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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: LFF64 on 24 October 2015, 23:31:51
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How stupid is this charge for bags
Today I placed an online order with screwfix £51.3 something I even added the extra to round it up for the charity to £52 paid by card online
Then headed out to collect the order from the store the order was ready to collect and paid for then they asked if I wanted a bag bearing in mind that the order had been picked and placed in the bag ready for collection by them so if I hadn't wanted the bag they would have had to have taken the items back out and thrown it away as it had a slight hole in
I said I would have the bag they asked me for the 5p I had no cash on me what so ever so he said I could pay the 5p on my card which I was going to do but I picked something else up and added that to it so it was worthwhile
No idea how much it would have cost for the card payment for just five pence just seems totally bonkers to me
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I went to asda earlier and for the first time ever they had a security guard on the self scan bit, def an agency guy, I got the impression it was more to make sure people were paying for the bags rather than their shopping. BTW if you look closely at their "bags for life" they have two barcodes on, one to buy and one for a free replacement, be very careful which one you scan people ;D
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Its the law now. >:(
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If it helps stopping plastic getting into land fill then whats the problem?
possibly 30p on a £100 shop is not even worth mentioning, pay up for bags for life and stop moaning :-\
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For some time now, the bags have been made of bio-degradable material; so much so that if you use them for keeping things in, say, your garage, by the time you come back to them they are in tatters. Their arguments therefore are totally specious.
The real reason for this legislation is government greed. As with so many of these measures (CO2 emissions penalties, etc.) they are using guilt and our "concern for the planet" as a means of extracting money from us when the problem does not actually exist.
Ron.
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Now bags are chargeable, you can buy them... £25 for 500. Take four with you each time you shop and claim back any own bag discount. Simples.
We use them for our rubbish, which seems excessively wasteful for the life bags... Also now they cost summat, carriers are a better quality... Certainly the Tescos ones are now a heavier grade 8)
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I wasn't complaining about being charged the 5p more the fact that they wanted to put it through as a card payment just for the bag
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I do a lot of cooking and baking, and find that good old carrier bags are ideal for dangling off the cupboard to pop all the rubbish in. Bags for life are the wrong shape...
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I think its a stupid rule. Once again, misguided do-gooders think it will make a difference.
Realistically, how many of us used the tescos bags just once to get shopping home? We certainly used them several times, from works laptop bags (::)) to small bin liners.
Instead, we are still using the same number of bags, its just we are now actively buying them.
But the mongrel tree-huggers are too stupid to see that, and think its a victory. As always, they need lining up and shooting before they breed.
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Too late... Seeing as how they are unemployable in any useful function, they breed like rabid rabbits ::)
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Does this mean that, as supermarkets etc., do not have to supply the bags "free" rhey will automatically reduce the price of products, thereby passing the savings on to us? ::)
Ron.
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Does this mean that, as supermarkets etc., do not have to supply the bags "free" rhey will automatically reduce the price of products, thereby passing the savings on to us? ::)
Ron.
The cost of the freebie bags is insignificant, far less than the smallest denomination coin ;)
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Allegedly the 5p charge is going to charity? (yeah right).
Also the newer bags don't bio-degraded as well as the previous freebies (progress)
Also TB's call to shoot lefty tree hugging bean chewing,state scroungers, Were do I sign up, :y
And sod the Kyoto carbon reduction treaty,polar bears aren't dyeing because of co2 its because bloody people keep shooting them.
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Wonder what Poundland charge for a bag. :-\ ;D
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Wonder what Poundland charge for a bag. :-\ ;D
Probably a quid ::)
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Wonder what Poundland charge for a bag. :-\ ;D
Probably a quid ::)
Its 5p, for the same crappy bag that was free, last week.
I know because I was in there yesterday.
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I wheel the trolley to the car and then put everything in boxes in the boot.
This means I'm quickly through the checkout. :y
I'm becoming as tight as Mr Emd/ Mr 99p. ;D
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Now bags are chargeable, you can buy them... £25 for 500. Take four with you each time you shop and claim back any own bag discount. Simples.
We use them for our rubbish, which seems excessively wasteful for the life bags... Also now they cost summat, carriers are a better quality... Certainly the Tescos ones are now a heavier grade 8)
Own bag discount? Where do you shop, Mars? ;D
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I wheel the trolley to the car and then put everything in boxes in the boot.
This means I'm quickly through the checkout. :y
I'm becoming as tight as Mr Emd/ Mr 99p. ;D
You were always tight. ;D
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I wheel the trolley to the car and then put everything in boxes in the boot.
