5p bag charge - your views

jon81uk

w50nky wrote: »

Is there a 5p charge when you buy your clothes online? Or do they come unwrapped? Just curious.

A sealed bag for the transportation of online orders doesn't need to be chargeable under the legislation. So clothes orders from ASOS, Amazon etc don't charge for packaging. But supermarket carrier bags in home delivery have to be charged as they are unsealed.

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Subway are franchises and if the individual franchise company has less than 250 employees then it doesn't need to charge.

Not like I know as I would never eat in one. Never found one with a decent FSA hygiene rating.

KxMx

I don't think I should have been charged, I was given two different reasons why I was and neither Subway or The Co-op have responded to my request for clarification.

Co-op as a business charged for bags before the legislation so I'm wondering if this third (!) reason is behind it.

I'm not going back there or any other Co-op Subway so it won't crop up again but for now I feel I was unfairly/ wrongly charged.

teddysmum

KxMx wrote: »

I don't think I should have been charged, I was given two different reasons why I was and neither Subway or The Co-op have responded to my request for clarification.

Co-op as a business charged for bags before the legislation so I'm wondering if this third (!) reason is behind it.

I'm not going back there or any other Co-op Subway so it won't crop up again but for now I feel I was unfairly/ wrongly charged.

The point is that any retailer may charge for any bag/wrapping, if they wish to do so, but in certain cases (eg carrier for non-exempt groceries from a supermarket) they have to charge.

jon81uk

KxMx wrote: »

I don't think I should have been charged, I was given two different reasons why I was and neither Subway or The Co-op have responded to my request for clarification.

Personally I think as the subway sandwich is entirely covered in paper, it is not unwrapped food and therefore plastic single use bags should be chargeable http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111127735/schedule/2

But I can see how it can be interpreted as a sub being unwrapped food, I just disagree and nothing else is generally needed over the top of the waxed paper.

robin58

Six months into the charge, the facts known so far.

The successes and the dodges.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2016/apr/06/six-things-we-know-about-the-plastic-bag-charge-in-england

Sunny_Saver

I wonder about shoplifting.

The other day I was in Waitrose's 'flagship' store in Kings Cross and heard the security guard chatting to the shop assistant saying 'I just saw this man walk out with loads of stuff without paying'. My thoughts were 'errr, isn't that your job to stop him?'.

However, when I mentioned this to my friend, I was told that he could have paid at a till at the front of the store and walked out of the 'back' door and it's hard to stop him because he might have just not bought a carrier bag.

The words the security guard used were 'walk out... without paying', does he have any 'power' to ask to see a receipt?

Having said that, the security guard in that shop is always chatting to staff, so it's probably a shoplifters' paradise.

System

Since the bag charge, I've seen more customers using their own bags as the supermarket basket and empty them out at the checkout.

Does anyone know why this is? Loads of baskets and trolleys available.

Nick_C

ScarletMarble wrote: »

Since the bag charge, I've seen more customers using their own bags as the supermarket basket and empty them out at the checkout.

Does anyone know why this is? Loads of baskets and trolleys available.

Convenience. I do it all time. My carrefour bags are quite bulky and take up a lot of space in a basket if I'm doing a small shop

Also much easier to manoeuvre round a crowded store with a bag instead of a basket.

Spendless

Having changed to doing my shopping at Aldi at some point last year, when the carrier bag charge came in I didn't stockpile them in the preceding weeks as I already owned a lot. Not long afterwards they all seemed to 'die' at the same time. Recently I sorted out a cupboard and was surprised to find I'd got a stack again. I can count of one hand the number of times I've bought a bag since October last year, so couldn't understand it. Then I realised my teenagers were buying the bags when they went up to the shops, still more fool them if that's what they spend their pocket money on.