braindrainedAsh
Journalist
I work at coles and I HATE it when idiots want a bag for something small.... especially if they are carrying a hand bag or something that I can see it would easily fit in to.
Another category of people that annoy me are the ones that bring those wheelie shopping carts/sacks that they are obviously going to wheel all the way home, yet they want me to put their groceries in bags.... hello, you should just stack it straight in to the thing without bags!! What a waste!
Another, are people who bring green bags, get their groceries in plastic bags, and then put them INSIDE the green bags. WTF!
And the people who want EVERYTHING double bagged even though some of the bags are really light.
Also, the people who want massive things like 16-roll packs of toilet paper shoved in a plastic bag when it is quite apparent that they are just going to put their stuff in their car and take it home. The handles are almost useless on plastic bags when you shove a big thing in.
Also, some items have handles, such as the 30 packs of Coca Cola. Yet people want me to try and shove it in a bag for them.... WTF?
I think there needs to be more public education (or ridicule) of these people...... we will never solve this unless we either eliminate bags in supermarkets, and charge people money for the use of plastic bags. Green bags could just end up another pollutant as someone else said, they are made of plastic which takes just as long to biodegrade as plastic bags. The polymer used in green bags is a byproduct of petroleum production. Why don't they use something that will actually break down and is less harmful for the environment? Like calico? I'm sure they could make a bag that was equally as strong out of calico.
Another category of people that annoy me are the ones that bring those wheelie shopping carts/sacks that they are obviously going to wheel all the way home, yet they want me to put their groceries in bags.... hello, you should just stack it straight in to the thing without bags!! What a waste!
Another, are people who bring green bags, get their groceries in plastic bags, and then put them INSIDE the green bags. WTF!
And the people who want EVERYTHING double bagged even though some of the bags are really light.
Also, the people who want massive things like 16-roll packs of toilet paper shoved in a plastic bag when it is quite apparent that they are just going to put their stuff in their car and take it home. The handles are almost useless on plastic bags when you shove a big thing in.
Also, some items have handles, such as the 30 packs of Coca Cola. Yet people want me to try and shove it in a bag for them.... WTF?
I think there needs to be more public education (or ridicule) of these people...... we will never solve this unless we either eliminate bags in supermarkets, and charge people money for the use of plastic bags. Green bags could just end up another pollutant as someone else said, they are made of plastic which takes just as long to biodegrade as plastic bags. The polymer used in green bags is a byproduct of petroleum production. Why don't they use something that will actually break down and is less harmful for the environment? Like calico? I'm sure they could make a bag that was equally as strong out of calico.