Do you think its been a good idea, the supermarkets actively withdawing plastic bags?
I wasn't sure but am in agreement now!
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Do you think its been a good idea, the supermarkets actively withdawing plastic bags?
I wasn't sure but am in agreement now!
Yes I am in agreement on withdrawl.
Take a look at "Walmart" in the USA (ASDA in the UK) nearly all use paper bags.
If paper is good enough in the US it's good enough here.
Phredd
As long as they give us something such as the long paper bags that they use in the USA
Do u have to pay for the paper bags in the US ?
It just seems like they wanna make even more money by selling their GREEN bags instead
Shopping trolleys. We weren't that posh up the north end, just shopping bags like this woman pictured.
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Pic: LRO.
Of course, Supermarkets are a relatively new idea. When I was a youg child (1960s) there were no supermarkets. We used the Co-op and they delivered the stuff in boxes. The only supermarket I remember at that time was "Lennons" and it was the size of an ordinary shop and not a superstore. So supermarkets and plastic bags go together as there has never been an alternative. Maybe internet shopping and home deliveries is the answer.
Yeah, Ged, those were the days when your mum used to shop day to day at the corner shop ? long before the supermarket pirates came on the scene! ...and put them out of business!
Anyway you'd need a bag the size of a coal-man's sack to carry your weekly 'shop' these days! :eek: :lol:
And don't get me started on the 'serve yerself' checkouts (I refuse to use 'em),
they'll soon have us unloading the lorries and stacking the bloody shelves next.
:disgust:
Couldn't agree more.
We had a great corner shop where we lived. I rememebr everything was bought fresh. No sell by dates etc.
I do rememebr my mum getting one of those "string" type bags, seemed you could fit a horse in it ! never lasted long though, she always went back to the tried and tested "Shopping Bag"
"And don't get me started on the 'serve yerself' checkouts (I refuse to use 'em), they'll soon have us unloading the lorries and stacking the bloody shelves next."
Meant to say... well they've got us taking our bins to the kerb edge, so that may well be next :PDT_Xtremez_12:
We used to get to the till and pack the shopping into the supermarket's used cardboard boxes - ideal for loading into the car. They used to store them by the tills, but stopped doing them.
It's so easy to use the plastic bags, but some are now charging for them, so we now think twice.
I'd love to be able to get rid of the plastic bags. And also for the supermarkets to stop using all the plastic wrapping they use these days.
I understand all the arguments but isn't a lot of the problem down to how people dispose of them? Their disappearance has been a pain for us. Used ones were kept in a special bag (about the only thing we've ever bought from one of those 'essentials' magazines) in our kitchen, to be reused for a variety of other purposes.
1 Picking up poop from the garden or when out walking the dog.
2 putting my shoes in when packing a case and not wanting to soil my clean clothes.
3 Putting old newspaper in for the recycle collection
4 Bagging separate coloured glass bottles before putting in the recycle box for collection (if you don't segregate the glass by colour you get a snotty note through the door).
5 Bagging kitchen waste before taking it to our compost heap.
A truly multifunctional invention and we miss 'em!
I hope u're going to give me some royalties for using MY idea :p
I use my carrier bags to take my dinner to work and then they get put into my waste bin at work. They've stopped putting bin bags in our bins, so I gotta use my own carrier bag now !!!
I remember we had a blue nylon one with BIIIGGGGG round handles that looked like they was made from bakerlite
Hi folks, don't forget supermarkets always said in the past that the price of your
Plastic bag as included in the food prices . Are they going to lower the price now they are doing away with the bags. Don't think so somehow do you.
In the 50's 60's etc Mum had her shopping bag, plastic or whicker pretty floral pattern, and a Potato bag green canvas or heavy plastic for veg.
nothing worse than being spotted by your mates :rolleyes:carrying the empty shopping bag on the way to do the messages. for your mum
And if plastic carrier bags disappear what will replace them as wind Socks in trees or on telephone lines?
I resuse the plastic bags, put them in my bin, so I'm saving money, long may it continue !
I have a bag full of them in my car boot, and hanging in the kitchen, The most unusual thing I have used them for was last winter, instead of putting my wellies on to
go into the garden to put bird food out or get my dogs in, I put my slippered foot into a bag each and felt like a crime scene investigator.
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I put my slippered foot into a bag each and felt like a crime scene investigator
I'm sure you looked sweet, I'd have put one over my head in case I was noticed !!
Good idea Prefrab ! :PDT11 ;)