I WAS paying for groceries at a cashier counter at HDB Hub's FairPrice (receipt No. 28367) on Sept 12 when I had a rude shock. Just before I was served, I said I didn't need a bag (as I had brought my own). Ironically, the cashier took a stack of what looked like some 50 unopened FairPrice plastic bags and put them in an open one, explaining (in Mandarin) with a smile: 'This is for my husband.'

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Alamak... live and let live lah... like that the auntie will lose her job leh.

Pilferaging is the hobby of some NTUC cashiers and staff la. Let them pay for their dishonest act. No need to be so kaypoh to write in la.

You made one small mistake. Fairprice will not deduct 10 cents for those who bring their own bags. On the no-plastic bag day, you have to pay 10 cents extra if you need plastic bags.

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The writer is correct.NTUC's 'supposed policy' is to give anyone with purchase that are more than $10 and who bring their own bag - 10 cents discount. But whether to get the discount is up to the cashier. Some of them give you thunder face if you take out your own bags, so better quickly grab your bags and go and not ask them about the 10 cents. I remember sometime back - I asked the cashier about a overcharge item (10 cents more than the display price) and she said loudly for all to hear ( a dialect vulgar words meaning stingy).

Why should any supermarket deduct 10 cents when I did not bring a bag? If they do not put my purchase in plastic bags, I do not buy. By the way, no-bag day means no-shopping day for me.

What the cashier did amount to stealing, if her husband is not an employee of the company, and the bags were meant for personal use. But then again, tell me that you have not at one time or another taken a pencil, pen, or writing paper from your employer, or spent 10 minutes longer than your usual lunch time?

It is not the matter of 10 cents. It is effort some of us put in to save the environment. If that is wasted buy such deeds of some of the people like the cashier, then something has to be done.

Internal pilferage, I'm sure, is rampant at most companies. Office staff steal stationery, nurses pilfer medication, dept store sales assistants shoplift & supermarket cashiers may slip out plastic bags from time to time. I'm sure that some sales people or cashiers allow their friends or accomplices to slip out of the store without paying for certain items. Security staff just have to be more vigilant.

misnomer, just curious: if a supermart offers a 10-cent discount for every plastic bag you help them save, what would you do? bring your own bags/containers or not patronize them at all?

Every company has its problem of internal pilferage. Does Mr. (or Ms.) Sng highlight the problem to his own management within his company before meddling into problems of others????