Saw today, Woolworths bags for 20c, normally 99c, better than half price, not sure if available at all the Woolworths.
Available at Woolworths stores that have ran out of the 15¢ plastic bags according to users associated with Woolworths.
Woolworths Bag for Good Reusable Carry Bag $0.20 (Normally $0.99) @ Woolworths Stores That Ran out of 15¢ Plastic Bags
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No it’s because they’ve ran out of plastic ones
I can confirm that 2 different woolies have been charging 20c for some time now. At least 6 weeks. And it wasn't because they ran out of plastic bags because they still had those too.
It's because they are phasing out plastic bags.
Probably a marketing reason - they want their bags/logo in circulation rather than Coles or Aldi?
I remember the days we never had to pay for bags…… Ahhhh distant memories
And I remember back when all bags were made of paper instead of plastic.
Very bad bags. The other day my milk bottle simply fall to ground because moisture from condensation on the bottle had damaged the bag.
and if you're paying for bags on a regular basis, you're doing it wrong.
Correct for those with no time value .
Its so convenient to buy 15c and 30 c bags .People around here seem to have a hard time grasping this but it's true.
So you're saying it's too hard to bring bags with you when you shop, even have them in the car permanently?
@whatgift: They remember the keys, the car, wallet/purse, phone, shoes, pants, shirt, where the supermarket is, how to drive, how to walk.. but bringing a bag is somehow too hard.
@formulated: Some of use them for bin liners and can still manage to find pants and shoes. That's why I hate turning up to Woolies and they say, "You can get this one for just 20 cents."
"So the one that holds 1/3 the volume of the 15 cent bags and can't really be used as a bin liner? Great."
@Daabido: Using it as a bin liner still only gets 2 uses. The shopping and the bin. Just a step above single use plastics.
If you hate being asked so much, you can easily bring you own better bags, insulated bags in summer, bags with comfortable handles, bags that can carry more weight. Then spend $3 on 20 bin bags that are intentionally designed to be single use (works out at 15c per proper bin bag anyway).
The free bags in the fruit and veg section are really stretchy and can fit a lot, provided you don't want handles.
Yeah I miss the old single use bags, I've always recycled everything possible and composted any food waste a can but the single use bags were what I used for the 3 or so bags of rubbish I couldn't recycle (mostly soft plastic, cigarette butts and some vegetable stuffs not suitable) but now I have to buy plastic bin liners to do the job and they are made using more plastic than the original single use ones. Idk I guess it's good because some people would just collect 100s and have no use for them but I always thought it was better to just make them from cellulose so they broke down more easily. I don't drive so I usually put my shopping in my backpack but I've accumulated a decent number of those heavy plastic bags over the last few years just from the times I didn't have my backpack with me.
Sometimes good intentions have unintended consequences I think. What happened to personal responsibility???
Does anyone else think we would've been better off having recyclable single use bags instead of those 15c heavy plastic ones which aren't good for anything else (you can't tie them up) the green bags are great but the heavier plastic ones must have about 25x the volume of plastic in them and as they can't be put in your council yellow bin I assume a decent proportion end up in landfill. Anyway I'm all for reducing plastic consumption and waste but even more so I'm for results over marketing! Rant Over ;DI couldn't recycle (mostly soft plastic
Now you're expected to recycle soft plastics at Coles, reuse/recycle old plastic bags at Coles, hoard drink containers for recycling at special return points and in certain parts even separate your food vegetation from your normal rubbish. Oh don't throw your coffee cups either! Save them for next time you're at 7/11 or certain shopping centres and can recycle them! Not to mention half the things I buy come with special rules like "peel off label, crush, replace cap and recycle".
Soon I'll need a degree in recyclogy and a new house just to hoard all the shit I'm expected to recycle in one specific place. Rant over ;D
I'd rather be paid for the bags 😉
Received 4900 bonus Rewards points ($24.50cr) for buying 5 x 15c bags yesterday!
Much better than free! But offer was targeted.
Yeah 9 years ago. Time sure does fly.
They are probably thinking: "better 20c than 0".
This happens when plastic bags are not available/ going to run out
Yeah they been like this for a couple of weeks at my local.
