Yes they are in plastic bags everywhere but at least that’s recyclable (not that it makes it right mind). Morrisons is the best of a bad bunch in my opinion though.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone pack their bags on the shelf! People still seem to pack like they would at a normal shop, even foreigners who might be more familiar with the concept than British customers! My local Aldi doesn’t even have anywhere to pack your shopping unless you have a trolley yet I’ve even seen people balancing their bags on the bit at the end of the checkout trying to pack.
Agree on the last, but a lot of the plastci produce wrap in my local is that crinkly stuff they won't accept for recycling.
I always pack my shopping away from the checkout as I know this is the done thing and speeds things up no end.
But individually it would take every customer more time because they have to unpack and repack all their shopping twice. The main benefit is to the shop who don't have to pay as many checkout staff - and don't think they will pass that saving on to you instead of their investors!
OK I have read this several times. My nearest Lidl has an in store bakery since the last refurbishment. Is this unusual or new? I think lots of Lidls do in other countries.
Must admit, I'm a bit confused by this. Most shops sell, like they have always done, loose fruit & veg. It's just that this is usually much more expensive than stuff in a package. I don't remember any shop ever ditching its plastic packaging. Even this Waitrose trial in Oxford doesn't go as far as completely removing it from fruit & veg.
Lidl launched its in store bakery in 2011; most of their shops, even the smaller ones, seem to have one. I don't think it could be described as a "roll out" in any way!
Ah, you put it in a freak ghetto, like us poor lactose-intolerant saps have to go visit a freak ghetto to find margarine. I really hate supermarkets doing that. Just put it next to the similar products clearly-labelled so we don't have to visit a special place for it. Oh but then we'd see how much higher our prices are, wouldn't we?
This, 100%. I live 5 minutes walk from a Tesco Extra, but there's a small Asda (former Netto) only 5 minutes further away which is about a tenth of the size if not less, but wins on choice and value for everyday items. The big Tesco is perhaps less likely to run out of a given item, but only if they stock it in the first place instead of yet another aisle of their pathetic "Discount Brands" range. They're also woefully understaffed, and don't make up for that with quality.
I think it was Hugh Fearnley-Whatsits programme last week that tried to highlight that it was often cheaper to buy produce in pre-packaged bags than it was to buy loose. When I took my father shopping in our local Sainsbury's earlier today, I made a point of checking how much loose vs packaged cost and in most cases the loose produce was about 10p cheaper per kilo that the pre-pack stuff. Whether or not this is a direct result of Mr H F-W's campaign, I don't know, but it makes sense. Why should anyone be penalised for only requiring two carrots over a kilo of carrots?
I worked in a major supermarket during the 2000s, and the vast majority of "produce" items were cheaper loose than packaged. The only exception I recall was baking potatoes which were available in a pack of 4 for £1, whereas if you took 4 loose ones of a comparable size and weighed them the price would be close to £1.50.
Got an example of that? You can use screenshots from online shopping if you want.
Online shopping prices can vary from in-shop prices. My experience is that loose produce (sold by weight) tends to be more expensive online. This is to because it takes the in-store pickers more time to weigh out the quantity you've asked for, so they raise the price to compensate for their staffing costs, and/or encourage online shoppers to choose the quicker pre-packed option instead.
I'm not so sure about that, but I don't know for definite. I don't shop online but the prices online are usually representative of what you pay instore. I know Morrisons doesn't offer loose products online, so perhaps he might like to take photos of labels in-store. I'd love to find out what these shops are that are as I have been actively looking in the past week, and I have not found a loose selection of fruit & veg that is cheaper than the pre-packaged alternative in the same shop (per kg), and I know that for a fact, the shops I've been in charge more for loose. I'm excluding markets which are usually much cheaper!
If you are talking about the misting machines, it's a bit disingenuous to claim this was a plastic free trial that flopped. These were rolled out at over 300 branches and were placed right by the entrance at the header to the fruit & veg section. This is the area where they, used to before and have done after the machines, put their headline fruit and vegetable offers to entice customers to buy. Instead, they put there a selection of mostly higher-end products, such as bunches of icicle radish, topped bunched carrots, chicory, kale and fancy salads. Many of these products aren't exactly what the ordinary person who goes to their shops would buy, and they took up prime real estate right by the entrance, so it isn't surprising it failed, but this was not really a plastic free trial, it was an attempt to make the shop more high-end. There were also "normal" things here too like unpacked spring onions and asparagus, as well as herbs, which they still sell now, but are refrigerated normally and placed in a more appropriate area of the fruit & veg section.
The Morrisons press office implied they did a trial starting last year and following a success it is already in the process of being introduced.
Oh yes I absolutely agree. The first step is obviously reduce, then reuse, recycling should come last.
