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

[Ewemoo]

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.

"what sort of 'incentives' would stop people driving, using plastic bags, using tumble dryers instead of sunshine etc etc?"

I don't drive, have to walk to Tesco (taxi back with a toddler in tow and more shopping than I can carry in one trip) so often forget to take bags out with me, especially if it was a last minute decision to go while I'm out anyway and live in a flat so have to use the tumble dryer.

"Just get your shopping delivered...in trays!!"

I wish, need a card to do that for a start. When the drivers start taking cash, I'll start ordering online.

"what sort of 'incentives' would stop people driving, using plastic bags, using tumble dryers instead of sunshine etc etc?"

I don't drive, have to walk to Tesco (taxi back with a toddler in tow and more shopping than I can carry in one trip) so often forget to take bags out with me, especially if it was a last minute decision to go while I'm out anyway and live in a flat so have to use the tumble dryer.

"Just get your shopping delivered...in trays!!"

I wish, need a card to do that for a start. When the drivers start taking cash, I'll start ordering online.

So you recycle your carrier bags but there you are at the checkout asking for new ones???
Get a trolley dolly or a couple of Onyas.

Haven't read all the thread but I always ask for carrier bags in the supermarket because I don't use bin liners, I use the bags. Same difference as far as I can see.

Asking for carrier bags at the checkout?? Get a grip Ewemoo where i live you have to take your own bags (we take the 'for life type bags' or use the boxes provided. Its all about saving the environment....

I take great pleasure in whipping out my Morrisons carrier bags in Tesco

{childish}

YABU. just get a cloth one that you can fold up and keep in your handbag for unexpected supermarket trips. keep a few more in the boot of your car if you have one and also the buggy if you use one.

some people have said they can't use reusable bags because they are too big so when they are full they are too heavy to carry and if you only half fill them then everything moves around. i don't really get the heaviness thing cos surely the weight of your shopping is the same whether you put it in 4 carrier bags or 2 reusable bags?

Yes, the weight of the shopping is the same, but if it's in one bag you have to carry it all at once from wherever you've managed to park to your house - if it's in more than one bag you can make two (or more) trips.

you can buy smaller reusable bags aswell. i've got the baggu one which isn't much bigger than your standard carrier bag. it is waterproof aswell unlike the cloth ones and folds up to fit in my pocket.

Those that have to walk to and from the supermarket, well, just take a rucksack with you. Much easier.

I've been doing that for YEARS. As a student, so walking, taking the scooter, and then also when using the buses with DS1 not that long ago. You can then have two bags on the handles, potatoes underneath and then all sorts on your back. You are your own walking packhorse

Now I'm a lazy mare and put my DSs in the car, but we have two collapsable boxes in the boot, and then numerous cloth bags.

It's NOT THAT HARD PEOPLE! Excuses excuses excuses!

The MOON - Thats a brilliant idea. I will definatly be doing that in the future!

I have a car boot full of bags in all sizes.

I am a model 'green' shopper . Except for one tiny infuriating detail.

I can never bloody remember to take them into the supermarket with me!

I wish the shop would hit me on the head with a cartoon frying pan as I enter to remind me. It is sooo annoying.

Surely 'green shoppers' don't drive to the supermarket?

when we do a supermarket run it's to Lidl, which we use for basics like rice and tinned goods.

we have to drive to it because it's about 30 miles distant and requires a ferry crossing.

the Lidl reusable bags are excellent. they can really take a beating and only cost about a pound.

we've had ours for over a year now and they're still going strong.

just keep some bags in your handbag, messenger bag or rucksack, Tsar. Tesco makes a black one that folds up and fastens with a popper.

If I put my shopping in rucksacks it would need several peoples backs to carry it back! I also can't carry a rucksack because I have a bad back (can barely carry the Tink at the moment ) I don't always plan on going to the supermarket either. It's in the middle of lots of other places I go to and usually I just decide to go as I'm up there.

Ah you got me there. Except that my car is sort of a green colour I guess..

I hate carrier bags. They're a bitch for my arthritic right hand to open, they cut into my hands whilst carrying them, they rip, etc.

I hate carrier bags. They're a bitch for my arthritic right hand to open, they cut into my hands whilst carrying them, they rip, etc.

As I said before I don't drive - but I use plastic bags and use them as bin liners and return the rest to delivery driver.

We all have our eco sins. I consider driving worse than plastic bag usage!

don't you still have to use a bin bag though in your wheely bin? our council won't take lots of little bags inside the wheely bin. only 1 or 2 big bags.

nappyaddict - No wheelie bins here!

Is this entirely new though?

I remember going shopping with my gran on many occasion and she ALWAYS took her own carrier bags. (or was it just my crazy granny)

nappyaddict, not everyone has wheelie bins or can use black bags. Where I used to live I could only use black bags if I took them to the ground floor and then went up two flights of unlit stairs so I could put them in the skip. Needless to say I never actually did it and stuck to carrier bags in the chute on my landing!

The cheap shops have always sold their carrier bags, I remember having to take bags when I went shopping with my uncle or we would have to sort through the boxes to find some decent ones.

we haven't switched to wheely bins either yet but they still only take proper bin bags cos you are only allowed i think 2 per household. if you leave carrier bags out or more than 2 bin bags they leave them.

I live in a low riser flat so they don't know who put what out. Fortunately there's no limits around here anyway. It's high risers that you can't use black bags. It's a health and safety thing, a chute big enough for a black bag would allow a person to fall through it. In a flat it saves having rubbish around so much as well.