M&S Self Service Checkout - Are you honest about paying for bags?

pinkteapot

At the M&S self-service checkouts, after you've scanned your food it asks how many of their bags you've used and they are charged at 5p each.

I just wondered - are people honest? I always am, but I can't help but wonder if my fellow shoppers around me are just pressing 'zero'.

jbro

Our local M&S doesn't yet have self-service but I've used them in other towns. Yes - I would be honest as that's the way I've been brought up - but it really really annoys me that I have to pay for the bags.

If I buy any non-food item in M&S, I get given a bag and don't have to pay.

If they're that bothered about the environment, why don't they give free paper bags with all purchases? It's hypocritical and winds me up. :mad:

pinkteapot

I was brought up the same but I can't help but wonder if my fellow shoppers around me are fiddling it. I buy lunches and snacks for work at a large M&S food hall in central London which has about 30 self-service checkouts.

The profit from the bags goes to charity and I did read a while ago that it had cut the number of bags they go through significantly.

spugzbunny

I am honest but it's the sort of thing I usually wouldn't be honest about!

Sharon87

I usually refrain from getting M&S bags, but they do provide the small 'food hall' bags for free the one I go to. So don't need the big ones. Although once I did it - the first time I used it because I'm use to Sainsburys asking is you re-used bags, which is what I thought it was asking! (don't know why lol, just habit). Never done it since

jenniewb

I am honest, I think their bag can be reused and are good quality, I think they deserve their 5p though I don't use them, I rarely buy enough that I need a bag from them they are too expensive and if I do need a bag, a small bag is enough.

valk_scot

I'm honest about it. It's a useful reminder to me to not be such a muppet next time and bring one of my reusable bags in with me from the car.

roses

Isn't it theft if you take a chargeable bag?

happy35

I usually take a hessian bag with me if I am going to M&S, I am honest about taking a bag if I have forgotten one but it does really irritate me that I have to pay