People still buying bags when shopping

[Auburngal]

It's 8.5 years since the bag charges were introduced in England (Oct 4 2015) and longer for other parts of the UK. My friend's DS was born on that day and she has pointed out he was born on the same day bag charges were introduced in England and people are shocked.

Why do people still not come shopping without bags? See the same faces most days at work buying bags. "Left the bags in the car" - pack at the car then!

If people buy on average 10 bags at 30p each per week at supermarkets, shops like B&M, Poundland - that's £156 a year. People don't look at the price as a whole they think "its only 30p".

Then see people down my road using brand new carrier bags for rubbish. Bin bags are cheaper (per unit), bigger and able to tie them up properly.

Then my work is opposite a few other shops - see customers buy two items and buy a bag from us when they have room in another shop's bag they just purchased from. What's that about?

The number of times I have bought bags is in single figures. For example - buying a coat - none of the bags I had were big enough. Brought 2 bags with me and one broke - it wasn't the retailer's bag in question. So couldn't get the replacement free.

Please stop buying bags. Fold one up inside your handbag. I am ok with those who bought more than they intend and don't have room in their own bags they have brought with them.

Taking your own bags is a simple way to help with CoL.

Some customers are buying daily - just what they have for their evening meal plus stuff buy weekly, monthly - milk, coffee, loo rolls, washing up liquid etc

I camt imagine getting so worked up about other people's bag use I had to start a thread on it! I often buy bags & use them for rubbish or whatever. I'm not bothered about the cost particularly.

Just my phone and door key if I'm going for a walk.

I almost always take my reusable bags with me when I go shopping, but on occasion I have to get a plastic bag because either I've unexpectedly bought more than will fit in my bags, or I stop at the supermarket when I wasn't planning to. You should try not to judge.

I guess a thread like this is where you have to expect brought to mean brought and bought to mean bought.

A bag is for life, not just for Christmas.

I have a little pocket attached to the back of my phone case where I keep my debit card, credit card and driving license. So I frequently go out with just that and my keys rather than taking a handbag.

I usually have a foldaway bag in my handbag but today I didn’t. So I bought one.
I have lots in my car but I was out with a friend.

Genuinely haven’t used a handbag since covid, when even the small shops decided to go contactless, and I didn’t need to carry a purse any more. I use my phone for everything. Keys in pockets.

Because I forget or because I buy more things than anticipated.

Well done you on being a bag evangelist, I often have other things on my mind.

Oh and let's face it, this tax has fuck all to do with plastic - just llok at the amount of plastic packaging things still come in.

I often forget and have to buy bags.

Another one who wont stop buying them - and as for delivering my shopping without bags, that is the most annoying thing ever! If I want to pay for them then bloody well pack my shopping in bags!!!!

If you buy bag every time you go shopping, do have a cupboard under your sink full of them?

I've got a bag under the sink full of empty bread bags and frozen pea bags I need to take to the recycling. I wish the council took them for recycling

8.5 years yet retail staff like myself are still getting abuse daily for having the cheek to charge for a bag when customers have spent money in the shop 🙃🙄

I barely ever remember a bag. I don’t drive and the majority of the time I’m trying to wrestle a 3year old out the door along with a bike/scooter and a change of clothes/snack etc for him. We’ve got a 30 min walk each way to our local shops and are usually trying to fit a quick trip to pick up whatever we need in between work/nursery etc. Bags are the last thing I’m thinking of as I leave the house tbh!

I used to persistently forget, but they're 70p a bag where we live now and that's apparently the price that spurs me to remember to bring my own (or take the basket or trolley to the car and unload into the bags I've left there, or straight into the boot if really necessary).

I've got fold up tote bags in my handbags for unexpected purchases when out and about too.

Sometimes I have a bag with me, sometimes I don't and I will buy one. It's none of your business. Stop judging others.

My husband took my car that had the bags in - I had to buy more

A Bag Evangelist 😂

I don't have a handbag and often don't plan on coming to the shops as I mostly shop online. I can also afford to pay for a few bags occasionally. NBD.

I just drop them off at the large supermarket when I go shopping

We use them for other things… cleaning litter boxes…dog poo… wrapping up gross stuff to get thrown away, to carry other things that need a bag.. I mean their uses are endless. Why would you just throw them away?

forgot bin bags… do you buy new ones for small bins?

I actually hate buying bags knowing I have loads at home but there have been occasions when I’ve forgotten them, been on my own with too much to carry and not had a car to put the shopping straight into.

I also pay for a bag if I buy something nice that’s not groceries like a nice item of clothing. It feels wrong for me to put it in a Tesco bag for life! That could just be me though

OP, you must have something better to do than bitch that people still use shops so you have a job to go to.

Who made you bag monitor of the world?

How many cars did you buy? 🤣🤣

@Floopani

i stopped carrying a bag for a while, it was like being a teenager again, I loved it.

Except there were several times I needed the kitchen sink & didn't have it, so back to having a bag.

youd be hard pressed to call it a handbag though, far too girlie for me 😂😂