Did you see T***o advert last night?

[Han&Matt]

I was watching a programme on primary school kids learning to interact/play nicely (whilst reading Alan Carr...).

In a break there was a T***o advert promoting a 'carry a bag' campaign - "we all know we use too many carrier bags..." - showing BBC favourites doing a T***o shop with an appropriate receptacle:

Alan Titchmarsh - wheelbarrow
Paul Daniels - top hat

etc.

Well well. Wanted to be cynical as not a T***o fan, but at least it's a step...?

[Shirley]

I'm not a T***o fan either but yes... it IS a step in the right direction and they reckoned to have saved on the use of about 1 million carrier bags over the first 3 days (I posted about it on here somewhere I think).

It's bringing the information into thousands of homes too - whether they shop at T***o or not it might just encourage folk to bring their own bags.... LIKE THE SELFSUFFICIENTISH ONES - I've got mine!

[Han&Matt]

I thought there might already be a posting on the campaign - just it was the first time I had heard of T***o joining in last night.

I give away my plastic bags to my local garden centre who reuse them and try to carry a bag - memories of shopping as a child includes my mother's shopping basket which was enormous! Mind you, she never went to supermarkets - we've always been lucky with available farmers markets as we lived in rural midlands.

I truly hope this catches on and wish they would just not offer plastics - we'd soon change our ways then!

Well done the pioneers!

(By the way, is it a manx cat on your signature? He's very handsome)

[Martin]

not that I'm a cynic or anything, but this is a way for them to save a small fortune on buying the blessed "one trip" bags, and making us pay for reusable ones!
The end result may be to the good, but I doubt their motives are in the least altruistic!

[Shirley]

You are probably right Martin, but it's still waking up the nation to using fewer bags....

[Imp]

I agree that there may be a hidden agenda. I have my shopping delivered

They say their delivery people will ask for any bags from the last shop to take back, in reality and over the past couple of years I've only been asked twice and unless I have them ready to go their delivery bods are off like a shot !

There you go, take it out of that T***o :violent2: !

[red]

oh i used T***o delivery once when my son was ill for two weeks - they put two items per bag - i had billions.

in fact I still have them. slowly wearing them out with repeated use.....

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[The Chili Monster]

Martin wrote:

not that I'm a cynic or anything, but this is a way for them to save a small fortune on buying the blessed "one trip" bags, and making us pay for reusable ones!

Either that or they are trying to prempt a plastax.

[hedgewizard]

Exactly that, I think. These points are worth... what? Not much matey, and it should stall the legislators for a year or five. And it makes it look as if they're doing something, and they get the publicity - but hey!

So - bravo but not if it stops the government from dealing with the problem wholesale!

[gav1011]

I work at tescos. My store saved 5000 bags last week, although just last night we were ordered to put 216,000 bags down the waste compactor because the boxes they were in were broken, these were brand new bags and "they didnt have the storage space to store them" that means that store has to do 43 weeks of reusing bags just to recouperate the ones that they sent to a landfill site recently. They are not considering the environment they are just making you the customer beleive they are.

[Andy Hamilton]

bloody hell Gav, that does not surprise me at all. What a waste!

I feel a letter coming on, I won't get you into trouble if I email T***o will I?

[baldowrie]

you only get points on the number of bag that aren't T***o new plastic bags, ie you take 2 you get 2 points. You are also 'encourage' to buy their bags for life, which in the past experience I have had with them they break after the second use.

So I impressed them well by taking bags from other well know supermarkets last itime I went shopping They were very keen for me to take their carrier bags!

[The Chili Monster]

Well, an Asda branch in Brighton is selling bags for life. You may have noticed the little notices at the checkout. If you strain your eyeballs near out-of-shape, that is.

[PurpleDragon]

I shopped twice at T***o last week. Both times, I took hessian bags with me and neither time was I given green points.

The wifey in front of my was running back and forward to the next till to get bags for life, so that she didn't have the normal carrier bags.

[Ranter]

I don't shop at T***o, but a friend was telling me that she does & has always used her own bags. Since these green points were launched she hasn't been offered any. Finally she waived her bag in front of the till operator's face & asked for her extra points.

I do some mystery shopping & have done a few jobs at T***o Extra stores. I took my own bag each time, which I held in front of me, but still had to ask for shopping NOT to be put into a carrier bag. The last time I had to say 3 times that I didn't need a carrier bag. With giving out bags being a necessary part of the job for so long, it'll be a while for the change to permeate to all areas of such a vast organisation.

This reversal of policy is just greenwash, as Gav so clearly illustrated.