Charging for carrier bags!

[Churchill]

Having run shops for 8 years. Once coming runner up as best gift shop in the UK, being praised in the local press for excellent customer service & extremely friendly & helpful I reserve the right to be a miserable bastard when I shop. A smile, a joke, even some acknowledgement would be nice. It seriously winds me up poor customer service especially these large chains. Only poor bar service winds me up more.

You need to go on an anger management course.

Seriously, all this because you've been trapped into marriage?

[BoredBloke]

I reuse all my plastic bags and have not needed to buy bin bags in years!

[AtW]

Why should people like me, who have reusable canvas bags and/or a rucksack, subsidise the disorganised ?

If you don't like it shop somewhere else like Aldi.

HTH

[The Spartan]

It seriously winds me up poor customer service especially these large chains. Only poor bar service winds me up more.

I agree with you on the poor customer service too many large chains think it's a given that you'll shop with them and don't care about your business these days it's downright deplorable.

[doodab]

If you don't like it shop somewhere else like Aldi.

HTH

Oooh, that reminds me now I have a car and I can go and check out the quality of beer in lidl.

[d000hg]

Having run shops for 8 years. Once coming runner up as best gift shop in the UK, being praised in the local press for excellent customer service & extremely friendly & helpful I reserve the right to be a miserable bastard when I shop. A smile, a joke, even some acknowledgement would be nice. It seriously winds me up poor customer service especially these large chains. Only poor bar service winds me up more.

What do you want the guy to do when it transpires you don't have change? His line manager could easily fire him for giving bags away.

I suppose if I were there in the queue I'd just give you 1/5p if I had it - that nobody offered says worse about our society than the customer service.

[The Spartan]

Money's tight, look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves

[MarillionFan]

You need to go on an anger management course.

Seriously, all this because you've been trapped into marriage?

I could become friends with Derek Chisora.

[The Spartan]

I could become friends with Derek Chisora.

That guy is something else, I can hear him now "whatcha mean I gotta pay for a carrier bag, don't cha know who I am? carry on and I'll merc ya blud"

[TimberWolf]

Sainsbury's sell pocket carrier bags for a £1 that fold up to next to nothing and, once you've strengthened the handle attachments with a bit of deft sewing, work really great. The handles are just about big enough to stick an arm through too (once the handles are beefed up) so you can carry hands-free and say goodbye to squished fingers from the thin plastic tear-prone tulip.