i rest my case

or handbag

Shopping baskets are great

The fuss people make about paying for bags is crazy, didn't realise how many hated it till I worked in a shop and had a lot of people kicking off about paying a penny for a carrier bag :umm2:

Least now it will be law so they can't exactly moan at me or the company

Tell you what makes it a pain in the arse: local Co op is so "worried" about people taking carrier bags from the self checkout Without paying for them, that their solution has been... To just not have any bags there at all.

This means that if I forget to take a carrier bag when I go into the shop on the way home from the morning school run, I have to... Ugh... Go to the till and interact with a staff member. The last thing I want at 9am!

If we're paying for them then they'd better up the quality of them.Those Asda carriers are ****,2 bottles of pop and the handles are snapping a few meters from the shop.I always double bag.Aldi ones are better.Nice big thick handles but you've always had to pay for them.

I've been seeing signs about this in loads of shops like Tesco Express recently but it's only just registered what this actually means :facepalm:

I've never really cared about paying for bags on the rare occasion I've had to before but this will be pretty annoying every time. Also in situations where you have to pack your own bags (the worst), how does it work? Do they count the bags you've used and then add that to the bill or something? So they have to sit there waiting while I rush to pack bags so they can count the total? Or will they pack them all themselves now?

If I'm paying for the bags, you better ****ing pack them :fist:

I wonder what will happen if someone spent al their money on food and didn't have 5p on them :joker:

Yeah how do logistical things like this work :suspect: you have just enough money to buy the things you've brought to the till, no card and no spare change for the bags - it has to be abandoned and some poor staff member has to restack the items on the shelves?

I hope it fails, who cares about the bloody environment or recycling :hmph:

I know :worry:

"oh i've left my card at home so we can't buy this because we have to make sure we have 5p spare, i come back later for that" it's all siilly

*Think coming, and you have to progress with the rest of the world. :dance:

I thought that said nutsack. :joker:

..you're not a morning playground chatty parent then..:laugh:...

I don't mind paying for carrier bags but it does rankle a bit that these shops expect us to pay when we are really walking adverts for them. Try a bit of devilment and take used carrier bags with you next time you shop - only, ensure that you take Asda carriers if shopping at Tesco, and Aldi if you're shopping at Asda etc. and WATCH the faces of the staff as you trundle out of their store toting laden bags advertising their rivals stores. :laugh:

Great point Paul. I have used condoms which were thicker and stronger (and MUCH, MUCH larger of course. :hehe:)

I do this all the time, I have a bag for life from each of the big stores and use them all when I'm doing my shopping.

..I don't do online grocery shopping but when I've been at friend's houses when they were having theirs delivered, I always found it odd that there was no thought to recycling there and always came in plastic bags, rather than boxes, while discouraging the use of them in the supermarket...I'm glad the money is going to charity because it would be all kinds of wrong if this added to profits for the supermarkets themselves, when they sell so many environmentally unfriendly package products...

And respect to you then Josy.

I did not know this Ammi. Does seem a bit hypocritical doesn't it. :shrug:

Here when we get a delivery now it just comes in those plastic boxes the driver has and you have to lift everything out then he takes the boxes back

This is true^^^

I hate shopping so much that i tend to do mine online, and when it arrives they are all in carrier bags, so i'm wondering whether i will have to pay for these carrier bags, as sometimes there's only 1 item in them:shocked:

If they aren't then the delivery men will have to wait whilst i unpack every item individually......

You can pay a flat fee (50p or something) for as many bags as it takes. We do that now... We didn't tick the box for it the first time and everything literally cam piled into plastic boxes in a jumble, and we had to just chuck it all into the hallway while the driver waited impatiently :/.

I have petty much zero concern for recycling to be honest. We live on a doomed planet anyway, because people. I don't think a few asda bags blowing around in the post-apocalyptic ruins of civilisation is really going to be a huge worry :D

T.S has a point:

How would we be if all the great civilisations of antiquity had used bio-degradable materials for everything? No archeology.

Carrefour give you something the size of a sani bag and charge you 30 cents so quit ya belly-aching!

Wales have been doing this since like 2011

Lidl do this. :fist: