Carry-a-bag

[miskipiski]

I just had to get on and post this after reading about your Carry-a-Bag campaign. Of course I've been doing this for years much to the amazement of shop staff (you should see thier faces as I load up my bike with vegetables...) but recently a LIDL shop was opened up in my part of Bristol, to compete with the local TESCOS. Ah the joy... LIDL - while terrible in many respects - at least charges for all its plastic bags according to size.
The glee I felt while watching people new to the idea of Carry-a-bag struggling to juggle their shopping, or trying to stuff as much as possible into 1 bulging bag.... This shop had finally managed to bring it home to these people that SOMEONE has to pay for bags! Horay! Now, if only TECOS would follow suit...

[Shirley]

Hi Miskipiski

:welcomeish:

The glee I felt while watching people new to the idea of Carry-a-bag struggling to juggle their shopping, or trying to stuff as much as possible into 1 bulging bag.... This shop had finally managed to bring it home to these people that SOMEONE has to pay for bags! Horay! Now, if only TECOS would follow suit...

I bet that was a sight worth seeing - but yeah, well done Lidl. I somehow don't think T***o will join in but you never know.

Looking forward to hearing more from you.

[miskipiski]

Hi!

Thanks for the greeting. I am a bit worried about that photo tho - I look nothing like that!

[shiney]

It's about time the big chains stopped giving out carriers willy nilly. Most shop staff always give you a funny look when you say no I have my own thanks.

One thing I have noticed since carrying my own bags is....I have a big space under my sink where the bags used to be chucked...to store my jam jars in now for pickling etc.

[Boots]

I have way too many carry bags, because when I forget to take them I buy another. So clearly - I must have forgotten a LOT, because I can now co-ordinate them colourwise with all my clothes!

[Shirley]

Hi!

Thanks for the greeting. I am a bit worried about that photo tho - I look nothing like that!

It's the same pic until you get to (I think) 25 posts and then you change again!! It's Margo from The Good Life, just in case you weren't aware of it. You can add your own pic to go underneath by editing your profile.

[miskipiski]

I can now co-ordinate them colourwise with all my clothes!

I love it!

Unfortunately nothing really looks that good with T***o colours!

[pskipper]

Unfortunately nothing really looks that good with T***o colours!

Unless you wear a traditional french onion sellers outfit

Quite pleased as yesterday I managed to get our local grocers to pack things in my bag rather than just automatically using a plastic bag

[miskipiski]

[quote="pskipper"]

Unless you wear a traditional french onion sellers outfit

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This could be an idea for a new campaign! Not only will we resuse carrier bags and annoy shop staff by doign so - we can terrify them by fancy dress!

I'm sure if I shopped looking like this the shop satff would happily agree to all requests! hehe!

[Andy Hamilton]

Which part of Bristol? - I have a lidl and a T***o near me on Church Road.

I was thinking of starting a new campain against packaging, when you talk to most people about their rubbish they all say the same that it is mostly plastic. - I am not sure about this move to biodegradable plastic either, still uses resources, land is being used up to grow crops for packaging instead of for eating and is the corn they grow GM? Supermarkets have a lot to anwser for.

[miskipiski]

On the Bath Road in Brislington?

Some plastics are recyclable (can be melted and resued) but many cannot actually be melted into liquid (something to do with the atoms). I agree with you - it's ridiculous.

What I see very little of in any govenment or company policy is what I was brought up on - the 3 Rs:

reduce, resuse, recycle

It irtritates me that TESCOs and the government included always jump to the third option and then give themselves hearty congratulations for their ethical stance - when REDUCE and REUSE (as you all know) are far better for the environment! Ahhh! the fools!

[Boots]

You forgot REFUSE.

That's the one you employ when the turkeys come in short and just pander to you with propaganda.

[circlecross]

At the mo when I say I have a bag, I am getting the response "Are you sure?"



If anyone has the energy to be sarky they are welcome to do my shopping for me!

Am I sure??? I may be preggers, but it hasn't affected my brain THAT much!

[Boots]

That is funnier that it probably should be, for me CC!

When I was pregnant, I had periods of really weird emotional/hormonal wackiness that just came totally out of the blue. One minute I'd be rocking along, and the next I would just bawl or... snarl like a wounded dingo! for no apparent reason.

A question like that could well have had me bawling at the sudden vision of a dolphin choking on a plastic bag masquerading as a jellyfish... or spluttering menacingly and asking what reason this so and so has to doubt me.

It's funny remembering it now, but am sure at the time I left many a checkout chick absolutely baffled with what they could have possibly said wrong...lol... and there is no doubt I went through a weird stage of resenting checkout chicks for continually triggering me off! My mates even weirder explanation probably didn't help. Though he felt it adequately answered everything at the time... "Don't worry, she's pregnant!"

If I think things got weird when I was pregnant... I'm not even going to mention how things got after my babes were born and I was functioning with sleep deprivation. I'm still catching up on sleep now, I think... 13 years later!!!

Tis fun... really it is!

[pomegranate]

There are quite a few shops that now charge you for plastic bags Bunnings and Auldi come to mind but the other big supermarkets still hand out plastic bags willy-nilly. I tend to keep a vatiety of colours and sizes in the car.