Comment on Supermarket plastic bag charge has led to 98% drop in use in England, data shows

donut4ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Self serving checkouts ask you how many bags you want and charge for them in the UK. I have seen a growth in adults using backpacks, it wasn’t the norm before the bag charge.

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  • awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah I use my backpack, much better for carrying heavy groceries

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  • Wooly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t everyone else just click no bags? Free bags baby.

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    • Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cameras, I mean you could pretend to scan stuff and walk out if you wanted.

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    • GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you have like, more than a few things and click no bags they often freeze and signal an employee to override. Annoying when you brought a bag

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• sci@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The supermarket close to my home has self checkout, you just have to scan the bag in addition to your products.

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• goforliftoff@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was in Maine recently and they charge for bags there. At Walmart, the self checkout staff member was also selling bags to the people who needed them, in addition to monitoring everything else that happens at self checkout.

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  • donut4ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see. Thank you. I like the no bags thing. Costco and Aldi have been doing it for years and I never minded it

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• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Canada we just fully banned plastic bags. Walmart just doesn’t offer any bags at self checkout anymore besides the reusable ones. It’s kind of annoying if you forget to bring bags but it’s not a huge deal. If I’m walking I’ll just fill my personal grocery cart, or if I’m driving I’ll just throw everything loose in my car. If I do need a bag I’ll just spend $0.25 on a reusable bag.

  It’s really not a big deal like a lot of people expected

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  • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I do need a bag I’ll just spend $0.25 on a reusable bag.

    Which is actually making the central issue - pollution and GHGs - worse than if we just had thin-film single use bags.

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  • donut4ever@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m fully for it. I’m actually used to it at Costco and Aldi. I don’t know why it took wally this long to do the same and they still have stores that still offer free plastic bags.

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• panicnow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m in a conservative small town. My Walmart no longer even sells one use grocery bags! They had signs up for a couple months before hand.

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• blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tesco and Sainsbury’s usually just have the bags at the entrance to the self checkout and you just scan the bag before using it.

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They have a lot of self-checkouts in the UK - there’s a member of staff on hand to help and they usually dish out bags although in some places you can just grab and scan a bag. If you wanted to not pay for one you could but the staff member and cameras are watching so it isn’t all relying on honesty.

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