Charges for plastic shopping bags 77% of drug stores, which have been implemented in advance, do not use shopping bags
From July, it is mandatory to charge shopping bags, but when 11 drug stores moved ahead of charge, it turned out that an average of 77% of people did not use shopping bags.
It is obligatory for retailers nationwide to pay for plastic shopping bags made of fossil resources such as petroleum from the 1st of the next month.
The Japan Chain Drug Stores Association, which is made up of 133 drug store operating companies, is calling on member companies to move ahead with the charge from April.
When the association conducted a questionnaire survey on the status of efforts, 11 of the 66 companies that responded so far, mainly large companies, started to charge from April 1.
The price is from 2 yen to 10 yen per bag depending on the size of the bag, etc., and as a result of telling that it is charged, the percentage of people who did not use shopping bags is 77% on average for more than 5000 stores in 11 companies. was.
In some stores in downtown areas such as Shinjuku and Shimbashi, the decline rate reached 90%, but in the suburbs there are many stores that are below the average, so the association often does small shopping. And I think that there is a difference in the decline rate in suburban stores that also purchase food and daily necessities.
“We expected that there would be complaints about what would have been free until now, but we had no such report so far, which is very high at 77%,” said Hiroyuki Tanaka, Assistant Secretary-General of the Japan Chain Drug Store Association. I'm surprised by the numbers. I would like to continue to ask for my bag."