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回復 29# maclover


    I think London Drugs bag is the best "garbage bag" ... safeway is the worst..the bag is so thin...often when I go back home...the bag is already broken...

zuesel

回復 28# Ultraman

I worked in Safeway as a cashier. Their policy is to put non-food items in a seperate bags incase of chemical leaks or anything toxic. Eggs and breads are ALWAYS to be bagged seperately. Some customers DO come back for a refund becasue of the baggage issues that lead to things being broken or conteminated.

Chinese grocery stores in general are not sensitive about health issues. Otherwise, they won't continue to sell expired items or have poor food handling. Just think of how many times you've seen them clean their scanners! All kinds of fish, meat juice on the scanner before they scan your ready-to-eat bread! back to topic. So now that if you bag your own grocery, they don't have to be liable. If the eggs break in your own bag, that's your problem. Saves them time and money too.

I am curious though. General public bag slower than the cashiers and may sometimes grab someone else's stuff (intentionally or not). Even with superstore that has long dividers and huge bagging area, congestion can still happen. I wonder about T&T...

samsung

talking about this supermarket stuff... last time I went to safeway to buy something, withnessed an unreasonable customer (yes, you bet cha, he is WHITE!!!), returned a halfly-eaten big load of pork to the cashier and said it has gone bad, and the cashier DID refunded him... I was like WTH???!!! I can always buy a big bag of pork and put it under room temperature, eat half and got full refund for the whole thing (it isn't fresh, blah blah blah), this is just "only happen in Canada"!!! It's ridiculous!!!!!!!

Sometimes these customer service stuff is just a joke! who suffered? u & me! if we buy from these stores, where their profit comes from? yes! us!!!!

Ultraman

回復  Ultraman

I worked in Safeway as a cashier. Their policy is to put non-food items in a sepera ...
zuesel 發表於 2010-3-9 11:51

Yes I understand the health issues like you mentioned. But I wonder, how can people handle all those "conflicts"? Things like: to separate different goods in different plastic bags as health concern as well as to avoid liability, encourage customers to use their own recycle bags for environmental care but at the same time they don't care about health issue anymore.

To solve this problem is simple (maybe a little more costly), use biodegradable plastic bags.

布小熊

T&T has the best and tough plastic bag for me to use us garbage bag, maybe I should just bug garbage ...
maclover 發表於 2010-3-9 11:30 AM

I want to know too!
I am using garbage bags that I bought > 5 years ago from costco...
But when I am done with this pack, I want to buy env friendly ones.

zuesel

Yeah, i've been using grocery bags as garbage bags. So from now on, i will buy boxes of "garbage bags for home use la"

gleaner

I wonder where we can get good, biodegradable garbage bags.

I don't mind paying a little price to help save our planet. At least we are not like Montreal....I think they ban plastic bag usage in holding household garbage.

BTW, does anyone know if T&T cashier will 'bag" the groceries for us if we use our own shopping bags (regardless of brands?

布小熊

I wonder where we can get good, biodegradable garbage bags.
BTW, does anyone know if T&T cashier will 'bag" the groceries for us if we use our own shopping bags (regardless of brands?gleaner 發表於 2010-3-9 01:06 PM

I don't mind too... let's go and search round for good biodegradable garbage bags and share here.

I think they do "bag" the groceries for me. My usual grocery shopping bag is a brown Muji bag I got in 2007.

FeiZai

I think plastic bags or not, it's a matter of habbit.  It may sound like a drastic measure, but if supermarkets no longer supply any plastic bag, people will have to adjust by bringing their own bags.  From an environment stand point, this will be the most effective method to elimiate pastic bags use.  However, the same cannot be said from a customer service stand point: "what happens if the customer did forget to bring their own bag and they're taking a 30 mins bus ride home?"  A realistic transition has to be implemented, but seriously, saving the earth is everyone's responsibility, we can't always blame the government/businesses when we haven't done our part.  Look at the weather these years! When was the last time you saw cherry blossoms in February?

zuesel

回復 37# gleaner

No they don't. at least, they didn't for me yesterday.