Apple to Phase Out Plastic Bags for Environmentally Friendly Paper Bags Starting April 15

[Benjamin Frost]

Ever since Angela took over, the shops have become lazy. In London, they wore the red "cheap" t-shirts well into February which we usually only wore during December. The quality of our t-shirts are horrible, they don't pass the quality test, but then that's not the only thing that doesn't pass it these days. They make us look like slobs. Most chubby people are forced into a size that make them look like a silk worm which is really unappealing. Angela is taking away so many of the things that used to make Apple a great store. Her role and actions don't justify her pay check at all. I don't get what she is doing.

The shops are dirtier, clothes looks terrible, the layout has lost the Apple feel to it, tables are not just dirty but scarred and damaged and it's visible now. The bags were great, but once we used to only give it out to people who bought items for x amount of Dollars or Pounds. But now, with paper bags it will just look even cheaper. We'll get paper cuts and the layout for where we'll get the bags won't even be from under the tables anymore. Unless we get new tables and knowing Angela I bet we won't.

Don't be fooled people it's not about the environment, because it's 2016 and if these bags were such an issue, we would have had paper bags long before Steve Jobs died and he didn't care.

It's all about saving money, yes, Apple is trying to save money because they are not generating enough these days according to the planned roadmap for how much they were estimating.

Cuts are being made left and right within Apple and soon you'll see it in the products too. If you look closely you'll see it already.

Point in case is that Angela isn't helping the Retail business of Apple but making it ordinary and less competitive. I've been with Apple for years, I've been with Apple since Steve Jobs and I can see the quality of Retail for employees and customers how much quality and service has dropped.

So no, it's not about saving the environment. It's about saving money for Apple who already is making tons of money on products that are overpriced.

You know... for the sensitive Apple fanatic, this won't make sense, for everyone else, you knows this to be true will be a bit more awake next time they enter a shop and see how the new Employees are nothing like the old, how service isn't the same and quality is much lower than anything Steve Jobs would have agreed to had he been alive.

THIS is the new APPLE... For as long as it is... enjoy it because, it's just not getting better at this point.

Apple was an amazing company who forgot who they were, got tied up in Politics and fame and invested all of their money in smoke and mirrors to hide how little the machines have actually improved over the years.

Too many flaws in software updates, too many flaws in hardware releases... yes we see it daily and when I started at Apple in 2007, compared to today... its unforgivable when you consider how much they ask for their products.

If this bothers you as you are reading it, then I guess you are part of the problem and not the solution. Demand more from Apple... If you love them, like their products, voice your opinions and try to be more critical and not choking on the cool aid that's been forced down everyones throats.

Apple has risen from the ashes twice before, but that was thanks to Steve Jobs... Tim Cook is part of the problem... not the solution... so will there be a third time around? Or are we closer to the end of what once was a great computer company... That's really the question everyone should think about.

Superb post, newcomer.

 

[Larry-K]

Not really. Now that CO2 levels are up, ever so slightly, vegetation is also up worldwide. Climate change scaremongers neglect that nature has ways of dealing with elevated carbon levels, and that we are nowhere near the temperature or carbon levels we had when dinosaurs roamed the earth. Yet somehow Earth survived.

Earth survived, the dinosaurs didn't.

Probably because they weren't known for their great infrastructure, and advanced agricultural practices.

Sure, nature has a way to resolve these issues, it's called extinction.

Maybe another asteroid will hit, and it'll be just like the "good old days", but with paper bags.

 

[mountain]

I don't know if the true reason is for environment or they want to cut cost. I think it's the latter.

 

[WigWag Workshop]

I know it has been mentioned, but it would be cool to be able to walk into an Apple store, and get an iPhone without any sort of packaging, just the phone, cable, and of course Apple stickers.

 

[tuna9720]

So, has anybody seen the new paper bags, yet?

 

[JoeG4]

It would be far-better if Apple had a purpose-built heavy-duty reusable bag like most retailers do.

Even better if they gave them away.

 

[SteveW928]

This is a very silly statement.

What KPOM said. But to summarize, trees like CO2.

Someone decries 'junk science' and says that?

We have enough CO2 to go around. WAY too much to go around...

Nah, trees love CO2 and we don't have nearly as much as times in the past. We might be (if we do indeed have as much impact as some think) staving off an ice-age (which is what will be expected at some point coming up... well, aside from the fact that the sun will eventually bake the earth, and then consume it).

Since I'm not a climate scientist, my main beef is with the politics and tactics involved. Whenever I see that kind of stuff, my spidey senses get perked up. Good and true science never has to resort to that kind of baloney.

"The planet is fine. The people are ****ed." - George Carlin

Yea, that's possibly true. I'm all for trying to reduce pollution and take good care of our home. I'm just pretty skeptical of the politics involved in this one. All the data I've seen is coming from one institution... the rest is based on models coming from scientists being funded (with billions of dollars) to come up with the *correct* results. Any contrary results are rejected as pseudo-science. Guess what the outcome will be. (BTW, this isn't how science works.)

Earth survived, the dinosaurs didn't.

They didn't die from increased CO2 levels.

 

[Larry-K]

They didn't die from increased CO2 levels.

No, but they didn't die from their own stupidity, either.

 

[SteveW928]

No, but they didn't die from their own stupidity, either.

For sure, and given the current state of society, that's looking like a VERY real possibility.

 

[Larry-K]

For sure, and given the current state of society, that's looking like a VERY real possibility.

I would think it's a given.

 

[maxsix]

When the stores first opened, they were using paper bags.

Now they are coming back full circle.

"Save the Trees" was the mantra back then as Apple bragged about it's environmental awareness.

The full Hypocrisy of Apple rears its ugly head again as the 800 lb. Gorilla of the tech sector pounds his chest bellowing loudly for attention.

Paper Bags it is!