Bags For Clothes Shopping

[Ann]

I bought a white top the other day in a large clothes shop and was asked "Do you need a bag?" "Of course" I said, "it can't just be thrown in my handbag!" So I have a question .........Now the bag tax is coming in for large stores and supermarkets I presume that means that M&S and other large retailers will charge for the bags they put clothes in too? If I use my own usual shopping bag that has had vegetables, and other shoppping in, how can I stop it marking the new clothes and if it did, would I be able to return them if I needed to?

[nungate]

Maybe they will go back to those nice paper bags Ann, the ones like those gift bags you can buy for presents

[DJHawkes]

why would you go shopping for clothes with a stained and contaminated bag? You should take a clean plastic bag that you have saved just for that purpose. all this will take is some rational common sense ann, i've been charging for carrier bags for 4 years now and it is a nightmare, people get very nasty about it, i'm hoping now with all this publicity customers will just back off and see the point now, not holding out much hope but it's a start.

[DrFilth]

they will have to start wrapping them in brown paper so they stay clean

[Ann]

I can envisage lots of problems when out on a large spending spree, all the clothes mixed up together with their receipts all in one bag, having to sort out which is which if you wish to return them. One major inconvenience! And I happen to love carrier bags, I never throw them away until they are torn and totally unuseable anymore. I use them for lots of things - storage, in the caravan rubbish bin, in the kitchen to put kitchen scraps in before throwing away, and in the garden all the time for garden rubbish, collecting tomatoes, beans, blackberries, etc. How will I manage without my hoard of bags? I will have to stockpile them through 2014! ;)

[nungate]

We'll all have to buy proper bin liners for our bins replacing one type of plastic bag for another - is that logical?

[Cloverjo]

A decent carrier bag is part of the service and what you are paying for in nice stores. I think this carrier bag tax can only apply to supermarkets.

[craft1948]

I'll have to buy poo bags for the dog............

[Svejk]

Wait till you order Spare Ribs in the take-away. Then you'll have something to moan about. ;(

[weecalf]

Carrier bags are free advertising for the shops will they object prob not cause they will get five pence from every customer using their carrier bag .So I will just for the hell of it put asda,s stuff in tesco bags and tesco,s in asda or morrisons .

[waterboatman]

Buy a jute bag and keep it for clothes shopping. Simples! tch. :o}

[naomi24]

I agree with Cloverjo.

[dizmouk2009]

Svejk: By law open food items have to be contained in a wrapper or box. This is why McDonalds are forced to bag fries and any other open item. The McDonalds near where I used to live was very strict on this to a point if you ordered a box of 20 they would not give you a bag unless you are willing to pay for it.

[Hopkirk]

I get annoyed when clothes shops assume I need a bag and don't ask.

I wash clothes before I use them anyway.

[dizmouk2009]

Hopkirk: Every shop I go into in my village always assume I want a bag. I think this is because all the staff run on auto-pilot. I try and help them out by even putting my rucksack on the counter before they have even gone to pick up a bag for me. It doesn't work though, they still insist on bagging stuff even though I've got my own.

[EDDIE51]

I am sure that with the price of clothes the shop can afford to put the 5p charge as part of the sale price. The cloths shops regard bags as advertising anyway they will just pay the 5p per bag and put it down to the advertising budget.

[mallyh]

i usually take my own bags with me , i know it's petty but if i did buy a bag from a supermarket i turn it inside out,

[dizmouk2009]

EDDIE51: You we probably have a mixed bag of responses from shops. Some will incorporate the fee like you said. Some will change customers and use the excuse that they have to charge for bags and smaller shops will probably just buy cheaper bags and not charge anything for them (this has already happened at the local off licence, they now use extremely cheap bags and don't charge for them anymore). One supermarket chain that really gets on my pip is Aldi. 1. They charge for bags, 2. You're not allowed to bag your items at the till and 3. They don't accept credit cards.

[dizmouk2009]

I'm going to rewrite that last comment as it had far more typos that this one probably has. I think I need to go to bed :/

EDDIE51: You will probably have a mixed bag of responses from shops. Some will incorporate the fee like you said. Some will charge customers and use the excuse that they have to charge for bags. Smaller shops will probably just buy cheaper bags and not charge anything for them (this has already happened at the local off licence, they now use extremely cheap bags and don't charge for them anymore).

One supermarket chain that really gets on my pip is Aldi; 1. They charge for bags, 2. You're not allowed to bag your items at the till and 3. They don't accept credit cards.

[LyndaB]

I think that charging for carrier bags is long overdue. Everyone will just have to get used to it and stop getting so blimmin hysterical over something so trivial

[naomi24]

Aldi don't let you pack at the till because it delays the queue. I was talking to an Aldi cashier, and apparently they each have a target to meet. Also, Aldi don't accept credit cards because each transaction costs THEM money which other supermarkets add to the price of everything you buy. Aldi keeps costs down by refusing to accept credit cards.