Plastic bags going up to 44c

soups05 wrote: »

i agree totally with the bag tax...except for one small thing. I work in a small shop and when the customers get charged by the goverment for a bag its me thats gets it in the next.

I am the one they give out to,it doesn't mater that its thier fault for not bringing a bag.


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Your learning a very important marketing lesson for free.... Give the customer what they want! and more importantly if your swimming against the tide your going to have a struggle!

soups05 wrote: »

I am the one they give out to,it doesn't mater that its thier fault for not bringing a bag.

I feel your pain. This doesn't seem to happen in the bigger stores like Tesco and Dunnes. People just pay the bag money and thats it. But in the off licence i work in, some folk (mostly the tight scumbag type) get very obnoxious when i inform them that a bag costs 22c. What they dont realise is that the HR dept issue verbal warnings for not charging for plastic bags. And i aint getting another warning just becos some lazy/ignorant customer is unwilling to pay the 22c and expects the bag free gratis. Cue the usual ''Your charging me for the bag?!! I gets it for free in the shop down the road''. Thats very good sir but i'm just doing my job, perhaps you should bring a bag with you in future to avoid this costly tax :rolleyes:

Will it make a difference to me? Probably not.

Despite having about 20 plastic bags are ready and waiting to go under the stairs, nine times out of ten I still leave the house without the buggers.

Yep, 44c seems a bit much for a piece of plastic but I'd rather see increases I can avoid than ones I can't. And if it helps the environment at the same time then thats a bonus.

keysersoze_88 wrote: »

i spend 57.20 on plastic bags a year maybe i shud get a reusaeable one now

And have the neighbours think your a pauper? Disposable plastic bags are one luxury people shouldn't have to do without, what would the homeless use for socks if people stop buying plastic bags on a whim? If it wasn't for all the disposables plastic bags around when we where young'uns I wouldn't have had any branded toys to play with, I still remember my first Dunnes stores bag fondly.

Deleted User wrote: »

crazy over reactions in this thread.. can't believe people get angry nd think people are idiots if they don't have their own bags.

what the fuk do ye think the products we buy are wrapped in? every single thing in you're re-usable bag is wrapped in plastic. you're not saving the world.

Don't really care. Reduces the chances of plastic bags in the rivers and canals and generates more tax for govt. - woo hoo! They can tax stuff like this to their heart's content. Better than taxing something else like booze or food.

Everytime I go to sainsburys I bag a few extra orange bags into my shopping bags. I go up every month and I swear I could start selling them down here on the black market Remember folks the brits don't charge for bags. Though I might have to start bringing them to the local shop now as I never bothered over 22c. I just used them as bin bags in the house.

I work in a shop that sells expensive stuff and if some1 needs a plastic bag I normally don't charge them because i feel awkward asking them for a few more pence when they've dropped a serious amount of cash already. What are the consequences for my actions here?

Horsefumbler wrote: »

I work in a shop that sells expensive stuff and if some1 needs a plastic bag I normally don't charge them because i feel awkward asking them for a few more pence when they've dropped a serious amount of cash already. What are the consequences for my actions here?

If it's normal sized plastic bags, in theory there's this "inspector" from the government that supposedly checks to see if the bag levy is enforced.

This increase makes me very paranoid. We are completely powerless to resist impositions like this because the motivations behind taxes like this are vague.

I see a divisive purpose in so many moves like this, like non-smokers secretly hoping cigarettes went up to 10 euro (but never telling their smoking friends), and the supposedly environmentally helpful things, the emperor's latest gown, are always beyond question. No public activity is beyond regulation any more.

A gentle suggestion to retailers to adopt a maximum number of bags given out per year, internally regulated and using whatever method works for them (a bag associated with a loyalty scheme, reusing their transport packaging creatively.. I worked for a grocer who threw away their plastics) with possible incentives based on the money saved by councils from having to clean bags up, if indeed the policy worked, would be less despotic - but instead, people must comply with a mandate, and we'll always accept it in time.

Having said all that, I hated those people who came into my shop and acted surprised that bags cost money, or would moan at me as if it was all my idea. For those people, I would gladly stand down and accept 2 euro bags