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Coles have reversed their plastic bags decision, will start handing them out again

Old Aug 21st 2018, 9:51 am
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Originally Posted by Dreamy
Look, MP, go and do something suitable for a little lady like washing your smalls or making dinner or something, and leave the big boy discussions to the big boys.

Okay?

It's obviously why the UK supermarkets are in the terrible situation they're in and why no one goes food shopping there.
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Old Aug 21st 2018, 10:14 am
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Originally Posted by Dorothy
Perfectly true, we never go shopping to UK supermarkets now, think of having to take a bag to put your shopping in, positively antedeluvian, I mean our mothers had to do things like that, and the fact that UK supermarkets don't have plastic bags available now, I mean shoppers are just going elsewhere in droves, you see them everyday in Tescos and the Co-op,

Seriously though supermarkets are still making big profits, even though they don't give away any plastic bags, well apart from ones to wrap meat etc in to stop them leaking into your reusable shopping bag, even plastic packaging of goods is being reduced.
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Old Aug 21st 2018, 10:52 am
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Default Re: Coles have reversed their plastic bags decision, will start handing them out

Originally Posted by Dreamy
Look, MP, go and do something suitable for a little lady like washing your smalls or making dinner or something, and leave the big boy discussions to the big boys.

Okay?

It's obviously why the UK supermarkets are in the terrible situation they're in and why no one goes food shopping there.
My apologies. I'm running out of food and it's doing silly things to my brain. Where's the best place to shop where I can be given 'free' shite bags that split the second you put a cucumber in them? I need food.
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Old Aug 23rd 2018, 3:08 am
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Default Re: Coles have reversed their plastic bags decision, will start handing them out

Originally Posted by moneypenny20
My apologies. I'm running out of food and it's doing silly things to my brain. Where's the best place to shop where I can be given 'free' shite bags that split the second you put a cucumber in them? I need food.
Takeaway shops still put your food in a free carrier.
It's the only way forward.
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Originally Posted by Dreamy
Takeaway shops still put your food in a free carrier.
It's the only way forward.
Good plan Stan.
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Default Re: Coles have reversed their plastic bags decision, will start handing them out

Makes you wonder how Aldi did it in this country eh

Bet they are feeling very buoyant now after this bag debacle.

I do wonder if some people have turned back to the small independents on the high streets and small shopping strips in the interim.
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Old Aug 23rd 2018, 4:35 am
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Default Re: Coles have reversed their plastic bags decision, will start handing them out

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
Makes you wonder how Aldi did it in this country eh

Bet they are feeling very buoyant now after this bag debacle.
Interesting thing is that Asda don't really have baskets. You either carry a few bits, or you have a trolley and do a 'main shop'. That would tie up with them not going after the 'top up' shop market in the first place - the market that the data shows Woolies have lost much of because they couldn't make sense of the behavioural drivers behind bags.

Originally Posted by ozzieeagle
I do wonder if some people have turned back to the small independents on the high streets and small shopping strips in the interim.
People will adapt, one way or the other. Thing is, in the UK, you got the garage 'express' shop that took up a main focus on the top up shop, coupled with the M&S version of same. They have been trying to get up the 'metro' stores here, but they really need to solve their old bag problem if they are to be able to make it take over what the main supermarkets have lost.

It'll be interesting to see if the Aldi finance figures mirror the Woolies ones, and what Coles are doing. Citi analyst Bryan Raymond has suggested that Coles’ like-for-like sales could be boosted by 50 to 100 basis points this quarter, off the back of Woolies making the mess they have admitted to, Coles still providing free bags, and because of the plastic "Little Shop" tokens they have been doing well with (which kind of gives the lie to them caring about the amount of plastic pollution the produce).
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Old Aug 23rd 2018, 10:12 am
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Default Re: Coles have reversed their plastic bags decision, will start handing them out

Originally Posted by GarryP
RIGHT business decision by Coles, and one I predicted when they first started doing complimentary bags. Kind of hard to stop without giving up business advantage, as Woolies will find. I expect Woolies will fall into line, and there's a reasonable chance that they will have to extend to South Australia, Tasmania, etc.

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We've been paying for plastic bags for years in SA. Doubt they'll suddenly start giving them away for free, when it's worked perfectly well here.
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We've been paying for plastic bags for years in SA. Doubt they'll suddenly start giving them away for free, when it's worked perfectly well here.
We all know you secretly pop over the border to more civilised states to get your bits and pieces.
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We all know you secretly pop over the border to more civilised states to get your bits and pieces.
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The government should step in with a blanket ban on any single use plastics, if they're only designed to make life a little more convenient then stuff what people think. They're being asked to take their own bags not hand over a kidney for god's sake. Single use shite is the scourge of our planet, animals literally starving to death, unable to eat because their stomachs are full of plastic. SMH.
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The government should step in with a blanket ban on any single use plastics, if they're only designed to make life a little more convenient then stuff what people think. They're being asked to take their own bags not hand over a kidney for god's sake. Single use shite is the scourge of our planet, animals literally starving to death, unable to eat because their stomachs are full of plastic. SMH.
It's only really NSW holding out on a total ban. All other States and Territories now have a blanket ban on them. Victoria have some weird need to keep them until the end of 2019 whilst NSW can't live without them apparently..
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It's only really NSW holding out on a total ban. All other States and Territories now have a blanket ban on them. Victoria have some weird need to keep them until the end of 2019 whilst NSW can't live without them apparently..
It's all the dog poo we have to pick up.
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It's all the dog poo we have to pick up.
And then hang from a tree?
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