Loblaws/Real Canadian Superstore are now charging 5 cents per bag in Toronto (416 area code) and will be expanding the policy across the company by the end of the year.
Do RCSS/Loblaws no longer bag items?
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- CorSter
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I am hoping that they introduce that over here. I was in Vic for the holidays and was happy to see that... Makes me miss Victoria even more...
My first "real" job when I was 14 was a grocery bagger at Thrifty Foods in Mill Bay. They still have baggers in Thrifty's on on the busy days...
- rabbit
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> Victoria has banned plastic bags and shoppers must bring their own bags when grocery shopping at any store
there is talk that Vancouver area might do the same
That is @#$@*. Or do you mean that they only do that at grocery stores?
I used to work in a clothing store in Victoria, and some chick was asking for a paper bag (which we didn't have). Yeah, sure, paper bags are more enviromentally friendly, but when it starts to rain, and your paper bag falls apart and your clothes fall into the mud, you're going to wish that you had a plastic bag.
there is talk that Vancouver area might do the same
That is @#$@*. Or do you mean that they only do that at grocery stores?
I used to work in a clothing store in Victoria, and some chick was asking for a paper bag (which we didn't have). Yeah, sure, paper bags are more enviromentally friendly, but when it starts to rain, and your paper bag falls apart and your clothes fall into the mud, you're going to wish that you had a plastic bag.
- Jon Lai
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It doesn't often in Toronto - I know that's different in Vancouver, but that shouldn't have anything to do with why Toronto can't use paper bags.rabbit wrote: ↑> Victoria has banned plastic bags and shoppers must bring their own bags when grocery shopping at any store
there is talk that Vancouver area might do the same
That is @#$@*. Or do you mean that they only do that at grocery stores?
I used to work in a clothing store in Victoria, and some chick was asking for a paper bag (which we didn't have). Yeah, sure, paper bags are more enviromentally friendly, but when it starts to rain, and your paper bag falls apart and your clothes fall into the mud, you're going to wish that you had a plastic bag.
- zod
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My experience is in the west. The RCSS's on vancouver island never bagged groceries. The ones here in Edmonton don't either.
I always figured it was part of their low cost practice. IE since they tend to have low grocery prices, part of that comes from not paying anyone to bag your groceries.
Safeway, Save-On, Overwaitea, Thrifty's, Sobeys, IGA, etc.. all bag groceries, but they're all more expensive, so I always thought cheaper groceries was a fair enough trade off for packing my own groceries.
They've always charges fees for plastic bags here as well. Last time I bothered to check it was 4 cents a bag, but they could of changed it, I stopped looking. Sounds like the easteners got used to a better level of service than us westerners?
I always figured it was part of their low cost practice. IE since they tend to have low grocery prices, part of that comes from not paying anyone to bag your groceries.
Safeway, Save-On, Overwaitea, Thrifty's, Sobeys, IGA, etc.. all bag groceries, but they're all more expensive, so I always thought cheaper groceries was a fair enough trade off for packing my own groceries.
They've always charges fees for plastic bags here as well. Last time I bothered to check it was 4 cents a bag, but they could of changed it, I stopped looking. Sounds like the easteners got used to a better level of service than us westerners?
- ditachan
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All employees except managers are unionized.
Edmonton RCSS has always had the customer bag their own items, I think it's faster overall.
- TeriyakiJack
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Been to multiple RCSS's in the GVR region, not one has ever bagged groceries. It was never a problem. As a kid, I used to love shopping at RCSS because we got to play with the conveyer belts and do the "grocery bagging". Eventually they took out the buttons on the conveyer belts though (probably because someone got hurt on them).
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- Justine
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When I was a cashier at sobeys, we were expected to bag groceries. Most of the grocery stores in ontario that I've been to always bagged groceries, until they charged for bags, then you bagged them yourself.
- theavonlady
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Actually, when I am shopping, I like to watch the register for the prices of the items being rung in. So technically, I am doing something - making sure I am not being over charged.
If I am bagging my own things then I won't notice being over charged for an item(s).
- Ottomaddox
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That location is now a "No Frills".. and they have never bagged anything.LordofthePing wrote: ↑The two near me have their cashiers push all the groceries to the end of the counter with the expectation that the customer will do their own bagging. They'll assist the customer after everything has been rung through, but not before. Before, the cashier would scan and bag groceries and then push them to the end of the counter. It seems like a new policy, at least at the recently renovated Loblaws in South London. They've shortened the checkout counters too, maybe that has something to do with it.
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