Should this be under 'Chat'?

In theory it’s a really good idea, but to be honest, I’m with Day6, the hygiene aspect would put me off!

I’ll never let the children buy pick and mix sweets at the cinema

A thought. Should we be concerned about self-serve germs? I say that because I saw a man sneeze into his hand then go for the scoop at Lidl to scoop some loose pistachio nuts into a bag. He handled a few to inspect them before throwing them back.

I am a bit concerned too about fresh bread and cakes on open shelves in supermarkets that people breath all over, touch, etc, etc. I am not a clean freak but I have become used to the stuff I buy being untainted by other customers. Nostalgia is all well and good but some food hygiene rules I consider to be positive 'progress' and much needed.

I remember blue bags of sugar! Just about.
The grocer's shop was Stevenson and Rush. There was always a mingled smell of bacon, cheese, coffee, and probably a few other things.

I must have been under 6, but I also remember the milkman coming with a horse, which dds when younger found absolutely hilarious. To them it was like something out of seriously ancient history.

I remember the blue bags. What interests me about the Waitrose scheme, is that customers have to bring their own containers. Fine if you are buying one thing, but what happens when you want to buy several items? Will you need to have a big bag to hold all your containers and how will they weigh everything.

In France a lot of supermarkets have banks of serve yourself ingredients, but they usually provide paper bags (like the blue paper ones) to put your goods in. Paper can be recycled, composted, used to light the fire and a hundred other uses.

back in the 90s we had a 'loose weigh' shop.
We have a shop in Leigh on sea that sells practically everything loose weigh from washing up liquid to maple syrup.

Oh, and everything was wrapped in paper or brown bags.

This could turn into a wander down memory lane with regard to Brexit, Trump, Khan, Farage, Corbyn, etc.

I remember the black and white tiled floor of our local shop, the old wooden counters and the bacon slicer and weighing scales. Mum would buy loose leaf tea, which was scooped from a crate and weighed, and the same assistant would use the bacon slicer to giver her as many rashers from a large flitch of bacon as she wanted. The smells in that shop were glorious.

We used to have a " Weigh and Save " shop in the village years ago-----dried goods which were in containers with scoops to use. I don't know what happened to it but it was handy as a guard against waste too. It just appeared to fizzle out.

I like the idea and think all the supermarkets should do it I hate all the unnecessary packaging than goes on surely a cucumber doesn’t need tight plastic undercoat followed by a loser plastic overcoat when it has its own green covering why do potatoes have to sweat away in plastic bags etc etc the same girpes for things online why does something the size of a book and not delicate and in a box, need polystyrene chips plastic inflatable bags in a box three times it s size Bring it on I say

My Mum told me about those nonnie!!

Actually, I think it's a brilliant idea.