{"id":13,"date":"2004-04-17T19:42:08","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T19:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/applecrumble.wordpress.com\/2004\/04\/17\/shopping-bags\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:18:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:18:17","slug":"shopping-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/04\/17\/shopping-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping bags"},"content":{"rendered":"
Why oh why does every shop seem to think that I need a massive bag for every individual thing that I buy? I think I’m turning into a grumpy old man as every shopping trip seems to get me grumbling these days. Heal’s<\/a> on Tottenham Court Road was the worst offender today; I saw the checkout girl going for an elaborate shopping bag in which to place a small box of shower curtain rings so I quickly tried to head her off by saying “Don’t worry about a bag, thanks.” Somehow between my lips and her ears this must have transformed into “A small paper bag for me, thanks.”<\/p>\n

I’ve even taken to carrying around a couple of spare plastic bags with me in my main work bag just in case I pop into the supermarket on the way home. There’s really no need for us to pick these up all the time and it annoys me when I see people taking a billion of them for just a few items. Are we all just too lazy these days?<\/p>\n

I’d love to think that the UK will follow in Ireland’s footsteps<\/a> but the only way I see this happening is if the Government places a mandatory tax on the bags. There’s no way that one of the big supermarkets would start charging for them as they would simply drive customers away. I know that a lot of people have to watch their pennies so putting a tax on bags may not be popular but people don’t really have much of an excuse not to re-use them<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Why oh why does every shop seem to think that I need a massive bag for every individual thing that I buy? I think I’m turning into a grumpy old man as every shopping trip seems to get me grumbling these days. Heal’s on Tottenham Court Road was the worst offender today; I saw the […]<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"local","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-london","7":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2004\/05\/02\/threads-again\/","url_meta":{"origin":13,"position":0},"title":"Threads again","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"2 May 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I finally got around to watching my Threads DVD last night. 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