The Warehouse and Plastic Bags

I’m not sure what’s been happening with The Warehouse lately. The last two trips our items have been automatically put in a plastic bag at different Warehouse stores – Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt. The other day my husband bought one DVD and it was put in a plastic bag???!!! If my husband is asked he will say ‘no’ to a plastic bag so it is important that consumers like him are given the option by the checkout operators. I would have thought that with businesses trying to save money that asking consumers if they want a plastic bag would be a good way to reduce costs. Up to now in my survey (see ‘Say no to plastic bags’) the Warehouse has always been great at asking about plastic bags – what’s going on? The Warehouse signed the Packaging Accord so it would be good to see them not dropping their standards. Although Woolworths is part of the Packaging Accord also and they, as I have commented on before, put everything in a plastic bag! The Packaging Accord is due to expire in June – save this link for keeping up to date with what is happening re the new packaging product stewardship scheme Packaging Council of New Zealand (Inc) : Media News