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$1 if You Return at Least 1 Reusable Plastic Bags Purchased/Acquired Previously for Free When You Pick up Your C&C @ Woolworths

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$1 if You Return at Least 1 Reusable Plastic Bags Purchased/Acquired Previously for Free When You Pick up Your C&C @ Woolworths
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SnoozeAndLose on 08/08/2018 - 14:18 woolworths.com.au (1250 clicks)
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From the Email:

$1 refund for recycling online reusable bags

We have a new refund option for customers who choose to have their online orders packed into our reusable bags. When it's time for your online reusable bags to be recycled, simply hand them back to us for recycling with REDcycle while receiving a new online order and we'll refund $1 against your latest order. To do this, please pass the online reusable bags to a Service Desk Team Member while collecting a new Pick up order in our stores, or to your Delivery Driver when receiving a new Delivery order.

T&C's:

Offer available to customers that place a delivery or pick up order and return their reusable plastic bags for recycling in our Woolworths REDcycle bins.
Offer excludes Tasmania and Woolworths express delivery service.
Customers must present at least one reusable plastic bag to their store member or delivery driver to be eligible for the offer.
Offer limited to return of reusable plastic bags purchased at Woolworths and one refund of $1 per order.
For delivery orders, refunds will be made to the payment method used for the order delivered at the time the offer is redeemed.
For pick up orders, refunds will be provided in cash at the time the offer is redeemed.
For delivery orders where an order is paid for by gift card the refund will be provided as a Woolworths online credit.
Refunds for delivery orders will be processed the day after the offer is redeemed by the customer.
Refunds for delivery orders may take 3-5 business days to process.
Woolworths reserves the right to withdraw this offer or change the terms and conditions of this offer at any time with notice published on our website.

Not sure if this would be better merged with the previous deal (30 points) thanks to headphonejack.

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  • spackbace on 08/08/2018 - 14:20
    +21

    Another day, another plastic bag post!

    • orangetrain on 08/08/2018 - 18:26
      +2

      There should be a tax of 15c per plastic bag post in name of environment with proceeds to go to Great Barrier Reef Foundation.

      • JetBombat on 08/08/2018 - 19:48
        +1

        What a turdbull

        • Procyon on 10/08/2018 - 07:41

          I think you meant Turnbull?

      • bmerigan on 08/08/2018 - 22:20
        +1

        LOL that you would give it to the Great Barrier Reef foundation, very dubious about their environmental creds.

        • hueylewis on 09/08/2018 - 13:00

          which would be different from all the other enviro industry dog and pony shows?

  • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 14:24
    +11

    Hang on… so you pay $1 for the luxury of "reusable" bags when you order online, but get your $1 back when you give them a bag?

    What. A. Deal.

    • camshandez on 08/08/2018 - 16:07
      +9

      When I bought some of the freezer sale items and did click and collect I selected no bags, and they gave me two as they said: "by Law we have to give you frozen items in a plastic bag with the handles tied together…"

      Hack

      Order online, purchase at least 1 frozen item, C&C, select no bags… in theory should receive groceries in a bag (granted they all fit in one). Return bag for $1, make money off Woolies ;)

      • SnoozeAndLose on 08/08/2018 - 16:26

        Will they give you the plastic bag for veggi instead of the reusable one?

      • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 19:17
        +1

        I could swear when I bought during the freezer items sale last week there was not a 'no bags' option. I did an in-store pickup too.

        • Chik5555 on 08/08/2018 - 19:46

          Same

        • F1ngolf on 08/08/2018 - 20:00

          Same for me. There isn't a "no bags" option to select.

        • camshandez on 08/08/2018 - 22:36
          +1

          It's a BYO bag option, on mobile have to swipe for it to show during review stage.

          I walked in with a bag ready and yeah got handed the items in the bags.

        • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 22:38

          @camshandez:

          Ahh ok. I think I'd rather pay $1 than try browse and order grocery shopping via my phone hey. I've got an iphone 5 so a small screen plus I'm not the most touchscreen coordinated person.

