The Coles supermarket will open all checkout counters on Sunday. (photo from Daily Mail)
Australian supermarket giant Coles will stop offering disposable plastic bags this weekend and decided to open all checkout counters on Sunday to help customers better adapt to the measure, the Daily Mail reported.
The Coles supermarket will stop offering disposable plastic bags on Sunday, July 1, it is reported. Rival Woolworths has now begun to implement the measure.
In order to minimize the impact on customers and help them adapt to non-disposable plastic bags, a Coles supermarket will open all check-out counters in its stores between 10:00 and 6pm on July 1, a spokesman said.
In addition, multiple state Coles stores will open additional checkout counters between Monday, July 2 and Sunday, July 8. New and Victoria states will open between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., while Queensland and Western Australia will open between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m.
It is reported that the anti-plastic measures although the support of green groups, but also some customers expressed dissatisfaction.
Sydney man Dawson (Peter Dawson) said the measure was inconvenient and now he needs to remember one more thing. But as he got older, his memory was getting worse.
Others expressed anger at spending 15 cents or 99 cents on green bags sold in supermarkets.
It is reported that from July 1, with the exception of Victoria and new states, Australia's other states will impose a plastic ban.