In message , Tim Streater
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In article , Tim Watts
wrote:

On 06/10/15 11:08, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
wrote:

Don't get a lot of choice with supermarket online delivery anyway -
they bag the stuff regardless.

Sainsbury's doesn't.

How does it work? The customer end of the delivery I mean?

The geezer turns up with the same set of crates as he would otherwise
have used. Meat/fish is still in smaller bags, but that's all. We've
not quite figured it out yet, but will prolly go to the front door with
our set of Tescos for-life bags, and transfer the stuff to them, take
them to the kitchen, where SWMBO verifies the delivery.


They will (or should) bring the crates into your kitchen if you want. so
you can unload directly onto the table or whatever.


(We used to verify on the fly but that held up the delivery bloke too
much, so now we see what he says about what's missing and then do an
offline compare of the delivery with the receipt. Always been right so
far).

I don't think I've ever had a missing or wrong item with deliveries,
though I suppose it must happen occasionally. but refunds etc. are
always easily arranged.

So far Waitrose and Tesco have said they will charge a flat rate 40p per
delivery for the bags if you have it in bags. Ocado are charging 5p per
bag, but will refund 5p for every bag you return (they will take other
bags, not just their own)
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On 06/10/2015 12:56, News wrote:
In message ,
Tricky Dicky writes
Whenever we placed an online order with Asda it always arrived in
loads of bags some with as little as 2 items in, I can see that being
a nice little earner.

The carrier bag charge was introduced a year ago in Scotland, yet our
home deliveries still arrive in carrier bags, which do not appear on the
receipt. The delivery chap does ask for bags to be returned for
recycling, but is quite happy for us to keep all, some or none.

Could these be the answer to plastic bags mountains?

http://www.alphr.com/bioscience/1001...andfills-maybe

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They will (or should) bring the crates into your kitchen if you want. so
you can unload directly onto the table or whatever.

This will reduce the number of deliveries that a driver can get through
because he will will have to wait for each customer who opts for bagless
delivery to empty all the shopping on to tables - and maybe to check each
item against the receipt.

Why can't supermarkets change over to biodegradable paper bags for home
delivery where you have no option to use bags for life as you would in a
store.

How will shops distinguish between a carrier bag that you take in and keep
reusing, and one that they supply: will they have cameras to watch what
people do at the self-service checkouts?

The whole policy is ill-conceived and seems regard lack of waste as being
more important than inconveniencing people. What is needed is more education
to reuse bags for other purposes: we don't throw any carrier bags away
empty - we use them all for collecting rubbish in the kitchen bin, either
for going in the dustbin or our compost heap, and only through them away
after they have served this second use. We'll have to start buying bags to
throw our rubbish away in, instead of being able to use supermarket carriers
for doing this.


Expecting people to remember to take a bag for life with them every time
they might nip into a shop for something, even unplanned, is absurd.

On 06/10/15 12:25, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
wrote:

On 06/10/15 11:08, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Tim Watts
wrote:

Don't get a lot of choice with supermarket online delivery anyway -
they bag the stuff regardless.

Sainsbury's doesn't.

How does it work? The customer end of the delivery I mean?

The geezer turns up with the same set of crates as he would otherwise
have used. Meat/fish is still in smaller bags, but that's all. We've
not quite figured it out yet, but will prolly go to the front door with
our set of Tescos for-life bags, and transfer the stuff to them, take
them to the kitchen, where SWMBO verifies the delivery.

(We used to verify on the fly but that held up the delivery bloke too
much, so now we see what he says about what's missing and then do an
offline compare of the delivery with the receipt. Always been right so
far).


Seeing as Ocado bring the crates to the door, then bring the bags in,
they could just as well bring the crates in so you could just unload on
the table.

Go to a small shop as they are still able to give them for free.
Brian

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free supply
of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Fredxxx wrote:
On 05/10/2015 22:48, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Why?

Transfer of bacteria from uncooked meat to other food and to containers.
I saw something in the paper about it.
Oh here we are
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...e-9488405.html

Bill

harry wrote:
On Monday, 5 October 2015 22:48:40 UTC+1, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.
Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Bill

Only if you don't practice proper food hygene.

Yes but no-one's perfect.

Bill

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.

That's the sort of tat I would expect close to a pikey caravan, for other
pikeys to admire.

If you had actually seen them you would not have said that.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply
of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major retailers
are
now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead cheap.
I've got loads of garden ornaments etc that have lasted for the past
three
years and still look good.

How can a group of plastic gnomes look good ?

I don't know.

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Wonder how they are going to police the
self- service checkouts?

Richard



I can only comment on Sainsbury on this, thus far. But
they'll be hard to beat.



On the self service tills there are no notices etc. but
piles of bags stacked discreetly at the side beneath
either the input or output platform.

