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“Tesco! Tesco! Where The Best Go!” once went a song by an ex-employee (below), but while I frequent there for my main food shopping every few weeks (I have a huge USA fridge freezer), heading to Aldi and Lidl in the meantime for my weekly fruit and veg, if there’s one thing I rely upon, it’s Tesco’s reasonably strong so-called “single-use” plastic bags.
Why “so-called”? Because I use them multiple times, often to carry my lunch from home to work. Yes, they end up in the main bin, eventually, but not until they’ve been put to good use. Some people even use them as an easy way to scoop up the cat plop.
In yet another form of control on our lives, the powers that be decreed in October 2015 that we’d have to pay 5p for each bag used. Occasionally, I’d stick it to the man, take a bag and tell the machine I had zero bags. Unknowing staff wouldn’t have seen, and so I got away with my master crime!
After all, for all my life plastic bags had been free, until so-called “man-made global warming” doom-mongers moaned that we were clogging up the planet with these, as if they were ALL being thrown into the sea.
Hence, I don’t want to be decanting an entire six-weeks’ worth of shopping from my car into other bags to take into the house, and if I go for delivery, I’m sure the drivers don’t want to wait while I do the same thing.
I’ve already seen some people online say that Tesco must have to reverse this decision because shoppers will just go elsewhere due to the inconvience.
And, at Tesco, they won’t be able to recreate the carrier bag scene from American Beauty, either.
So, we’ll now have to pay 10p for a “bag for life”, which will then become 20p, and then a pound and one day, £1000! I won’t pay it!
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.