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Paying for carrier bags.
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traceya89 just grasp the reciept in the same hand and smile the smile of the morally good0
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I reuse the carrier bags to line my bin in the kitchen. I try to remember to take bags with me for shopping but sometimes I forget. If I didn't get any plastic carriers, I'd buy plastic bin liners instead," The greatest wealth is to live content with little."
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Well said lilac lady - I'm with you,
I always use the bags as bin liners too!0 -
I don't mind paying a little for bags (I usually carry some anyway) but, what I really get annoyed about is the fact that I am paying the store to do the advertising for them.
If you have to pay, then the bags should be completely plain otherwise , they should be paying us to advertise for them.
Totaly agree. Two visits to M&S before christmas.
Oxford station for a sandwich !! ended up with a basketful reckon about £35 ish. then when I was asked to pay for a bag and I refused, checkout girls face a picture when I walked away leaving shopping.
Newcastle store - went just for the turkey stuffing. But again - had a trolly this time, thru the checkout asked if I want to pay for a bag(s) - eh NO!! pointed out I will not pay for a bag to purchase items from their store and will not pay for the privilage of advertising either.
Again I walked out leaving the items on checkout.
M&S loss and Tesco gain as I called in on the way home.
I always carry a resuable bag - however on both occassions I had already used it - and on both occassions I had only called in for 'bits' - so I would say that M&S lost out on my sales.
And apologies for going on - but have made purchases from other M&S stores and common sense has prevailed with the sales assistants - AND before anyone says if you can afford to shop in M&S ......
its not the 5p - its the principal of paying for the privilage of buying their goods and advertising ........ AND the double standards throughout the store.0 -
A bit of an aside, but does anyone know if any supermarket uses fully biodegradable bags? I used to think that this meant the bags only hung around for a few hundred years in landfill, but I bought some souvenirs 2 years ago from the championships at Wimbledon (so I know the exact date) and I was given them in a sturdy biodegradable plastic bag, I stored it all in a cupboard and when I got them out this Xmas the bag completely crumbled into dust. Would this be a way forward? I know nothing about biodegradable bags in terms of expense or suitability but as far as I know they used them as standard at Wimbledon (no idea of the type either) so it can't be that way out. The idea that I could get a supermarket bag that wouldn't spoil the environment and could still be disposable would get my vote.Come on people, it's not difficult: lose means to be unable to find, loose means not being fixed in place. So if you have a hole in your pocket you might lose your loose change.0
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I always have my own bags with me for food shopping but hate having to pay for a bag in TK Maxx when buying clothes.0
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Actually, I think supermarkets and shops should stop giving away those cheap bags completely and then give out only the bag for life type and charge 10p per bag. Okay, at first people would forget and moan, but it's just about changing your behaviour.
I think the proceeds from the bag sales should be put towards a charity and/or environmental issues.
Personally I think we've all got to get out of the habit of a throw away society and start appreciating the resources we have and not wasting them.
I'm just like everyone else, I reuse my bags, but I do forget. I actually on these occassions will opt for a paid for bag rather than a free one to teach myself a lesson and also I know I'lll reuse it.0 -
for some reason the only place i remember to take carrier bags is Tesco. i was not happy the other day when i realised poundland were charging for carrier bags, so i only bought half the stuff that i could carry to the car in my hand. and it infuriates me when some places ask if you want a bag. i think it looks bad walking out of a shop with something in your hand as if you have not paid for it.
I work in a shop and ask people if they would like a bag regularly. A huge amount of our customers reuse their own bags, or if it's a small purchase pop it in their handbag and are quite happy to do so.
Please don't get infuriated by it, as it sometimes hard to tell what a customer wants to do. They can be standing holding reusable bags, but still want one of ours, or I can pack someones shopping only for them to turn around and say "I don't need a bag" and produce one out of their handbag so I have to repack into theirs, making people who may be queing get cross, because of course we don't like queing in this country either
Obviously we can use a bit of common sense, if someone has come to the till with loads of items and just their wallet then the likelyhood is they will need a bag so I won't bother asking. Sometimes it just pops out, though out of habit, so apologies for that:o
I personally love my companies' bag policy. We give a decent reusable bag for life for free, but if a customer reuses their own bag we reward a charity with a donation of a penny out of the company pocket instead. It doesn't sound alot, but a lot of our customers reuse their own bags, and with all the shops it certainly adds up.0 -
Nowadays they are so thin and flimsy they break before you've even used them once, let alone being able to use them again!0
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If my mother gets 'caught out' without her own shopping bag, she always turns the carrier she's had to pay for inside out on the grounds she will not pay to be a walking advert for a shop.
She has had a few queries at the till, but is quite happy to stand her ground - she says being cranky it's one of the perks of being old
And very, very few shops ever charged for bags in the 'good old days' (ie 1972 onwards). In fact they'd box or bag your shopping and carry it to your car if needed - Keymarket (amongst others) seemed to keep a group of teenage boys for that purpose.I can cook and sew, make flowers grow.0
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