This means I'm quickly through the checkout. :y
I'm becoming as tight as Mr Emd/ Mr 99p. ;D
You were always tight. ;D
That's why M'lud has a mansion and a dovecot full of hidden gold. :o :o :o
Moneyed family like Jeremy Corbyn's. :-X
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Unfortunately, that was the price the tree hugging Limpdems imposed for their support for one of the coalitions finance bills. :(
I've used long liet bags for sometime, where Lidl and Aldi have always charged for their bags. I find the woven plastic laundry bags ideal as they are very tough, will hold up to 10-15kg, have a zip to stop the contents from falling out and are cheap to buy on Ebay. :y :y :y
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jumbo-Laundry-Bags-Zipped-Reusable-Large-Strong-Shopping-Storage-Bag-UK-SELLER-/321650548082?var=&hash=item4ae3dddd72:m:m49cp-cFtuUoIQE-np84eTg (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jumbo-Laundry-Bags-Zipped-Reusable-Large-Strong-Shopping-Storage-Bag-UK-SELLER-/321650548082?var=&hash=item4ae3dddd72:m:m49cp-cFtuUoIQE-np84eTg)
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Buying bags is not a problem, anyone who can't afford 6p for the big, strong ones should really be down at the food bank. Trying to remember to actually put them in the car and then take them in with you is the problem. I've got a load in the kitchen and about five in my car already.
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Unfortunately, that was the price the tree hugging Limpdems imposed for their support for one of the coalitions finance bills. :(
I've used long liet bags for sometime, where Lidl and Aldi have always charged for their bags. I find the woven plastic laundry bags ideal as they are very tough, will hold up to 10-15kg, have a zip to stop the contents from falling out and are cheap to buy on Ebay. :y :y :y
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jumbo-Laundry-Bags-Zipped-Reusable-Large-Strong-Shopping-Storage-Bag-UK-SELLER-/321650548082?var=&hash=item4ae3dddd72:m:m49cp-cFtuUoIQE-np84eTg (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jumbo-Laundry-Bags-Zipped-Reusable-Large-Strong-Shopping-Storage-Bag-UK-SELLER-/321650548082?var=&hash=item4ae3dddd72:m:m49cp-cFtuUoIQE-np84eTg)
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Ah yes, Mr Rods. An essential fashion statement for the elderly and leaking.
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Can't see what the problem is as most of you miserable old buggers should have one of these (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Shopping-Trolley-Eco-Shopper-Wheeled-Wheels-Festival-Picnic-Beach-Folding-Bag/190887159838?_trksid=p2045573.c100199.m3226&_trkparms=aid%3D555014%26algo%3DPL.DEFAULT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33828%26meid%3Ddf0dde8aa0cb455c8d4826030f3ef4c6%26pid%3D100199%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D2%26sd%3D301292599471) at your time of life anyway. :P ;D
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http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jumbo-Laundry-Bags-Zipped-Reusable-Large-Strong-Shopping-Storage-Bag-UK-SELLER-/321650548082?var=&hash=item4ae3dddd72:m:m49cp-cFtuUoIQE-np84eTg (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jumbo-Laundry-Bags-Zipped-Reusable-Large-Strong-Shopping-Storage-Bag-UK-SELLER-/321650548082?var=&hash=item4ae3dddd72:m:m49cp-cFtuUoIQE-np84eTg)
Trouble with those bags is they make you look like you've arrived from Romania at Victoria coach station.
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I wheel the trolley to the car and then put everything in boxes in the boot.
This means I'm quickly through the checkout. :y
I'm becoming as tight as Mr Emd/ Mr 99p. ;D
I very rarely go shopping in supermarkets , cant stand the places :( And for my peneth worth i think they should supply the eco bags free ::)
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I wonder if anyone has compared the amount of plastic in a wafer thin carrier bag to that in which a typical supermarket product is encased? ::)
But that wouldn't inconvenience people if they banned it, so the retard tree huggers look elsewhere.. >:(
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Don't get me started on this one. Carrier bags represent .0003% of all land fill. Personally I re use all my carriers from any thing from freezer storage bags, bin liners to dog poo bags etc. The vast majority of land fill in this country is commercial (70%) I own a small business and the last time I tried to do my bit for the environment I took a load of cardboard to my local waste reception centre only to be informed by the man on the gate that they can not take commercial re cycling and I would have to take it to the next town. I asked him to explain what from a recycling point of view was the difference between domestic and commercial cardboard. He then went into "jobs worth" mode so no joy there then. The next town is a twenty six mile round trip, chuffing out diesel fumes and burning fossil fuels. To boot I would have to pay a charge to re cycle my waste for the priveledge of being eco friendly. The government really does need to get it's head out of it's backside if it is really serious about re cycling
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Dog poo bags? Yer dirty bastard.
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Whats wrong with that Steve? :-\
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Whats wrong with that Steve? :-\
How do you recycle them? Put them in a dog poo bin in the park or in your household waste at home, but recycle? :-\
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No Steve you have missed the point. However I will make allowances for you. The point is making a secondary use for the carrier bag instead of just committing it to land fill.
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I get yer. :y How big is your dog? :o
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I get yer. :y How big is your dog? :o
He's big ask the members that have met him a OOF meets and he can sh*t for England. so carrier bags are handy. There are some piccys of him on here, so you will see why