Paying for carrier bags.

No charge in Primark posie, not even for the largest (paper) carrier, so I'm using it if I'm purchasing clothes anywhere else - Coast didn't like it one little bit , neither did House of Fraser (yippee!)

No more free marketing either!

Yes. I'm going to make a few trips to Primark and stock up on their paper carriers.

Those trolley bags are fine for people who wreck the planet by going everywhere in their cars drive to the shops, but not much use to people on bikes, or walking.

I don't know what a trolley bag is. But I do have a shopping trolley that I ram everything into and trundle it after me when I walk back from the shops. It's sometimes so heavy I have difficulty lifting it up over steep kerbs.

There was a link to the trolley bags in Altissimma's post.

Oh! I don't think I could carry those home. Do they come with attachable wheels perhaps?

No. You lift them from your shopping trolley into the boot of your car.

I 'inherited' several trolley bags from my uncle. Goodness knows how he managed to hoist them into the boot of his car. I use them for carrying laundry out to the garden - much easier than trying to carry a basket under my arm. As it happens, jingl, I haven't used plastic carriers for a long time - I have, as I said before two bags that roll up small and which I keep in my handbag. Or I use my bag on wheels.

I just did my first big food shop since the ban and asked the woman at the till how it was going. She said most people had bothered to bring in their own bags and nobody seemed to me making a fuss.

I am sure we should have done this years ago. If we go out without our shopping bags a couple of times and have to pay we will soon get used to making sure we have our own with us.

Trolley bags are far too big and heavy for me to carry out anywhere.

I agree Nelliemoser
I had some but could barely lift them even when half full, and I find them very awkward to lift out of the trolley. I was given some elasticated ones that supposedly clipped to the sides of the trolley - they were worse than useless, flying off at the slightest touch.

Anyway, I've a stash of bags in the car boot so hopefully won't get caught out anytime soon! It's the spontaneous buys that will catch me out

This charge for a bag in clothing departments! There never was a charge for such ! But this month there is, on buying a garment of delicate materiel in m&s , I inquired loudly if I would get a refund on returning their bag ?
In fact I think we should do this...return unwanted carrier bag for refund !!!

I like the using Primark bags in other, more expensive, stores. We could have a competition- What's the most expensive thing ever to come home in a Primark bag?

Its definitely impulse purchases that catch us out, OH spotted a really nice jacket in Sainsbury this morning and bought a shirt too but the bag that I always carry with me wasn't big enough for the jacket , so annoyingly he had to pay for a bag.. annoying.

It's so worth it for the look on the assistants' faces!

I was just pondering on how much other shops will lose in advertising and the impact on advertising agencies, designers etc. with this.

Here in Scotland the bag charge has been with us for a year. We keep fold up plastic crates in the car boot and just transfer shopping from the trolley into that.
Before the bag charge we used to use the bags as kitchen bin liners so at least they were reused. Now we buy plastic bin liners which are used once so I don't see how that is saving the planet!
I keep a plastic carrier (now a year old) folded up in my hand bag incase I decide to buy clothes. I also keep the fold up bags with me at all times. It is annoying when buying more than one clothing item, knitting wool or birthday cards which I don't want ruined. I wish shops would use paper bags for those items.

greatmum I've been wondering the same about getting your money back on the bag as well when you do take-backs.

(I know it's for charity though)

For years I have been carrying Aldi and Tesco bags into Sainsbury's but when I buy chilled food I just put it straight into the trolley and transfer it to a cool bag in the boot of the car. Food bags I am used to providing, I don't expect to have to carry a suit carrier in case DH sees a jacket or suit he fancies.
Tomorrow I am going out to buy a framed picture, had I better nip out and buy a roll of bubble wrap and a big strong bag ?

My cousin posted on fb a little video about trolley bags. They look like a good idea if you do all your shopping for the week/ month at one supermarket, but as she says, you need one of the big trolleys for them to fit. I won't be investing in them though as there is just DH and me, and he still works in food retail and gets all my shopping from the store where he works on a daily basis.

I was in a big Tesco today and asked the assistant in the clothing section how it was going and had things settled down yet. She said some customers were putting their shopping back into the wire basket, taking it out to their car, putting the shopping in the car and then leaving the basket in the car park. Apparently it's part of a protest campaign on Facebook.

Some shoppers have always done that, plastic bags or no. Supermarket carparks are never entirely free of abandoned trolleys sitting forlornly beside empty car spaces.

Doing it with the small wire baskets is a new one. These are less visible and could damage a car or cause an accident.

How childish! If they forget to wear a raincoat in a thunderstorm, will they expect to be issued with a free mac?

A protest campaign on Facebook. What a bunch of spoiled prats with nothing better to protest about

Those people who CBA to put trolleys/baskets back after they used them
make me so angry. Lazy B*****S.

They are probably those who park on pavements, leave rubbish lying around, fail to pick up their dogs muck, or hang the dog muck bags in trees, and much more.

Ooh I am a stroppy beggar today.

Not too mention covered in tatoos with a builders cleavage showing because their jogging pants hang under their beer guts.

Not that I am stereotyping.

Better stop your misanthropic rantings now Nelliem.

You forgot, they also park (without reason) in disabled and child only places Nellie