5p bag scam

peachyprice

Sara19 wrote: »

Yes technically you could use your bag for life in any supermarket but it's not going to go down very well when you're in Tesco and suddenly pull out a load of bright orange bags advertising Sainsburys is it!

Seriously? Do you think the bag police will get you?

Valli

Sara19 wrote: »

Yes technically you could use your bag for life in any supermarket but it's not going to go down very well when you're in Tesco and suddenly pull out a load of bright orange bags advertising Sainsburys is it!

Not one person has EVER commented on the random selection of bags for life I use, or suggested I need supermarket-appropriate bags.



i think you're mixing up the concept of bags for life with the phrase 'get a life'. It's a bag, it holds my purchases. End of.

Pollycat

LilElvis wrote: »

I use the Hessian shopping bags which were designed for Tescos by Orla Kiely. They coordinate with many of my handbags so I always look stylish when purchasing spuds/bread/prosecco

Oh LilElvis - could one ever look stylish when buying prosecco?

Sara19 wrote: »

Yes technically you could use your bag for life in any supermarket but it's not going to go down very well when you're in Tesco and suddenly pull out a load of bright orange bags advertising Sainsburys is it!

"Not going to go down very well"?

That's silly.
I really do doubt that any supermarket would approach any shopper with bags-for-life from another store.

My own Tesco even swapped a Co-op bag-for-life that was past its best.

pendragon_arther

BrentMeister wrote: »

Probably spend £1 a week on bags. I go for the 10p ones though.

Can't see the problem myself.

I hope you're joking.

donnac2558

OP," OMG!!!! I am in Tesco and have the Sainsbury bag!!" Gets a weird look from person at till, which is actually means 'So What!';):D

The only people who might care about going into supermarket or store with wrong bag is someone with perhaps a form of OCD?

martin2345uk

The guy at the co-op said to me once, as I pulled out a Tesco bag just after the law was brought into effect, "That's the wrong bag! You can't use that here!" but he was clearly joking. I love our local co-op :-D

hollydays

I've already mentioned once, the very large amount of posts on the vent board by new posters in the last couple of weeks on controversial subjects , mostly where the posters don't return . Someone's got an axe to grind.
I Like this link
Prank carrier bag film, outraged member of staff put the carrier bag over the awkward customers head.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tesco-scraps-club-card-loyalty-6610784

NBLondon

Pollycat wrote: »

My own Tesco even swapped a Co-op bag-for-life that was past its best.

I believe that's normal practice for Tesco. Which is the sensible approach if they actually want you to be advertising them by walking around with Tesco bags.


I use the word "advertising" quite loosely there. It's not as if many of us would be convinced to go to Shop A rather than Shop B based on the bag someone else was carrying. I suppose there might be some people out there who see Pollycat with a certain bag and think "Wow, that stylish woman shops at X, I must copy her".

bod1467

It's really just more about advertising the brand ... the more it is seen the more it will ingrain into people's subconscious.

Pollycat

NBLondon wrote: »

I use the word "advertising" quite loosely there. It's not as if many of us would be convinced to go to Shop A rather than Shop B based on the bag someone else was carrying. I suppose there might be some people out there who see Pollycat with a certain bag and think "Wow, that stylish woman shops at X, I must copy her".

I'm not sure if you're a dig at me over this post:

Pollycat wrote: »

Oh LilElvis - could one ever look stylish when buying prosecco?

If you are, I'm sure LilElvis will see it for the joke it was intended to be. We post on a lot of the same threads.