Plastic Bags And Tray Liners.

[Barsel]

Just had an email from Tesco to say that after April 19th, they will not be supplying plastic bags and tray liners. If you use C&C, you should have bags in your car to put your groceries in, and if you have a delivery, bring some bags to your front door to pack your shopping in.
I think it's a great idea.

[barry1010]

Takes a lot longer though

[Mamyalynne]

They bring mine in thankfully, those tray liners were a waste of space.

[bednobs]

I usually have tray liners, but they are useless unless my husband is home - I can't even lift a half full one up!

[Barsel]

I had a delivery today so I took my shopping trolley outside and the man put the heavy things in that, then I put the lighter things in a tray liner that I already had and I was able to pull that down the hall and into the kitchen.

[roopower]

A lot of the supermarkets are dispensing with various types of plastic. It can only be good. I remember going to the greengrocer with my mum and all the veg was weighed and tipped straight into her shopping bag, kept just for that purpose.

[Barmaid]

I find those tray liners really useful, but it does concern me that they are single use (although I have used them to put under seed trays when I am propagating stuff in the house).

I think it means deliveries will take longer since every item will need to be lifted out whereas atm, we can lift out the whole tray and dump it on the kitchen floor and then sort it when the driver has gone - but we did use to do that before they introduced them. Thankfully, the driver can park right outside our kitchen door so its not too bad for us.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Sainsbury's have been doing this for a year now.

[Tilly2]

It doesn't feel like a good idea when you are scrabbling about on your doorstep trying to fill you shopping bags as quickly as possible. I hate it!

I wish they'd use paper bags.

[Mamyalynne]

Same as Bednobs, I couldn't lift the liners.

[Vagus]

Sainsburys have been doing this for ages for click and collect, maybe almost 12 months. The only items which are in plastic bags are frozen stuff.
It’s actually much better as we have loads of those large hessian bags which stand up by themselves and all slot in nicely in then car boot so none of the shopping gets squashed.

[Vagus]

Snap APG :)

[ummmm]

Co-op are still delivering in bags which I'm quite surprised about.

[tiggerblue10]

It took me a few minutes to figure what tray liners were and then remembered my last few Tesco deliveries with the big handleless bags in trays. I found them to heavy to carry in also. I always had my bags ready at the door.

Anyhow, since moving in with my parents I've only had one delivery from Tesco and usually pop to Sainsburys or Lidl with my trolley these days. No bags required.

[Barsel]

I have another shopping trolley that I keep in the car boot, so for any future deliveries I'll use both my shopping trolleys to put the food into. The man didn't mind at all when I asked him if he could put the heavier things into my big trolley.
Something I've been meaning to ask, do you give the delivery driver a tip?

[furrypusscat]

Thankfully I have a porch with worktops so I can empty the trays straight on to the worktops which is quick for the driver to go to his next delivery and no problem for me to transfer the goods to the kitchen at my own pace. I wouldn't want to bag the items first.

[calmck]

I always have the same driver so tip him once a month

[bednobs]

I usually have a "helper" who cant seem to grasp she could carry more than 1 thing to the kitchen at a time

[barry1010]

Tesco take back my tray liners the following week and recycle them. They used to take back my used packaging that ha 'recycle with carrier bags at our larger stores' stamped on it but they stopped that a while back.

[barry1010]

I don't tip the delivery drivers. Years ago before the minimum wage came in I used to tip but not any more.