Lidl has introduced a major change to carrier bags in all its UK stores, offering customers a 25p saving on every shop. The budget retailer, which has stores in Birmingham, is now selling cut-price paper carrier bags for just 15p across the country for the first time.
New Paper Bags Cheaper Than Plastic
The 15p paper bags are 25p cheaper than Lidl's cheapest plastic carrier bag, which was increased from 30p to 40p last year, in line with other major supermarkets such as Tesco, Aldi, Asda, Morrisons, and Sainsbury's.
Shopper Reactions on Reddit
Shoppers have taken to Reddit to share their thoughts on the change. One user wrote: "I think everyone forgets it's a bag for life. If it breaks, you take it back and they give you a new one for free. It's 40p for a lifetime bag. Everyone complains because they just treat them as disposable. The cost is meant to discourage buying them every shop."
Another commented: "Is that true that they replace these for free? I just thought 'bag for life' meant the bags were stronger than the single plastic ones and meant to last longer. Didn't realise it was a literal bag for life."
A third added: "It's common sense as they can recycle them directly to the place that makes their bags from recycled plastic! Otherwise you'll put out on bin collection day and leaving it for the council to 'maybe' recycle!"
However, not all feedback was positive. One shopper countered: "The cost is to profiteer while simultaneously pretending to give a fuck about the environment at the same time. If they cared that much, they'd simply offer up good quality recycled thick brown paper grocery bags for free and completely do away with plastic once and for all. There's only one entity manufacturing plastic bags by their billions and it's the supermarket industry."
