Charges for plastic bags

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Big_Graeme wrote: »

Depends on fee bags?
You don't mean she erm "borrows" them from Tesco do you?

Round our way, market traders often reuse supermarket carrier bags to put customer's purchases in

Broadwood

Just received this email from Iceland......

"As you may have heard, the government is introducing a new law that requires retailers in England to charge a minimum of 5p for single use carrier bags. So as of Monday 5th October we will be charging 5p for each carrier bag used to pack your shopping. There is no charge for using your own carrier bags.

Home Delivery and Online Orders
To ensure we comply across all our services, there will be a flat charge of 25p per shop for in store Home Delivery and online orders at Iceland.co.uk. You'll see the charge itemised on your receipt.

Please note there is no charge for using your own carrier bags for Home Delivery, but please ensure they're in good condition."

So........if I've got to take my own bags-for-life to Iceland surely I might as well get the items myself and bring them home with me. Or is that only in-store Home Delivery and for online orders the 25p bag charge won't be optional but mandatory?

Oh the cost of living! ;-)

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Hi,

Broadwood wrote: »

Oh the cost of living! ;-)

Yes, having to buy food is a waste of hard earned money.

System

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Hi,

oh gosh, I can see England coming to a total stop on Monday.

Jings, 5p for a carrier bag to take shopping home, when most folks have a stock of old ones anyway, just stuff one in your pocket.

I foresee folks with a trolley of shopping at checkout, refusing to pay.

'I'm paying £50 for this shopping, why should I pay 20p for carrier bags?'

Then storms out, leaving shopping at the checkout, into the Range Rover, to go to another supermarket.

These customers are thick if they think another supermarket will give them free bags.

If they spend £50 and find it an issue on forking out 20p-30p on a few carrier bags, they have issues

marvin

ScarletMarble wrote: »

These customers are thick if they think another supermarket will give them free bags.

If they spend £50 and find it an issue on forking out 20p-30p on a few carrier bags, they have issues

My son was in a Cafe Nero in a well healed area of London last week and the person in front of him, who had a Rolex on their wrist, asked if hot milk cost more than cold milk for their coffee.

kerri_gt

david1986 wrote: »

I am undecided about the pleastic bag charge. Think its a good idea for the environment, however people like my mum who has a small book store and depends on free bags will struggle as it is just another dent in the small amount of money she already earns from doing markets.

Assuming your mum's store has less than 250 employees in total, it will be exempt from having to levvy the charge.

marvin wrote: »

My son was in a Cafe Nero in a well healed area of London last week and the person in front of him, who had a Rolex on their wrist, asked if hot milk cost more than cold milk for their coffee.

Just because the person was wearing a Rolex doesn't automatically mean they are rolling in cash - it could have been a gift / inheritance / fake. Never judge a book by its cover.

marvin

kerri_gt wrote: »

Just because the person was wearing a Rolex doesn't automatically mean they are rolling in cash - it could have been a gift / inheritance / fake. Never judge a book by its cover.

In this case you can judge the book by its cover as the person was known just not naming them.

kerri_gt

marvin wrote: »

In this case you can judge the book by its cover as the person was known just not naming them.

oh well, I guess they are allowed to ask - incidentally, did hot cost more than cold milk?

A._Badger

marvin wrote: »

My son was in a Cafe Nero in a well healed area of London last week and the person in front of him, who had a Rolex on their wrist, asked if hot milk cost more than cold milk for their coffee.

Why do you think s/he could afford a Rolex?

marvin

kerri_gt wrote: »

oh well, I guess they are allowed to ask - incidentally, did hot cost more than cold milk?

I was brought up in Tunbrdge wells and a saying I heard a lot was fur coat no knickers which I was always intrigued by as a kid!

And no idea drink mine black, did offer to email my son one of the vouchers I got with nectar points to help the poor multi-millionaire out.