Been the case at my local the last 2+ months but you're right they haven't had plastic ones there. Perhaps part of the plastic phase out and become the new price hopefully.
Which store?
I'll be right thereThis offer has been at Riverwood Woolworths for a few weeks now.
Just try your local. Plenty of stores near me have been doing this for months.
Chadstone Woolworths
Nationwide I think
In Doncaster it's been like this for months. When they run out of plastic bags they sell these for 20c, nothing new
That's the situation at my local Woolworths. They don't have any of the 15c thin plastic bags, so they're selling the 99c heavy duty ones for 20c.
Also in the ACT. Standard when they run out of plastic bags.
"If it gets damaged, we'll replace it for free"
Honestly not sure if I just got a bad batch but 3 out of 4 bags had rips/tears/holes in the first week. Now I'm not treating them like they're made of glass but I'm not exactly being overly rough with them either.
Good that the replacement guarantee is there, but they should still last.Fine line between comfortably biodegradable and heavy duty I guess. Never had any blow-outs on mine in the last year so I would assume bad batch like you said. At least it's got free replace for them.
These bags aren't biodegradable.
Hoping I just got a bad batch because these lot were neither heavy duty nor biodegradable. At least the plastic/paper bags are recyclable.
a few of fine were only good for one use and seam split …. will be taking for swap over ….the “bag for life” policy , they swap broken bags no questions asked ……
The stitching is frequently coming apart. Six out of ten bags I bought last time they were cheap were already falling apart from day one. I remember swapping one of those the next time I went there, then the replacement was coming apart too, so I ripped it open the rest of the way and swapped it again (third time) minutes later.
It seems nationwide. Even at Carseldine (QLD 4034) it’s 20c.
The savings on these bags should help balance out the cost of soft drinks after the massive price rises, for those that feel the need to drink such an unhealthy alternative to water!
Let me guess, you only eat salads too? (no dressing!)
I occasionally have salads and I use dressings and I also have the odd can of soft drink, 1-2 a week on average but I don't live on the stuff like a lot of people seem to do which is one of the reasons why obesity is so high in western countries.
Getting back to the bags, I kind of wish that they'd bring back the paper bags like they had when I was a kid.
that they'd bring back the paper bags like they had when I was a kid.
You mean the paper bags sold at Woolies for 20 cents? They've brought them back but no idea how 20 cents is "selling at cost"
Cost of coconut water is stable.. an alternative you may want to consider..
Drug dealers always raise the prices when the user is hooked.
All the Woolies I have been to recently have had them for 20c for at least a month or two.
Inb4 200 upvotes for a thick plastic bag.
Are we supposed to pay for them?
Wish they didn't force these reusable bags on us. Why were the grey bags banned - always reused as bin liners.
That was the debate wasn't it
Yeah, I throw out the thick plastic bags inside my bought plastic rubbish bags instead of using the grey bags as bin liners. I'm sure someone smarter than me could explain how this is a win for the environment.
Because you're doing the wrong thing?
They are meant to be reused and then when you have reused them to the point of no return you can put them in the recycling bin at any Woolies or Coles, just walk to the bin as you go to buy your groceries, no extra trip or anything.
It's not convenient for me.
@Ghos7: Thats a cop out, its literally at the same place that you pickup the food.
Using the bags twice like you did with the old grey ones (Once for shopping, once for bins) also wasn't good for the environment, the whole point of the bigger bags is to use them over and over.
They are being outlawed now anyway, this year in WA and I'm sure other states will follow.
@freoleo: I don't care if you think it's a cop out. If you want to play the game with storing bags and then getting them together before you go to shops every time then do that. I drop into the shops on the way home a lot and I don't want to have these bags sitting around in my car. Apply you reductionist logic to that scenario, genius.
If you ideologues would look at real world behavior instead of your utopian dream the results would be much better.
I'm using and throwing out more plastic with the new bags than with the old ones and there's nothing you can do about it. Do you want the government to outlaw that so their little scheme will 'work'?
@Ghos7: I don't play any game with bags, I leave them in my car, which you could do lol
The whole point of this is to try and change real world behaviour, you're just being stubborn for the sake of being stubborn.
