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Home » Reader Submission » Reader submission: No plastic bags in Tesco Lotus on 4 April
I was in a Tesco Lotus last month and saw a notice board at the checkout saying no free plastic bags will be provided on the 4th day of the month.
Now I am back in the Netherlands. So I can't experience it.
What I wonder is how the customers get their stuff home? In 99% of the cases I think from the cash register to the car first. Few customers will come by bike or on foot. But is that possible without plastic bags? Do customers suddenly take a reusable bag with them on every 4th day of the month? Do they put everything back in the shopping cart piecemeal? And then they load it back in the trunk?
I'd actually like to see it. Intention: go shopping at a TescoLotus on the 4th of a month.
By the way, I think it's a good idea. Maybe it could be better, but every little bit helps.
Submitted by René Chiangmai
I have resolved to always shop at Tesco Lotus on the 4th of the month from now on.
It will be a lot quieter, wonderfully relaxed. Alex
One can of course buy a reusable bag on site. Big C does the same every 4th of the month.
Indeed, and instead of mentioning that at the entrance, they don't do that again in Thai, of course, but only at the checkout. So it happened that on February 4th my brother and I both arrived at the band at the Big C in Pattaya with a full basket of groceries, after which the cashier pointed out the announcement to us. Just leave the messages on the tape and run away pfff, some things I will never understand.
why on earth only on the 4th day of the month and not EVERY day?
I don't see the logic in that...
Customers have to get used to these new measures, where plastic bags will disappear completely at a later stage.
At some 7/11, different colored waste bins are set up to separate the waste.
You will then receive a paper bag. In Top Market anyway.
Nice, but not much better, even more damaging to the environment.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/02/24/papieren-tas-vervuilt-meer-dan-plastic-tas-1591560-a523843
Villa Market sets a good example and has no plastic bags at all!!
That must be from the last month…
Now the last time I was at Lotus on the plastic free day. I didn't know it was just a day. Everyone just drove their shopping cart to the car.
I always have shopping bags with me and complimented this action, but thought it applied to every day. Shame.
Never been to the Makro, especially there you never get bags all over the world.
At my 7-eleven they sell paper bags at the checkout for a few bahts (forgot the price) instead of the free plastic bags. It's nice that they have a replacement for the plastic.
When I bring my bags from home, they no longer look surprised. Still last year. Not anymore this year. I am no longer in Phuket, have never been able to ask if it works.
We had abolished those paper bags to save the forests.
The bald-cutting of it will now accelerate.
Besides, those paper bags hate rain.
Things are difficult if you don't do your shopping with your own car.
With your groceries from the department store loose in the back of the taxi to the next department store, and then?
If you don't go to the city every day, you buy too much stuff to bring your own bag from home.
What a terrible problem. No more plastic bags on every 4th of the month. Dear Rene, ever heard of a shopping bag. You can then put your things in there and with that bag you walk to the car and your problem is solved. Very simple isn't it?
Well, we can say that Thailand has a huge plastic (waste) problem. The plastics industry apparently has a big finger in the pie and no one is doing anything about it. They do not want cigarette butts on the beach anymore, you will be amazed every now and then!
Millions of plastic bags are given away every day, out of a population of about 70 million. After shopping I sometimes came home with more than 20 bags. I have now bought an (inflatable) cool box with six cooling elements from the freezer and a few shopping bags.
Works fine! At Tesco Lotus in Pattaya they place all groceries in the bag and cool box. Do say in advance: Mai au tung ka/krap (no bag please). There's nothing wrong with setting a good example, I think.
Almost every shop assistant where I came to the checkout this year with only 1-2-3 products asked me “เอา ถุง ไหม” [au thǒeng mái]: “Do you want a bag?”. So I didn't even have to say that I didn't need a bag (thǒeng). A polite 'mâi au (thǒeng) (kháp/khâ)' will suffice. “Don't need a (bag) (polite word)”. 🙂
In Makro (Thailand) this has been the case for years and I don't see any problem there. I always have a few collapsible plastic bins in the trunk of the car. That's where all the little things go. The larger ones can go straight into the suitcase and the meat products in a cool box. For me there is no need to give free plastic bags, I would even refuse them. I regret that it is now only 1 day a month at Tesco, I would prefer it to be like this every day and preferably also at 7/11 because those are the plastic bag specialists.
tesco: you will also receive extra points on your Bonat(=bonus) card if you spontaneously decide not to use plastic bags. And: should a Belgian / NLer really ask that? Never seen an ordinary shopping bag before? The use of those free things decreases drastically as soon as some money / benefits are asked for it. In some countries, this type of plastic is already completely banned. In addition, Tesco sells strong bags for long-term use - incidentally at much too high prices (compared to here in NL). Unfortunately, that doesn't include Gucci or Versace—perhaps that would spur a huge uptick in sales.
Again the only surviving foreigners are at the forefront of this. There is also something similar with BigC, but much more limited. At the 7, Thai is simply packing everything in the usual far too large amount of bags, farang is asked if they can do without.
But who are you supporting with that? CP-ALL by making them even more profit or that miljeu?
We always take a shopping bag with us to the supermarket. At first they thought it was strange that we had our own bag with us. Now they are used to it at the ripping in changmai. Small effort and a normal bag does not break so quickly. Maybe just an expense and always think about it to take him.
People who go shopping can also bring their own shopping bag just like before! Not only in Thailand but everywhere in the world where plastic is thrown!!!
I got everything neatly in a big paper bag / hard to carry the 1st time. but yeah.
The 2nd time, last month, there were no paper bags in Tesco Udomsuk, Bangkok, and the plastic bags were also put away.
Because I didn't have a bag with me, the problems started.
Since it took too long for a solution, I said keep your groceries, and come back tomorrow.
But yes this is amazing Thailand, they still have a lot to learn.
Dear Gerrit,
Not them, but you still have to learn to bring your own bag. Then you will never have such a problem again.
True / I had also bought a shopping bag at the same Tesco before.
But with that ever-changing student staff, they want to put the same bag on the checkout again and again.
I find it a great inconvenience that plastic bags are no longer given. You go for a few hours walking or cycling in the early afternoon and when you go home you stop by the store to do some shopping. It is inconvenient to have to carry a reusable bag with you all that time. And at home, where should I store my kitchen waste? I'm not going to walk to the side of the road every time to chop it in my bin.
Still dragging Pat, what kind of bag do you have? Buy one that you can fold up and put in your pocket. Not seeing problems where they aren't.
What is it with those Thai supermarkets? 1x per month no plastic bags and the other days yes. A very hypocritical approach to the huge problem.
Just NO free plastic bags, nor plastic straws and cups. Everyone can bring their own bag, right?
And a paper bag is not a good alternative.
What a whining about plastic bags!!
A hypocritical approach?
If you take the bags with you and put the waste in them at home, what is a problem, so we leave the bags as they are then we buy PLASTIC to put in the garbage oh yes then the mountain of plastic will be smaller wow.
I see few people take the bin to the road and the junk via bins (of which the necessary is thrown next to it, nice if it is next to your house.) go to the dump truck,
a mess is also made in large plastic bags. OH yes raising the entire population yes haha.