        • squeeb on 09/08/2018 - 08:08

          @camshandez:
          Interesting. Didn’t see that option when checking out on a computer.

        • camshandez on 09/08/2018 - 09:40

          It shows on the online checkout for PC as well for me too.

        • hetzjagd on 09/08/2018 - 10:26

          @camshandez:

          I swear to Jah that's new since last week. Maybe not rolled out in all areas or something, like how Facebook or Reddit trial new features sometimes.

  • GG57 on 08/08/2018 - 14:27
    +19

    I don't get this.
    So if you have a re-usable plastic bag from Woolies, (if you satisfy the conditions) you can get paid to not re-use it?

    • GG57 on 08/08/2018 - 14:28
      +12

      And Woolies doesn't re-use it either, but send it for recycling?

    • Sage on 08/08/2018 - 14:51
      +1

      This is to make up for them not offering an option to use our own bags over the past few weeks.
      Some of us were forced to get an excess amount bags.

      • freoleo on 08/08/2018 - 21:05

        Wait woolies were forcing people to take their reusable bags? They weren't doing what Coles were doing and giving an option?

        No bags = you get them free
        Bags = use them?

        EDIT: just realised this is online shopping, so different

    • Lukian on 09/08/2018 - 16:48

      The online re-usable bags have a sticker with your name and order number on them. They're identifiable from the ones generally available on your way to check-out.

      They're actually hard to re-use: The rigidity of the sticker makes them difficult to stuff into a pocket or bag. & Sometimes the sticker isn't flat on the plastic, which makes them hard to use as a garbage bag too. Some staff say they're a lower grade plastic than the proper 15c bags (which usually have glossy prints).

  • wildweasel on 08/08/2018 - 14:30
    -5

    I dont know what these guys are smoking. Is this like a plastic bag recall? If the re-usable bag is to be resued, why pay 1$(.75C more) for returning and recycling it early?. I thought the 15c bags needs to be re-used 100 times atleast in order for the bag to be recycled. Otherwise the cost of recycling is more than the actual savings that we get from using re-usable bags.

    • dosada on 08/08/2018 - 14:47
      +2

      75 + 15 = 100???

      • josho9 on 08/08/2018 - 14:49
        +5

        Apart from the math (and anyway I think the point is to match the $1 bag fee for pickup), I tend to agree, this whole episode has became a farce

        • Thunderdownunder on 08/08/2018 - 20:20
          -3

          Do I get more $$ when I return the high number of green plastic Woolies Baskets I have stashed in my boot. Here is becoming no room for groceries any more.

    • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 17:12
      -4

      I guess all the negative votes come from the ill-informed or from lefty environmental loons that would rather silence/censor your comment as they know you are absolutely correct and refuse to admit they are wrong.

      The whole plastic bag fiasco is laughable. Australia has a recycling crisis so are these bags being returned to Woolworths going to end up in a warehouse collecting dust as the Chinese no longer want them.

      • Diji1 on 08/08/2018 - 18:38

        Pretty much. Everyone is being forced/pointlessly "saving the earth" by recycling but the "recycling" is going into landfill. It's beyond ridiculous.

        Recycling is now just having two trucks come by and dropping rubbish off at landfill. One of the trucks has recycling messages all over it and is redundant. Oh and it's burning more fossil fuel and wearing roads etc. as trucks are wont to do.

      • arcticmonkey on 08/08/2018 - 19:26
        -1

        I take it any positive votes for you come from uneducated right wing Murdoch reading, talkback listening, Fox watching nutjobs?

      • Pantagonist on 08/08/2018 - 19:27

        Actually, soft plastics are one type of waste that haven't been affected by the China bans.

        They go to REDCycle / Replas and are processed into other products in Australia.

        https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/discover/sustainability/r…

        Ideally it'd be better to reuse the plastic bags instead of recycling them but at least they're being diverted from landfill and waterways.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 14:43
    +5

    This is becoming a massive joke. Just give us our (profanity) bags back and everyone can move on.

