Asda - new systems not heling the environment

lazer-zxr

We've used click and collect at the local Asda for some time.
This service has recently moved to an automated locker system.

Asda have advised that you cannot use "re-usable" bags with this system, and that all shopping will be in disposable plastic bags, which we will be charged for.

This isn't the kind of progress I want to see from big organisations.

Come on Asda, promote recycling and change your processes!

K80_Black

They are stopping giving paper receipts with online orders though, which I am grateful for. Mine always goes straight into the recycling.

VfM4meplse

lazer-zxr wrote: »

We've used click and collect at the local Asda for some time.
This service has recently moved to an automated locker system.

Asda have advised that you cannot use "re-usable" bags with this system, and that all shopping will be in disposable plastic bags, which we will be charged for.

This isn't the kind of progress I want to see from big organisations.

Come on Asda, promote recycling and change your processes!

In the scheme of things, this is merely a tweak.

Write to Asda to express your concerns: but for this oversight, presumably you'd be happy to use the automated system?

PasturesNew

How many of the items were flown around the world, using fuel to arrive...? I'm sure a jet or two, to ensure your fruit arrived in your plastic bag as fresh as possible, did more damage than that bag.

lazer-zxr

VfM4meplse wrote: »

In the scheme of things, this is merely a tweak.

Write to Asda to express your concerns: but for this oversight, presumably you'd be happy to use the automated system?

I have done, and yes I'm happy to use the system if this is fixed.

lazer-zxr

PasturesNew wrote: »

How many of the items were flown around the world, using fuel to arrive...? I'm sure a jet or two, to ensure your fruit arrived in your plastic bag as fresh as possible, did more damage than that bag.

I get your point, but it was just the change in Asda's process to move away from reusable bags seems a backward step.

VfM4meplse

lazer-zxr wrote: »

I get your point, but it was just the change in Asda's process to move away from reusable bags seems a backward step.

Just ill-thought out by a team tasked to improve convenience rather than save the environment, but eminently fixable.

Asda needs to listen to its customers, just as other retailers do.

Murphybear

I remember shopping at Safeway while at Uni in the early 70s. In those days you were given strong brown paper sacs to put the shopping in.

tastyhog

lazer-zxr wrote: »

I get your point, but it was just the change in Asda's process to move away from reusable bags seems a backward step.

You're having your shopping picked and packed by extra staff so you can drive up to a place a few feet away from your car to collect it.

A plastic bag is the least of the environmental Impact you're causing

weavedribbon

Murphybear wrote: »

I remember shopping at Safeway while at Uni in the early 70s. In those days you were given strong brown paper sacs to put the shopping in.

Amazon prime now (only available in some areas I think) deliver in very strong large brown paper bags. I find it suits me better than bagless but I don't like to get my shopping in plastic bags either so it's perfect.

[Deleted User]

primarni give their shoppers strong brown paper bags for goods and don't seem to charge at all.