OT: Screwfix carrier bag

[sm_jamieson]

I expect on my next supermarket trip I will be purchasing some bin liners and carrying my shopping out in some of them. It should produce some wry smiles !

Simon.

[whisky-dave]

I wonder if amazon employ that many or maybe they sub-contract whichh isn;t classed as employing in their world.

Do you employ an accountant, window cleaner, sales staff, delivery people, and if yuo';re married does staff included the wife and kids if tehy help out, or how do they count staff.

[Another John]

HA HA HA!!! Nice one Syd!

All this fuss: incredible. It's five f***king P for god's sake. And if you think that's too much, then save up your 5ps and buy a decent shopping bag for yourself. Jee-zus!

John

[Robin]

I guess they (the coalition gov.) were scared of kickback from small firms. But I don't know as they did not consult on the exclusion - it was part of their original offering in (from memory) 2013.

And

[Bill]

In message , newshound writes

Being prepared, I have several bags of bags in the boot.

When hard times hit, I can always stand outside and offer them to shoppers at 40% off.

[Peter Parry]

Or just order 1,000 bags at 0.01 per bag and take a box full in every time you shop. £40 off the bill :-)

[Sam Plusnet]

Seems like plastic bags could become negotiable currency.

Next time, buy a few thousand bags from ebay or wherever & offer to settle your Screwfix bill with them.

"Lets see, the bill comes to £26.35, at 5p a bag that's....

Here have this stack of plastic bags."

[spuorgelgoog]

Local charity shops charge 5p for a bag with purchases.

However you can help yourself to as many 'donation bags' as you want. 'Donation bags' come in little plastic bags with a thank-you/gift aid card to complete, so three pieces of rubbish instead of one carrier bag.

To comply with the law on not using bag-substitutes from shops to evade the charge, you need to collect a donation bag from the Heart Shop and then use it to wrap your purchases from the Cancer Shop.

Owain

[Roger Mills]

I bet the genuine SF bags are barcoded - so that they can be scanned for stock control.

[ARW]

Tight gits the Scots:-)

[Bob Eager]

Last Friday we had an Ocado delivery. As usual, we handed over the 'old' bags from the previous delivery, and 5p per bag was credited to our account.

[spuorgelgoog]

A lot (not all) of the carrier bag charges go to 'charity' anyway.

Owain

[polygonum]

That is full-time staff. So those employing droves of zero hours contract staff could have an awful lot of employees before they hit the limit.

[Roger Mills]

AIUI, that's up to the shop. They can keep it if they like - as long as

20% of it goes to the government as VAT! Many shops apparently *choose* to donate it to charity 'cos it looks better.

[Sam Plusnet]

They ain't plastic bags, they're "crate liners" - or they were back when Ocado were evading the charges in Wales.

We had a delivery today, and they happily accepted the shredded ones from last time, so they're still worth 5p even when they've fallen apart.

[Bob Eager]

LOL!

The guy didn't even count ours. The interesting thing was that we were credited (after he prompted us) for bags we received about ten days before the charges started.

[Richard Conway]

We do too - but it did tend to be when shopping at Aldi and other places that already charged for bags that we remembered to take them in - or go back for them if we'd forgotten. When shopping at stores giving away free bags we'd often unintentionally forget to pick them up. For this reason I think the charge is a great idea.

[Adrian]

We had a delivery from JS yesterday.

As usual, we requested no bags. We got no bags. By the time the last crate was in the kitchen, all the other crates were unloaded and stacked ready to go back in the van. By the time the paperwork was done, the last crate was with them.

It's really not hard.

If we get a delivery from JS, it's from England. If we get a delivery from WR, it's from Wales (even though our nearest WR store is in England

- go figure...), so bags have long been chargeable.

Ocado won't deliver to this postcode.

[tabbypurr]

hard no, it's just time consuming. And time is money - and more vehicles on the road, thus more total miles done, and less greenness. As ever, political laws tend to do something other than intended, and add expense.

NT

[Bod]

I would say *less* vehicles on the road. If the van delivers to 20 houses, then that's 19 less vehicles.