5p bag charge - your views

Roxy07

A great little trick that I've learned is take a backpack.. but in the backpack load it with plastic bags (the strong variety). This is a classic Japanese-style folding trick, but it saves on buying loads of bags as you are constantly using the same ones.

And you get to carry all the bottles of pop etc without worrying about being bagless or it snapping !

TheBanker

chanie wrote: »

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.

Before the tax came in, I once bought some items in the wonderful Primark. They were only small items (socks or something similar) and I said I didn't need a bag as they could go in the bag I had with me from another shop.

The cashier insisted that I must take a bag. I told her I didn't want one. She told me all customers must have a bag. I said I did not want to waste the earth's valuable natural resources. She said if she sold me the item without a bag she would be breaking the law. I said she was talking nonsense. She told me she was not going to sell me the item and threatened to get security to throw me out.

:eek::eek:

robin58

TheBanker wrote: »

Before the tax came in, I once bought some items in the wonderful Primark. They were only small items (socks or something similar) and I said I didn't need a bag as they could go in the bag I had with me from another shop.

The cashier insisted that I must take a bag. I told her I didn't want one. She told me all customers must have a bag. I said I did not want to waste the earth's valuable natural resources. She said if she sold me the item without a bag she would be breaking the law. I said she was talking nonsense. She told me she was not going to sell me the item and threatened to get security to throw me out.

:eek::eek:

In that case I should be behind bars by now!

I have for the last few months been refusing bags which the shops until now dished out. I just did not want them.

I always thought if you have a receipt which shows the money transaction you have just done, it was then your property.

Personally sounds like an under trained member of staff to me.

Or somebody who has made up an excuse for you to take a bag because the company policy makes the staff give you a bag so they know you have not nicked it.

But if you have the receipt whats the point.

Big_Graeme

TheBanker wrote: »

Before the tax came in

It's not a tax.

Zandoni

Big_Graeme wrote: »

It's not a tax.

The VAT bit is

jon81uk

TheBanker wrote: »

Before the tax came in, I once bought some items in the wonderful Primark. They were only small items (socks or something similar) and I said I didn't need a bag as they could go in the bag I had with me from another shop.

The cashier insisted that I must take a bag. I told her I didn't want one. She told me all customers must have a bag. I said I did not want to waste the earth's valuable natural resources. She said if she sold me the item without a bag she would be breaking the law. I said she was talking nonsense. She told me she was not going to sell me the item and threatened to get security to throw me out.

:eek::eek:

In those sort of cases where I told the cashier I don't want a bag but they gave me one anyway, I would remove the items from the bag and leave it on the counter.

System

TheBanker wrote: »

Before the tax came in, I once bought some items in the wonderful Primark. They were only small items (socks or something similar) and I said I didn't need a bag as they could go in the bag I had with me from another shop.

The cashier insisted that I must take a bag. I told her I didn't want one. She told me all customers must have a bag. I said I did not want to waste the earth's valuable natural resources. She said if she sold me the item without a bag she would be breaking the law. I said she was talking nonsense. She told me she was not going to sell me the item and threatened to get security to throw me out.

:eek::eek:

d

The cashier is lying. The only laws regarding bags is to charge if customer wants one and buys something which isn't excluded like bread, toiletries, photo frame etc. Plus in England, no charge for paper bags.

Though if a customer buys an expensive item of clothing, refuses to pay 5p for a bag, then squashes the item into a tiny carrier bag, thus ruining it. If customer tries to return it, then it's refused as its not in a saleable state. I know wool jackets squashed are creased too much and don't hang on the body

Nick_C

ScarletMarble wrote: »

The cashier is lying.

That's a bit harsh. The cashier was possibly ill informed and chose her words poorly. I think lying involves an intent to deceive. It's more than getting something wrong.

When you said in an earlier post that it is illegal to sell three packets of 16 paracetamol I didn't accuse you of lying. You were merely mistaken.

Doom_and_Gloom

It is illegal for shops to sell more than 32 pills of painkillers, in other words two usual packs. It doesn't matter what kind they are.
http://www.govyou.co.uk/over-the-counter-painkillers/

Doom_and_Gloom

As for the 5p charge on bags I think it is a good idea. It helps the environment yes but also it puts lets pressure on a finite source that people use as if infinite!
Yes it would be good if we could reduce/eliminate the need for plastics in other areas of our lives too but I think plastic bags for shopping is atrocious. Use cloth bags that can be added to your usual washes with minimal hassle.

I've already had enough of customers b******g about the charge for the bags. Bring your own for crying out loud, then you don't have to pay for bags, simples. People remember their wallet, keys etc and even an umbrella in case it rains but for some reason say that remembering bags is too difficult. Seriously? I honestly feel like hitting my head against the counter when some people say why it's difficult to remember bags. It's not difficult at all. People have just become lazy as they were used to bags being at stores, not giving them a second thought as they were free.