Charges for plastic bags

VfM4meplse

Its going to be the law from 5th Oct 2015 for environmental reasons; it has already worked in Ireland (years ago) and more recently Scotland. Stop splitting hairs and get used to it.

The last thing I and other customers want is to be held up at tills because someone decides to argue the toss with a SA for implemeting the law.

jon81uk

rhcp wrote: »

People put live fish in a plastic bag!! :eek:
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When I used to have a fish tank at home and we would go to a fish shop to get fish, they always came in a plastic bag. Nothing strange about it.

ariba10

The rest of the British Isles cope with it "What's the problem"

dlusman

boysim34 wrote: »

I saw a few days ago a sign in Tesco that every single use plastic bag will be charged for. I'm 99.9% sure this is wrong.

Tesco ( and anywhere else ) are perfectly entitled not to give away bags and to charge whatever they want. They are under no obligation to give away bags - The law only says where it is permissable for a store to give a free bag

Try getting a free bag from Lidl or Aldi

[Deleted User]

Hi,

the supermarkets pass on the charge to charities, been going on for some time now in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, England a bit behind the times and think it is a scam.

OP get your head out of the sand.

Read this.

Kitty777

Sainsbury's are also scrapping their 'normal' bags and charging 5p for their bags for life (instead of the now 10p charge). I think this is brilliant, I am sure you could fit quite a few melons in there if you wanted it is only 5p...and I am sure it will help people remember to bring their own bags

darren72

Kitty777 wrote: »

Sainsbury's are also scrapping their 'normal' bags and charging 5p for their bags for life (instead of the now 10p charge). I think this is brilliant, I am sure you could fit quite a few melons in there if you wanted it is only 5p...and I am sure it will help people remember to bring their own bags

If this is correct, this is good news.

geordie_joe

[Deleted User] wrote:

Hi,

the supermarkets pass on the charge to charities, been going on for some time now in Ireland, Wales and Scotland, England a bit behind the times and think it is a scam.

OP get your head out of the sand.

Read this.

I think it's you who needs to get their head out of the sand.

The page you quote does not say ALL of the money goes to charity, it just says charities benefit.

In my experience when ALL PROCEEDS go to charity the people/company concerned go to great lengths to point out that ALL PROCEEDS GO TO CHARITY.

If only part of the money goes to charity they say something like "charites benefit".

So for all we know only 1% of the money may go to charity, or even less!!!

Also, the OP does not seem to care about where the money goes, they are concerned that there is no option to have bagless deliveries, and how you would keep track of how many are returned and refunded.

jenniewb

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but Tesco have now bought out a stronger carrier bag for the 5p charge. They were available in a Tesco normal store on Monday and no doubt will be rolled out elsewhere as and when the need-to-double-them-up-or-they-rip bags run out.
One man tried to take a few with him as he left the self-service having paid for his items but was told by the assistant that he wasn't allowed to take handfuls of the bags as he'd only bought one item. So those attempting to stock-up would be best advised to do so discretely or risk being stopped from doing this.


I was wondering about how they'd deal with loop holes such as loose vegetables and fruit (surely a watermelon would count as a loose item of fresh food?).


I don't think it's a case of worrying about what falls outside of the rules to be charged but how well informed or even how tired the cashier is as to weather or not you are charged. Even if people work the loop holes to not be charged; if a cashier isn't as well informed on the rules as you are, your loop-hole method is lost on deaf ears.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

[Deleted User] wrote:

OP get your head out of the sand.

geordie_joe wrote: »

I think it's you who needs to get their head out of the sand.
Also, the OP does not seem to care about where the money goes, they are concerned that there is no option to have bagless deliveries, and how you would keep track of how many are returned and refunded.

I apologise to OP -THX758- the comment was not directed at you, I had misread the thread.