To be fed up with hidden bags !

[Piamia7]

Trying to shop anywhere, for example, Tesco...

I'm in the trolley self check outs since there's only one main till open and have to bloody search everywhere for a bag!

I've been in Sainsbury's today at the self-checkout and the same thing. Can't ask someone for help as they're busy for ages.

Primark last week, the bags were hidden far away at the end of the self-checkouts. Why are shops doing this?

I’ve heard it’s because people are nicking them because they won’t pay the 30p

Because they want to encourage you to bring your own bags.

In my local Coop there is a notice at the self checkout tills that plastic bags are available at the counter where you buy cigarettes because people are just taking the bags and not paying for them!

Luckily the counter is close by but there are times when it is not staffed so must be annoying to some customers.

My my Morrisons, the staff hold them. Then they can’t help anyone because of all the bags.

The other day, after 15 minutes in self-checkout queue for ages I had to go searching for bags and because it took so long to find them (they were dumped under something) an elderly man had taken over my till so I had to wait again.

I mean…there’s clearly a very simple solution to your problem OP 🤷‍♀️

YANBU

As a shopper, I often feel like an inconvenience to many shops/assistants these days.

Because people steal them and the majority of people bring their own hence the name bag for life.

Because you are meant to bring your own.
🙄

Why don't you take your own?
I keep a fold up bag in my handbag and spare bags in the car, and when I am doing a major shop I just take my normal shopping bags with me.

Before I went shopping last week I didnt own any bags, I usually do online shopping which comes without them. How does one just magic up bags from home?

Also I hadn't been in Primark for a couple years so hadn't realised it was all self checkout. I went with the assumption they'd pack it into a paper bag at the till like they used to do, I've never seen anyone take their own bags into there. I'd probably get accused of trying to steal if I did that, can't even take your own handbag into the fitting room!

I agree. Sometimes I have impromptu trips and don't have a bag. Plus I reuse them for things at home and hardly have any these days, it's useful to have a few in stock.

And where are you meant to get them from if the shops hide them then?

It's to make you take your own bags.
I'm gobsmacked how people still don't bring their own bags to the shops.

How??? I haven't bought a bag from the supermarket since before they were charged for, and I still manage to have thousands of bags at home. I save them from when people give me stuff in bags etc.

You just ask and they are happy to sell them to you (various different prices and styles).
Any shop that sell bags (like a department store) will always have a variety of sizes and designs of shopping bags to buy.

Ah can I give my DD your address. She will soon clear your supply out for you. She's she reason I struggle to find a bag at home

gobsmacked really?

I mainly take my own bags but occasionally forget or go on an unplanned shopping trip, so I buy one, good to know my behaviour is so wild that it’s gobsmacking.

Lol ignore the bag virtue signalling

You haven't been in a shop for over ten years?
(bag tax introduced in 2015).
That's unusual to be honest unless you've been housebound.
By the way.....of course you can take your handbag into changing rooms.

@Piamia7 "Why are shops doing this?" It's all part of "nudge" tactics to train us into doing the right thing - in this case, going to the shops with your own reusable bag(s) to reduce plastic waste. Seriously OP, where have you been? I also do most of my shopping online, but even I know to take bags with me if I go to a physical shop - this isn't "new" news.

I'm sick of being treated like a thief as well - a staff member came over to authorise my alcohol purchase the other day but still insisted on seeing my receipt before they would remove the plastic cage and security tag despite having just watched me pay. I realise it's not their fault but a) they could be a bit more apologetic to actual paying customers and b) if their security guards actually did something about shoplifters maybe the rest of us wouldnt be made to feel like one.

@Piamia7 I think you should go back to home deliveries.
I think it will make you so much more happier !

Buy them. Every decent sized supermarket has proper shopping bags for sale.

can't even take your own handbag into the fitting room!

What do they suggest you do with a handbag? I wouldn't want to leave mine with a random shop assistant.