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    Do you think its been a good idea, the supermarkets actively withdawing plastic bags?



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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by phredd View Post
    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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    Yup I agree. Plastic bags appear in every stream and every pond in every city. A complete nuisance. Get rid !!

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    As long as they give us something such as the long paper bags that they use in the USA

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by scouse smurf View Post
    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
    When I was a lad, my Mam always had her own shopping bag. With the advent of supermarkets these seem to have died out in favour of plastic bags. Perhaps we've now come full circle and mothers will once again have their own shopping bag/s

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    Quote Originally Posted by taffy View Post
    When I was a lad, my Mam always had her own shopping bag. With the advent of supermarkets these seem to have died out in favour of plastic bags. Perhaps we've now come full circle and mothers will once again have their own shopping bag/s
    I don't know if it was 'Garston' thing Taffy but my nan [and mum] always had a large shopping box on wheels that was pushed everywhere, I can't remember the name of them!
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    Shopping trolleys. We weren't that posh up the north end, just shopping bags like this woman pictured.




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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ged View Post
    Shopping trolleys. We weren't that posh up the north end, just shopping bags like this woman pictured.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by anonymouse View Post
    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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by hmtmaj View Post
    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,...:
    Ha, that has just took me back to an orange string bag my mum had. Wow you're right though Mart about the load you could put in it.
    Funny how some thing just jog your memory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kuki View Post
    Haha ..I'm going to do that now
    I hope u're going to give me some royalties for using MY idea

    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
    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 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 !!!

    Quote Originally Posted by ItsaZappathing View Post
    Ha, that has just took me back to an orange string bag my mum had. Wow you're right though Mart about the load you could put in it.
    Funny how some thing just jog your memory.
    I remember we had a blue nylon one with BIIIGGGGG round handles that looked like they was made from bakerlite

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    Quote Originally Posted by scouse smurf View Post

    They've stopped putting bin bags in our bins, so I gotta use my own carrier bag now !!!



    Forgot that one - we do the same.

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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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