    • mobo on 08/08/2018 - 14:53
      +7

      Yeah all of this is a joke. Seriously if you look at our waterways what's clogging them up is not plastic shopping bags. If anything, people reuse those shopping bags to take their rubbish away. What's in the waterways is the plastic bottles and packaging. Now we don't get plastic shopping bags people are more likely to just toss the packaging than to wrap it up and take it home.

      • c0balt on 08/08/2018 - 14:56
        +9

        Australia doesn't contribute to the scourge of plastic waste in the world's oceans and waterways.

        https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-…

        Coles and Woolies loves people who think it did though, because now they get to save $100 million dollars per year on giving away plastic bags for free and pass the saving onto their board + shareholders so the rich get richer whilst poor people now have to spend more money.

        • mmd on 08/08/2018 - 15:12
          +2

          now they get to save $100 million dollars per year

          And to compete with Aldi.

        • SBOB on 08/08/2018 - 16:08
          -1

          because now they get to save $100 million dollars per year

          which is literally about as significant as a rounding error on the total annual revenue of coles and woolworths

        • Diji1 on 08/08/2018 - 18:40
          +2

          @SBOB: OK but it's profit.

        • SBOB on 08/08/2018 - 20:16

          @Diji1:

          they likely lost more than that in the weeks since the plastic bag 'fiasco' first started, due to all the talkback radio complainers

          but sure, its all profit.

      • syousef on 08/08/2018 - 16:55
        +10

        A photographer snapped a Coles bag floating in the river about to go out to sea this week. Was accused of staging it. He then posted images taken of water birds at the same time, which wasn't absolute proof but made it very unlikely that he was lying about spotting it.

        Yes these bags do end up in our rivers. And the newer, stronger, paid for bags are much much worse for our environment.

        This was never about the environment. It was always about supermarkets raising their profits without raising the prices on their items.

        • mobo on 09/08/2018 - 07:33

          he may not having been lying about a bag being there but he could well have placed it there himself

      • Dacs on 09/08/2018 - 10:12
        +1

        For anyone who doesn't think plastic bags are a pollution problem in Australia just join a landcare group for a clean-up days at a creek, even if it's just one day a year on Clean Up Australia Day. Once you start looking it is absolutely horrendous how much plastic rubbish you find. Even if you go over an area you have already cleaned you will find just as much the second time - It feels like there's a rubbish truck tipping its load ever time you turn your back.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 14:49
    +13

    our local woolworths has coin operated trolleys… now we've got coin operated plastic bags!!!

    • XVX on 09/08/2018 - 08:20
      +1

      Invest in one of the little plastic keys that allow you to unlock coin operated trolleys and become the hero of your local Woolies.

  • donbot on 08/08/2018 - 14:51
    +44

    This is becoming a massive joke. Just give out no plastic bags and everyone can move on and organise themselves to take re-usable bags.

    • SBOB on 08/08/2018 - 16:10

      +1 this

    • t25 on 08/08/2018 - 16:48
      +1

      I don't understand how hard is it to buy a couple of crates, or even recycle clean cardboard boxes. Leave them in the car, and chuck shopping in there.

      • syousef on 08/08/2018 - 16:56
        +14

        I don't understand why the supermarkets can't offer the boxes they only cut up and crush anyway so customers can take home their shopping.

        • beatsntoons on 08/08/2018 - 17:03
          +2

          Can't agree more. Bunnings to it. Just pick a box up from the front.

        • t25 on 08/08/2018 - 17:08

          Could it be that the supermarkets are paid for their cardboard? Hence the reluctance to put boxes out for customers to take for free.

        • Koffee on 08/08/2018 - 17:15
          +2

          @t25: I suspect it's mostly laziness, they used to offer cardboard boxes in the 90s and early 2000's, I remember seeing them at the front of local Safeways.

        • syousef on 08/08/2018 - 17:27
          +5

          @Koffee:

          It all comes down to money. Not the environment. It is the constant lies that irritate me. I'll pay for goods or service and not expect it for free, but when someone lies to me and tells me it's for the environment or tries to make me feel bad for not going along because it's for the environment, it just makes me angry.

