Post by: smurfboy on February 28, 2008, 02:04:49 pm
Who thinks this is a good idea? I think it will be very inconvenient, but would be less bothered if I thought it was really about saving the planet and not making a few pennies more per customer.
Post by: goldencup on February 28, 2008, 03:15:53 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 28, 2008, 06:11:49 pm
Years ago, shops did not routinely provide bags. I remember when supermarkets provided strong paper carrier bags but they charged for them.
Freee plastic bags create a demand for a product that is made from a bi product of oil (a precious commodity), that is non-biodegradable and which uses up a lot of energy in production and distribution.
However, 5p is rather a lot for the standard of M&S bags - I find M&S bags split really easily.
Post by: Dansak on February 28, 2008, 06:50:18 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 28, 2008, 07:23:29 pm
Post by: on February 28, 2008, 08:25:48 pm
Quote from: Dansak
M&S is rubbish anyway. I hate how they give their food a posh name but it's really just the same sh*t you get anywhere else.
It isn't.
You should see the standards that M&S require of their suppliers. It is very stringent and a lot of their food is not made by these companies for anyone else.
Post by: MayRae on February 29, 2008, 12:53:10 am
I don't have an M&S close enough to make any difference, but I do think that free carrier bags are a mistake, and I'm always amazed by how few items you get in each carrier bag when the people who work at Tesco 'help with your packing'. Three or four items that hardly even half fill a bag a lot of the time!
I always nicely refuse their kind offer, and mostly refuse their carrier bags aswell to be honest. I have boxes in the boot of my car, the shopping goes straight from the trolley to the boxes without a whiff of plastic most of the time.
Post by: smurfboy on February 29, 2008, 01:28:38 pm
Quote from: MayRae
I'm always amazed by how few items you get in each carrier bag when the people who work at Tesco 'help with your packing'. Three or four items that hardly even half fill a bag a lot of the time!
Now that's something that really annoys me. Apart from the environmental cost of spreading your shopping over several bags, the packers are also assuming you have a car - not everyone does! It's very awkward carrying several bags on foot or on the bus.
Post by: on February 29, 2008, 01:37:12 pm
Then again, the store will carry it out to your car for you.
The poor things having to negotiate their driveway with those bags.
Maybe things will change under Obama.
Post by: AVONLADY on February 29, 2008, 02:05:34 pm
Post by: oldspice on February 29, 2008, 08:09:16 pm
Quote from: smurfboy
Quote from: MayRaeI'm always amazed by how few items you get in each carrier bag when the people who work at Tesco 'help with your packing'. Three or four items that hardly even half fill a bag a lot of the time!
Now that's something that really annoys me. Apart from the environmental cost of spreading your shopping over several bags, the packers are also assuming you have a car - not everyone does! It's very awkward carrying several bags on foot or on the bus.
I don't drive either and it irritates when they assume you have come shopping in a car. In Waitrose one day I was asked if i would like my bags carried to my car and I replied "Well, yes please, it's on my drive three miles away!"
Post by: on February 29, 2008, 08:53:12 pm
Quote from: oldspice
I don't drive either and it irritates when they assume you have come shopping in a car. In Waitrose one day I was asked if i would like my bags carried to my car and I replied "Well, yes please, it's on my drive three miles away!"
You immediately laughed slightly nervously in the hope that your sarcasm wouldn't be taken as offensive.
Post by: oldspice on March 01, 2008, 09:02:44 am
Post by: Dansak on March 01, 2008, 11:06:19 pm
Quote from: paulham
Quote from: DansakM&S is rubbish anyway. I hate how they give their food a posh name but it's really just the same sh*t you get anywhere else.It isn't.You should see the standards that M&S require of their suppliers. It is very stringent and a lot of their food is not made by these companies for anyone else.
I disagree. There was a thing about chicken on TV a couple of years back and the stands=ards the birds were kept in. They got hock burns on their legs from standing in their own ammonia sh*t. Anyway, I went round all the supermarkets the next day and they all had hock burns, even the fancy named M&S chicken. It's all the same crap, different name.
Post by: loulou on March 02, 2008, 12:47:46 pm
Post by: smurfboy on March 03, 2008, 03:07:10 pm
Post by: loulou on March 07, 2008, 10:20:44 pm
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Post by: smurfboy on March 08, 2008, 05:21:52 pm
Post by: loulou on March 08, 2008, 05:40:10 pm
Post by: on March 09, 2008, 05:00:56 pm
We used six bags for life today.
Did we get any green clubcard points? Did we sh*te!
Post by: on March 09, 2008, 05:02:39 pm
Quote from: smurfboy
There used to be a big camp man on the tills at M and S in Nottingham. Once I was buying parsnips and he said 'what are those?' I said 'parsnips' and looked at him a bit strangely and he said 'it's ages since I last worked on foods'!
And we all know what parsnips do, don't we?
Post by: loulou on March 09, 2008, 09:52:42 pm
A. Anything you like, he can't hear you.
Post by: smurfboy on March 10, 2008, 01:56:08 pm
Quote from: paulham
Quote from: smurfboyThere used to be a big camp man on the tills at M and S in Nottingham. Once I was buying parsnips and he said 'what are those?' I said 'parsnips' and looked at him a bit strangely and he said 'it's ages since I last worked on foods'!And we all know what parsnips do, don't we?
I know fine words don't butter them.