Tesco in Oldam add Security Alarms to shopping baskets
 

As since the LOW charge of 5p
for a bag has come in
some are taking the Shopping Baskets home.


They say a 3rd have gone missing since
the new 5p charge.


Ref : Radio 5 Live


Sign Of The Times

..I can't recall were I read that some people were buying their own trolleys...how the heck do they get them in the boot of the car though...

..maybe it as a late April Fool or something, I need to find the link/story again...

No its in todays papers.

They may be Plastic Baskets


Ref :SkyNewsHD, GMBHD and BBC1HD

..no I meant the trolleys Arista, not the baskets...people taking their own trolleys...

Some people are too stubborn for their own good

It's 5p, it all goes to charity, it helps the environment at the same time

And as far as I can tell it's working quite well, everything other person brings their own now

Make your own thread on that


Women are Nicking Baskets

Not at Sainsburys it Don't
Never that simple Nate

..:laugh:..well no because I just used your thread../get them apples..(in a trolley/basket/bag etc..)...actually it's not thread worthy I don't think, just something I recalled reading a few days ago and kind of connected because trolleys/baskets etc...it's that people will risk fines for stealing and have a criminal record because they disagree with the 5p charge for bags...

..it actually does though, it does at our Sainsbury's so I assume it does at all branches, even though the charities may vary and be local ones...

It's a government thing so the companies aren't allowed to make profit/ thus give it to charity

They are Fecking Tight

Lidl have a charge for years

i don't think 5p for a bag is reasonable. If a supermarket expects me to buy their products, they had better provide me with the means to carry it home at no cost

Just wait till this affects the inflation targets ... it will soon be reversed

I agree they should give you a Brown Paper bag option


No the Charge is Forever
and will only Go up in price

Doubtful this has been going in Ireland for years, people get used to it, and yes the price has gone up

..the thing is though that it's not the supermarkets and shops who decided the charge would apply..the charge was set and they have to enforce it, they have no choice with that...but what I do think though, bitontheslide, is that they could offer an environmentally friendly alternative to keep loyalty...it's strange how some supermarkets always had boxes at the end of the aisles or in stacks for customers to take and use instead of using a bag and now in my supermarket, the boxes have all gone now...now when they really should be there...

Yes
but nothing is stopping them
have Free Brown Paper bags
with their name on it

I heard this on the radio this morning, and i had to admit that it made me smile!

The thought of shoppers just taking a basket rather than pay 5p for a bag, it could only happen in England:laugh:

Yes Monty Python

Yeeeaah this happened at a few places in Scotland when the charge first came in. People will get used to it in a couple of months :joker:.

Knowing that Tesco charge £4 for a block of cheese and Aldi only charge £1.55 for the same block of cheese they should pay the 5p duty for the bags the robbing bstards! :fist:

i know i wont pay for bags, and if that means i drop a few jars of pickled onions and smash them as I go ... well its not my fault :laugh:

Fair enough, no objection to taking measures to reduce environmental impact, but all plastic bags these days are bio degradable, so this charge is not for the good of the environment. As Ammi pointed out, the cardboard boxes that used to be available, no longer are, so a concious decision has been made to hit the shopper with a charge or force them to behave in a particular way when there is zero environmental justification. It is quite frankly, all a load of bollocks :laugh:

1) They're not allowed to absorb the charge, that would defeat the purpose.

2) Aldi cheese is awful.

Before plastic bags people took shopping bags with them, we really are a set of spoilt b****** here aren't we?