ASDA Carrier Bags - No more freebies

donnajunkie

barmonkey wrote: »

i dont feel at all bad about saying no

theres no bigger wimp than me. if someone asks me for something i always find it hard to say no. now were are all the loose women?

philatio

No rationing this week....a big pile at the end of each till.
I asked why, and the girl said there'd been so much backlash from customers that Head Office decided that they will phase them out "sometime in the future".

HAHA!!!!! Victory is ours!!!!!!!

barmonkey

didnt have to ask for free bags today the till operator just gave them to me

MoneySavingSpender

I suspect Asda need to do a few things to pull this off properly.

a) Provide small bags for stuff likely to break, large enough for milk bottles, meats etc

b) Provide decent bags for lifes, I have 4 of the large black durable M&S ones which I use but the ones Asda provide are useful for a dozen shops at best and arn't durable. But even those M&S ones won't last years, still to see proper last a lifetime bags come from a supermarket.

Until they offer small bags for seperation and proper "bag for life" bags there will always be a backlash and ASDA should of known better and seen it coming.

SugarSpun

I'm in Germany, and supermarket bags are 12c for the big reusable sort. Glass and plastic bottles have a refundable deposit, and you bring them back for a Pfand refund.

Recycling is a way of life, and it makes a lot of sense. There's a fantastic solar energy farm right on the border with Austria too. It all helps a bit.

poppyolivia

Went to Asda yesterday and never got charged either in fact she packed our bags for us!

Stephen_Leak

It's too late now. I now have a supply of bright orange Sainsbury's bags, which I have used for my last couple of visits. Don't get mad, get even.

ConsumerWarrior

Jennifer_Jane wrote: »

I've just bought a very pretty shopping trolley on wheels, which easily goes in the car or enables me to carry heavy things when I walk from the shops. You can get beautiful, chic ones these days (not the tartan old-lady ones). Did this having come back from Spain and seeing that everyone uses them and that the supermarkets there have an area where you can lock up your trolley, do your shopping (lovely clean plastic baskets on wheels which you can drag round with you too). Bought mine at the local (small town) market but you can also get lovely ones on the web (or large one from M&S for £7.50 online, plus Quidco).

I think it's the way forward and am thrilled with mine.

Regards
Jen
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Hmm., So, you park your car at Asda, you get your trolley bag out

• 1st problem, the UK stores have not yet got an infrastructure in place to allow you to securely park your personal trolley bag in the store while you make off with their approved steel trolley.
• So, do you pick up a supermarket trolley or can you fill up your own trolley bag inside the store, (security issue).
• If you are taking a store trolley, do you put your own bag inside the supermarket trolley or tow it in your other hand?
• While you are shopping do you put items in your own bag or in the supermarkets trolley? (security issue).
• At the checkout everythings got to go down the belt and you will either start transferring your checked items into your own shopping trolley, (will you get everything in?), or simply start re-filling your empty store trolley. If the latter the store will need to provide a handling area outside the checkouts to enable you to pack your goods into your own bag.

I normally do a £200 shop at Asda, I don't think I can find a trolley bag that will cope with that, If I manage to load a personal trolley bag at the checkout I wouldn't want to try manhandling both the trolley bag and the supermarkets trolley out of the store so I would want a store assistant to take the empty supermarket trolley from me at the checkout. I could never lift my full trolley bag from the store trolley.

Sounds to me there is a need to re-think the way a shopper transports goods from checkout to car, there must be a Dragons Den style invention out there.

sahra

MoneySavingSpender wrote: »

I suspect Asda need to do a few things to pull this off properly.

a) Provide small bags for stuff likely to break, large enough for milk bottles, meats etc

b) Provide decent bags for lifes, I have 4 of the large black durable M&S ones which I use but the ones Asda provide are useful for a dozen shops at best and arn't durable. But even those M&S ones won't last years, still to see proper last a lifetime bags come from a supermarket.

Until they offer small bags for seperation and proper "bag for life" bags there will always be a backlash and ASDA should of known better and seen it coming.

The term 'bag for life' does not mean the bag is meant to last forever.If the bag shows wear and tear...holes, etc, then the shop will replace the bag for free.

bubblegumcola

I have a mixture of different bags for life and various jute bags(not from supermarkets...I'm not advertising free for them!). You can buy a trolley bag made from polypropelene (like bag for life) from Marie Curie Charity shops for 4.75. Handy for people who use public transport and the whole thing folds up with the wheels flat, not sure how long it would last but handy! Many other countries seem to take recycling far more seriously than we do, I'm quite happy to use my own bags but it would be nice if they offered to help pack them like Tesco seem not to do these days...their bag packers have vanished!