You can see why people would do it though. There was a whole hoo-hah to cut down on plastic waste with the plastic bag charges and supermarkets see it as an opportunity to squeeze more cash out of shoppers. Charging 50p for a paper bag in M&S for example, it certainly doesn't cost them that much to produce the items.
I thought most retailers donated the charge to charity, either in full or minus reasonable costs.
I think that some of them did for a bit. If they were still doing it you'd expect to never hear the end of it.
I wouldn't do it myself, but I wouldn't particularly judge anybody else for doing it. As has been noted elsewhere the supermarkets that actually care enough to enforce it usually make you get a bag off the person supervising the tills.
I have noticed this, you have to ask for one now as they wont have them on display for you to take. Who made this rule as it seems every supermarket has started this?
The profits from single use carrier bags must be donated to charity but not from reusable bags.
More likely that supermarkets no longer sell single use carrier bags.
a Nectar point is worth 0.5p. £30 would normally get you 30 points, so 15p, triple points therefore is 90 points or 45p, so yes as you say if you spend £30-30.99 is is an extra 30p. More if you spend more of course, but still only 1% additional discount for a total of 1.5% cashback instead of 0.5%.Talking about Sainsbury's Nectar card offers, just how much is their "Triple Points if you spend £30" offer actually worth? Maybe thirty pence in extra points?!
My little sisters had an old-fashioned pram that was built like a tank. We kept that and used it for all our trolley needs for years. Great huge wheels and good suspension for a smooth ride, and the looks you got when filling it with booze were awesome. Much more fun than stealing a shopping trolley.
Here, Waitrose accept that many of the locals take the trolley home, only to return it emply later or when they next shop. It works well for everybody.
Supermarkets could block them from leaving the building, but they allow them out of control for the convenience of people who have a car, often having sited the supermarket some distance from housing for the convenience of people who have a car, and make you walk miles through the car park and then back on yourself because they can't be bothered to consider anybody who didn't come by car. The bag tax itself was also a win for motorists, who can get away with just dumping stuff in the boot if they are a couple of bags short, and are much more likely to have some bags with them in the car anyway.
People I know have their own two wheel shopping trolley. My missus has one and I have occasionally used it. Normally I buy what I can carry (and a bit more !). The sort of people who need to steal (or hopefully borrow) a trolley are the sort that are unable to think enough to own a trolley costing £10. Someone who cannot afford to buy a £10 trolley will not be able to afford more shopping than they can carry. The fact that they leave the used trolley around the corner from where they live and in the road opposite my house tells me all I need to know about them.
Can't speak for your experience but given the borrowing practice around here, there's no point in me getting another piece of domestic clutter just for a 300m walk each way.
This household don't take them back, has been five across the road at worst. Morrisons do seem to collect them when I Tell inform them. I have pushed a pair back myself. We must be over one kilometre away. Our trolley folds up but like you say it is another piece of clutter (actually by the back door storing veg !).
Generally, locals value the flexibility of taking full trolleys home and are happy to return them empty. Very occasionally, a random trolley is found on a secluded part of the footpath, which I report. It seems that theives fill the trolley up with visible low cost items with something expensive underneath. The stuff is then loaded into their car remote from the main car park. Happens less now as the self-check out arrangements are different, - including the screen/camera mounted on top of the kiosk.
I remember that too, I seem to recall it was mentioned in the 1999 TV series “Back to the floor” which had then Sainsbury’s CEO Dino Adriano working in a shop.
You wouldn't have fitted modern trolleys around most 1970s supermarkets I went in. There was a Sainsburys on the edge of town which was biggger, but still had relatively narrow aisles, while the Sainburys, Leos and Safeway in town were laid out more like some of the tighter-packed Sainsburys Locals now. I think the trolleys were perhaps half to a third of the current size, and probably not a great deal deeper than the current shallow ones.
Indeed. The average large food supermarkets of the 70s were quite small by the standards of today.
I tend to do a quick shop every day and a bigger shop a couple of times a week, but I live reasonably close to a couple of supermarkets and work from home. Equally my mum used to go several times a week, but was a housewife who lived near several reasonable supermarkets.
