Coworker Brought an Original Tesco Plastic Bag to Work Today… How Old Could This Relic Be?!

by PixelPoppah

21 comments
  1. That bag has seen the inside of a few cupboards I know!

  2. That bag was once hung on a cupboard door knob and once held lots of bags within it.

  3. Some people have no respect for the past! Our ancestors mined plastic for 18 Hours a day just to build the future.

  4. Bet the great british museum is running to take this one

  5. About 10-15 years, can’t say for certain because that design was around for a long time. It predates the everyday value range being largely removed from stores (or having a significant package design for the products that were kept), but I definitely remember this packaging when I was still doing just checkouts, and that was 10+ years ago.

    I would lean more towards the 13-15 years mark.

    For clarify I left Tesco a while ago – I just have a long memory and I’m sad as fuck lol

  6. Post 1980s, back then the Tesco logo had a tick next to it.

  7. I was still very young for these to be around before they were discontinued. Around reception age. And yet I still remember this distinct packaging. My packed lunch was made up of the Tesco value range too. Thankfully I was also too young to ever be embarrassed by it.

  8. Jeeze, I thought they were the first biodegradable bags, ours usually dropped the bottom out into the car boot.

  9. Have we no only had these like 4 years? Feels wayy longer though. The bag charge came in at 2021. it was only a year or so before that most places still used the older bag, right?

    Random article from 2017 shows that design. Fuck 2017 was 7 years ago.

    [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tesco-charity-plastic-bag-sales-fund-admin-costs-a7938296.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/tesco-charity-plastic-bag-sales-fund-admin-costs-a7938296.html)

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