        • Diji1 on 08/08/2018 - 18:43

          @t25: Who is buying cardboard? It doesn't even make any sense to recycle it given it's renewable.

        • tunzafun001 on 08/08/2018 - 18:49

          Supermarkets are full of boxes..just grab one or two, go through Checkout. No stress

        • arcticmonkey on 08/08/2018 - 19:30

          Cheaper Buy Miles does this well

        • t25 on 08/08/2018 - 22:02

          @Diji1: It would make no sense to spend money to throw it away when they could give it away for free. Hence, I thought maybe they were being paid for it.

        • ibuy on 08/08/2018 - 22:59
          +1

          @t25: yes. The supermarkets are paid to give the boxes to companies like visyboard.

          The plastic bag thing is a farce because I now have to buy garbage bags for the trash bin. So I’m being slugged at the supermarket for plastic bags because I can’t always remember to bring them and being slugged again to buy garbage bags so I can throw out my trash or have a bin forever smelling like a sewer and having rats possums and cats go riad my bins at night until the gatbage man collects the bin once a week.

          Ontop of this the bags aren’t even made in Australia so the amount of pollution to make the bags, pack them in boxes, ship them to Australia, complete a heap of paperwork actually causes more pollution than the single use plastic bags. What the h*** were the greenies thinking??!!

        • Ghogger on 09/08/2018 - 12:21

          Harris farm donut

      • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 17:27

        I don't understand how hard it is for you to take your crates or even your recycle cardboard boxes and walk or peddle to your supermarket instead of emitting harmful greenhouse gases by driving to the supermarket.

        Another Environmental fanatic being put in their place.

      • Rel63 on 09/08/2018 - 09:31
        +1

        A lot of boxes are cut diagonally so they flip the front off to make stock refil faster and many are put on the shelf in the box. You only need pay attention to how many items have cuts from careless refillers. This practice renders many boxes unusable. To change this they would pay more for refillers as it would take longer if preserving the boxes.

        • syousef on 09/08/2018 - 14:22

          So it's fine for the consumer to spend a fortune on ineffective pastic bag nonsense that lines the retailer's pockets "for the good of the environment" but not for retailers to change practices to actually be more sustainable.

          That is exactly where we are at today: The blatant lie that retailers want to make improvements for the environment. What they want to do is reduce costs and increase profits even if it is worse for the environment.

  • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 14:54
    +2

    Good, this is like at least $3 for me. Thanks op

    • Lukian on 09/08/2018 - 16:50

      Time for me to collect all my sticker'ed bags, I'll probably make $10!

      • hetzjagd on 09/08/2018 - 18:48

        I've got like 15 of them from two orders during the 50% off freezer goods sale last week, but my understanding is that is only going to be exchangeable for $2, one for each order. Please tell me I'm wrong and I can work it so I get $1 back for all of them.

        • Lukian on 10/08/2018 - 11:00

          I doubt they're actually going scan the order id on the bags?

        • hetzjagd on 10/08/2018 - 16:35

          @Lukian:

          I think you'll need to provide proof of purchase was my thinking

  • Sage on 08/08/2018 - 15:09
    +1

    Okay so,

    We have a new refund option for customers who choose to have their online orders packed into our reusable bags. When it’s time for your online reusable bags to be recycled, simply hand them back to us for recycling with REDcycle while receiving a new online order and we’ll refund $1 against your latest order.

    Does that mean we can just hand them a 15 cent bag each time for a dollar discount?
    I did 2 online orders recently. One of packed into the 15 cent bags, the other was packed into larger green plastic bags that I haven't seen for sale.

    • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 18:20

      I believe you get one redemption per order. So you can have 50 of the bags collected or saved up, however you got them, but if you only have a purchase history of two orders then you're only getting $2.

  • jdr on 08/08/2018 - 15:28
    +4

    If you order online, your order is packed into recyclable plastic bags and you are charge $1 regardless of the number of bags. The next time you place an online order, you will get a new lot of bags and another $1 charge.

