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.

If people want to buy bags then that’s up to them. I don’t drive so I forget often or pop in on my way home from work where I don’t have them on me and my bags get used for other things anyway. It’s not your right to police that, frankly it’s extremely weird behaviour. YABU.

it is big though. If you try and spend the day with it stuffed in your pocket so you can go shopping on the way home, it gets in the way all day and falls out all the time

Not the point of the thread ,but Boden that upmarket fashion chain ,sent an email "would I like to buy some of their "designer" doggy poo bags!

We sometimes forget our reusables and happily buy bags. We recycle them as waste paper bin liners ot use them for other things. Not buying a couple of carrier bags really isn't going to help with CoL.

I don’t give a shiny rat’s arse shit what you are ‘okay with’

I just take them and don’t pay for them

You steal carrier bags?

You're ok with certain situations though, are we now reporting to you??

😂 OP sure sounds like she thinks so.

Bags that used to be free, and when purchasing groceries that are obscenely overpriced? Not exactly the biggest crime.

I like buying new bags because I don't want to put my food shopping in dirty 'bags for life'. And I see some filthy ones in trolleys. When everyone else stops taking pointless flights, chucking their litter out of their car windows, and give up smoking/vaping, I'll stop buying bags!

You're still stealing the carrier bags... Forcing prices up, because who is paying for them if it isn't you? The supermarket, who will just increase prices to cover arse holes who steal them.

I admit I haven't read the whole thread.

Would you participate in a scheme which meant bags could be returned to be reused by another customer and either the person returning or a charity could be refunded a deposit? Like used to happen with bottles.

Everyone can be caught short with not having a bag or enough bags with them.
I try to always have one in my handbag for small amounts of shopping but sometimes I go out without a handbag and then I have to buy a 30p bag if I end up in the supermarket for a top up shop. I certainly don't buy 10 bags a week. More likely 1 a month.

No I don’t really, but it would help against the OPs concerns about how we’re all managing in the COL crisis

I like buying a new bag..

Just a plea to those who contribute to food banks, ask them whether they need plastic bags. Our local food bank is always short of them and requests them alongside food.

I have three cloth bags in my handbag and leave bigger reusables in the car. Tbh I was using cloth bags before they were a thing and would never buy a plastic bag now. But I still think the OP is a bit bossy and people should make their own choices.

Love how op thinks they have cured poverty in the UK, by us all saving a quid a week not buying 3 carrier bags lol.

Also, pack it when you get to the car? How do you get it to the car then? Assume your 10 bags a week was correct and a person visits the shop 5 times a week. That's a minimum of two bags of shopping.

Presumably each time you forget a bag you exit tesco with arms laiden, eggs and yogurts flying, you jog across the car park, loaf of warbertons dangling from gritted teeth, you somehow manage to reach in to your pocket and unlock the car, but wait, you don't have enough hands, you panic as you try to hurl open the passenger side door. Everything starts to fall in slow motion, you try and stuff everything into the car before it crashes to the ground. Too late, you've smashed your prosecco. It's somehow dh's fault.

I don't like this post. I feel too seen. 😅

OP, the problem is the price. If each plastic bag cost £2, the vast majority of forgetting or other excuses would disappear. The price needs to be a true incentive to carry a reusable bag.

i leave the bags at home, not in the car!
i bring the shopping in
and leave the bags, a mound of them, in the kitchen.
until i remember i am going shopping
beg my pardon,, i am buying expensive bags for life at 80p/£1 a go

@TheIceQween

fucking phone!!!

SOCKS

But would been able to buy an extra item for £1.

It has made no difference to the number of regular customers who still buy bags.

A) that's not a bag for life
b) it still wouldn't fit in my trouser pockets