5p bag charge - your views

Zandoni

sam.4000 wrote: »

You do get charged for these unless you have loose fruit or vegetables. I picked up a bag of reduced fruit yesterday which was covered in sticky stuff so I put it in one of the little bags. When I got to check out the lady who served me said that I could not have it or she would have to charge me 5p. I did not want the sticky stuff over my other shopping so asked if I could take the fruit out of the sealed bag and put it in the loose bag. Her answer was no so I said I did not want the fruit as it would make everything else sticky.

I would have asked for the store manager.

Nada666

JuzaMum wrote: »

I think everyone who has bought a Chanel handbag should insist on a refund - the logos always show!:rotfl:

Women and their single-use handbags!

Kim_13

I'm not a fan of this charge, as someone who reused as bin liners. Why is it not environmental charities getting this money exclusively, if this is for the benefit of the environment? I think it's insane that it applies to takeaways seeing as many will refuse to use your bags because of food safety concerns.

It works well in the supermarkets but when you are shopping for leisure, it's difficult to know how many bags you'll need. I'm one of those that will buy for Christmas/birthdays all year round if I see the right item/offer.

I will also not buy something if I don't have a bag big enough (or think I can just carry it without too much hassle.) After all the scandal about charities this year, I can't see myself donating again for the forseeable.

I think the communication about the charge has been a shambles. In some shops, signs didn't go up until a week before and had disappeared a matter of days after the charge came in. Only the minority are aware that the bags are actually subject to VAT. Some large stores (Iceland for one) are saying it's part of their policy to reduce waste. No, it's the law!

And would cashiers please stop asking if you would like a bag when they know full well they would have to charge for it! For one thing it's annoying, and I wonder how many people are saying yes out of habit and paying for it because they're too embarrassed to say that they actually don't want the bag. How many more are in this situation and starting arguments, only to hold up the queue?

Kim_13

alanq wrote: »

For home deliveries the only options are to have no bags which must be time consuming to unpack (and therefore add to costs incurred by supermarket making the delivery) or pay for carrier bags. Ocado seems to have the right idea. It is going to refund 5p for each carrier handed back to them for recycling. Thus environmental impact is greatly reduced by a little extra administration and driver & customer are not greatly disadvantaged by the new policy.

Could not agree more with this. Asda are not allowing bagless click and collect (for groceries; clothes etc are unaffected) but are allowing bagless home deliveries, so time is clearly the issue. I guess there would be a very long queue in the car park if they allowed bagless click and collect. Given the recent increases in minimum spends, online shoppers are getting ripped off in my view. Iceland don't have a bagless option at all.

Big_Graeme

Kim_13 wrote: »

I'm not a fan of this charge, as someone who reused as bin liners.

You weren't reusing them, you were throwing them away with other stuff in them.

Kim_13 wrote: »

I think it's insane that it applies to takeaways seeing as many will refuse to use your bags because of food safety concerns.

They won't refuse, you are making that up.

Kim_13 wrote: »

I'm one of those that will buy for Christmas/birthdays all year round if I see the right item/offer.

Then pay for a bag, what you are doing is cutting your nose off to spite your face. Its 5p.

Kim_13 wrote: »

I think the communication about the charge has been a shambles. In some shops, signs didn't go up until a week before and had disappeared a matter of days after the charge came in.

Hogwash.

Kim_13 wrote: »

And would cashiers please stop asking if you would like a bag when they know full well they would have to charge for it!

No, its called offering a service.

Kim_13 wrote: »

Asda are not allowing bagless click and collect.

Again, hogwash.

Nick_C

Big_Graeme wrote: »

You weren't reusing them, you were throwing them away with other stuff in them.

Of course using them as bin liners is re-use. Putting an empty carrier bag into a bin is disposal. Using it to line the bin is re-use. It avoids the need to buy a bin bag.

Instead of single use carrier bags being used twice, we now have single use bin liners being used once!

Big_Graeme

Nick_C wrote: »

It avoids the need to buy a bin bag.

There is no NEED to buy a bin bag.

Zandoni

Big_Graeme wrote: »

There is no NEED to buy a bin bag.

There is every need to buy a bin bag, bins are disgusting without them.

Big_Graeme

Zandoni wrote: »

There is every need to buy a bin bag, bins are disgusting without them.

Why what are you putting in it?

Zandoni

Big_Graeme wrote: »

Why what are you putting in it?

I put mainly rubbish in my bins, this might include food waste and the odd snotty tissue.