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I'm lost - this is an mtb forum? Surely all our cars are awash with Ikea bags? you only need about 3 for a trolley full of shopping.
[not sure if it's been pointed out yet but] Waitrose don't have any bags on display - so unless you go and ask for a bag you take your own or just carry stuff.
They don't do the weighing of items on the self-scan tills either. This means that:
a) it's way way quicker (best SS tills I've used)
b) you can use any bag you like - including a rucksack (I do sometimes)
c) I guess some stuff gets nicked but they've probably built this into their models.
If virtue signaling was a currency, we’d be a rich country once again….
I knew someone would be along to tell all of us who actually give a shit about anyone except ourselves not to spend our time discussing how we might make the world a tiny fraction better a place to live. Thanks for the tip.
Sorry Eco-Jesus, do carry on saving us all.
If virtue signaling was a currency, we’d be a rich country once again….
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#rollseyes
IMo the main reason for this is the stupid way it was introduced in England with all the exemptions. Unlike scotland where those exemptions do not exist. In scotland plastic bag usage is down massivly, its rare to see someone buying a plastic bag. Or Scots just are tighter
Every time I go in my Sainsbury’s Local I never see anyone else bring their own bag.
That’s weird as it’s the polar opposite for me a huge majority take they’re own bags but not just Sainsburys. I suggest you’re talking bollocks.
I’m lost – this is an mtb forum? Surely all our cars are awash with Ikea bags?
If you're driving somewhere to ride a bike, the bags that you use for your shopping are pretty irrelevant. Which is the point of the article in the OP.
I tend to use the cloth bags that given out at conferences. And French supermarket bags4life which are heavy duty. When they start to become distressed after a couple of years they become dirty clothing sacs for post ride dry kit changes.
And a poignant cloth bag from spring 2016 that the Breton floor manager at my local Waitrose is very fond of.
But mostly I Brompton in to town and use the front bag and a lightweight rucksack. Which we’ll be doing in about an hour. Hello WholeWallet.
Bags of this quality are still unavailable in the UK.
Aldi and Lidl sell them. I've had the same set in the boot for years now which I use for shopping every week.
In scotland plastic bag usage is down massivly, its rare to see someone buying a plastic bag.
Sadly, I think this is very area dependent. My local Asda, almost everyone at the self checkout basket area takes a bag from the box of them under every self service till. If the boxes of bags run empty (as they do during busy times like holidays or paydays) people start to complain loudly. Contrast with another Asda I frequent about 30 miles away (and dare I add a much more affluent area) you rarely see anyone buying a bag - you would even need to ask for one as they dont have boxes of them at the checkout.
For the two being the same chain of supermarket to have widely different approaches is a bit strange, but I suspect the store managers let the customer base decide policy rather than trying to change attitudes.
That’s weird as it’s the polar opposite for me a huge majority take they’re own bags but not just Sainsburys. I suggest you’re talking bollocks.
Nope. Why should I make it up?
It's anecdotal of course and I can only comment on when I'm in there, but it's pretty much every day at various times and been shopping there for years since it opened.
Similar is Tesco Express near work office. In there daily to pick up lunch. Very rarely I see other people with their own bag. Even Little Waitrose. Though both those are combined with fuel and most are picking up odd items as well as fuel. If they have a bag it's a new one the shop provides mostly when I'm there.
Maybe it's a Surrey thing though 🤷♂️ . It's different in the big shops though. More the reverse.