Do you think its been a good idea, the supermarkets actively withdawing plastic bags?
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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.
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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
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Last edited by Ged; 05-04-2009 at 04:08 PM.
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!
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.
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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
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I hope u're going to give me some royalties for using MY idea
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
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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.
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