a really weird question but what uk shops have a plastic bag that is primarily one colour?

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ok-potato21@reddit

Now that I think about it, most of them.

Personal favorite would be co-op, not necessarily for the color (it's green), but it has this slightly waxy finish that is much nicer to carry than most.

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girl_aboutlondontown@reddit

Market stalls/fruit stalls will often have blue ones

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Queasy-Energy7372@reddit

Go all crazy and borrow a yellow one haha

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CantaloupeEasy6486@reddit

Or yellow if you're willing to sneak out a "shopping basket" from IKEA

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BlodSnoppler@reddit

Selfridges too. I mean the shop, Lego doesn't sell fridges.

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Jacktheforkie@reddit

Corner shops typically have blue or black, sometimes white

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elbapo@reddit

Coop bags are green and biodegradable and fun fact they smell of weetabix

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

omg yes! thank you! my mind went so blank when i was thinking about it

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Hey there Lxnuv! In case it's useful for you... The utterly adorable picture book 'Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea' by Morag Hood uses collage of two block colour carrier bags (Sainsburys and ASDA) to tell a simple story about friendship:

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PipBin@reddit

I love that book! I had no idea it used the two carrier bags. I read it all the time to my class who are too old for it really but they love it anyway.

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Glittered_Fingers@reddit

It's a simple story with a very important message, isn't it? :) I heartily approve of it as a class read. I love her work... I am Bat is another winner!

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Extension_Sun_377@reddit

Co-op disposables are two-tone green, and Savers are a block turquoise

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Dralmosteria@reddit

Co-op bags for life are a pretty decent cyan.

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No-Ideal1129@reddit

NEXT have full blue or full pink bags! I like those ones xx

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Myorangecrush77@reddit

Primark - brown.

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OwlBeBack88@reddit

Sainsbury's is orange. Possibly Superdrug?

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SelmaEggs1@reddit

IKEA, Sainsbury’s

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Kulph@reddit

Heron foods are yellow

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ams3000@reddit

Liberty purple is iconic. As is Selfridges yellow.

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lovelight@reddit

Selfridges and their bright yellow bags were my first thought.

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MushieMushroomy@reddit

Corner shops often have entirely blue bags so primary colour.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

I feel proper dodgy when they’ve got the black bags. Sort of like a drinking beer out of a paper bag feeling

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pintsized_baepsae@reddit

Mine has the black-and-gold striped ones that are also popular with sex shops. 😂

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CompetitiveAnxiety@reddit

Yep, I used to work in a sex shop and we did, indeed, use the black and gold striped bags.

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thesockpuppetaccount@reddit

I always feel like I’m walking home carrying a massive dog turd whenever I get a black bag from the corner shop.

Most unappetising

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WanderWomble@reddit

The first time I let my kiddos go to the corner shop and they came home with a black bag I genuinely thought they'd taken dog poo bags with them 😆

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TrueMog@reddit

Can confirm. My local gives out purple shopping bags!

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

i’ll definitely go have a look most of the ones near me are just white but thinking about it i can picture some red or blue ones somewhere 🤨

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saucy_angel@reddit

CoOp is mainly light green

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HannahRosina@reddit

Coop are blue.

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J_Cross_@reddit

QD are red

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Weird_Fly_6691@reddit

Tkmaxx red

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PurplePlodder1945@reddit

The cheaper Sainsbury’s bags. Totally orange

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owlracoon@reddit

Savers

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Interesting_Drive647@reddit

Home bargains is like a teal(ish) colour with red logo on

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Justan0therthrow4way@reddit

M&S Green Sainsbury’s - orange

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chickenlover118@reddit

Co op is green

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Mundane_Pea4296@reddit

Co op are blue

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Apex_121@reddit

Superdrug is mainly pink with a white star!

Select have a white bag eith their logo on the front in black.

Corner shops and butcher shops have those older plastic bags.

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dreadwitch@reddit

Any corner shop, they're either blue or white.

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Sfb208@reddit

Coops bags are plain green i think.

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lookhereisay@reddit

Market stalls and corner shops tend to use those plain blue bags.

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AvatarIII@reddit

What happened to classic stripy bags?

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LaurenNotABot@reddit

TK maxx bags are red

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FrancesRichmond@reddit

Waitrose- Green

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Jerico_Hill@reddit

Superdrug bags are pink. Sainsbury's orange. Tk maxx red.

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

TK MAXX IS A GOOD SHOUT! 🫶

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DondeT@reddit

Selfridges are also all yellow if you are looking at the other end of the financial spectrum!

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pintsized_baepsae@reddit

And Harrods are all green! I don't actually know about Fortnum's, but I think they're blue with black print and no red handle anymore?

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Seal-island-girl@reddit

And Waitrose

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DondeT@reddit

Last time I shopped at Fortnum, they were sort of Tiffany blue.

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mike9874@reddit

Lego has yellow and paper, for the cheaper option, if you want a small bag anyway

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OutdoorApplause@reddit

Homesense (TK Maxx home shop) have green bags.

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

i want to include i made this post with a superdrug bag behind me and i didn’t even notice 😭😭

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Jerico_Hill@reddit

Haha no worries, I remember doing something very similar when I was in art school. Made of lot of use of those superdrug bags.

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Strange_Regret_910@reddit

Jysk have blue bags, if you have one nearby.

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wheelygay@reddit

Lakeland bags are mostly dark blue and pretty sturdy

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Specialist-Web7854@reddit

M&S green, Gap blue, Sainsbury’s orange, Superdrug pink.

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Laazarini@reddit

Co op bags are all green & Superdrug bags are all pink.

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boojes@reddit

Co-op bags disintegrate, though. No good for an art project.