I brought my own crumpled up orange Sainsbury jobbies.

When starting to scan everything is as normal.

I almost always refuse to use the self scan.

More fool you.

Why, I'm paying foir a service and that's what I expect not to have to do it all myself then wait for someone to OK by beer purchases, then why the special offer won't come up.


Only when choosing to pay is a message flashed up -
a) "Have You Scanned Your Bags"

With [Yes] or [No] buttons. Nothing else.

Now presumably what this garbled message is intended
to say - and be fair they've only had around 6 months
to get this right - is "have you scanned any new Sainsbury
bags you bought today".

and is there a difernce between brought and bought.

Making this simple, if I scan the bag I paid 5p for yesterday
will I again be charged 5p for the same bag.
Previously when I reused any bag, I got 1 reward point for
reusing the bag at the manned till point.




a) if the punter had scanned their bags the machine would
already know. So obviously they haven't.

good point.


b) As any bags will by now will be full of shopping wouldn't
it be better to ask the punter to scan the bag "before"
they start.

Yes and also the larger bags are heavier and the self
service till uses weight to check on each item scanner.

Irrelevant when you select the 'I brought my own bag' icon.

So what do you do when asked

a) "Have You Scanned Your Bags"

With [Yes] or [No] buttons. Nothing else.

On 06/10/2015 13:32, NY wrote:
"Chris French" wrote in message
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They will (or should) bring the crates into your kitchen if you want.
so you can unload directly onto the table or whatever.

This will reduce the number of deliveries that a driver can get through
because he will will have to wait for each customer who opts for bagless
delivery to empty all the shopping on to tables - and maybe to check
each item against the receipt.

Why can't supermarkets change over to biodegradable paper bags for home
delivery where you have no option to use bags for life as you would in a
store.

Ironically the modern plastic supermarket bags *are* biodegradable now
(after a fashion even in total darkness). The disintegrate into brittle
flakes after about 10 years judging by some in my loft.

How will shops distinguish between a carrier bag that you take in and
keep reusing, and one that they supply: will they have cameras to watch
what people do at the self-service checkouts?

Old ones tend to be very folded, creased and scruffy after a couple of
uses. We prefer a fold flat crate for a large shop. No bags at all.

The whole policy is ill-conceived and seems regard lack of waste as
being more important than inconveniencing people. What is needed is more
education to reuse bags for other purposes: we don't throw any carrier
bags away empty - we use them all for collecting rubbish in the kitchen
bin, either for going in the dustbin or our compost heap, and only
through them away after they have served this second use. We'll have to
start buying bags to throw our rubbish away in, instead of being able to
use supermarket carriers for doing this.

It is a case of "doing" something for the sake of it.

Expecting people to remember to take a bag for life with them every time
they might nip into a shop for something, even unplanned, is absurd.

You can carry one of the cheapo "5p" ones folded in a coat pocket.

It will be very interesting to see if the 80% saving materialises!

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

Or trailer parks seem to attrack the same type of person.

In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
Ironically the modern plastic supermarket bags *are* biodegradable now
(after a fashion even in total darkness). The disintegrate into brittle
flakes after about 10 years judging by some in my loft.

10 years is a long time in the sea.

They disintegrate pretty quickly outdoors in the sun. Or rather become
useless as bags. But don't disappear into nothing.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our
free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for
I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

Or trailer parks seem to attrack the same type of person.

Well, as contractor I've worked on many mobile home sites. The gardens are
beautifully kept.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our
free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for
I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

Or trailer parks seem to attrack the same type of person.

Well, as contractor I've worked on many mobile home sites. The gardens are
beautifully kept.

Aren;t they on maintance contracts we have blocks of houses were this applies it's usually a rip off service charge of £50+ per month.

On 06/10/2015 15:03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

Ironically the modern plastic supermarket bags *are* biodegradable now
(after a fashion even in total darkness). The disintegrate into brittle
flakes after about 10 years judging by some in my loft.

10 years is a long time in the sea.

They end up as fine particulates. It isn't ideal but they are nowhere
near as bad for the environment as the greens would have you believe.
Modern ones disintegrate much faster than that in UV from sunlight.

The plastic things that hold beer 6-packs are much worse for sea life.

They disintegrate pretty quickly outdoors in the sun. Or rather become
useless as bags. But don't disappear into nothing.

They are fairly inert once shredded. Though they are unsightly as
ornaments on rural hawthorn hedges where road warriors tend to throw
them. I honestly can't see things changing as 5p is nothing to them.

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In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/10/2015 15:03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Martin Brown wrote:

Ironically the modern plastic supermarket bags *are* biodegradable now
(after a fashion even in total darkness). The disintegrate into brittle
flakes after about 10 years judging by some in my loft.

10 years is a long time in the sea.

