Best strategy for stores to get their customers to bring the Tote Bags
The single-use plastic bag ban for the stores in UK, both Coles and Woolworths has been blamed for a slump in sales. Woolworths’ sale growth had slowed down in the first seven weeks of the new financial year when they banned single-use bags. Coles has admitted banning single-use plastic bags have hurt sales, which led the supermarket to handing out reusable bags for free after customer complaints. So do you also bring back the free plastic bags that are hurting our environment? Absolutely Not! You can easily use a combination of different strategies so that your customers bring their own tote bags and your sales does not suffer at all. First thing you go to do is offer a disposable bag for 5-10 cents. The best thing to do here is to offer a paper bag for a small amount. For most people these few cents are enough of message and they do want to avoid your paid paper or plastic bag. This is still useful for the customers who are there to buy something but forgot to bring their totebag. The net step is to offer various choices of tote bags to your customers. A lot of stores offer only …
