Do you want a carrybag, it would be chargeable?

You must have heard this from almost all the shopping outlets. 

But these companies do not have the right to charge you with extra money for the carry bags. IF there have been any personal branding done on those carry bags. Although if there has been any sort of branding be it symbols, logo or slogan. Then they can charge an extra amount for those carry bags. 

Recently the Consumer Redressal Court imposed different penalties on different companies or outlets. Including Big Bazar, D-Mart, Bata, etc. for charging extra money for the carry bags having their personal branding on them. It held it to be a “deficiency in service” on the part of those outlets.

Necessity of Carry Bags

The carry bags play an important role to transfer the product or goods purchased back home with the buyer. For instance, trays play an important role in carrying eggs, or a bottle to carry any liquid substance. It is the responsibility of the seller to make it easy for the buyer to carry any of the products purchased from its outlet. If not, it would amount to a deficiency in service.

However, making customers pay for the carry bags is admirable. Creates a necessity among the people to carry their own bags with them, the next time they go shopping. It helps in the reduction of waste and spreads awareness amongst the public about our problematic disposal systems. When they are asked to pay for the same, the intention is basically to encourage them to carry their bags. So that there is a reduction in the use of plastics as well as reuse of those bags. 

The steps taken by the outlets are remarkable, but one needs to remember that if you are forcing us to pay for carrybag. You can not be plugging your own brand via those bags. These outlets not only gain profits from those carry bags by forcing the customer to pay for them. But even get free publicity through it, which isn’t right. If the bags we buy are generic in looks, i.e. it does not contain any kind of logos, symbols, or presentations. Paying for such generic bags is fine, but paying for the bags which can not be reused. Is just forcing the consumer to pay for something which amounts to a deficiency of service on their part.

So the next time you go shopping, do remember that you do not pay for carrybag which have the personal branding of that shopping outlet or the company.

Tell me in the comment section below any such instance which you have faced recently!!

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