Supermarket giant Morrisons has divided shoppers after sharing an announcement about its latest rules for buying meat, fish and deli items.
The supermarket received a mixed response when it announced that shoppers can now bring their own containers to fill up with items at fresh food counters as part of the shop's bid to reduce the amount of plastic waste that it produces.
Posting on Facebook, Morrisons wrote: "You can now bring your own reusable containers to our counters including our butchers, fishmongers and deli, where our colleagues will happily fill them for you. Simply hand over your container to be weighed. #ReduceReuseRecycle."
The post quickly racked up shopper support, and has since been liked over 1,700 times, and shared over 700 times.
Writing under Morrisons' post, one shopper said: "What a great idea. Simple measures to help the planet. I'll be doing this asap. (In terms of the pandemic, I am an adult, so I know how to wash containers and my hands)."
"I think its a brilliant idea. Well done Morrison's," a second praised.
Somebody else wrote: "What a great idea, a positive move."
Unsurprisingly, however, some people weren't content, and some wrote to complain about potential hygiene risks.
One wrote: "Touching up the meat after touching up containers from people isn’t the one in a pandemic ... good idea but not at the moment really."
"Totally unhygienic given what's going on in the world some people are not clean so although I get the plastic and paper waste don't think it's good people bringing stuff in from home," complained somebody else.
Our take? If you like the idea, do it. If you don't like it, don't take your own tupperware.