They end up as fine particulates. It isn't ideal but they are nowhere
near as bad for the environment as the greens would have you believe.
Modern ones disintegrate much faster than that in UV from sunlight.

The plastic things that hold beer 6-packs are much worse for sea life.

They disintegrate pretty quickly outdoors in the sun. Or rather become
useless as bags. But don't disappear into nothing.

They are fairly inert once shredded. Though they are unsightly as
ornaments on rural hawthorn hedges where road warriors tend to throw
them. I honestly can't see things changing as 5p is nothing to them.

As described by Bill Bryson in "Notes from a Small Island", although he was
actually commenting on the bushes outside Liverpoll Station rather than
rural hedges

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They are fairly inert once shredded. Though they are unsightly as
ornaments on rural hawthorn hedges where road warriors tend to throw
them. I honestly can't see things changing as 5p is nothing to them.

Experience in other countries does seem to suggest their use has fallen
dramatically after charging started. Although not sure if it lists how
many extra bin bags are in use. Or sales of s**t bags for those with dogs.

I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car
boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need one
expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this.
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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

If this "stupid idea" reduces the number of carrier bags blowing in the
trees up to a mile from our local tip, from 000s to shall I say 00s,
then it will have been worthwhile.

It's not a stupid idea Bill: it's the only way, in the dimension of
plastic bags, of counteracting stupid people.

And BTW Bill: please, PLEASEn PUH-LEASE stop reading the Daily Mail (or
whatever tabloid you got the stupid idea, above, from).

John

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On 05/10/2015 22:48, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Apparently we can expect a doubling of cases of food poisoning as a
result of this stupid idea.

Why?

It would make a great Daily Mail-style headline.

Apart from that, no reason at all.

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On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

On 06/10/2015 09:53, whisky-dave wrote:

No good to me, I guiss if you're saving the enviroment by driving around in a car it's OK. But there's no where on a bus I can leave bags of that size I can just manage 3 ordinary carrier bags they fit between my feet.

What's wrong with providing your own rather sturdier bag? I'd use a
rucksack, or there's the classic shopping trolley.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !

http://www.carrierbagshop.co.uk/plas...rier-bags.html
http://www.polybags.co.uk/shop/cheap...vest_c1055.htm

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writes

Expecting people to remember to take a bag for life with them every time
they might nip into a shop for something, even unplanned, is absurd.

You can carry one of the cheapo "5p" ones folded in a coat pocket.

It will be very interesting to see if the 80% saving materialises!

Well, going on the figures where they have already had such a charge,
it's seems quite likely.


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In message , Martin Brown
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Expecting people to remember to take a bag for life with them every time
they might nip into a shop for something, even unplanned, is absurd.

You can carry one of the cheapo "5p" ones folded in a coat pocket.

It's not whether you can carry them in a pocket that's the problem. It's
remembering to put it in your pocket when you get out of your car,
especially if you hadn't even intended to go shopping and then happen to see
a supermarket and think "I'll just get X" which soon turns into load of
other things as well.

When I bought a few things in Morrisons this evening, using my own shopping
bag which I found in the car boot, I used a self-service till and I noticed
that the till asked me how many bags I'd have use (even though it asked me
up front whether I was using my own bag to which I'm sure I answered yes).
What would have stopped me saying I'd used fewer Morrisons bags that I
really had? Spots checks by staff?

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.


Which visitors admire them?

Friends.
Family.
Neighbours.
They have all commented on them.

Your turn:


I should imagine your neighbours visitors first comment when they visit them
is "Who the **** lives in that house with the ****e all over his fence? -
looks a right **** that does"

I would also expect your friends and familys first comment to each other as
they pull away in their car after visiting you to be "**** me - did you see
his fence? - looks a right **** that does - but I did not want to say
anything to upset him"

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for
I think the past three years and visitors still admire them.


Which visitors admire them?

Friends.
Family.
Neighbours.
They have all commented on them.

Your turn:

Oh dear. You still haven't realised that the usual "that's nice!"
enthusiastically uttered by an English person roughly translates to
"bwahahaha!"

As he only allows white English visitors to his house so this must be true.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our
free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there
for I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

Or trailer parks seem to attrack the same type of person.

Well, as contractor I've worked on many mobile home sites. The gardens are
beautifully kept.


They consist of astro turf and gravel.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there for
I think the past three years and visitors still admire them.


Which visitors admire them?

Friends.
Family.
Neighbours.
They have all commented on them.

Your turn:


I should imagine your neighbours visitors first comment when they visit
them is "Who the **** lives in that house with the ****e all over his
fence? - looks a right **** that does"

I would also expect your friends and familys first comment to each other
as they pull away in their car after visiting you to be "**** me - did you
see his fence? - looks a right **** that does - but I did not want to say
anything to upset him"


You imagine and expect wrongly.
I was once told that my front garden was "The best in the street".
You see Adam, I do not live on a stinking ******** council estate as you do.
One day you just might grow a pair of balls and buy your own home. But as
you are not too intelligent I doubt that this will happen.
Did you get charged with assault when you attacked that apprentice?
Do tell us.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our
free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there
for
I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

Or trailer parks seem to attrack the same type of person.

