5p bag charge - your views

sheramber

Our local Asdda still has a container at the door that was used to recycle unwanted carrier bags. It has a notice on it to help yourself.

waynelikes

Am I the only person that has fun with this? Disclaimer: I'm easily amused.

Try packing your shopping from M&S into a Lidl carrier bag or Waitrose shopping into an Aldi bag. Simply put, the looks you get as you place your Debenhams purchases into a BHS bag are a delight to see.

I actually ensure that I don't take the correct stores bags with me when I go shopping. Passive-aggressive maybe, but it's the little things that give the greatest joy. It may not last long, but it always makes me smile.

I'm saving my Poundland bags for the expensive stuff during Christmas shopping...

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waynelikes wrote: »

Am I the only person that has fun with this? Disclaimer: I'm easily amused.

Try packing your shopping from M&S into a Lidl carrier bag or Waitrose shopping into an Aldi bag. Simply put, the looks you get as you place your Debenhams purchases into a BHS bag are a delight to see.

I actually ensure that I don't take the correct stores bags with me when I go shopping. Passive-aggressive maybe, but it's the little things that give the greatest joy. It may not last long, but it always makes me smile.

I'm saving my Poundland bags for the expensive stuff during Christmas shopping...

That might only work with other customers. Store staff really couldn't give a s*** where someone has shopped before.

Anatidaephobia

waynelikes wrote: »

Am I the only person that has fun with this? Disclaimer: I'm easily amused.

Try packing your shopping from M&S into a Lidl carrier bag or Waitrose shopping into an Aldi bag. Simply put, the looks you get as you place your Debenhams purchases into a BHS bag are a delight to see.

We regularly use bags from other stores when we go shopping

I don't think most people really notice tbh.

robin58

waynelikes wrote: »

Am I the only person that has fun with this? Disclaimer: I'm easily amused.

Try packing your shopping from M&S into a Lidl carrier bag or Waitrose shopping into an Aldi bag. Simply put, the looks you get as you place your Debenhams purchases into a BHS bag are a delight to see.

I actually ensure that I don't take the correct stores bags with me when I go shopping. Passive-aggressive maybe, but it's the little things that give the greatest joy. It may not last long, but it always makes me smile.

I'm saving my Poundland bags for the expensive stuff during Christmas shopping...

Little things please little m.....

To be honest I take in a Morrisions 39p carrier bag into Sainsburys for my weekly shop, nobody bats an eyelid, staff or customers.

You must have some very small minded snobs in your area.:o

Stompa

Anatidaephobia wrote: »

We regularly use bags from other stores when we go shopping

I don't think most people really notice tbh.

I find it hard to believe that anybody does!

Living_proof

Last night I nipped out for an Aldi top-up of basic, heavy items like bread flour and lemonade, etc. I took two heavy duty store bags - a Lidl and Morrison. They both went in the trolley at Aldi but when I came to the check-out, one of them had been nicked which was annoying more than anything as I had to stuff the entire shop into the Lidl bag remaining.

Is this what it has come to?

chanie

I've only bought 1 bag since the charge came in and that was in Sainsburys as I spotted a present for ds in the toy sale and I wanted to buy it without him seeing it.

Yesterday I was buying a present in sports direct and I said I didn't want a bag so the cashier radioed her colleague on the door so tell them what I had purchased. Quite funny, but slightly overkill.

Kim_13

Nick_C wrote: »

The limit is 70 microns, not 50 microns. And I think few people would know whether or not a plastic bag was more than 70 microns!

According to The Telegraph,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11892387/Carrier-bag-5p-charge-everything-you-need-to-know.html

The limit is 49 microns in Scotland I believe. Every country has different rules/exemptions, it's stupid. They all have their plus points; I don't know why common sense isn't taken to combine them into one (better) piece of legislation.

Nick_C

Kim_13 wrote: »

The limit is 49 microns in Scotland I believe. Every country has different rules/exemptions, it's stupid. They all have their plus points; I don't know why common sense isn't taken to combine them into one (better) piece of legislation.

I agree. But then I don't agree with devolution (at a national level).