It's interesting to imagine how things might go if the environmentally hazardous bag supplier adopted the same strategy as Borders employs with its customers: Plastic bag boss:

"Yeah, G'day. Colin here from Colins Plastic Book Bags. We do the bags for yer, ah, books and that?''

Borders executive: ``Yes.''

Plastic bag boss: "Um, well, were gunna add 10c to the cost of every bag. You know, for the environment and stuff. So our fees will be going up by ... let's see ... 200 per cent.''

At which point the Borders guy hangs up and contacts another supplier.

It must have been fun for Borders customers during February, Sydney's month of constant rain, to be asked for another 10c to protect their expensive books, CDs and DVDs.

We might be drawing close to the first case of bag rage, following the alleged water rage murder of Sylvania man Ken Proctor last year after an argument over hosing his garden.

People, after all, like their bags.

"We have been trying to wean our customers off plastic bags for months,'' reports newsagencyblog.com.au.

"They buy a paper for $1.10 or thereabouts and when we don't offer a bag, many demand it.

"In case they want proof of purchase we offer a receipt or a stamp on the newspaper. No, they want the plastic bag.''

If you want to tell a harassed parent she owes a bag fee after hours of dragging her feral kids through aisles of plastic-bagged products, you're a braver checkout chick than me.

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