Lack of publicity over England's shops charging 5p a bag

peter_the_piper

It does not stop small businesses from charging if they want to so don't be surprised if they do. Why not anyway?

Kaye1

I had an email from Sainsburys yesterday, informing me of this levy if I do my online grocery shop with them.

System

hollydays wrote: »

Surely when you tell customers all shops are charging this now-they are unlikely to single your shop out for abuse?!!

You will be surprised on how thick customers can be! Customers have blamed my shop for increasing the cost of the local rag by 10p. Its the same bloody cost if you buy it from a corner shop to the 110,000sq ft Tesco in the county.

peter_the_piper

No I'm not at all surprised. Have often had customers ask if they can have another of the plants they bought from us 4/5 years ago, what was it? I don't know say they.

tomtontom

enfield_freddy wrote: »

by reading the first post its only shops that employ over 250 people that have to charge there customers 5p , I for see some redundancies , in order to keep customers

Unless the company happens to have exactly 250 employees redundancies would be very unlikely, and a massive overreaction!

McKneff

So what is to stop all shops with less that 250 employees, charging 5p and just putting this into their profits.....

wealdroam

McKneff wrote: »

So what is to stop all shops with less that 250 employees, charging 5p and just putting this into their profits.....

Not a lot.

The guidance mentioned above says:

Dealing with the proceeds

Once you’ve deducted reasonable costs, it’s expected that you’ll donate all proceeds to good causes.

That same guidance suggests that you can find out how any retailer uses the proceeds by asking them:

Responding to public enquiries

Members of the public can request copies of carrier bag records. You must provide copies within 28 days.

JReacher1

As its only 5p per bag I think the vast majority of people won't really care. It doesn't have a serious enough financial impact to justify a countrywide public advertising campaign to let people know about the charge.

Anyone who has ever shopped at Aldi will have been paying for their bags for the last few years anyway

teddysmum

JReacher1 wrote: »

Anyone who has ever shopped at Aldi will have been paying for their bags for the last few years anyway

I have noticed very few doing so. Most at my locals have their own bags, dump from trolley to car or, like me, take one of the empty display boxes, which are more robust than carrier bags anyway.


What annoys me is that we will now have to pay out anyway and still use plastic. You pay 5p for a carrier bag which can rarely be used more than once, as it's so flimsy, or buy liners for outside bins or pedal bins. An alternative being going out to the bin several times a day (not good in bad weather or if you are infirm).

MacMickster

First purchase through the till well be a pack of bin liners, which will then be opened and used to pack the shopping.