Popular Nigerian supermarket chain, Shoprite has commenced the sales of shopping bags to its patrons.
The Octopus News reports that the bags which comes mostly in off-white colour sells for N150,00 each.
This new development is a deviation from the normal trend when the supermarket was owned by Shoprite Holdings Limited (SHL), a company incorporated in South Africa. Then, the supermarket provided yellow Shoprite branded shopping bags to customers for free.
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When our reporter visited the Shoprite at Novare Mall, Songotedo, Ibeju- Lekki, Lagos on Sunday, January 26, cashiers at the payment counters could be heard informing customers of the new department.
A Shoprite staff who spoke anonymously blamed the development on the Lagos State government. According to her, the government told them to stop using the old branded Shoprite bags as they were not recyclable.
“They said we should stop using the bags we use before and introduced this to us. They informed us that our bags were not recyclable while this new one is.”
She went on to state that customers are however not forced to buy the bags as they could bring theirs from their house or pack whatever they buy into a carton.
The Octopus News reports that while some customers didn’t consider the purchase of the bag a big deal, there were others who felt that Shoprite was only logically trying to shift the cost of the shopping bags on customers.
With the new development, customers are now forced to pack both consumable and non consumable items such as detergent together with beverage just to reduce the cost spent on the bags.
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