5 pence Bag Charge, 1 year manufacturer guarantee

wealdroam

SuperHan wrote: »

The 5p charge is for single use plastic bags, as per the law. Although I think this is being flouted in some places (I've heard of people charging for paper bags)...

I'm not sure that charging for a paper bag can be regarded as flouting the law.

There is nothing to stop any retailer charging for paper bags.

unholyangel

Carrot007 wrote: »

6p most places iv'e been.

But indeed I would rather have the better bag.

Or that places started using paper bags and didn't charge.

Had to order 100's of the "single use" plastic bags from amazon though as I do need them and did re-use them all.

If the bags aren't single use (or plastic & single use should I say), they aren't part of the scheme (meaning the retailer can keep the profits and doesn't need to keep any record of bags sold).

Most of the shops seem to have completely done away with single use carrier bags and now only sell their own thicker ones for 6-10p or the cloth ones for £1.

People don't seem to mind having to pay for bags, the only complaint i've heard from people is that the bags should be unbranded and they shouldn't be paying to advertise the store.

Have they started putting security tags on the shopping baskets down south yet?

powerful_Rogue

unholyangel wrote: »

Have they started putting security tags on the shopping baskets down south yet?

Day after the charge came in, My local Tesco Extra tagged all shopping baskets. Heard the security guard tell a customer that people were just walking out with the baskets and not returning them.

HappyMJ

Can you return a bag for a refund?

I get my Morrisons shopping delivered and they allow me to return all the bags whether broken or not and get a 5p refund for each bag returned to the driver.

unholyangel

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Day after the charge came in, My local Tesco Extra tagged all shopping baskets. Heard the security guard tell a customer that people were just walking out with the baskets and not returning them.

Yeah up here I heard of one person doing the same (their response was "well they're charging you 5p a bag, but they're no charging you for baskets). Gathered it must have been more of a widespread problem though when I clocked the security tags on the shopping basket handles

Pollycat

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

That was supposed to say unheated, I seem to remember that they did have wooden seats which did not help much in deepest winter when they could get quite frosted especially during the winter of 62/63.

I know what it was supposed to say.
I too remember outside toilets with wooden seats.

Cycrow

powerful_Rogue wrote: »

Day after the charge came in, My local Tesco Extra tagged all shopping baskets. Heard the security guard tell a customer that people were just walking out with the baskets and not returning them.

We had that problem when i worked at Tesco many years ago.
We had baskets with wheels on, they would constantly go missing so they all ended up having security tags on

Iwanttobefree

Pollycat wrote: »

Would anybody really choose to pay 5p for a single-usebag as opposed to 10p for one that you can take back for a new one again & again?

Yes I did it yesterday.

Was out longer than expected so went to Morrisons on the way home.

Already have too many bags for life clogging up the cupboard so brought a couple of 5p ones that will get re-used as dog poo bags.

Pollycat

Iwanttobefree wrote: »

Yes I did it yesterday.

Was out longer than expected so went to Morrisons on the way home.

Already have too many bags for life clogging up the cupboard so brought a couple of 5p ones that will get re-used as dog poo bags.

Poor planning not to have a bag-for-life in your pocket or bag.;)

Iwanttobefree

Pollycat wrote: »

Poor planning not to have a bag-for-life in your pocket or bag.;)

I'm a man, I don't have a bag and the only thing ever in my pockets are keys and wallet