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Disgruntled__Goat@reddit

They don’t disintegrate, they don’t even rot down in a compost heap like they’re supposed to.

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boojes@reddit

The pile of green bits at the bottom of our bag-of-bags disagrees.

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wildOldcheesecake@reddit

They’re way more durable than you’d expect though! I love how they stretch to fit the products but careful not to pack too many sharp things

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ossifiedbird@reddit

But when they do burst, they burst like a balloon. I learnt the hard way what happens when you over pack a co-op bag.

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Laazarini@reddit

The Superdrug ones are pretty hardcore tho

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AdultADHDer@reddit

Coop bags for life are blue - may be an alternative option?

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TomLondra@reddit

Any fruit and veg street stall in Kiburn High Road

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Funny_Tank8531@reddit

Coop is green

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TheHeianPrincess@reddit

Corner shop and greengrocer bags tend to be plain blue or white 🙂

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Weathergirl50@reddit

Ikea, mainly blue but with Yellow

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Charming_Edge8015@reddit

River island is like bright green/yellow but i think the writing is quite large.

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Reasonable-Health178@reddit

Local market stalls are usually plain white or blue plastic bags.

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maceion@reddit

Harrods.

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daveoxford@reddit

😂 Where art students shop!

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Pinkwashtub@reddit

Tk maxx is almost entirely red

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Sophiiebabes@reddit

Co-op bags are green (that annoying biodegradable plastic that dissolves when it gets wet)

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AmazingPangolin9315@reddit

Wrong approach IMO, I would go straight to packaging suppliers. There used to be a shop on Commercial Road who supplied the market traders at Spitalsfield with plastic bags and other sundries, of course now gentrified out of the area. I think it was these guys: https://gardnersbags.com

Obviously other suppliers exist, such as https://www.polybags.co.uk/ and so on...

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

this is basically the project and i left it last minute 😭

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AliceMorgon@reddit

Centra’s is mainly kind of a blue/green.

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Hefty_Sprinkles6723@reddit

Savers bags are like a blue/teal colour

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pierced-weaver@reddit

Tesco - if you order click & collect/delivery your meat is usually in a red bag

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GeneralGuitar5588@reddit

Boots, blue print on white

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Azyall@reddit

Harrods! Dark green with the name in gold.

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YeetmasterGeneral@reddit

co-op is green but also a little bit seethrough iirc, which could be good for certain parts of a project?

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klangm@reddit

Superdrug!

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e-pancake@reddit

starlings is yellow!

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Wits_end_24@reddit

I don't know where you live but in Somerset is a chain of shops called Proper Job, their bags are yellow.

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c0bie0bie@reddit

co-op biodegradable bags are all green aside from the text

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geejaytee@reddit

Waitrose have their green bags*, but they are quite sturdy, and expensive too (£1)

*Large text on it, so may not be suitable.

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

i’ll definitely go have a look i was thinking about waitrose bags but it’s the material that i think may not suitable as such… as i was also thinking like the ‘bag for life’ bags but again idk about the material…. in addition to this in my mind i think the best material of bag could be a tescos bag for what im thinking of but i wouldnt be able to use one sadly so im trying to re-alter my plan

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Oilfreeeggs@reddit

I went into a Waitrose recently and they’ve changed them . They are now white with a green stripe around the bottom

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Crazycatladyanddave@reddit

Co-op have all green bags.

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jaceinthebox@reddit

Find a whole sales near you and see if you can go look at what wholesale bags they have.

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WoodenEggplant4624@reddit

Selfridges yellow bag with black text

Tiffany blue bag with white text

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Pogipete@reddit

Found lurking in a drawer

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Goatsandducks@reddit

TK Maxx bags are normally mainly white but it's the thick type of plastic bags, not the thinner slightly transparent ones.

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HanAVFC@reddit

Co-Op is all green apart from the "CO-OP" is in black. I have about 5 million bags in my cupboard I'll happily donate to a art project 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Empty-Elderberry-225@reddit

My corner shop gives plain blue bags

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Worried-Penalty8744@reddit

Heron Foods are an extremely bright yellow and blue

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DueInsurance5036@reddit

Mate, that's a quirky question! Off the top of my head, I'd say Tesco usually has those solid-colored plastic bags. They're like, all blue or green, you know? Hope that helps with your colorful bag quest!

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Creepy-Bandicoot-866@reddit

Ikea…. BLUE!

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ErmahgerdPerngwens@reddit

Next? Last time I got one was off-white with dark handles.

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This_Rom_Bites@reddit

Co-Op round my way are basically green.

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suckstobeyoo@reddit

Selfridges Yellow

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BeanOnAJourney@reddit

Superdrug mostly pink, Co-op mostly green.

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Crazy_Breakfast_6327@reddit

Oftentimes, small, "corner shop" style retailers will have generic plain bags

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AshalaWolf_27@reddit

Pretty sure Co-op is green

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Etheria_system@reddit

That’s confusing surely they should be blue to match their logo?

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AshalaWolf_27@reddit

Used to be, and I'm pretty sure the bags for life still are. But generic carrier bags are green since they made them compostable

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manic_rach@reddit

M&S are dark green

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Nyanet@reddit

Tesco—plain white/white translucent with the logo

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ThinkIshatmyself@reddit

Savers bags are blue!

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pancreaticallybroke@reddit

Iceland bags are all white with a relatively small logo on. I don't know about the smaller shops but if you have an Iceland warehouse near you, the bags they use are bigger. Its a proper carrier bag style but the plastic is thicker, its closer to a bag for life than a cheap carrier bag.

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Lxnuv@reddit (OP)

a logo is fine because i can just use the other side ☺️

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