[letmein]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

Yes, on my rucksack.

I thought that said nutsack.

[lostalex]

LT is obsessed with Handbags... i think we all know what he wants for christmas...

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by lostalex

LT is obsessed with Handbags... i think we all know what he wants for christmas...

I do sell vintage handbags a lot mind, and jewelley boxes and womens shoes

[MTVN]

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

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

[user104658]

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!

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

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!

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

[kirklancaster]

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.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

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.

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.

[Ammi]

..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...

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Josy

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.

And respect to you then Josy.

[Suze]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

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.

Reminds me of when I was on the tills once and told a customer they can't use other shops carrier bags when they were packing their goods, their face was a picture poor sod, I had to quickly tell them I was only joking and that of course they could use them. I even used to to tell customers if other stores offers and goods were better, I should have got the sack really

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Suze

Reminds me of when I was on the tills once and told a customer they can't use other shops carrier bags when they were packing their goods, their face was a picture poor sod, I had to quickly tell them I was only joking and that of course they could use them.

You 'orrible devil Suze.

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Suze

Reminds me of when I was on the tills once and told a customer they can't use other shops carrier bags when they were packing their goods, their face was a picture poor sod, I had to quickly tell them I was only joking and that of course they could use them. I even used to to tell customers if other stores offers and goods were better, I should have got the sack really

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

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.

I worked in a Supermarket when I was younger and I can categorically state.....they wouldn't give a flying ****

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I worked in a Supermarket when I was younger and I can categorically state.....they wouldn't give a flying ****

I'm still laughing over the Aldi Carrier Bag Museum. Seriously.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Ammi

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

Oh good god no. I'll accept a polite nod of acknowledgement or, at a push, a quiet grunt of "... Mornin'..." (but it must not sound cheerful).

If you've made eye contact, you've gone too far.

[Northern Monkey]

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.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

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.

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

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

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.

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

[Jack_]

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

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

[LukeB]

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

[Jack_]

Originally Posted by LukeB

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

Yeah how do logistical things like this work 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

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Yeah how do logistical things like this work 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

I know

"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

[Josy]

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

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Josy

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

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