asda removing option of bags end of july, no alternative offered

sarah1972 wrote: »

Lets see that work in practice. They will be throwing things in bags to get finished quickly in my opinion.

Whilst I appreciate that the time limit on deliveries is not your problem, I feel sorry for them when they arrive late back to the depot and are then late loading up their van for the next lot of deliveries and then arriving home late but maybe that's just me having compassion for them. Maybe they will be easier on the drivers as I am sure that lots of people will ask for it to be either bagged up or taken and unpacked in the kitchen so, as you say, they may adjust timings allowed etc.

One of my delivery drivers is about 20 years older than me so I wouldn't even think about asking him to bag it up, I would do it quicker than him ! :-)

I am not going to be forceful on anyone, if a driver is unable to bag or lift the crates, or just refuses to (although they have to lift the crates to get out the van, they already need a degree of fitness to do the job they doing) then the result will likely be order is returned and refunded.

Also I never said I had no sympathy for the drivers, I would speculate they are not happy with this change either.

Also as asda requested (I forgot to mention this in earlier post), I will be putting need bagging on delivery notes so one would think asda allocate a sufficiently physically fit driver to the delivery.

Well that delivery was interesting.

Guy said I was the first delivery of the day to "not" reject the order. Everyone else rejected due to been no bags. I was only the 4th delivery but still the accountants cannot be happy about orders been returned fully refunded, whilst taking products off the shelves, paying pickers and paying delivery drivers.

He is also the same guy that delivered my order on 30 july, on that order he didnt use the crates and just carried the bags to the door, I asked him which he found easier, and he replied "no need to ask".

He held up the crates, I bagged the food. He specifically told me to take my time, if he is late, thats not his or my problem, company needs to deal with consequences of decision, in his own words. He clearly wasnt happy.

I dont think this will carry on in its current form, but I also dont see plastic reusable bags coming bag, the government has announced plastic straws are to be banned so social momentum is huge on this which is baffling as there is far worse things than plastic waste.

I think we will start to see paper bags like the Americans use for their food shopping.

To give idea how silly it is, how come plastic bin liners arent been stopped and there will be far more of those in waste than shopping bags given they actually used to hold waste.

I get the impression asda just want to save money and the wastage issue is a nice conveniant excuse.

This is a reply from them, after I suggested paper bags. Talk about clutching at straws. They have at least not ruled it out for the long term tho.

"We have made the decision for the time being not to use paper bags or starch bags instead of plastic ones for sustainability reasons. Starch or ‘compostable’ material doesn’t actually breakdown unless it is industrially processed and at the moment there are no UK facilities to deal with it. Paper bags, although made from a renewable source and are biodegradable, compostable and recyclable, require almost 4 x times more energy to manufacture and transport, use 20x times as much water than plastic bags, and you are not able to use them again."

The paper bags I have had can definitely be reused.