Do You Shop At Ikea?

I like Ikea and its products. We have a few things in our home from Ikea. I had not realised they were charging for plastic bags now, mind you the last time we were there, we bought big bulky items that didn't need a bag. The closest Ikea shop is like 30 minutes away from where we live. I am not sure if there are other stores that charge for grocery bags.

I love Ikea. I go there often with a friend who practically furnished her place with Ikea stuff. I have bought a few little things myself, like a lamp and a salad bowl. No one mentioned the charge for the bag and I did not check my receipt. However, the grocery store where I shop charges .15 cents per bag. There is a big campaign going on to buy the big black and green canvas bags for .99 and some organic stores have even a bigger one for $ 1.98, because it takes about 40 years for plastic bags to disintegrate in landfills. I love those bags. I fill them up and when I get home I have not many wasteful plastic bags. I find I need a few though, for household waste. What do you do with all those double bags?

Sav-a-lot does here. 20 cent a bag which is high to me. I bring my own bags to shop there. The prices are good but .20 a bag can be to much.

I have never been inside an ikea shop, though I hear wonderful things about them... there just aren't any of their stores anywhere near where I live - or even within 100 miles. I wonder if they are affordable quality or not.

We have two big IKEA stores here in my country. I do go there once a few months to check out the merchandise. I've bought a couple of furniture from this store in the past years. A few weeks ago, I was there again to buy some kitchenware and bathware, and at checkout, we were told that the bags were not free anymore and we had to pay $0.10 for every bag we needed. Well, IKEA is not the first to charge for bags. A couple of supermarkets here have also implemented this charging for certain days of the week. I am told they have initiated this move not to earn more money, but to send a message out to consumers to help save the environment. They hope that by charging, people will try and bring their own carriers and not get them to supply more plastic bags.

I do shop at Ikea but, I tend to get big stuff that can't be bagged and have not heard about them charging for bags. And, I haven't heard of anywhere else charging for bags. The fabric ones are the only bags in stores that I am familiar with as far as them charging for. I will be a bit ticked if they charge me at the grocery store as I recycle those bags by using them for trash or to carry things like my lunch to and from work. We don't just dispose of them, we pull double and some times triple and quadruple duty out of them.

There is a big Ikea shop in my city. I was ever interested in it. However, I learn that it's always so crowded there. So I cancel my plan to go there. Besides, I also learn from others that its quality isn't very good.

Yes, I shop at IKEA and they do charge for bags. They say right on the sign that they do it to discourage people from using them. You know, for the environment? You can buy a big blue bag for something like $3 and use it again and again. When I was just there a few days ago, I just opted not to use bags at all. It really didn't make too much difference to me. I love IKEA. I have shopped at the one in Philadelphia and the one in Houston.

I can never find anything to buy at Ikea, but yet I keep going back. I think I want to like the store, lol. We have a food store here called save a lot. And with them either you can bring your own bags or you can buy bags from them. I know it's probably better for the environment and all but it kinda annoys me because I figure if I am buying the product from your store I should not have to pay for a bag to put it in

i think IKEA is the best place to shop. I love it they have so many varities to choose from mate and I just love the way it is.. Cheap though but i dont know if the quality is good too. Who knows??

someone responded to my aldi's questin with a good idea - she keeps a laundry basket in the back of her car for shopping. I like that idea enough to use it for getting other regular groceries - I hate making more than one trip from the car to the house because it is a bit of an obstacle course. I get Ikea catalogs in the mail. I love everything in them. We went to Ikea once though and didn't buy a thing - they just didn't have what we were looking for!

I think that charging for plastic bags is now absolutely essential. All those bags go to landfill and take forever to rot. In the UK we are increasingly recycling our bags by taking them to the store to put our new shopping in. One store here even gives you loyalty points for recycling plastic bags, and not just their own ones. So far as Ikea is concerned I have never bought anything small enough to put into a bag from there. OK furniture though, particularly when you are starting out.

As of yet we do not have to pay for carrier bags in the shops that I use. But I tell you what I have noticed, and that is that the bags have got thinner, this is really annoying because if you put too much stuff in the carrier bag they just fall to pieces. The amounts of times I have been shopping, got halfway home and the bottoms of my bags have fallen out leaving me with stuff rolling all over the floor and me with just bag handles in my hands. Last monday I went shopping and the checkout girl packed my bag and put all my glass jar products in one bag, I picked it up the bottom dropped out and all my products just smashed on the floor. The whole shop just stopped and looked at me, very embarrassing.

Ikea is really good. Their producta are always great & theres always something for everyone. Although the check out is a bit of a mission haha

I love Ikea. We use to go there all the time when we live din Texas. Now there is no Ikea store near us, which is probably a good thing. You don't need a reason to go there, well I don't need a reason LOL Just go to look around. Every time we went, we made good use of their cafeteria.

I have always wanted to, I hear it is a pretty amazing store. Unfortunatley there isn't one in my area so I haven't gotten the chance to yet.

If I had to pay for a shopping bag or cart, I wouldn't shop there at all. It's bad enough that the prices are sky high but to be charged to use something that one would need to shop in their store is absolutly insane!

Here in my place, even a supermarket charged the plastic bag that you use to bring your groceries. So it is normal also in Ikea here if they will charge the bag.

I would never pay for a grocery bag. I think its rediculas to even charge someone for plastic or even paper. No where around here charger for bags except for aldis of course but thats a discount store not a regular store. What is Ikea anyways? Ive never heard of it.

Oh, Ikea has got many good product, and very cheap! And, if they charge 0.30$ a bag, it's very good. That's because I re-utilize bags up to 20 times, and you shouldn't buy many bags. You only get more pollution!