Plastic bag charge - big shops will all be paper bags soon

[Helenluvsrob]

Aibu to think that the bigger non supermarket retailers will turn to paper ASAP?

I'm sure I saw John Lewis paper bag in the new grand central in brum, as well as the usual monsoon ones .

If not they are really going to have to think out the speed at which thry can get people through the tills. I can't juggle half a dozen small items at a till without a belt thingy , pay with my card, get out my reusable bag and pack it myself in less than about twice the time it takes to hand over goods , pay and recieve the ready packed bag. Not to mention putting the receipt in my purse as its not " in the bag from X shop" if I need it.

Reusable a in supermarkets is easy as no slower but this was ugh!

Re the security tags on baskets... I popped to th co-op yesterday (with my own bag) and had to balance an armful of groceries because there were no baskets available.

I mentioned it to the cashier when I got at the till, because I couldn't see any baskets there either, and she explained that people had been taking them home rather than pay the bag charge! I am really struggling to understand some peoples mentality.

I hope the posters from other nations are right and this will be a 5 minute wonder before some much needed common sense kicks in.

I can recall people coming home with shopping baskets in Ireland (I may have been slightly disingenuous about there being no fuss).

Nothing

I was in Brum yesterday and was charged for a plastic bag in John Lewis, fine no problem. Then went into river island and hollister - asked if I could purchase a bag and they said no we don't charge. It was only when I got home I realised they were paper bags not plastic. I wonder if many retailers here in England will move to paper to avoid charging customers?

Wait, you get charged for a bag in MCDONALDS?

In Scotland you do as we are charged for plastic and paper bags. Prescription bags are exempt

I am sure there was fuss here too when it first started btw

Googling brings up stories of thefts of shopping baskets and a supermarket that had to electronically tag their remaining ones so they weren't stolen too! I'm sure the fuss will die down soon enough

Americans have been using brown paper bags for their 'groceries' for as long as I can remember. Usually without handles and usually on TV programmes like Diff'rent Strokes and Cagney & Large Arse.