Plastic bag ban causes more...

[XCashier]

Quoth TheSHAD0W

...shoplifting?

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/artic...re-4314744.php

Oh joy. Our town is banning the bags very soon, and I just know that's going to open up an ugly can of worms. Aside from the shoplifting, I don't doubt the SCs will be screaming at us about the bag ban, as if we personally banned the bags.

[Dreamstalker]

Myself and my CWs are already getting screamed at about the bag ban...part of the fallout (concurrent with a 'failed' mystery shop, so I'm not sure if it actually has anything to do with my town's ban) is that Corp has decided that my store is using too many plastic bags, so cashiers can only ask for bags when they sign on a register, vacant registers aren't allowed to have bags on the racks and no double-bagging unless a customer asks. Of course we've had some already figure out that even if they have two items they can 'ask' for triple plastic (I took great glee in flat-out refusing such a demand last night)

Of course, on the self-scam registers any restriction on bags is all but impossible to enforce.

[fireheart]

Quoth Chromatix

A very quick reminder of the situation in Finland:

Small, thin bags - designed for fruit/veg but also available at checkout - are free. These are useful for carrying lunch or separating goods but little else. Likewise small paper bags for bakery goods or sweets, but these are kept only near the respective products.

Big, strong bags - whether plastic, paper, bioplastic or cloth - are charged for, and can be bought at the checkout. The standard plastic bags comfortably hold as much as you can carry in one hand, and are very reusable, so they're worth the money.

Baskets and trolleys are available and habitually used at supermarkets. If you brought a bag with you, you pull it out at the checkout and not before. LP chaps probably take an interest in you otherwise. I tend to bring old bottles and cans for recycling in a bag, but after unloading them, it goes in the bottom of the basket.

This is pretty much identical to the situation in my state.

People still bitched about them.

[bhskittykatt]

We've had our ban since last July, and many stores have put LARGE signs reminding people to use handbaskets or carts and not their reusables for shopping, for this very reason.

I often carry my bag, because if I put it in the handbasket or cart it of course ends up at the bottom which makes it difficult to fish out at checkout. Of course, my bag I'm carrying is balled up in a wad and is very obviously empty.

Quoth PepperElf

i dunno about plastic-ban areas but here, we still ahve plastic bags for product etc - cos you don't want a bunch of grapes dancing on your other groceries willy-nilly. some stores also have them in the meat dept but if they don't then we just use the produce onces

With our ban (and many others I'm sure), plastic is banned in retail stores at checkout but the small bags for produce and meat are exempt from this.

[Estil]

Quoth bhskittykatt

With our ban (and many others I'm sure), plastic is banned in retail stores at checkout but the small bags for produce and meat are exempt from this.

Those little meat bags just don't do the job, especially the larger meat/poultry packs.

[shopgirl15]

If they intended to steal in the first place, they would bring reusable bags regardless of a plastic bag ban or not.