Sainsbury's, Tesco, Asda etc

[UnlikelyMary]

Listen up you big supermarkets!
People want less plastic.
There are threads on Mumsnet all the time about how to cut down, where to find alternatives and currently about how things used to be packaged.
Why should we the consumers, the customers be the ones struggling to find alternatives, often at high cost to ourselves when you lot just blithely continue with your usual routine?
Handing out polythene bags for fruit, veg and bakery goods.
Wrapping EVERYTHING in plastic, often twice.
Promising change in the future but doing nothing now.

Why not change immediately to paper bags for fruit, veg and bakery for example?

Reducing the plastic they use would save them money. But if more produce was damaged in transit because it wasn't protected by plastic they'd have to throw it away - which would cost them more and then they'd get bashed for contributing to food waste.