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

barmonkey

Finally found a shopping bag thats not all flowery and designed for women.

Rotti

LilElvis wrote: »

Your problems are easily solved.

No, you don't have to spend 5p on a carrier or buy bin liners to put your waste in. When you walk your dog pick up the discarded bags the school brats have left behind and use those. Free bag and you will have done your bit for the community by removing litter.

You don't need to precariously balance your purchases if you have insufficient bags with you. Put them in a trolley, wheel it to your car, place purchases in car and then return the trolley to the bay.

Mountains. Molehills.

If only it was that easy - when you go through the basket checkout you don't have a trolley and would have to go almost as far as the car to get one then dig around for a £1 coin to release it. If the supermarkets hadn't removed all the useful wine boxes from a cage at the end of the checkouts we could have those but apparently they are more useful flattened.

As for the school brats - your term but extremely accurate - being very community minded I do use their bags but to collect all the other rubbish they throw down like cans and snack packets and by the time I have gone around the field they are usually full anyway. Handy for poop scooping too though.

My point that was obviously missed is that even if you think you have gone prepared the new system does not encourage impulse buying and may even have the opposite effect.

Rotti

daytona0 wrote: »

You remind me of Basil from the series called Fawlty Towers :rotfl:

As one of the greatest and most memorable TV characters ever created I will take that as a compliment - but I think you'll find he was a hotelier, not a B&B! And spookily of all the DVDs available for guests to watch Fawlty Towers is the top choice. Hard sometimes not to use some of his more popular ripostes for the PITAs!

The-Truth

The-Truth wrote: »

There's no difference in the big four Supermarket bags from before the carrier bag charge started to as they were in the 90's. They're exactly the same. Anyone who think's differently has rose tinted glasses on!

Deleted_User wrote: »

What's that got to do with anything? That's an Iceland bag which obviously is not one of the big four!

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The-Truth wrote: »

What's that got to do with anything? That's an Iceland bag which obviously is not one of the big four!

I never said big four but a supermarket is a supermarket no matter how many there are. Not just the 'big four'.

The fact my mother used to use a few of these bags each week for the shopping and had to fight back the 20 or so carrier bags the supermarket checkout would fling at you while she was packing. It's only become fashionable the last few years to start using your own bags.

rhialwencomp

When we had a dog we bought nappy bags. A lot of carriers have holes in (either by design or because they split and you don't notice before taking it out!) and they're sort of large and crinkly to carry around.

300 for 35p at tesco.

Nick_C

The-Truth wrote: »

There's no difference in the big four Supermarket bags from before the carrier bag charge started to as they were in the 90's. They're exactly the same. Anyone who think's differently has rose tinted glasses on!

Oh yes there is.

To quote from the Sainsbury web site:-

Sainsbury's 20x20 Sustainability Plan

...

Packaging

Reduce own-brand packaging by half compared to 2005.

Our progress so far

...

Introduced an improved carrier bag with 17 per cent less weight, delivering a reduction in the amount of plastic used by 2,000 tonnes, saving 135 tonnes of carbon.

http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/responsibility/20x20/packaging/

But why let the truth get in the way of an opinion! lol

KxMx

Rotti wrote: »

I also wonder if it will make people think twice about buying if they only have a limited bag capacity and refuse to pay for a bag on principle. I was in Sainsburys today for a few things and took one (Waitrose) cotton bag with me. Then I noticed that the breakfast biscuits I use for my B&B were on a great offer and bought 12 boxes without even thinking. I got to the checkout having saved a lot of money then realised I only had one bag with me. Do I put them back and hope they are still on offer (and on the shelf) when I do my big shop on Monday, fork out 5p for a bag or manage without one. I opted for the latter, squeezing as much as I could into the cotton one and balancing the rest in my arms until I reached the car feeling like a "Double or Drop" contestant on Crackerjack! Cabbage anyone?

Future tip: the vast majority of retailers (with exceptions such as Asda who can be very cryptic over offer end dates) display the offer end date within the shelf edge label.

You just have to learn what to look out for ie 2 6 digit numbers with a hyphen is usually the start date/ end date or 1 6 digit number such as 311015 would mean the offer runs out on the 31st October 2015.

Some even helpfully have a "display until x" x being the offer end date.

Deleted_User wrote: »

People crying oh no what will I do I have no carrier bags to put my rubbish in.

Well I just went round to my local corner shop for some snax and got given a FREE carrier bag!

That's my bin rubbish sorted for another week. Win win!

No need to be rude, it's a fact that many other households besides mine will now need to buy something to replace the free carriers used as rubbish bags previously. I don't "cry" about it, just a fact

We've landed on a bag of 40 tie handle carrier bag style pedal bin liners from Poundworld. Much superior thickness compared to normal pedal bin liners and as close as a carrier bag you can get IMO.

Nick_C

KxMx wrote: »

We've landed on a bag of 40 tie handle carrier bag style pedal bin liners from Poundworld. Much superior thickness compared to normal pedal bin liners and as close as a carrier bag you can get IMO.

Thanks for that. I rarely go into Poundland, but will check for these. I think it would be useful to have my own supply of carriers in the car for when I buy more than I expect to or forget to take the bags for life.

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KxMx wrote: »

Future tip: the vast majority of retailers (with exceptions such as Asda who can be very cryptic over offer end dates) display the offer end date within the shelf edge label.

You just have to learn what to look out for ie 2 6 digit numbers with a hyphen is usually the start date/ end date or 1 6 digit number such as 311015 would mean the offer runs out on the 31st October 2015.

Some even helpfully have a "display until x" x being the offer end date.

At Morrisons the date is the date the product came on offer e.g the promotional period. Unless it says that it ends on xx date.

No need to be rude, it's a fact that many other households besides mine will now need to buy something to replace the free carriers used as rubbish bags previously. I don't "cry" about it, just a fact

We've landed on a bag of 40 tie handle carrier bad style pedal bin liners from Poundworld. Much superior thickness compared to normal pedal bin liners and as close as a carrier bag you can get IMO.

Not being rude at all, just stating fact.

And before anyone says that the supermarket it cheaper than the corner shop, well maybe so but not all the time and not for every item. Yes a pint of milk might be 5p more and a loaf of bread 10p extra, but it saves a hell of a lot of time and petrol than going to the supermarket. I can walk round to my local corner shop and be home again in 5 minutes. If I went to the supermarket I would have to drive a mile across town through 3 sets of traffic lights always on red, drive round a huge car park dodging people who can't drive, park up, enter supermarket and walk from one end to the other and back while dodging people who can't control their trolleys or kids....

Sometimes a peaceful life is better than saving 15p.