Tesco and its Irish customers

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AIBU to think that Tesco treat the customers in their Irish stores like sh*t.
They charge them 70 cent for a 'bag for life'
They are discontinuing plastic bags in their UK stores and will charge 10 pence for a 'bag for life' there.

It depends on what you are describing as a 'bag for life'.

Over in England they are still just plastic(polythene) bags but a better quality.

They sell thicker plasticised material bags for £1 and hessian bags for £2/3. Is it these you are calling bags for life? If so, 70c is good.

No it's the polythene bags they're charging us 70c for allthebest

And those big old red blue and white bags the culchies used to have for the December 8th invasion of Moore St.

I have some of those red/blue/white bags. They're brilliant for moving house. Hideous though.

These ones

I don't know anyone here(Ireland) who buys plastic bags. I can't remember the last time I was queuing and saw someone buying a bag. People just bring their own bags so the crazy prices for plastic bags work which imo can only be a good thing.

So take reusable bags. It's not hard. Buy decent ones for a few pounds each and they last years and years.

We are so far behind other countries like France its unbelievable. Supermarkets don't even have plastic bags there for the most part - you take your own. I've got some that are 5/6 years old and have absolutely nothing wrong with them.

Has anyone ever tried to get a bag for life replaced for free?

They nearly always refuse! Saying it's because the handle has come off or something and this isn't covered. This is for bags that have been well and truly re-used for years. I think they only replace them if the bottom falls out.

I prefer cloth bags as they are stronger and comfier to catty but often they aren't washable (shrink badly) - so you spill something on it once and then have a much smaller bag to use from then on!

Hmm, seems like there is a reason supermarkets are charging 70c www.irishtimes.com/news/consumer/pricewatch-queries-why-you-can-t-get-a-22-cent-bag-in-your-supermarket-1.2680139

It's so the supermarket gets to pocket the whole amount, the levy only has to be paid on bags that cost 69c and under.

Has anyone ever tried to get a bag for life replaced for free?
It's a con. Those handles are designed to come off. The bags split. You don't get 'a bag for life', you get to pay over the odds for a badly designed plastic bag.

Plastic bags are the least of it. The quality of produce, service and value for money are abysmal in Ireland compared to UK

And... the toilets... one toilet for the whole store... that's somewhere near Shannon... Killarney Tesco loos are better, if I remember rightly.

Ireland is a dire place to be in need of a public convenience.

Tesco prices in Ireland are shocking.
I was home a few weeks ago and shocked at a basic shop compared to what we pay in the same shop in England.

There's a town in Mayo that's very popular with tourists and it doesn't have a public toilet at all. It's a largish town too.

My point as Dementedpixie pointed out, is that Tesco charge 70cent in Ireland for their bags for life, yet will only charge their UK customers 10 pence

I very much doubt they will be only charging 10p, at least for any more than an introductory offer.

Nobody in Ireland cares about bag charges, we have had them for a decade or more. And the fact that things are cheaper in the UK is not news to anyone.

Omg chips I think that's Tesco Coonagh you're talking about and never mind the fact that there's only 1 toilet, the state it's usually in is absolutely disgusting
Yep. But I was desperate!