So, Tesco have started hiding all the bags under the counter meaning the attendant has to give you bags and you face their expression that says "you are 100 times worse than scum".
This was tolerable, at least - until my tesco have decided to up their game by replacing all their normal bags with poxy small ones, presumably in an attempt to anger consumers into bringing their own bags.
Now I may be being paranoid and my local tesco could have just run out of normal bags, but given that this is exactly what they do in European countries it wouldn't surprise me.
Still, I don't see how it reduces wastage: people who continue with the small and poxy bags can't re-use them for anything else due to their smallness and poxyness, and given the unavoidable surface area of the total bag being not that different but the capacity being vastly different, much more plastic will be used. I personally used five small bags where two or even at a stretch one large bag would have served me just fine.
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Tesco bag situation
The way they have done this whole bags thing has been decidedly poor.
Back in the Christmas Clubcard statements, there was some buried lie along the lines of "Many of you have been asking for help reducing the number of bags you're using, so we're now hiding them." Right. I certainly found myself struggling with the overwhelming temptation to just take a load of bags because they were sitting there...so....free...and takeable.
But what's even poorer is that after one day of everyone being irritated having to ask for bags, checkout staff (at my Tesco at least) start by asking you if you want bags, and if you do, toss you half a dozen from a stash they keep by the scanner, thus meaning most people probably end up using more than they would have otherwise.
Back in the Christmas Clubcard statements, there was some buried lie along the lines of "Many of you have been asking for help reducing the number of bags you're using, so we're now hiding them." Right. I certainly found myself struggling with the overwhelming temptation to just take a load of bags because they were sitting there...so....free...and takeable.
But what's even poorer is that after one day of everyone being irritated having to ask for bags, checkout staff (at my Tesco at least) start by asking you if you want bags, and if you do, toss you half a dozen from a stash they keep by the scanner, thus meaning most people probably end up using more than they would have otherwise.
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They need to save money on the bags to pay for their new idea of sending texts to their home delivery customers.
We had a text this morning (the 18th) at about 09:15 to say that our order had now left the store and would be with us between 10:40 on the 11th of February and 11:10 on the 11th of February.
It actually arrived at 09:50 this morning (still the 18th), so they didn't manage to get either the date or the time correct.
More on this story, I suspect, in March's edition of Comment!
We had a text this morning (the 18th) at about 09:15 to say that our order had now left the store and would be with us between 10:40 on the 11th of February and 11:10 on the 11th of February.
It actually arrived at 09:50 this morning (still the 18th), so they didn't manage to get either the date or the time correct.
More on this story, I suspect, in March's edition of Comment!
I've started boycotting tesco altogether. I now only use the place for a late night emergency milk run.
Since they came up with their discount brands nonsense and then increased their prices on everything I've just found myself goign down, spending £17 and thinking "what have i actually bought for this?". If I instead go to morrisons or sainsburys I can spend the same and get far more food and nicer stuff at that,
It's a bit much when I'm finding M&S better value than tesco. their bread for example costs the same as a warburtons loaf and is nicer and the number of red offer tickets in marks far outweighs the number of yellows in tesco. not just that but when M&S's offers are "half price" and "buy one get one half price" and tescos are "buy two save 6p" you realise what a joke the place has become.
And I reuse my bags. Ahem.
Since they came up with their discount brands nonsense and then increased their prices on everything I've just found myself goign down, spending £17 and thinking "what have i actually bought for this?". If I instead go to morrisons or sainsburys I can spend the same and get far more food and nicer stuff at that,
It's a bit much when I'm finding M&S better value than tesco. their bread for example costs the same as a warburtons loaf and is nicer and the number of red offer tickets in marks far outweighs the number of yellows in tesco. not just that but when M&S's offers are "half price" and "buy one get one half price" and tescos are "buy two save 6p" you realise what a joke the place has become.
And I reuse my bags. Ahem.
"He has to be larger than bacon"
ASDA (yes, I know, but it's the only half-decent-sized supermarket near us) are even worse.
With no warning, loads of signs appeared saying 'please re-use your bags' and immediately there were no regular carrier bags anywhere in the store. Everyone who had no idea that day (me, included) ended up having to buy their 5p bags.
Mind you, this is the store whose self-service tills go into a complete tizz as soon as you use a 'bag for life'-type bag, repeatedly telling you there's an unexpected item int he bagging area.
Mind you again, this is the store which yesterday managed to have no baskets and out of 12 'around 20 items' self-service tills only had 2 working (all 6 of the 'just a few items' were, surprisingly, okay).
With no warning, loads of signs appeared saying 'please re-use your bags' and immediately there were no regular carrier bags anywhere in the store. Everyone who had no idea that day (me, included) ended up having to buy their 5p bags.
Mind you, this is the store whose self-service tills go into a complete tizz as soon as you use a 'bag for life'-type bag, repeatedly telling you there's an unexpected item int he bagging area.
Mind you again, this is the store which yesterday managed to have no baskets and out of 12 'around 20 items' self-service tills only had 2 working (all 6 of the 'just a few items' were, surprisingly, okay).
Couple of points then:
1) Most probable that they'd run out of big bags - there's been shortages all over the place. We had NONE for a month on dot com. Orders to central command who sort such things were being denied at random.
2) The txt thing is still being trialled, we haven't got it up here yet. Anyway they're just copying Ocado on that one...
I'd imagine they're working off the scheduler on the system and estimating fifteen minutes either side of the exact time the computer has allocated to that delivery. Often not correct as drivers sometimes jiggle the orders about if they're already in a particular area. Saves doubling back on oneself.
Either that or drivers in Nick's part of the world have been given the fabled new Reach devices (PDAs) which are supposed to trigger a txt when the driver leaves the previous customer. Dreadful idea for the reason above of jiggling about to avoid doubling back on oneself...
1) Most probable that they'd run out of big bags - there's been shortages all over the place. We had NONE for a month on dot com. Orders to central command who sort such things were being denied at random.
2) The txt thing is still being trialled, we haven't got it up here yet. Anyway they're just copying Ocado on that one...
I'd imagine they're working off the scheduler on the system and estimating fifteen minutes either side of the exact time the computer has allocated to that delivery. Often not correct as drivers sometimes jiggle the orders about if they're already in a particular area. Saves doubling back on oneself.
Either that or drivers in Nick's part of the world have been given the fabled new Reach devices (PDAs) which are supposed to trigger a txt when the driver leaves the previous customer. Dreadful idea for the reason above of jiggling about to avoid doubling back on oneself...
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... and on the M&S subject they've reduced their bag price to 9p after the VAT cut.
Always use (if available) the self service checkouts and can then grab as many bags as I feel necessary.
Always use (if available) the self service checkouts and can then grab as many bags as I feel necessary.
Tesco here doesn't hide away bags, or have small ones. Must be the manager's choice. I'm sure Tesco's bags have a new more retro design without that green clubcard logo they've had for ages.
Talking of supermarkets, Skegness is in desperate need of an Asda, or even a Sainsbury's. I'm sick of Tesco food.
Talking of supermarkets, Skegness is in desperate need of an Asda, or even a Sainsbury's. I'm sick of Tesco food.
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Further to the above, we had another text, later in the day, to apologise for the first one and to explain that the system was only being tested and that the message shouldn't have actually been sent out.TG wrote:The txt thing is still being trialled, we haven't got it up here yet.