In summary: Norgesgruppen stores have sold almost 80 million fewer plastic bags than last year, with Rema 1000 having sold 39 million fewer since the price increase. Customers are more aware of their use of plastic bags and often say no to bags. The increase in the price of plastic bags has led to a decrease in bag waste in the shops. Coop has experienced a sale of plastic bags which has decreased by 33 per cent compared to the same period last year. Sales of shopping nets and waste bags have increased sharply as a result of the decline in plastic bag use. The stores are testing new solutions to further reduce plastic bag use, such as plastic bag dispensers. The summary is made by an AI service from OpenAi. The content is quality assured by news’s journalists before publication. – Bag? – No thanks. It has become the new standard answer for shop assistant Nora Alnes at the checkout at Rema 1000 Grannes, Stavanger. In just one short year, Norgesgruppen stores have sold almost 80 million fewer plastic bags than last year. Rema 1000 has sold 39 million fewer and Coop 38 million fewer since the price increase on plastic bags last year. – People are more aware now. With the first price increase, people were still a little more open, “okay, I’ll take a bag”, whereas now I almost get slapped when I ask for a bag, says Alnes. Nora Alnes thrives in the till at Rema 1000 Grannes in Stavanger. She gets a lot of no when she asks if the customers want to bring a bag. Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news NOK 5.50 per bag Last summer, Handelens Miljøfond increased the quota on the plastic bag so that the bag in many shops even costs NOK 4.25. In May, the plastic bag price increased further to NOK 5.50 per piece. It has also led to some reactions at the box office. – Some people are a bit barky and say “Oh, it wasn’t like that before, then I got a bag”, but luckily it’s few and far between, says Alnes. There is a clear change in bag habits, and most of the customers Alnes gets in the till say no. Figures from the Norgesgruppen also underline this. Now close to 75 percent of all shoppers do without a plastic bag. Do you buy a bag at the store? Yes, every time🤭 No, never. It’s far too expensive😖 When I forget the shopping network🙈 Show result Torfinn Dahle is a regular customer at Rema 1000 Grannes. He says no to a bag, because he uses shopping nets. – I have had this shopping network for five years now. I am very pleased, he says. Torfinn Dahle has had this shopping network for five years. Photo: Borghild Aasen Kvæven / news Win without waste The price increase on plastic bags also reduces bag waste in the shops: – In the past, when the bags were very reasonable, you got the bag with the purchase when you shopped a lot, it was part of customer service, says Kine Søyland, head of communications in Norgesgruppen. Communications manager in the Norges group, Kine Søyland. Photo: Stein Eide / news Now she says the situation is different and the bag has become a real item, but as opposed to other items, it should ideally be sold as few as possible. – We can’t afford to just give out lots of bags anymore, precisely because it’s so expensive to take them in and sell them, says Alnes at the checkout at Rema 1000. She admits that she has previously given out both one and the other plastic bag for free , but has had to toughen up and become better at charging for the bags: – It’s a little crazy, or not just a little, it’s crazy full stop. But the bag is an item, it’s a transaction, she says. Rema 1000 nationally is experiencing a sharp drop in bag waste, explains Emilie Våge, head of social responsibility and sustainability: – We see a significant decrease in waste in our stores, and that may probably have something to do with the fact that more and more people are making use of reusable nets, she says. Emilie Våge is head of social responsibility and sustainability at Rema 1000. She notices a large decrease in the waste of plastic bags in their stores. Photo: Rema 1000 But not everyone experiences the positive trend. New plastic bag dispenser – When the price of plastic bags has increased so much, I also see that some customers fail to scan the bag, says Harald Kristiansen, Director of Communications at Coop. Even though most customers are fine, they also have a new test project to continue reducing bag handling: – During the autumn, we will test a plastic bag dispenser in a selected store in Oslo. The customer clicks on the bag button in the till, the bag comes out of the dispenser and the price for the bag is added to the purchase, says Kristiansen. Director of Communications at Coop, Harald Kristiansen. Photo: Coop For Coop, the sale of plastic bags so far this year has decreased by 33 per cent, which amounts to 38 million bags, compared to the same period last year. Over 100 per cent increase And while the sale of plastic bags is going down, the second sale is going up: At Coop, the sale of shopping nets has increased by 127 per cent so far this year and the sale of waste bags has doubled. An increase of 127 per cent means 425,000 more shopping networks. Norgesgruppen’s stores also experienced more than a doubling in the number of waste bags. – People have become even better at bringing their own bags, that’s the biggest difference I notice here. Before, people were quite clever, and now they have become VERY clever, she says as yet another customer says no to a bag, says the shop assistant at Rema 1000 in Sola. Do you agree to a bag in the shops? Or are you perhaps one of those people who always bring shopping nets? Photo: Private Published 30.07.2024, at 09.19
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Million drops in plastic bags. Now a bag costs NOK 5.50 in the shops – news Rogaland – Local news, TV and radio