    Seems to me that all they are doing here is to allow the return of one of those bags to get a credit for the bag fee that was charged with the order. No doubt they've been getting feedback about online orders not having the possibility to recycle the bags and thus avoid paying each time.

    • Sage on 08/08/2018 - 17:54
      +1

      True, but now we can supply our own bags if doing pick up. (With no $1 charge)
      Last week this wasn't an option.

  • cyrax83 on 08/08/2018 - 15:42
    +6

    Piss off woolworths. Just make it free already.

  • krushgroove on 08/08/2018 - 16:19
    +8

    What a (profanity) shitshow this whole plastic bag thing has become.

    • syousef on 08/08/2018 - 16:58
      +2

      Yeah. New rules every week. Stronger plastic bags that don't break down. All for the environment rolls eyes

    • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 18:22
      +1

      Only if you let it bother you mate. If it's some sort of stress or annoyance here's two things you can do that might help

      1. Purchase reusable strong fabric bags and feel good you're not contributing to waste
      2. Stop reading online news and/or social media until this whole thing blows over

      Sorry if that sounds condescending.

      • Diji1 on 08/08/2018 - 18:45

        feel good you're not contributing to waste

        You're shopping at the supermarket feeling good about not being wasteful? That's hilarious.

        • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 19:00

          Glad it gave you a chuckle Farmer Brown

    • arcticmonkey on 08/08/2018 - 19:37

      Just like the NBN. We had a good thing there but it failed due to Turnbull's incompetence.

      • hueylewis on 09/08/2018 - 13:14

        Good thing? labor's thought bubble NBN was drawn up on the back of a drink coaster by captain underpants on a plane trip, low ball costings first at 4 billion then 20 billion then 35 billion, then when the libs got in the real cost was 75 billion and a million years away due to the cost and time to dig fibre to the house, and at an average of 8 grand per house, if you wanted it or not, courtesy of the tax payer which is now redundant due to wireless 5g tech anyway so the libs tried to make a lemon into something workable on a real world budget. AND the 5g tech was known about back when labor decided to bankrupt the country with this and the carbon tax but they wanted to build it anyway so they could flog it off down the track. All worthless now due to wireless, no one is going to want fibre to the house anymore…and you talk of Turnbull's incompetence?

        • abb on 09/08/2018 - 15:36

          The Lib's costings exaggerated the FTTP costs and under-quoted their VDSL costs too.

          And no, FTTP is not obsolete because of 5G. Do a trial of what happens when a whole apartment building tries to stream 4k TV simultaneously over 5G…

          FTTP is completely impossible to beat by wireless, because each individual user gets the full bandwidth of the fibre (400Gbps per latest standards), rather than having to share (divide by number of users) the more limited bandwidth of air (not all frequencies are allowed to be used for mobile phones, only a few specific bands).

          Of course, not everyone needs 400Gbps, and 4G is presently adequate for some people's whole internet use, but with terrestrial broadcast TV declining and more services moving to the internet, it would require a lot more 5G cell towers to keep up with demand if people didn't have a wired connection at home and work.

          I actually partially agree with you - when they decided to ditch FTTP, they should have switched to 4/5G technology. Only problem is the current carriers each have their own completely independent cell networks…

  • Jared17 on 08/08/2018 - 16:26

    Wait I'm not too clear. So I had pick up order with two bags. So is $1 max for that or $2 for returning two bags?

    • SnoozeAndLose on 08/08/2018 - 16:26

      $1 max no matter how many you return

      • t25 on 08/08/2018 - 16:49
        +1

        Return them one at a time for maximum profit! ;)

        • happychild100 on 08/08/2018 - 17:10

          Well not really because you still have to pay $1 for the bags the next order!

        • Homr on 08/08/2018 - 17:51

          @happychild100: Not when your workplace orders stuff from woolies and its paid for by work like mine :D

        • Lukian on 09/08/2018 - 16:51

          @happychild100: Online orders have a BYO bag option now, thus why Woolies are offering this deal.

