@zanadoo_56 wrote:
Your previous comment about most supermarkets having underground carparks cracked me up BTW. Hilarious....and wrong.
Ok well I guess it's a question of locality. I'm a city dweller, so yes, most supermarkets in my environment have undercover carparks. Not all though.
I wonder....have you ever bought full trolley loads of paper bag packed groceries? Not fun, not very convenient either.
Well...no. Not since the dark ages 30 or so years ago, anyway.
Brown paper bags are not even an option where I shop. My major shopping is done at Aldi. They don't offer plastic bags, you have to buy them. I just pack my groceries back into the trolley, and at the car, pack them into the green bags I have ready in the boot . It's an extra chore, but I do it anyway.
The produce bags I use, I put them to use as tidy bin liners. I specially bought a tidy bin to fit them.
If I'm doing top-up shopping at either Woollies, Coles or IGA, I have my own roll up bag handy which fits neatly into my handbag.


Anyway, this is my last comment on shopping bags because, due to arthritis I now get all my groceries ordered online. And yes, Coles and Woolies - despite what they show re their online services on TV - deliver them in those dratted plastic bags (which you can give back to the driver on the next visit for recycling).
Well at least you're doing your best, considering your circumstances.
I used to order staff supplies through Coles. Cheaper for the budget. They used to deliver our biscuits (like 30-odd packets of Arnotts Assorted Creams) in their bluddy plastic bags!
What the!?
Not only did that mean the biscuits would end up largely shattered by the time of delivery, bouncing around in the back of a truck, but we'd end up with huge amounts of those ghastly grey plastic bags. Which went straight into the bin!
I've since gone back to our original supplier, who delivers in cartons, and takes the cartons back. Cost a bit more but at least we're not throwing shattered biscuits in the bin along with the plastic bags!