to resent having to ask for carrier bags now in Tesco?

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Our local Tesco has stopped supplying carrier bags at the checkouts and you now have to ask for them. The problem is I can't help but ask for the bags in a really grumpy and pissed off way. Why should I have to ask for bags like I've committed a heinous crime by failing to bring my own. I understand the idea behind it and I do my bit by recycling all my carrier bags. Why don't Tesco do their bit by reducing plastic packaging instead? I know that truthfully I abu but for some reason it really really annoys me.

object, don't you end up with loads of food rolling about in your boot?????

I'm sure I read somewhere that in Germany, you are allowed to return ALL packaging to the supermarket whence it came, & they have to provide & fund re-cycling facilities.

Good incentive for them to apply downward pressure on packaging.

Could be an urban myth though - can't now remember where I read it!

Teachersays... yes! And it takes farkin ages to unload. I always broke my baguettes.

YANBU - there was a similar thread about this and I got told at the end of the day it's about the environment - by a person who owned a car. She said she lived in a village and it's convenient for her. Well, plastic bags are convenient for me so ner ner

YABU. Bring bags. Carry them with you. Get used to it and if you can't manage that then you should have to grovel a bit for your thoughtlessness.

Honestly plastic bags piss me off no end. They're a scourge and an indictment of our lazy, wasteful culture. I'm not saying I always remember to bring bags. I don't. But I feel it's only right I should be reminded of my crime when I do forget which will make it more and more likely I'll get my act together in the future.

My local co-op now has all their bags behind the counter. They only supply one really small carrier For free per visit. THey always ask have you bought your own bag and they have posters about it as you walk in the shop. If you require a 2nd small carrier bag they charge 6p or 10p for a bag for life can't remember how much the cloth bag is though although I do have one several! I usually keep a cloth bag underneath the buggy although occassionally I do forgot. In which case I always say sorry I forgot it and I either put the things under the pushchair, try to squeeze the things in the 1 bag I'm allowed or buy yet another bag for life!!! THeyalways tell me to remember it next time! SO yabu. Compared to all the above having to ask is nothing really. THey don't charge or ask you have you bought your own or lecture you or supply just 1 tiny bag that is no use to any one do they?

raven its not an urban myth. A decade ago (germans way ahead of us) there was a big uprising and all the shoppers dumped their packaging on the floor of their supermarkets in disgust. It went on for a while and the supermarkets did respond and they have removed excess packaging. It was interesting cos even objects lke toothpaste where they first claimed a box was needed to stack them...well eventually they got rid of them. I often wish I had the nerve to do the same.

UP THE REVOLUTION!!!!

Does anyone feel that we are developing a false sense of security in terms of 'doing our bit' for the environment? I mean,could it be seen as encouragement to the hummer driving, trans atlantic flying, aerosol spraying public (or those sectors of said public) to sit back on one's arse and do nowt else to help the environment because "bugger me, I'm Reeeecycling me bags, man"?

No?

It is annoying, partcularly the way they hand out one bag at a time so umwillingly, you can see I have a whole trolley full love why one bag?? Do they like the power trip of you having to ask? I mean it's not coming out of their salaries is it?

I get told its our polias we've gone "green".

I just can't see why you wouldn't take your own bags (or at laast try to - I certainly don't always remember). For a start those hessian/cloth bags don't break and scatter your shopping all over the floor...

Snaf - dh can't be arsed/ forgets

Get a grip. How hard is it to bring your own bags?

I can't bear this snide apathy when it comes to waste and the environment.

Rebels without a clue, that's what you lot are.

God agree with OP. You go there, spend a fecking fortune on a pile of plastic wrapped food and in response you are treated so rudely. If it's really about the naughtiness of horrid plastic, give us paper bags ffs.
I think it's about selling us their horrible hessian bags. I wonder if the boss of Tesco is going to give up his international travel?

Forgetting is forgiveable. Can't be arsed is pathetic. Tell dh to sort himself out!

I think lots of people have an in bred bag forgetting gene.

I cannot for the life of me remember to take bags with me SO often. Even though Isave my supermarket carriers for dog walks I STILL often forget to take with me. So,my friend and I(she has the gene) have to rummage in bins for empty crisp packets to pick up our dogs' poo with.

SM- I don't own a car, have low water/ gas/ leccy bills, don't fly, recyle at home and use the bags as bin liners...

Please don't preach at me about plastic bags!

I just buy another couple of bags for life when I forget (embarrassingly frequently). I try to look on it as a tax on being a numpty & it is making me less forgetful!

Plus they do come in useful - laundry, bottle banking, beach stuff etc etc. Which carrier bags just don't.

new Cath Kidson one at Tescos!

Very stripey!

It's just because we're not used to doing it yet - got to get in the habit. Or buy one of those Onya bags that pack down to keyring size!

But tbh, if you can remember to bring your handbag, keys, credit card, etc, you can remember to bring your reuseables!

Oops I meant policy!! Anyway my dh always "forgets"! I do think cloth bags are safer when you have small children and babys in the house. Thats why I keep my cloth bags under the buggys rather than carriers or bag for lifes. On the subject of cloth bags I like the sainburys ones as the fold in really small!

If they were telling you to strip naked and wrap yourself up very tightly in a plastic bag, I'd understand. You asking to have a plastic bag doesn't constitute an unpleasant experience so YABU.

I meant they fold small! The power in my lap top was going so a bit of a panic going on!!

Cancer research shops are doing cloth ones in a really dinky bag for £1