Well, as contractor I've worked on many mobile home sites. The gardens are
beautifully kept.

Aren;t they on maintance contracts we have blocks of houses were this
applies it's usually a rip off service charge of £50+ per month.

Doubtful as I've seen the owners of the mobile homes working on their
gardens.

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OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our
free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

Roll of 50 bags is a quid at Poundshop.

Do you do all your shopping at Poundshop?

Nope, not been there for months. It would seem that the major
retailers
are now matching or getting close to their prices.
It was good fun going there though, you can get garden stuff dead
cheap.

You mean for a quid?


Amongst other decorations:
Two large plastic butterflies for a quid.
Two large plastic ladybirds for a quid.
I have six of each on the back garden fences. They have been there
for I
think the past three years and visitors still admire them.
Bloody big plant pots at a quid each.

If they last that long and haven't been stolen that should tell you
something ;-)

There are no council estates round here.

Or trailer parks seem to attrack the same type of person.

Well, as contractor I've worked on many mobile home sites. The gardens
are beautifully kept.


They consist of astro turf and gravel.


Not the sites that I've visited.

"Clive George" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

I have a wheelie bin liner in the plastic/glass/tin bin and one in the
gardening bin.
They stop the inside of the bin getting full of ****.
We put the everyday rubbish in sealed plastic bags and put it in the
errrrrrr, every day wheelie bin.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car
boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need one
expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this.
;-)

+1

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.

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Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

On 06/10/2015 17:57, Clive George wrote:
On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

Tell that to mine which slapped such a notice on my wheelie bin.

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Regards,
Martin Brown

Clive George wrote:
On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

Our council uses wheelie bins (four different ones), and I've not heard
anything about tied plastic bags for dust. Does "dust" mean from the
vacuum cleaner or from the fire grate?

--
Mike Barnes
Cheshire, England

michael adams wrote

I eat four large eggs per week. Always free range. Formerly from
Sainsbury until the yolks started breaking. Then from Lidl, around
the corner from Sainsbury around 50p less. Until those yolks started
breaking as well and there was a break in supply. None on the shelves.
Tried Aldi instead, definitely no broken yolks for the same price.

Continuity of supply. Don't the dopes at Lidl and elsewhere
realise that punters will carry on buying a slightly inferior
product week after week, maybe even at an uncompetitive price,
from the same shop simply out of habit and convenience ?
Run out of stock and they will be forced to go elsewhere
where they may find a slightly better product. Or the same
at a cheaper price. Which they'll now buy from there from now on.

Both Aldi and Lidl don’t even attempt to provide
everything the normal shopper wants to buy.

Yes, that is an unusual approach, but it clearly works for them profit wise.

Aldi doesn’t even routinely stock something as basic as chutney,
just has an occasional chutney offer and very little choice with
anything they offer, its what is on the shelf or go elsewhere.

On 06/10/2015 19:52, Mike Barnes wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
I've been using decent re-usable ones for years. Keep them in the car
boot. Mainly because they are strong enough for the job. You only need
one
expensive bottle to break when a bag fails to realise the sense in this.
;-)

+1

The bags I bought eight years ago are showing no signs of giving up.

I also find it quicker and easier to transfer shopping in two or three
decent bags than a dozen flimsy ones, and stuff doesn't escape in the boot.

Agreed.

On 05/10/2015 22:47, Bill Wright wrote:
sm_jamieson wrote:
OK, where can I buy carrier bags for less than 5 pence ? Our free
supply of kitchen bin bags has ended !
Simon.

When they first announced this stupid idea I started saving Morrisons
bags. I have two tea chests full.


Now petrol prices are lower I'm saving a couple of hundred litres in my
bath.


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mailto: news {at} admac {dot] myzen {dot} co {dot} uk

On 06/10/2015 19:53, Martin Brown wrote:
On 06/10/2015 17:57, Clive George wrote:
On 06/10/2015 08:51, Martin Brown wrote:

Since almost every local authority insists that you cannot put dust in a
dustbin without putting it in a tied plastic bag the whole concept of
the supermarket bag charging scheme is deeply flawed.

How many LAs use wheelie bins these days? They don't need a tied plastic
bag.

Tell that to mine which slapped such a notice on my wheelie bin.

http://www.cravendc.gov.uk/article/6...-domestic-bins

There's my LA's page on the matter.

Got the equivalent for your LA?

If yours says tied plastic bags, the next question is which is more
popular. You did say "almost every local authority" - did you actually
mean "my local authority"?