Online papers are the paper-saving solution, I totally agree.

I buy the print Guardian, on the same woolly half-thought out principles that make me try to use the local shops rather than the supermarket. That is, I think it will stop being there at all if it loses too many real customers. Given that the British press must be the worst in the world, I feel morally obliged not to help kill off the couple of real papers ( the Guardian and the Independent.)

We were the ones who had to choose between using, and maintaining, a community asset or saving 5p a pint and buying it at the supermarket.

The only reason local businesses die when Tescos / Sainsburys / Asda (etc) role into to town is because local people are so ruthlessly tight fisted.

Pity they don’t use paper bags. That would be really entertaining.

I’ve just remembered there used to be milkmen, who brought milk to the door and took away the empty bottles, until the supermarkets mostly put them out of business…

Except that it costs at least as much to get the bags as it does to get normal bottled milk. And you have to buy the little bottle. I mean, sure, so you also get a fuzzy warm feeling of helping, but surely they should pass on the savings? Making more profit from cheaper, more eco-friendly products is mildly obscene.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2098737/Milk-in-bags-hits-Sainsbury%27s-shelves.html