No More Free Carrier Bags As From 5Th October So....

[gina32]

If you get to the checkout and have forget yours and have to pay 5p for one would you leave your shopping or would you pay?

[retrocop]

Sainsbury carrier bags are rubbish and not worth 5p. From checkout to exit bag Bursts and Grog smashed all over the floor . :-(

[mikey4444]

To all those in England ...the bags for life that Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsburys use are really excellent. They are made out very strong plastic, with substantial handles. My niece moved flats last year, with 25 of the Tesco bags, so they come highly recommended !

[EcclesCake]

I can't see it being of too much concern to me. I've just looked in my kitchen drawer and counted my stash of carrier bags.......I have three.

Walking out with out my shopping for the sake of 5p??? It's going towards the environment and reducing unnecessary 'witches knickers' hanging in the trees.

[mikey4444]

Eccles...I like the witches knickers bit !

[DTCwordfan]

being in Wales, mikey, I bet you do......

[DaisyNonna]

How do you forget to take a bag if you are going shopping?

[DTCwordfan]

I regularly do, Daisy, after all, I am a man.....

[DaisyNonna]

Man up then!

[Jackdaw33]

Charging for carrier bags is nothing new. Before plastic they were made of brown paper with string handles and cost 2d (17p at today's prices). Should it be raining the paper would separate from the handles, leaving your purchases in a soggy mess on the ground, usually including broken eggs and glass jars.

[DTCwordfan]

only if they give out a free flunky, Daisy!

[DaisyNonna]

If like me you have to walk to the nearest shop or walk to a bus stop to travel to larger shops which may or may not have what you want to buy then a flunky would be more use than a bag.

[DTCwordfan]

probably holds more liquid.....

http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/images/condom-water-bottle/step5.jpg

[douglas9401]

Wales, Ireland and us canny Scots all pay for reusable bags, we even have to pay for a bag for certain items from Mcdonalds etc.
Nobody jumps up and down about it and the place is much less rubbish strewn.

[237SJ]

Someone needs to tell the USA about plastic bags. If you buy more than about three items, the cashier double bags them (unless you go to Whole Foods where they have paper bags) Likewise, China, Singapore and many other places I have shopped. It`s good that we are reducing the landfill in the British Isles but the world`s oceans are still going to be full of plastic bags.

[DTCwordfan]

how do you cure fly-tipping, douglas?

[DaisyNonna]

Do not trust plastic bags. They are getting flimsier.
No use for a litre of booze.

[DaisyNonna]

Don't allow the fly a full glass?

[DTCwordfan]

agree on that, Daisy, Tesco's so-called bag can't take two wine bottles - how one is supposed to use it for protection behind the bus shelter, who knows?

[joggerjayne]

I'm usually on my bike, and the shopping goes into my backpack. But I suppose I'd pay if I was in that position.

[DaisyNonna]

Buses, few shelters.