To not use the little fruit and veg bags

[ObiJuanKenobi]

...at the super market that they provide at the end of the aisle?

DP has only just noticed I don't use them which he thinks is really weird.
I just think it's a waste of plastic if you wash your fruit and veg anyway.

Am I the only one?

I just pinch the paper bags from the mushroom section and use it for other veg and fruit.

I don't use them...but my mum snaffles a handful whenever she does her shopping because she thinks they are handy...so my goodness only goes someway toward undoing her badness!

I cut up an old muslin curtain and sewed into bags to use. I can then bung them in the wash if they every get grim.

The big problem with a lot of biodegradable stuff it that in the anaerobic atmosphere of landfill they don't break down. They still use a non-renewable raw materials to make.

I have never in my life seen people either using reusable net bags (although those do sound cool) or having multiple items of loose produce rolling around their trolley or the belt. Another of those only on mumsnet things I feel

I do wish they’d provide paper bags though

I use them. I also weigh the fruit/veg and stick the sticker on the bag, scan it and put it into my reusable shopping bag.

I don't want all the fruit and veg rolling about.

If they used paper bags for fruit and veg the poor cashiers would be having to open and peer into every bag to see what was in it then weigh it. Making using the manned tills even more time consuming.

No, I pretty much never use them. Maybe if I'm getting more than 4 of one thing I would consider it, but I can't think when that last happened. Parsnips? I do use the paper bags for mushrooms though.

I actually tweeted Asda today as, bar some onions, spuds and aubergine, all the fruit and veg were being sold in pre-sealed plastic packaging.

Surprise surprise I've had no reply yet....

I've just ordered some mesh bags thanks to this thread.

Dogs in a shopping trolley? No. Just NO.

@megletthesecond your post made me so happy, freedom for carrots everywhere!!

I pick up a couple of the mushroom bags and use them for tomatoes and small potatoes, works perfectly and the toms never rot as fast as in plastic IMO

I put my loose stuff in the bags I've brought for the shopping

Yanbu, I don’t use them either.

I’m struggling with this at the moment. I’m trying to cut down my plastic use, but I do internet shopping from Tesco and they seem to put it all in plastic bags and the rest I get from Aldi where you have to buy it in prepacked bags. It really annoys me.

How does it work for weighing stuff if you don't put it in the plastic bags?

I don't tend to weigh anything there aren't label printing facilities at my store

But I would imagine I could place potatoes onto the scales, bag free, without too much of an issue!

I buy about 8 apples at a time. And loose new potatoes. They would be escaping from the scales without a bag. The weighing area isn't that big.

I need to study how people do this obviously.

But I would imagine I could place potatoes onto the scales, bag free, without too much of an issue!

Well done you

It's convincing the staff on the till that your label "covers" all your loose baby new potatoes and you're not pinching anything that's the issue.

We don't have labels so I don't need to weigh anything.

If the scales are some way away from the new potatoes do you clutch them all to your bosom and hope for the best as you walk over?

No hands free to push the trolley...

Yes you said that.

Then you moved onto what you'd do if you did need to print a label.

I use some reusable bags called Onya Weigh. I was going to link to them but they seem out of stock everywhere.

But someone has to weigh them. If not the customer then the cashier.

You lob them one at a time, sparkling cheering yourself every time you get a direct hit

I did say earlier about little fruits and veg - new potatoes would presumably be covered under that umbrella.

This is going round in circles.

You'd cause ructions in my Waitrose if you didn't put them in ^something*. They don't like ructions.

That was the point; Not all supermarkets are the same.