Sainsbury's Bag for Life Now 20p
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So Sainsbury's has doubled the price of their bag for life - from 10p to 20p - which has annoyed a lot of shoppers
But I guess if they want to encourage people to reuse the bags they already have, it’s the right move?
Does this increase annoy you?
I actually think this is a good move, and the higher the better as it discourages people from disposing their bags on the ground like rubbish. I have been noticing a lot less of this problem since supermarkets started charging for their bags.
I agree. I’ve not ever needed to buy bags even when they were only 5p, and there was definitely more bags flying around on streets when bags were cheaper.
When I was in Morrisons this week the bag for life was 30p. I have loads in the house and only buy them when i need to replace ones that have broken and then recycle them. It doesn't bother me.
Yes I was shocked yesterday to pay 30p in Morrisons, just bought more than expected and needed an additional bag.
By now you would think they would have come up with a proper recyclable or compostable bag.
Not sure whether the supermarkets have caught onto this as an easy profit maker, originally proceeds were supposed to go to charities, but you hear no mention of than anymore and no information or figures published to show this happens anymore.
It doesn't bother me. I hardly buy bags now. I have a few bags in car boot all the time. You can buy foldable cloth style ones from primark for a couple quid, I have a couple of those in my bag or coat pocket all the time. I do occasionally get caught short but not very often.
I didn't think it was compulsory to buy bags at a supermarket, I thought it was that you only bought one if you wanted to buy one and you could choose where you bought your shopping bags from.
Perhaps I'm living in the past but can clearly remember that at one time, if you wanted a bag to take your shopping home in, you took a bag with you.
Bags have NEVER been free - the price, before the current compulsory charge, was hidden in the price of goods. Many will remember that shops who charged for plastic bags before a charge was compulsory (there were quite a few) had lower prices.
I don't mind paying if the bags last. I bought one last week and when I picked up my shopping the handle came off. I didn't even have heavy items.
I thought that if you bought a ‘bag for life’ bag and it was faulty, the supermarkets would replace them free of charge?
I think Sainsbury’s also charge for bags to weigh your vegetables in. I bought unpackaged onions so just did the self weigh and popped to price on one of the onions.
Yes, they now use those netted bags for fresh produce, and I think those bags are about 30p. They can be used again and again
Same as Morrison's and to be honest it needed to be done. Why not just ban plastic bags all together!!
I can understand the reasons but I really hope they dont just ban the bags as some of us need them. I know that I will have to pay more and thats ok - just dont ban them!
I always take cotton reusable bags or the paper bags from Morrisons, our local Morrison’s charges around 30p for a paper bag, and the problem isn’t even with paper it’s with plastic.
I begrudged paying 5p 
but it was a good thing because now I always have bags in the car! so I totally understand the reasoning of it but if they really wanted to reduce plastic why not just only offer paper bags like Primark do?
A friend of my mum told us that her husband brought the shopping home in the supermarket hand basket because he refused to pay for carrier bags. Poor lady had to take it back very embarrassed
I think that’s what happened in my local Tesco when they started charging for bags - all the baskets went missing. Now all the baskets have security tags
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