Tesco's new carrier bags - lies!

tbw

I went into Tesco today to get a newspaper. Didn't have my own bag with me as that was all I intended but also made a couple of impulse buys (as you do !). I asked for a bag and was given one of the new ones - the bag immediately split as I picked it up. When I commented how weak they were the SA said 'Well thats to encourage you to remember your own bag!' So its deliberate .

OneYorkshireLass

hybernia wrote: »

I keep so-called green bags in the boot of my car. .

Why is carrying a shopping bag around with you any more of a burden than carrying a purse????

Answer: You have a car.

I can't get on the bus with X amount of those re-useable bags and be able to battle with them while I go to the post office, the library, the bank etc before getting to Tescos.



The bigwigs in my local Tesco have told staff that the new ones are no thinner than the old ones.
Methinks they are clearly blind ... and stupid.

Norman_Castle

I can't get on the bus with X amount of those re-useable bags and be able to battle with them while I go to the post office, the library, the bank etc before getting to Tescos.

You can carry full shopping bags home, but carrying empty bags to the shops is a "battle"?

OrkneyStar

Slowhand wrote: »

Just use the ones that are reusable...perfectly adequate for everyone's needs.

I agree, though we are all human and might forget, or have to do some unplanned shopping.

MoneySavingNovice

Crabman wrote: »

.......In Wales, shops have to charge 5p per bag. Has anyone noticed the price of products fall in response to the reduced cost of plastic bag production?

In a word - No

Norman_Castle

In Wales, shops have to charge 5p per bag. Has anyone noticed the price of products fall in response to the reduced cost of plastic bag production?

The shops do not keep the 5p charge. The cost of bags to shops will be fractions of a penny each which is why they have been provided free to customers. How much of price reduction would you expect?

I_wanna_live_for_free

Pippin12 wrote: »

Here in Wales we have to pay a minimum of 5p for each and every carrier bag we take. Result - we take our own!

On holiday in Wales recently we had to buy a bag for 5p but didn't want to use it as a bin bag like we normally would, as we had paid for it! :rotfl:

I was in a shop the other day and the person ahead of me purchased boxes of fireworks. He asked for a bag and was told, we've only got the re-usable 10p bags left. He declined, saying he was only going to use it the once...

savemoney

The bags are rubbish I occasionally forget bags for life and do a small shop. Went the other day bags weren't heavy although two bags have 1litre Baileys for OH. Both bags split as soon as I got them out of trolley luckily I spotted them before hand

Crabman

Norman_Castle wrote: »

The shops do not keep the 5p charge. The cost of bags to shops will be fractions of a penny each which is why they have been provided free to customers. How much of price reduction would you expect?

An 80% reduction in the price of every item

Seriously, not sure how to quantify an answer to that question. Clearly we don't dispute that the retailers make a huge saving through reduced use of carrier bags and they also make a profit out of the extra products people must buy because they can't use carrier bags for a secondary purpose.

Kite2010

oldagetraveller wrote: »

I used to use a very large, strong bag at Tesco which was purpose manufactured to fit inside a trolley. They used to award about 5 or more "green" points for the trolley/bagful of shopping.
On the last occasion I used this bag I was given 1 point. When queried the checkout operator said Tesco had changed their policy to that of 1 point/bag.
So by using just this one bag, equivalent to about 6 of their supplied plastic versions, I was only entitled to 1 point!
As a result of this I've never used my own bag(s) at Tesco and use about 6 of theirs at every weekly shop.
Foot, shot in or what?:p
Yes, the new bags are rubbish. This means I now use more of them, doubling up etc..

At least they remembered to give yo green club card points.