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bilky asko wrote:

Martin Phillp wrote:Tesco are giving away a Bag for Life per customer as part of their marketing pitch to get customers to reuse bags from Monday.

I received one two days ago, just after I'd paid for one. Cheers for that...

You should hold a service to memorialise the ~10p unnecessarily wasted.

WillPS wrote:

bilky asko wrote:

Martin Phillp wrote:Tesco are giving away a Bag for Life per customer as part of their marketing pitch to get customers to reuse bags from Monday.

I received one two days ago, just after I'd paid for one. Cheers for that...

You should hold a service to memorialise the ~10p unnecessarily wasted.

I'd actually bought a £1 bag as none of the 10p ones were available on the bag racks. They must have been keeping piles of the free ones separately.

bilky asko wrote:

WillPS wrote:

bilky asko wrote:
I'd actually bought a £1 bag as none of the 10p ones were available on the bag racks. They must have been keeping piles of the free ones separately.

The free ones are being kept behind the counter. They have their own design promoting the 5p bag change, 10p ones are still at the end of the tills.

Martin Phillp wrote:The free ones are being kept behind the counter. They have their own design promoting the 5p bag change, 10p ones are still at the end of the tills.

I was given the usual 10p bag.

Tesco are withdrawing Carlsberg lines except for the 4-packs in 200 larger Tesco stores, presumably Extra and larger supermarkets.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/te ... st-6569120

This is probably old hat for Tesco customers in the rest of the country, but when I pressed the option to pay, it came up with a screen asking how many bags I was using or zero for own bags.

Martin Phillp wrote:This is probably old hat for Tesco customers in the rest of the country, but when I pressed the option to pay, it came up with a screen asking how many bags I was using or zero for own bags.

... which slows down the transaction a wee bit - I was just buying a pint of milk, and previously you could scan your item from the start screen, and insert a coin to begin the payment process. Now it spits your coin back out to ask how many bags you used - and you need to leave a pause of about a second between pressing 0 and enter.

Popped into Asda for a few bits and had my own bag, so did the old add your bag thing. At the end of the transaction I was asked how many bags I purchased! I thought none as I used my own and told it! Just selected zero and finished the sale.

Oh anyone know yet when Asda will be upgrading to accept Contactless Payment?

simonipswich wrote:Popped into Asda for a few bits and had my own bag, so did the old add your bag thing. At the end of the transaction I was asked how many bags I purchased! I thought none as I used my own and told it! Just selected zero and finished the sale.

The "I'm using my own bags" at the start has always been there, to allow the scales to measure the weight of your bags and then let you start scanning and putting things in without the "unexpected item" alert going off. (It usually still does, but that's an aside).

Asking if you've used any new bags at the end is still a valid question as your bag for life may be full, and you've had to use an additional new one - which would need paid for.

Popped into Sainsburys today, they've put the 5p bags in a box by each self-scan checkout, while 40p/50p and even £2.50 bags where on the end of staffed tills. They have a prompt also when paying asking if you've used extra bags. For some reason, they've decided to discontinue the 10p Bag for Life.

While in there, I was chatting to the security guard who said that they had numerous complaints about being overcharged as customers were scanning the 5p bags, then being charged again at the end when using the quantity of bags menu. This was rectified today.

Martin Phillp wrote:Tesco are withdrawing Carlsberg lines except for the 4-packs in 200 larger Tesco stores, presumably Extra and larger supermarkets.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/te ... st-6569120

I wondered where the Carlsberg went! A bit of an odd move that one, it has for many years been the most popular 'non premium' 4 pack in the chiller at my local express, far outstripping Fosters and Carling.

It had been marked down to £3.50 for the last couple of months, clearly a move to clear stock.

I do wonder if Stella will be next? My local express has recently cleared all the Fosters and Carling (and of course Carlsberg was already gone) out of the chiller cabinet and replaced it with nothing but discounted Stella, there is no other chilled lager available, if you want anything else it will only come at ambient temperature.

I agree that cutting the number of lines they stock may be a way forward (eg they didn't really need to carry Carlsberg in 4x440's, 4x500's, 4xpints, 8x440s (the '8 for £7' deal), 10x440s (the 'fridge pack') 12x440s and 24x440s, all of which could be sourced from various parts of Tesco's store estate) but I don't think knocking a staple 4 pack out of the expresses is really the way forward. If anything you'd expect the 4 packs to be retained at the smaller stores, not the larger stores where they won't be chilled and better deals on larger packs the small stores don't sell can be had.