The announcement by the premier of Victoria last night that they will ban single-use plastic bags brings Australia closer to a national resolution of this issue. The opportunity is for retailers to get on the front foot and pitch a bag solution that eliminates not only plastic bags but the degradable bags often put in their place.
This is an opportunity for us to change the conversation about bags.
Sure, there is a challenge with the newspaper customers who often demand a bag so they keep their hands clean. It is time for them to be accountable in my view. These bags are a waste of money. They do not drive shopper loyalty.
On gifts and other items, the opportunity is for a higher quality reusable bag that pitches differentiating points about the business.
Supermarket style plastic bags have been banned here in SA for a number of years, no big issue really.
Of course leading up to the ban there were some concerns from customers, but they soon got used to it .
Mark R
Hi, I never take a bag into a supermarket, just grab 2 or 3 from the fresh fruit & veggie section on the way through – free bags!
What’s worst, this way I use 3 or 4 but if supplied at checkout I would only use 1.
Saving the environment – better ways than this trendy rubbish.
John
Plastic bag bans are really just a case of virtue signalling. Fill your trolley up with plastic drink bottles, plastic wrapped products, put your vegies in separate plastic bags unless their already prepacked in a plastic calm and pickup a plastic wrapped cucumber then take it to the checkout and be told you cant have a plastic bag because it’s bad for the environment.
It is bad for the environment and I do support plastic bag bans but theres a lot more to be done and just banning bags and thinking that fixes the problem is a joke.
I wish they would ban them then I could get away with not supplying them. They are an ecological disgrace.