Hey Hasbeen,

I never really changed my habits all that much.
I still get my groceries bagged at the shops.
- And I still use them to put my garbage in before it goes in the wheelie bin.

In my day working the Coles checkout (my first job) we had to ask the customer if they wanted parcel pick-up or home-delivery.
- Not if they wanted a bag or a receipt.

I sometimes get annoyed when they ask if I want a bag.

- "Of course I want a bloody bag.
What do you think I'm going to carry all this stuff out to the car by hand?"

Then they ask if I'd like my receipt.

- "Of course I want my damn receipt.
You do realise it's against the law for you NOT to provide me with a receipt?
What proof of purchase will I have if I have to return an item that's broken or damaged?
Why are you wasting my day asking these damn questions?
I don't give a crap about your paper and plastic policing or your stupid 15 cents."

I refuse to use their self service checkouts now, even though you can often get through them faster.
I don't like them hanging over my shoulder like they think I'm about to steal something.
"You know you're welcome to come over here and do it for me yourself if your just going to stand there staring and singling me out like a thief because I'm wearing a hoodie?
How bout you open some more checkouts so I don't have to do it?"

Being that I once worked checkouts, I decided I won't use self service checkouts anymore and will instead support that person in a job, just as I once had that job.
I'm not going to save them money just so they can treat me like a thief.
- But I still hate the checkout operators asking stupid questions.

IGA has plastic bags which are more like the ones Coles and Woolies used to have, but they're a little thicker plastic now, (same design).

AC,

I don't get this "do you want a receipt?" nonsense either. We still pay cash for groceries, but anyone using a card is an idiot for not requiring a receipt. Perhaps people don't reconcile their bank statements these days? Anyone who doesn't check debits against their purchase slips is a no-hoper, deserving to be ripped off. I agree with you on the self-service checkouts too.

I have just been reading an article by Tim Blair likening climate change hysterics to ancient Aztecs who used to cut the living hearts out of people to alter the weather (just as vainly as Leftists politicising the weather now).

But there is a paragraph relevant to this post. The heavy plastic bags sold at 15 cents a pop by Coles and Woolworths have added $71 million to supermarket profits. How could we not be cynical!

"How bout you open some more checkouts ...."

They probably can't because all the staff have run a mile at the very sight of the old cantankerous codger.

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It seems that many of the old shibboleths of the so-called progressives are under assault by the virus or more exactly our reaction to the virus.

Reusable bags, reusable cups, banning single use straws. The promotion of mass transit, travellers check-by-jowl. Promotion of the inner city elites as against the suburb 'bogans'. The war against the car. The war against suburban development.

Globalism. Moving production to Asia. Betting the future of education funding on continued foreign support. The war on extractive industries.

All on the back-burner as reality dawns.

Will the so-called elite be able to resurrect their plans and dreams once its all over? Well I guess that depends on how long before its all over and how well they can rewrite the history of the Chinese plague

G'day hasbeen.

I think we should save up the plastic shopping bags to put over our heads, as an exit strategy for the time to come when the small pox virus escapes from the Russian lab, Put there for safe keeping and research by WHO.

This virus has killed more people than all plagues put together. So far researchers have discovered forty five different strains of the virus, for which there is no cure.

The virus just loves little children particularly, but not only.

There was a gas explosion in the lab last year, where the virus is stored.

Corona is chicken feed.

Dan

Why not just sell those red or blue cloth-like shopping bags instead of plastic ones ? Surely, some Australian company could switch to producing them within a week or two ?
Charge 50 Cents & be done with it ! Simply don't let people put the shopping in bags they brought ! It'll only take one or two shopping trips before they get the message !