Bags for life?

[Shamutanti]

Found out today that GW is introducing Bags for Life into GW stores.

No more carrier bags available (bar the small ones), so if you wanna carry stuff you gotta pick up a bag for life.

10p for a medium bag.
50p for a duffle bag.

Apparently there will be small bags still for free.

[Scammel]

That's a little surprising, but also standard fare for many UK shops now.

[shelfunit.]

Not a bad thing at all. Do we know what the actual sizes of the "medium" and "duffle" bags are?

[Metacarpi]

Duffle bag?

http://www.hotref.com/category/000/L...e-bag_4415.jpg

???

[Shamutanti]

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[shelfunit.]

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Not bad. When they say "bag for life" does that come with the guarentee (like Tesco) that when it wears out, or breaks from use they will replace it for free?

[Deamon-forge]

oh nice. mite just pop in for a bag lol.

[Verm1s]

Blinkin' Nora. I feel embarassed enough when I carry my Sainsburys bags about.

[Grimtuff]

I see GW is going for the "stick" approach (over "carrot" as it were) with them finding yet another way to squeeze cash out of their customers...

Would have been better if they tried the approach like Tesco and rewarded you for reusing the bags with clubcard points, though that requires GW to have a points scheme in the first place.

[silks]

In Wales it's the law you have to pay at least 5p per carrier bag anyway - of which most of that goes to charity

[Count Zero]

Marks and Spencer makes you pay for bags too (except the tiny ones), even though it's only 5p it does make you think in advance about taking your own bag.

[Grimmeth]

Looking at your location this may well be a Wales thing Shamutanti - it's law there to charge for carrier bags.

[Sildani]

That duffle bag would be a decent purchase if it's strong enough, what with all the stuff I haul around.

[New Cult King]

I don't agree that it's a money grab. Environmentally, this sort of thing is a good idea, and a positive step. Many companies have adopted this practice, and many more should.

[Luigi]

Blinkin' Nora. I feel embarassed enough when I carry my Sainsburys bags about.

Ahaha! Me too. I often fit my carry case into a bag or i carry it with the eagle toward myself, as to make it look like a plain instrument carrying case...

But this IS a good idea, and as others have pointed out only good can come of it

[BigbyWolf]

I don't agree that it's a money grab. Environmentally, this sort of thing is a good idea, and a positive step. Many companies have adopted this practice, and many more should.

Pretty much this. I buy the bags for life from Asda (the 6p ones) but actually use them as binliners for my pedal bin as they are the only bags of decent strength that fit. I hadn't used the standard carrier bags in years, but when I came to do a recent cupboard clearout, I found hundreds of them lurking in there, I can only think how many other people have wasted. All bags should cost money, it'll hopefully put people off just taking one for the sake of it.

[theunwantedbeing]

That duffle bag would be a decent purchase if it's strong enough, what with all the stuff I haul around.

Looks good, if they're as good quality as the supermarket bag for life bags then you'll only ever need to bother buying one (maybe two if you buy a tonne of stuff at the same time).
50p isn't much provided the quality is there.

Hopefully it'll be exempt from the price rising nonsense though, I don't want to pay £5 for one next year.

[Sophet Drahas]

I'm assuming this is a UK thing. Still, more of the larger US cities are putting plastic bag bans in place and charging for paper bags to encourage re-use. Can't say this is necessarily a bad thing other than having to buy garbage bags for the bathroom now rather than reusing the old plastic shopping bags in there.

[starlight]

I don't agree that it's a money grab. Environmentally, this sort of thing is a good idea, and a positive step. Many companies have adopted this practice, and many more should.

Bio/photodegradeable bags have been around for years (and were much publicised when introduced some years ago). Convincing customers to use re-useable bags is simply about transferring costs to the customer.

I don't have an issue with it, but let's at least be honest about it...

[geoffkemp]

Not bad. When they say "bag for life" does that come with the guarentee (like Tesco) that when it wears out, or breaks from use they will replace it for free?

Apparently so, at least according who I spoke to last night. They should also be in Store in the next few weeks.

Bottom line is that this is to meet with some forthcoming legislation, either EU or national government. I suspect the former, but wouldn`t be surprised if it is the latter.