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.

timewaster, I have 4 children and usually work 4 days a week. I don't have time to be pissing about walking to the shops, I need to get it all in one go, once a week. And LIDL don't deliver.

In fact I lie, I have just asked and we recyle cans,glass and plastic bottles. Apparently they're the ones you get money back on here!

Yes I use a 'car'.

....As opposed to a pony and trap Fgs

oooh i wish we got money back for recycling!

A while back I think it was hughjarsss who suggested we should actually be given an incentive to recycle, rather than be penalised for not.

Here in Holland, and I guess across a lot of continental Europe, certainly Germany too, you get loads of money back when you take empty beer bottles/crates back, or certain soft drinks plastic bottles. It all adds up to a decent amount.

As a student, the other foreign students had not worked this out, and left all their beer bottles and empty crates in the communal kitchen. I and three others collected them all up, put them in the boot of the car, brough them all to the supermarket and got SEVENTY euros back in return. Free money, you might say.
On a EUR10 crate of 24 bottles, you get about EUR3.50 back when you take back the empties.

This should happen in the UK and I am pretty sure people would catch on VERY quickly then!

urgh I use cheap nappy sacks for dog poo because carrier bags have holes in. Yucky

I work in M&S and its been a nightmare since they introduced charging for bags. Can I just say that its not the person at the checkouts fault, we don't make the rules

How much do M&S charge for a carrier?

5p for carriers and 10p for re-useable ones

I have no idea what you get back though, I doen't think its a lot and I don't know if its by weight or per item. I will have to find out.

To be honest I don?t think any would have known. It?s just lots of bin bags and how can you work out how much rubbish is a weeks worth for 12 families? It?s behind the building so no one can see.

nappyaddict, I don?t know. The manager of the recycling place sounded quite frustrated by this big pile he had of mixed recycling. He said it was pointless as there was nothing they could do with it as they had no way of separating out the different materials. It?s not like using a magnet to pull out the cans you can?t use, I guess.

There was an article on the news saying we?re all doing ourselves by putting recycling out for the council as we could be getting paid for it!

what if you dont have a car
and dont carry a handbag

could you really be arsed?
getting the kids ready, going to the supermarket.

the last thing on my mind is getting the plastic bags

sometimes i don't take the pushchair so i put a fold up reusable bag in my jeans pocket just in case i decide to pop into the shop. if i'm not wearing jeans then i take a handbag cos i would have to take one anyway to put my purse, phone and keys in. if i'm going out to specifically do a food shop then i take loads of reusable bags all inside one and carry it.

get over it!

it's NOT.THAT.HARD to carry reusables around, they're easier to pack, they don't break like carrier bags and they don't cut into your hands the way plastic carrier bags do.

big deal.

this is going the way of those P&C parking bays - they're entirely unecessary.

I have a big problem I DON'T DRIVE! so when calling in my local supermarket on my way home from somewhere if i dont have my bags with me i cannt buy anything.Also if i dont have enough bags (cant fill bags too full otherwise me and daughter wouldnt beable to carry them home)i end up spending a lot less every week but going with out as i work full time and dont have the time to go every night.

get a rucksack, kitty.

and then ride a bus home.

we did that for years before we had a car.

UABU not to carry around bags with you, in the car or your day bag.

Sorry but I've been doing this for (only)about 18 months and still get strange looks as I often refuse bags in toy shops, clothes shops etc not only food stores.

I carry bags in the back of the car and for those odd trips to the corner store or if in a random place with the kids then there is one in my changing bag.

WE have got to stop taking bags for everything! The plastic packaging being reduced will come next but it's taken so many years to get to this state we CANNOT expect it to change over night or even a couple of years, it's going to take generations!

Kitty, get a Trolley thing...one of those granny trolleys...Ikea does some snazzy ones..absolute brilliant...really big...all shopping fits in it...I mean, all the kind of shopping you would do if walking and more...I could never carry it all, without trolley

To OP, whilst I get your point about Supermarkets not reducing packaging and agree they should do more wiht that...YABU about being narked off with having to ask for bags....
Aswell as I my trolley for walking to the shops, I also invested in lots of those foldable reusable cloth bags....they are fabulous and fit easy in a handbag and we also keep loads in the boot of the car, so, always have them with us for the bigger shopping trips....

I cant get a bus expatinscotland as the buses dont go between supermarket and my house also i cant aford bus fare (have you seen how much it is now!). i can not get a trolly 3andnomore as i have to walk over a field and its bumpy (did try a trolly!)
My only option is paying out for a taxi every time which again being a lone parent i dont have spare money for taxi's.

Everything is set up for people with car's, what about us that dont drive!

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Family of 6, no car, I virtually never get plastic bags from any shop, our cupboards are currently stuffed with food.

The supermarkets are still going to sell plastic bags to people who want them. If you can't remember to bring plastic bags then you just pay for them when you go (like you do at Lidl, anyway).

I carry a rucksack with me for all my bits and pieces anyway, it doubles as shopping bag for little runs. I keep a few extra carriers in there and little bags for F+vegies, too. In holidays when I can't get to the shops during the week, I go instead on weekends I do two big shops (one to Sainsbury, one to Lidl+local shops) with the pram+2 rucksacks (one goes on the pram, I wear the other home) or the pannier bags on the bicycle.

And I use old dirty carriers for bin liners, too, that argument about the necessity of plastic carriers confuses me no end. What did people do with their rubbish before plastic carriers were invented? Anyway, There's no end of plastic bags blowing around on waste ground that can be picked up and use for bin liners.

kittycats - lots of people have said they use rucksacks have you tried one of those? i don't bother with a rucksack though. if i am doing a planned shop i take about 10 reusable bags with me. otherwise i have 3 folded up in my hand bag or jeans pocket for those unexpected shops.

Before we all started using bin liners, Mloo, believe it or not, we put rubbish straight in the bin! and thence straight into the dustbin ! They did get dirty and smelly, but that was their purpose in life!
Seeing trees round my way decorated with very slowly disintegrating plastic bags stuck in their branches is just one excellent reason for me to try never to take them in shops.