you need a cheap throw away plastic bag.

Once people, in Ireland, didn't have the free carrier bags they had to buy bin liners to line their bins. And when they needed a cheap throw away plastic bag for all the other things, they used the only bags they had in, the bin liners. So the amount of bin liners sold when up a huge amount because people were using them for all the things they used to use the free carrier bags for.

sarah1972

NatFeerick wrote: »

BTW - Tesco's policy is to deliver right into your kitchen if you want and if they don't offer you should ask them to bring it through. If you don't want them tramping through your house, I suggest you greet the delivery with a handful of carrier bags to transfer the loose items from your crate to the kitchen - the driver will wait.

I asked Tesco if they would help me through to the kitchen when I had a particularly big delivery and the driver said he wasnt allowed to as his insurance doesnt allow him to enter a property and only covers him to the doorstep. I called my local Tesco where my shopping came from and was told that the driver was correct !!

Debt_Free_Dreamer

The driver came into our house and put the crate on the table, when my OH was out recently and I would not have been able to lift it.

Normally, it gets put on the ground by the front door and my OH takes it into the kitchen where we unpack onto the table.

I know some people who have regular orders have said they keep the crate till the next delivery and then give it back next time.

I would not unpack by the front door. (OH has tried and it is a pain)

It is no problem to carry it in, unpack while the driver is collecting the remaining baskets from the van.

By the time he brings the last basket, he is checking is computer while we are unpacking it. Then by the time I get back I am all ready to sign. I have even had time to check the substitutions and make sure I still want the stuff.

I don't feel we make the driver wait to look. He certainly has no time standing around with our 'converyor' belt approach of my OH taking full crates into the kitchen and the empty ones back, whilst I unpack and the driver does the run between the van and our house.

I then check everything off the list as we pack away, after the Tesco man has gone.

And then if there are any issues, I am straight on the phone to the CS. (Short dated stuff, missing items and missing discounts being the norm)

earthmother

To the OP - I've had bagless deliveries since they started offering them - I just make sure I have a few collapsable crates by the front door and pack it all into them to transport through the house.

With regard to other points raised in the thread - on the rare occassions I have to buy bin bags I buy biodegradeable and/or recycled, but as we have the options of both a greencone in the garden and weekly food-waste collections, most non-recyclable waste is clean and dry anyway so doesn't need bags. Before we had those options, I reused bread bags, cereal inners etc for the wet waste.

As for spur of the moment shopping, there are loads of thin reuseable bags that will pack down to keyring size (although they are nylon - another plastic). Personally though I like the Co-ops cotton bags - 99p, fold down to about the size of a spectacle case, and will fit the equivalent of 2 normal carriers of shopping in - eminently reuseable, washable (they get used for muddy football boots, plants from the garden centre etc), repairable and fairtrade. They're only a basic shape, so it's easy to make up similar in any old fabric you have lying around if you don't want to be a walking advert.

And a shopping trolley is something to consider if you regularly shop on foot/by public transport - you can shift far more weight than you could in bags with far less effort, and some of them collapse down too.

Stompa

earthmother wrote: »

As for spur of the moment shopping, there are loads of thin reuseable bags that will pack down to keyring size (although they are nylon - another plastic).

Interesting, can you tell me where you've seen them please?

geordie_joe

sarah1972 wrote: »

I asked Tesco if they would help me through to the kitchen when I had a particularly big delivery and the driver said he wasnt allowed to as his insurance doesnt allow him to enter a property and only covers him to the doorstep. I called my local Tesco where my shopping came from and was told that the driver was correct !!

This sounds right, the web site says this too.

Groceries delivered to your door 7 days a week. Same low prices and regular in-store offers plus recipes, money saving tips and clubcard points.

colly7

Clowance wrote: »

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.

Tesco's site says they will take the crates into your kitchen if you ask. Some of the drivers who deliver to me do ask, others you ask them, but all do it willlingly.

It only takes me a few minutes to unpack crates but even if it doesn't you shouldn't feel pressured into rushing too much and if there are any issues after driver has left I have emailed CS and had refund every time - I'm dead picky and they never argue.

One of drivers even asks if i want her to take other than tesco carriers for re-cycling -I did wonder if they are on commission