I don't like using supermarket plastic bags and when we shop ourselves, always take my own bag with me. So, Tesco delivery - tick the box saying 'no bags please'.
I initially complained a couple of weeks ago when I got 9 bags - including two wrapped around one box of eggs. Tesco expressed surprise, agreed it was excessive and said that the home shopping branch would be asked to improve training etc. They also gave me a £10 voucher which I wasn't looking for but was appreciated.
This week for a much smaller delivery I got 11 bags. It wasn't the number of bags so much as the ridiculous things in them.
1 containing 1.5 litre bottle of Comfort.
1 containing 2 pint plastic bottle of milk.
1 containing 3 loose parsnips (instead of usual small, clear, plastic veg bag)
1 containing 1 leek & 1 bunch of grapes (already in own plastic bag plus I had noted on my order 'please do not put grapes in additional plastic bag')
1 containing 8 loose mushrooms (instead of usual small, clear, plastic veg bag or paper mushroom bag)
1 containing 15 bananas (Tesco had already agreed that bananas did not need a bag & my order instructions asks that bananas are not put in plastic bag)
1 containing 6 pears and 2 tomatoes (instead of usual small, clear, plastic veg bag)
1 containing a swede (already wrapped in plastic)
1 containing 2 packets of bacon
2 wrapped around a 0.5 litre bottle of olive oil.
The response from the home shopping manager has been that I can always hand the bags back to the driver. I know I can but the inefficiency still irritates me.
I know it's a little thing to be cross about but AIBU to think that if a major retailer takes a 'green' position and boasts about reducing bag usage then they ought to practice what they preach?