Hate to break it to you but they are outlawing it, plastic bags are being banned.
@freoleo: OK, it seems like your comprehension level is a few levels too low for this discussion.
I don't care if you think it's being stubborn. I don't care how you characterise it. I'm not going to put any effort into recycling or reusing bags. I have a busy enough life. Clearly you don't.
When I mentioned outlawing "it" I was clearly referring to throwing out the new bags after one use. It was in the preceding sentence. To be clear, I put the bags in a plastic rubbish bag (that I didn't used to buy) and throw it all out.
That you failed to understand what I clearly stated and support this dumb policy with it's unintended consequences is not a random coincidence.
@Ghos7: Comprehension levels are fine, you're just stubborn for the sake of it
Just say you're lazy and don't care about anyone else but yourself and be done with it lol
@freoleo: I mean, I literally pointed out one instance of where you had failed to understand something obvious but you want to breeze past it? You're not a serious person.
What are you going to do about it, outlaw "laziness"? There are lots of people who would do the same as me and it would undo all the effort people like you put into re-using these bags.
Have a great day and enjoy your bag collection!
@Ghos7: Nah my comprehension is fine, sure they aren't going to outlaw throwing out bags after one use but they are outlawing plastic bags, so either enjoy paying $1 for new cloth bags every time or use the paper bags which aren't as bad for the environment.
Day is great and guess what, I don't have a bag collection! The good thing is you only need about 4 or 5 and can reuse them! Crazy idea I know!!!!
@freoleo: "I don't have a bag collection."
"You only need about four or five."So you have a collection of four or five bags.
Nobody is going to outlaw plastic bags, clown LOLOLOLOL
I would much prefer to use paper bags.
@freoleo: Yeah, you keep trying to attach pejoratives to not reusing bags when I've said I don't care what you think of it. I guess that means you're out of arguments.
So you're conceding that they're not outlawing plastic bags then? Cool.
@Ghos7: Take the L mate
Did you click the link? Good luck buying those bags in the future from Coles or Woolies, or you could go out of your way and try find them elsewhere but jeez that would be so INCONVENIENT wouldn't it.
Take the L
@freoleo: You don't understand what outlawing is do you?
Why don't you try and get some sleep, it's good for brain function.
@Ghos7: Surprised you've taken this time to continue replying tbh, isn't it inconvenient for you?
I suppose you could be coming to the site and then coming to reply while you visit but wait nope thats too tricky for you to do two things at once
@freoleo: LOL Coles and Woolies not being allowed to sell plastic bags is not 'outlawing plastic bags'.
Sorry, words mean things.
Common sense is not common practice.
A lot of people were doing the right thing with the grey bag.
You can't force behaviour on people (look at what's happening with the face masks)We can't even get recycling right, so don't expect everyone to do "the right thing", cause it's inconvenient for most.
When recycling, healthy eating and financial literacy will be taught at school, then we'll become a better society. Obviously that doesn't benefit corporation and politics.
When recycling, healthy eating and financial literacy will be taught at school, then we'll become a better society.
You'd have to teach/persuade people to care first.
@Ughhh: I care. I would rather use the grey plastic bags that were biodegradable for shopping and bin liners. My plastic waste was much lower when using them.
Unfortunately someone has decided that option isn't open to me. Another failure of central planning.
They also gave us the cash for bottles and cans. Now instead of me just putting my bottles in the recycling, some degenerate comes rifling through my bin so they can get some of my taxpayer dollars to put my bottles into a machine. All of this is so the government can say they spent some money to incentivise recycling. Net change in recycling - I guess about zero.
@Ghos7: You care, but not quite enough to re use the green bags as designed, as you admitted. Excuses 👍
@Ughhh: I'm prepared to make a certain effort but the government makes that illegal. Now I use and throw away more plastic than with the old bags. I don't need any excuse to do what I do, nobody can stop me.
The government thwarts my efforts to use less plastic and you blame me? LOLOLOL
@Ghos7: Naww poor you.
Donate the green reusable bags, rather than throwing them in the bin maybe? Is that too much effort?
@Ughhh: I'm not upset about it at all.
