Will other supermarkets follow suit?

I should think Tesco have done well and very public spirited to pay the money back!
As far as the crate liners are concerned, you can choose when you place your order whether to have them or not, in fact I think they are actually making a charge for them now. I do click and collect so it’s easy to put a couple of crates on the car and transfer the shopping in.

I like the crate liners. It's easier to deal with the shopping in them. My only concern is, can they be recycled?

I wish Asda used crate liners!
We do click and collect and from doing our own shopping and using or own bags, Asda's click and collect use really thin carriers for their orders- non contact collection where the orders are placed in lockers and the customer receives a text message to say where the order can be found.

The crate liners are fine. We have them.

Well done Tesco for handing the money back. I bet many other food stores did very well during the last nine months and didn't need to be subsidised by the tax payer, hopefully we will see other stores handing back money too.

Mrsthreadgoode - How did you manage the crate liners? I was surprised to see them as they seemed pointless. It is impossible to bend down and lift up a whole crate full of food.

For years Tesco had a complex string of off shore accounts in the Caymen Islands.
They used a loophole to avoid over 1 billion pounds of tax.
Looks like a guilty conscience!

Good for them indeed, my last shop came with a crate liner, better than bags and can be reused in the car with the dog, I hope they are biodegradable , but there isn’t any writing on them.