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arista · 05-10-2015, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

It's the staff member at the self sevice checkout that i feel for.She was having to run round checking receipts and handing bags out in our local Asda this morning.

Yes I was in Sainsburys , Tott.Court Rd. W.1.
buying two hot pizza slices at a pound each.

At the massive big self service tills there were no bags
they were up high.

Anyone who grabbed one a woman rushed over to them
to instruct them they must pay 5p for it
My two slices BBQ Chcken & Chicken and Peppers
were in in card boxes.

I did no need a bag
as once outside I eat them with joy

Feel The Force

Jøsh · 05-10-2015, 04:30 PM

This garage charged me 5p even though they had 10 employees...

Dollface · 05-10-2015, 04:41 PM

plastic bags are crap anyway, they always break

i usually take a tote bag with me when i shop

Northern Monkey · 05-10-2015, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by arista

Yes I was in Sainsburys , Tott.Court Rd. W.1.
buying two hot pizza slices at a pound each.

At the massive big self service tills there were no bags
they were up high.

Anyone who grabbed one a woman rushed over to them
to instruct them they must pay 5p for it
My two slices BBQ Chcken & Chicken and Peppers
were in in card boxes.

I did no need a bag
as once outside I eat them with joy

Feel The Force

You are just making me hungry.Sainsbury's make damn good fresh pizza.

Cherie · 05-10-2015, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Jøsh

This garage charged me 5p even though they had 10 employees...

Is it a chain though as I think it would be collective

MTVN · 05-10-2015, 05:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It's been in Scotland for ages now and have to be totally honest here; for me at least, it doesn't make me any more earth-friendly. I mean, if I go to ASDA Walmart and spend £50 on food, and the food I buy fills let's say 6 bags, I'm not really going to be bothered that my new total is £50.30. I mean is anyone REALLY bothered about spending an extra 5p - 50p? And is anyone likely to have many more than 10 bags? It's not "real money", it's the sort of money you'll find on the floor of the car or down the back of the couch if you bother to have a look...

They'd have to make it like 50p a bag for me to be motivated to take my own bags.

Just speaking from my experience working in a shop but before today we only charged one penny and even that put a lot of people off, today I reckon a fair few people didn't take a bag who otherwise would have done. The main thing it will prevent is those people who want bags just for buying a couple of items for a few quid - and there are a lot of people like that imo - rather than those doing big shops where the bags are more of a necessity and - like you say - relative to the total cost it will barely be anything

DemolitionRed · 05-10-2015, 06:36 PM

Our local Sainsbury's always has boxes near the checkout.

smudgie · 05-10-2015, 08:14 PM

Waiting for the fun to start when my home deliveries arrive without bags on Wednesday.

Poor drivers only get very limited time for each drop off.

Marsh. · 05-10-2015, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by smudgie

Waiting for the fun to start when my home deliveries arrive without bags on Wednesday.

Poor drivers only get very limited time for each drop off.

Just grab the crates and lock the door.

JoshBB · 05-10-2015, 08:23 PM

I disagree with plastic bag charges.. they disproportionately affect the very poor and very desperate. Not only that but literally adding 5p is not exactly going to solve climate change. Conservatives pandering to businesses as always. We need to focus on clean energy production and fighting deforestation, not adding charges to our plastic bags ffs. How weak.

arista · 05-10-2015, 08:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

You are just making me hungry.Sainsbury's make damn good fresh pizza.

Its not in all sainsburys

But i loved the Chicken and Peppers slice

Ashley. · 05-10-2015, 08:48 PM

It's so funny watching everyone in town carrying their shopping in their hands because they didn't know the rules changed

arista · 05-10-2015, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ashley.

It's so funny watching everyone in town carrying their shopping in their hands because they didn't know the rules changed

Yes I noticed some Stubborn people
doing that

Just pay the 5p charge

Ashley. · 05-10-2015, 08:54 PM

I use my non-plastic reusable "good to be green" bags. I don't have to pay 5p and I'm still saving the planet.

waterhog · 05-10-2015, 08:59 PM

just in from my supermarket observation day - I did not whiteness one ruckassssssssssssssss so the message is through on day one - good going. did not expect that.

on the point about home delivery - the customer has the right now to say I don't want bags as I want to save the earth - leaving the van driver having to make many trips from van to door holding the shopping unless they come in bags for life and he walks them to door unloads the shopping and takes the bags back - what ever the way - allot of stress for delivery home drop men/woman.

MTVN · 05-10-2015, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by JoshBB

I disagree with plastic bag charges.. they disproportionately affect the very poor and very desperate. Not only that but literally adding 5p is not exactly going to solve climate change. Conservatives pandering to businesses as always. We need to focus on clean energy production and fighting deforestation, not adding charges to our plastic bags ffs. How weak.

Because charging a few pence for a bag is really going to fuel poverty

As for not helping the planet, in Wales plastic bag use has decreased by 70% since charges came in: that's a big difference. Plastic bags are pretty self-evidently a disaster for the environment and for wildlife, it's something like 90% of seabirds that have pieces of plastic in their stomachs

Cherie · 05-10-2015, 09:33 PM

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Originally Posted by JoshBB

I disagree with plastic bag charges.. they disproportionately affect the very poor and very desperate. Not only that but literally adding 5p is not exactly going to solve climate change. Conservatives pandering to businesses as always. We need to focus on clean energy production and fighting deforestation, not adding charges to our plastic bags ffs. How weak.

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Originally Posted by MTVN

Because charging a few pence for a bag is really going to fuel poverty

As for not helping the planet, in Wales plastic bag use has decreased by 70% since charges came in: that's a big difference. Plastic bags are pretty self-evidently a disaster for the environment and for wildlife, it's something like 90% of seabirds that have pieces of plastic in their stomachs

Agreed, plus I can't see it affecting the poor that much, bags for life last for ages, and some shops are giving the revenue made from bags to charity.

Dollface · 05-10-2015, 09:58 PM

I think this is a good thing tbh

Rob! · 05-10-2015, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Ammi

..I've never found 50p in a car park I don't think...

Jay. · 05-10-2015, 10:01 PM

i don't mind paying for them at all

but i'd find it awkward having to ask for bags imo, like feeling guilty etc

LukeB · 05-10-2015, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Jay.

i don't mind paying for them at all

but i'd find it awkward having to ask for bags imo, like feeling guilty etc

ummm this makes you ask for bags even more

i had to ask

lewis111 · 05-10-2015, 10:05 PM

The only time it ever really annoys me is in poundland, when you kinda need a bag but you have th exact right amount of money ready.
Apart from that it does make you stop and think sometimes like Do I need this bag, even if it does only cost 5p
It's not causing any issues like harming poorer people (5p, really??) but could help one, climate change, in the future