I throw the bags out and you're upset about it.
Classic projection.
@Ghos7: You've made 24 comments on this thread, most of which is defending and explaining yourself to strangers, lol.
Im as 'upset' as seeing someone stepping on dog crap or driving half an hour to save 20c in petrol.
Why don't you reuse them or recycle them with Recycle?
I don't think these can go in the curbside recycle bin. You're probably just causing issues at the recycling centre if you do.
It's not convenient for me to take bags every time I want to shop.
@Ghos7: I will side with you, although I try to use them as intended.
I think the ban of the grey bags were mostly beneficial to the supermarket ($$) since they replaced plastic with thicker plastic which can't be used as bin bag (I mean surely you can, but I would argue it's worth for the environment)
The real alternative would have been paper bags. For free. Again they sell them for 20cts, so it's about profits.
Rant over.@ShouldIBuyIt: The amount of plastic waste from my house was less when there were thin plastic bags. Some of them were biodegradable (over some period).
I wouldn't be surprised to hear that supermarkets got some sort of circle jerk deal with the government (tax payers) subsidising some of the change. The unintended consequences just reek of central planning.
@Ghos7: Same here, we now use the veggie bags as bin bags. And the "alternative" bags pile up.
Don't expect the fed government to run an IT or ecological project successfully.
@ShouldIBuyIt: Woolies click & collect prices paper bags at $1.50. They have plastic bags at $1. Smh.
@ShouldIBuyIt: It was only ever about profits, it must of cost supermarkets millions to give away the old grey bags, they managed to charge for bags and have us scanning and packing our own bags and spun it to make out it was about convenience and the environment. People are so gullible, 75% of the products they sell is wrapped in single use plastic, and if you spend enough they will give you a cheap plastic toy.
It was only ever about profits, it must of cost supermarkets millions to give away the old grey bags
If it was about profits then supermarkets would have done it in all states, not just where it was mandated that the old gray bags cold not be used.
I don't think these can go in the curbside recycle bin. You're probably just causing issues at the recycling centre if you do.
They can't, but I never said to put them in the curbside bin.
I just saw I had a mistake, I meant to say Redcycle.It's not convenient for me to take bags every time I want to shop.
I find it easy to leave them in my car and some in my backpack so they are always there when I go to the shops.
@spaceflight: All good, got it. I'd never heard of Redcycle.
It really doesn't solve the convenience issue for me. Getting the bags to the drop off point is almost the same effort as taking them back to the shops.
I don't really want to have these bags stored in my place and I don't want to have them in my car. It seems to be frustrating to some on here but I'm just giving real world feedback. I think a lot of people would do the same as me but not say anything.
It really doesn't solve the convenience issue for me. Getting the bags to the drop off point is almost the same effort as taking them back to the shops.
Most supermarkets are a Redcycle drop off point.
I don't really want to have these bags stored in my place and I don't want to have them in my car. It seems to be frustrating to some on here but I'm just giving real world feedback. I think a lot of people would do the same as me but not say anything.
We all have different reasons for things but I really can't understand that.
The reusable bags are just cloth, much like clothes. But you don't want them in your house or car?
They fold flat and take up next to no space so it's not like you need to look at them all the time or move then around.@spaceflight: Yeah, my point stands, it's almost the same effort to drop off at Redcycle as to bring them to the shops to re-use. The slightly less effort is that you can drop more than one lot of shopping worth of bags at one time.
They should be free!
LMAO you're getting negged for this. I don't know about the people on this website, seriously.
People want to pay for them, it’s hilarious. I usually grab empty cartons from the the shelves they would chuck out anyway to put my stuff in. That’s good for the environment and free!
I shop a few times a week and try to just carry the stuff out with no bag if I can.
got them when they were free .. in true ozbargain spirit :-P
Just went to Baulkham Hills Woolies and bought one before seeing this deal and paid 99c for it, so I don't think it's across all stores.
It is only in stores where they have ran out of the 15c plastic bags.
Aaah okay thanks.
Paid 20 cents at nth kellyville about 4 weeks ago
they gave me about 10 free bags last week with my home delivery
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Its running from long time looks like normal price now on 20¢ each