5p charge for plastic bags from October 2015 to cut usage
Discussion
funkyrobot said:
The first basket case anyway 
I may have mischievously created the second 'victim' on the day the charge started.
My local tesco is literally 30 seconds from my flat, in there everyday so know the staff well, banter etc.
Self-service till. The look on the cashier's face as he stared, confused at his screen, after I'd scanned my shopping and entered no. of bags.
"Does that say. . . 200?"
Oh, how we laughed.
My local tesco is literally 30 seconds from my flat, in there everyday so know the staff well, banter etc.
Self-service till. The look on the cashier's face as he stared, confused at his screen, after I'd scanned my shopping and entered no. of bags.
"Does that say. . . 200?"
Oh, how we laughed.
funkyrobot said:
"Khalia said: “I hadn’t even got to my car when the security guards chased me and then grabbed my basket and wouldn’t let go. “It was very embarrassing."So it's not theft unless you make it to the car? Good logic Khalia.
Hackney said:
funkyrobot said:
"Khalia said: “I hadn’t even got to my car when the security guards chased me and then grabbed my basket and wouldn’t let go. “It was very embarrassing."So it's not theft unless you make it to the car? Good logic Khalia.
Hackney said:
"Khalia said: “I hadn’t even got to my car when the security guards chased me and then grabbed my basket and wouldn’t let go. “It was very embarrassing."
So it's not theft unless you make it to the car? Good logic Khalia.
Why would it be theft to take a basket to the car if it isn't to take a trolley to the car? It would be theft if she failed to empty the basket and return it (or even leave it in a trolley park).So it's not theft unless you make it to the car? Good logic Khalia.
Einion Yrth said:
Hackney said:
"Khalia said: “I hadn’t even got to my car when the security guards chased me and then grabbed my basket and wouldn’t let go. “It was very embarrassing."
So it's not theft unless you make it to the car? Good logic Khalia.
Why would it be theft to take a basket to the car if it isn't to take a trolley to the car? It would be theft if she failed to empty the basket and return it (or even leave it in a trolley park).So it's not theft unless you make it to the car? Good logic Khalia.
Is it possible the security staff saw somebody leave the store with goods in a basket and assumed they hadn't been through the check-outs, then had to save face by accusing her of stealing the basket when she showed her receipt? Otherwise it's an ott response by some margin. Those security people must be nervous wrecks watching dozens of trollies leave the store every hour.
Digger said:
I may have mischievously created the second 'victim' on the day the charge started.
My local tesco is literally 30 seconds from my flat, in there everyday so know the staff well, banter etc.
Self-service till. The look on the cashier's face as he stared, confused at his screen, after I'd scanned my shopping and entered no. of bags.
"Does that say. . . 200?"
Oh, how we laughed.
Wondered how the self service tills will do you for a bag. At Co-op today it does ask you if you are going to use bags. You can simply click no and use bags anyway....I guess someone should be checking you, but they never have anyone manning the self service area.My local tesco is literally 30 seconds from my flat, in there everyday so know the staff well, banter etc.
Self-service till. The look on the cashier's face as he stared, confused at his screen, after I'd scanned my shopping and entered no. of bags.
"Does that say. . . 200?"
Oh, how we laughed.
When I was living with my ex I never used to use bags, it always seemed quicker to just lob the stuff back into the trolley, I kept a couple of stack boxes/huge ikea bags in the boot of the car that I filled up and used to carry stuff into the house.
Stopped doing that now I live on my own, I don't generally get a trolley.
Stopped doing that now I live on my own, I don't generally get a trolley.
I'm amazed it took so long for the topic to come up on PH after the change in the rules. Considering the earlier fuss from some people, I was expecting it to be more like this .....
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/patheti...
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/patheti...
Digger said:
No bags left out currently at my tescos. You key in how many you want and then get them from the cashier. Must be doing their heads in to constantly be dishing out bags to customers! At busy times must be a right ball ache.
Thats insane- surely it'd be more cost effective to leave them out and accept a few worthless items you'd be happy to give away anyway will get "stolen?" or will they get done? I suppose we'll have automatic bag dispensers next, using their share of electric and resources in the name of the environment...hairyben said:
Digger said:
No bags left out currently at my tescos. You key in how many you want and then get them from the cashier. Must be doing their heads in to constantly be dishing out bags to customers! At busy times must be a right ball ache.
Thats insane- surely it'd be more cost effective to leave them out and accept a few worthless items you'd be happy to give away anyway will get "stolen?" or will they get done? I suppose we'll have automatic bag dispensers next, using their share of electric and resources in the name of the environment...By the way mine is a Metro so only has iirc 5 or 6 self-service points.
Einion Yrth said:
Of late the local supermarkets have gone totally self-checkout. With the absurd sensitivity of the scales you can't just put the bags that you brought onto them and pack from there, so I have to just dump the goods that I have bought, naked, onto the scales and at the end, after giving over my cash, pack my purchases into the bags/ rucksacks/ whatever that I have brought, all the time ignoring the increasingly strident demands of the system to "take my goods". This is not going to go down well with those in the queue after me. Unless they make the scales even more ludicrously sensitive, how is the 5p a bag charge going to work here?
I just scan the first item that I know will not have a fixed weight, put this in the bag and on the scale.Something like a lemon for 10p or fixed price meat, they all weigh different amounts to not notice a carrier bag.
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