The Demise of the Carrier Bag

[Dark Knight]

Paper is more than expensive than plastic
But can be recycled just as easily

[Mervyn and Trish]

Don't tell me you sell plastic bags as well as Tupperware?

[qbman1]

Didn't you know - he's the undisputed King of Polymers !

[Mervyn and Trish]

I didn't ask about his wives. Ooops sorry, off topic. Better post that somewhere else

[towny44]

You two just cannot let a dead thread lie.

[qbman1]

You know us - we'll do it to death

[Mervyn and Trish]

You two just cannot let a dead thread lie.

I notice you joining in, so shouldn't that read three?

[qbman1]

Off topic? There may be trouble ahead.......

[Mervyn and Trish]

Well you did mention "death" and Towny said "dead" and I quoted the "dead" bit and the topic includes "demise" so we may get away with it using the synonym defence. Worth a try any way...

[qbman1]

Bit tenuous, but I'm willing to run with it (clutching a carrier bag, of course)

[Silver_Shiney]

Never mind the lack of carrier bags, which we forgot to put in the car this morning, we didn't even have a pound coin or token to get a shopping trolley

[qbman1]

You need one of our keyrings - with a trolley token

[Jan Rosser]

You need one of our keyrings - with a trolley token

I've got a few of those - one from the Dogs Trust and the Welsh Blood Service - as a donor you are given one with your blood group printed on it - problem is on the day they didn't have my group so I took a different one - just hope if I have an accident they don't kill me off

[qbman1]

Hope you don't get them mixed up or you may end up getting treated for distemper....or worms !!

[Silver_Shiney]

You need one of our keyrings - with a trolley token

We've got keyrings, but the tokens keep falling out of the trolleys at our Tesco. A few weeks ago, I managed to pick up a few pound coins that had fallen out However, I can't find anywhere where I can buy replacement tokens. Our local Timpsons might do them, but they're always closed when we go into town.

[Mervyn and Trish]

You could spend those pounds on lots of carrier bags

[oldbluefox]

You need one of our keyrings - with a trolley token

We've got keyrings, but the tokens keep falling out of the trolleys at our Tesco. A few weeks ago, I managed to pick up a few pound coins that had fallen out However, I can't find anywhere where I can buy replacement tokens. Our local Timpsons might do them, but they're always closed when we go into town.

Try typing in 'shopping trolley release key' into a well known shopping site which begins with e and ends with y. No need for tokens.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Not sure I get this thing about tokens and release keys and so on. We have a pound coin we keep in the car, with the reusable bags, and after we've used it we put it back for next time. And most of the keys on e-thing cost more than a pound.

[oldbluefox]

99p including postage!!!!
Being a Goldie I went up market and bought a stainless steel one for £1.95 including pp.

[Kenmo1]

Being a Goldie I went up market and bought a stainless steel one for £1.95 including pp.

One has standards to keep up, doesn't one.

Maureen

[Silver_Shiney]

You need one of our keyrings - with a trolley token

We've got keyrings, but the tokens keep falling out of the trolleys at our Tesco. A few weeks ago, I managed to pick up a few pound coins that had fallen out However, I can't find anywhere where I can buy replacement tokens. Our local Timpsons might do them, but they're always closed when we go into town.

Try typing in 'shopping trolley release key' into a well known shopping site which begins with e and ends with y. No need for tokens.

Thanks, OBF.

We first came across these devices in France in '88, and a chap in the hypermarket car park was very helpfully releasing the trolleys and taking a franc from us. He did this for four coach loads of Brits. When we returned the trolleys, we discovered that a one franc coin is the same size as a 2p piece....

[Silver_Shiney]

Being a Goldie I went up market and bought a stainless steel one for £1.95 including pp.

One has standards to keep up, doesn't one.

Maureen

One wouldn't know...

[poole boy]

if you go to your local PDSA charity shop we bought ours there and they were only 20p

[towny44]

I have a feeling that the withdrawal of free carrier bags for clothing will hasten the demise of the town centre or even shopping mall outlets. Buying goods online is not only less stressful and warmer in winter, but it also means that your goods will be delivered fully wrapped, and with free click and collect and free returns its so much more convenient.

I wonder if USDAW have realised this, and whether they would be a more than willing ally in defeating this rather silly extension to the supermarket bag ban.

I fully support the efforts to reduce supermarket bags, we have used our own bags for years, mainly because its so easy. You know how many bags you need for a normal shop, and its easy to pack groceries yourself, whereas we never know how many or what size bags will be needed for say xmas present shopping, or even a shop to top up on our cruising wardrobes. I suspect that our shopping forays will become less and less as the annoyance of having to take a multitude of various sized bags with us whenever we visit M&S begins to bite.

[Holiday Planner]

Not sure if I should admit that I know this, but Primark are still giving free paper carriers!