General Office of the State Council on the production and sale of plastic shopping bags to limit the use of the notice of the merchants

Checkout deceleration need to find countermeasures Plastic bags from free to charge, as the main place of use of plastic bags - supermarkets, hypermarkets, in the service has been a quiet follow-up action.

Checkout process quietly change. The implementation of the "plastic limit", hypermarkets cashier channel than in the past to increase a procedure - asking customers whether they intend to spend money to buy plastic vest bags, which will inevitably affect the speed of the cash register, so how do hypermarkets solve it? It is understood that Wal-Mart as early as March 2008 to open up a "fast track without plastic bags", where customers with their own shopping bags can quickly check out in this channel, and the need to buy plastic bags of customers in other checkout, customer diversion to speed up the flow of speed.

The first day of implementation of the plastic limit coincides with the "June 1" Children's Day, will be the peak of sales, some merchants in the opening of all the cashier on the basis of the cashier will also be in some of the cashier equipped with two staff members, a specialized brush bar code, money, another to help customers put things into the shopping bag.

At the same time, the supermarket outlets suggested that consumers in the checkout, on the prior to bring their own shopping bags open ready, as a way to speed up the cash register.

Provide shopping basket rental service. In order to protect the environment to the end, some supermarkets have also launched a "rental shopping basket" service. According to Wal-Mart Shanghai District responsible person introduced, if customers to the supermarket shopping forgot to bring the bag, and do not intend to spend money to buy plastic bags, supermarkets can provide rental shopping basket service, consumers only need to pay a deposit to rent a plastic mesh shopping baskets, about 40 centimeters deep, if the shopping basket will be returned within a week, with the rental of a small ticket can be taken back to the deposit. The details of the rental price are being worked out and are expected to be announced in mid-June 2008," he said.

June 1, 2008 is almost here, with what tools to go shopping has become a problem that people have to face, to buy an environmentally friendly shopping bags is indeed the most simple, but the price and quality of such shopping bags but many people are not willing to pay out money. In fact, the environmental protection shopping bag is just a concept, and did not set a unified color or even style, non-woven fabric is only one of the materials that can be used repeatedly.

In the people for the choice of shopping bags headache, once provided free plastic bags of businessmen, also used a different way to deal with. Large supermarkets in the step-by-step preparation, from June 1, 2008 onwards, customers want to get plastic bags certainly have to pay for another. But for some small merchants, to provide free plastic bags have to be implemented for a period of time.

In the supermarket checkout, you can always see the cashier around the piles of plastic shopping bags, but from June 1, 2008 onwards, they will be surrounded by a large number of plastic bags to reduce. Plastic bags will no longer be a free gift, but has become a clearly marked commodity. In response to the "plastic ban", major supermarket chains have prepared a considerable number of environmentally friendly shopping bags.

Carrefour

Similar to the CR Vanguard supermarkets, Carrefour supermarkets are now "eating the old money", to the end of this month, the supermarkets will run out of plastic bags in stock. The reporter visited five supermarket chains found that each chain is to take the exchange, gift and other ways to provide customers with environmentally friendly shopping bags. From the mouth of the person in charge of the supermarket that, from June 1, the supermarket plastic bags will also charge, small shopping bag price of 0.2 yuan / a, medium-sized 0.3 yuan / a, large 0.4 yuan / one.

Easy to buy

In its store, the publicity advertisement on the "plastic ban" is set in a prominent position. Many customers have begun to buy or redeem eco-friendly shopping bags while shopping. From the person in charge of the company's mouth, "plastic ban" implementation of the day began, the supermarket plastic bags will be "marked price", large plastic bag price of 0.3 yuan / a, small plastic bag price of 0.2 yuan / a.

Jin Gong Supermarket

Jin Gong Supermarket is the most chain stores in Tianjin, has reached about 300 supermarkets throughout the Tianjin community. Similarly, from June 1, 2008, plastic bags will no longer be a free gift, but will be charged according to different sizes. In addition, the supermarket will also provide free environmental shopping bags to customers who spend a certain amount of money. Visits to several chain stores around the community that many often to the Jin Gong supermarket shopping residents, has been through the supermarket publicity on the "ban on plastic" have an understanding of some residents have even prepared their own can be repeated use of bags, baskets. In the Dahutong wholesale market to see, in order to "not find trouble for themselves", some vendors specializing in wholesale plastic bags have also begun to "change their minds", originally placed in front of the stalls of a variety of colors of ultra-thin plastic bags have been disappeared, and replaced by a biodegradable thick Plastic bags.

In front of the two stalls to see, one of them although there are still some colors of ultra-thin plastic bags, but much less than before. "Although we haven't heard the news yet about whether to let or not to let sell, but we don't dare to buy more goods already." The stall owner said, although the previous wholesale plastic bags to bring their own income is not bad, but now the state has regulations, so they can only change their mindset, will not be "the wind".

And the wholesaler still has a small number of ultra-thin plastic bags compared to another specialized wholesale environmental shopping bags business seems to "ban plastic" more thoroughly. "The price is indeed more expensive than before, but this is obviously much thicker than those before, with a strong ah." For some people who want to wholesale plastic bags, the female stall owner was busy explaining. In her view, they are also disguised as publicity for the environment, so that we accept more environmentally friendly plastic bags. Wholesale of busy "change of mind", the use of waiting for the "wait and see what happens". And plastic bag wholesalers for the "plastic ban" than up, the reporter saw the situation in the farmers' market, is very different, and for the "one more week to implement the 'plastic ban'! "of the statement, the vendors did not put in mind. Obviously, the farmers' market has become a "plastic ban" blind spot.

In Hongqiao District, a large farmers' market to see, because it is the peak section of the food, vendors are busy, and hanging in front of the stalls of the plastic bags are also one by one, free of charge to customers to load things with. "The ban on the use of plastic bags I heard, but now the market is not a rule to tell us exactly how to do." A middle-aged man selling vegetables said, people to buy vegetables, he had to tell people to charge money for plastic bags, if the market is not mandatory, he really do not know how to open his mouth.

Hexi District, as well as Nankai District, a number of farmers' markets, for the upcoming implementation of the "plastic ban", vendors are not too serious.