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# Amnesty on MSSA to be announced
- URL: https://goodoil.news/amnesty-on-mssa-to-be-announced/
- Published: 2019-05-02T00:30:16.000Z
- Updated: 2019-05-01T02:15:06.000Z
- Author: WH
- Tags: #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

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It is probable that Countdown may announce an amnesty on Multi-use Shopping Style Accessories (MSSA) after 175 went missing from one Auckland store.

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> Since the **move away from having plastic bags** in their stores, some Countdown supermarkets have had the odd shopping basket go walkabout. \[…\]  
>  
> One customer found out the hard way yesterday afternoon that some people clearly haven’t gotten used to bringing their own bags.  
>  
> When the customer walked into Countdown Lynfield in Auckland he could not find any of their distinctive green shopping baskets.  
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> After enquiring, he was told by a staff member **175 of them had been stolen**.

> When asked, Countdown would not comment on how many had been taken from the store because the organisation did not hand out “commercial information”.  
>  
> However, a spokesperson said it was not unusual for baskets to go missing “from time to time” and said the Lynfield store was expecting new baskets in the coming days. \[…\]  
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> “Some stores have had a few issues with baskets going missing but on the whole we’ve seen that settle down as customers get into the habit of remembering their bags.  
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> “We’d, of course, encourage customers not to take baskets home – we have a range of reusable bag options in store.”  
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> A Herald employee experienced a similar issue with missing shopping baskets after visiting Fresh Choice in Glen Eden.  
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> Initially, the store allowed customers to take groceries out to their car in store baskets after they were caught short without their own bags.  
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> However, after a bunch of their shopping baskets started to disappear they banned people from taking them out of the store and into the carpark altogether.

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