Wasted energy.

For example, the many meat and small chilled goods cabinets are all upright, around 6 feet high, refrigerated, and totally open. It makes one wonder how much electricity is wasted each year, the cold air, being heavier, literally falls out of the refrigerated cabinets; 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Plastic bags.

It has also been noticed the supermarkets are now providing customers with smaller plastic bags - so more are needed to pack a customers′ order if they haven′t brought their own. The bags are sized so that they can′t really be reused as bin liners for many kitchen bins.

If you purchase pizza rolls as a treat each weekend. Usually in other stores they are bagged up in lots of 4 (plastic bag). Most stores sell them loosely, self-serve style, which still requires a plastic bag (and is somewhat unhygenic), but some stores also sell them in packs of 2 contained in a huge hardened plastic shell. The shell is about 33% larger that the rolls are, but the incredibly crazy thing is it′s far cheaper to buy 2 rolls in this way than to buy them loosely and with less packaging - even if purchased in bulk.

Impact on earths finite resources.

These are just a couple of examples. Supermarkets are certainly doing themselves out of cash and having a terrible unnecessary impact on earth′s resources. I′m sure I′m not the only one who notices these types of things, nor is this just one supermarket engaged in such environmentally unsound behavior. Perhaps it′s time we all started writing to the major supermarket chains to express our displeasure.