      • Jared17 on 08/08/2018 - 20:09

        Ok thanks

  • THICKnSLOW on 08/08/2018 - 17:21

    Who woulda thought it only costs $1 to strangle a turtle

    • Naigrabzo on 08/08/2018 - 17:23
      +2

      Less…. much less…Very sad though.

  • Naigrabzo on 08/08/2018 - 17:22
    +5

    Check this out guys. Well worth a watch.

    http://www.abc.net.au/ourfocus/waronwaste/

    You can watch it adfree on iview.

  • pikapika on 08/08/2018 - 17:56

    Just wow. This just keeps going ON and ON.

  • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 18:33

    i dont see the point of this reusable bags.
    I still need to use something for my bins.

    The way I see it, it's not for the environment, but for the store's profit.

    • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 18:58
      -2

      Got the perfect solution for you. Head to your nearest Coles/Woolworths grab a whole lot of their environmentally friendly catalogues and useless free cooking books and line your bins with them. sarcasm

      This whole single use plastic bag ban is all bullshit as these stores continue to

      • Publish free cooking magazines and weekly catalogues which most people will view once and throw out
      • Issue useless plastic toys/gimmicks in the case of Coles
      • Leave unused checkouts on
      • Light up meat and fridge cabinets which is unnecessary and purely cosmetic
      • Throw out a lot of food instead of selling at a discount
      • Print useless coupons on your dockets
      • Wrap your plastic covered deli goods in new paper instead of using newspaper
      • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 19:05
        +5

        Well given that logic, the supermarkets may as well just throw a bunch of old car tyres in a pile, pour gasoline on them and light them on fire and heat the store from that right? Cause hey if they aren't doing everything 100% environmentally friendly then they may as well not do anything. Am I following that right?

        God forbid the stores make any of the changes you've suggested given the complete spaz out a chunk of this country is having about just having to bring their own bags.

        One other thing that stood out

        Throw out a lot of food instead of selling at a discount

        Look I can't claim there isn't still wastage of food but keep in mind the supermarkets are partnered with OzHarvest to pass on as much unused food as they can. They also DO sell it at a discount, to some extent, visit Markdown Addicts Australia on Facebook.

    • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 19:03
      +2

      You know …you can buy bin liners really cheap right? Compostable ones too…

      • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 19:09

        I don't know. Are there ones that exactly the same size as the old bags?

        • hetzjagd on 08/08/2018 - 19:10
          +1

          I don't know the size of your bin. I imagine they do, but you'll have to try it out for yourself if you're interested at all. You're worried about not being able to find bin bags 'exactly the same size'. - give me a break man. One place you can buy them from and find out more info is https://compostapak.com.au/our-shop/compost-a-pak-bin-liners…

          No I don't work for these guys, don't have friends or family that do. I don't even use their products. But I'm a big fan of Google..

      • dufflover on 09/08/2018 - 06:47
        +1

        And with the combined effort and resources people have put into this farcical plastic campaigns could've just put it all in the beginning to implementing "good" plastic bags that can biodegrade, instead of all this shop blaming and strangely enough on my mind ignoring the fact plastic or not litterers will still be litterers.

  • H_J on 08/08/2018 - 19:25
    +2

    Capitalism and Green planet are not compatible proved..

    • [Deactivated] on 08/08/2018 - 20:05

      Seems like a good comment in which to close this thread!

  • muncan on 08/08/2018 - 20:02

    Maybe I’m missing something here, but doesn’t this mean plastic bags are temporarily free again? (until the next farce)
    e.g.

    1. receive N bags for $1 C&C
    2. return 1 bag for $1 refund at next C&C
    3. now you have N-1 bags for $0 for your first C&C
    4. ???
    5. profit
    • Lukian on 09/08/2018 - 16:52

      That's correct! :) However, this is mostly to advertise their BYO bag option for pickup orders now.

      It also probably has an expiry date? 10 bags to return would still take 5-10 weeks unless you're picking up $30 orders daily.

  • Shwayne on 08/08/2018 - 20:41

    Too bad the minimum for click and collect is $30, or this would be free money. ;D

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