The Trolley bags express vibe is the latest in trolley systems designed to make your supermarket shopping easier and quicker.
The Trolley Bags consist of a lightweight folding system of bags. They are reusable bags, which fit into a supermarket trolley. These are strong bags, suitable to carry supermarket groceries or clothes.
When you reach the checkout, you just unroll the bags and set them out in the trolley to give you four separate compartments to sort your shopping. The system of four bags stretches out to fill the trolley.
You can then easily fill up the bags as the items come to you from the checkout.
The bags join while in the trolley but you can split them up when you take them out of the trolley to put into the boot of the car. You can check out further the Trolley bags express vibe at Amazon.
The trolley bags come in two sizes. The Shopping Bags Express bags fit into the shallow supermarket trolley and are ideal for smaller shops. If you have a bigger shop, which requires the standard supermarket shopping trolley, the manufacturer does a larger version.
How the Trolley bags express vibe work
The Trolley bags are an alternative to the “bags for life” or plastic bags.
You have a series of open shopping bags, which you can quickly sort your shopping.
A set of poles, which hang over the edge, the bags come rolled up… You can hang them on the back of your trolley until you are ready to use them.
The bags easy spread out on the trolley edge to fill the trolley. You can keep up with the cashier and there is no rush to pack away your shopping while the cashier is waiting. As with most shopping, it is best to but the heavier items at the bottom of the bags and the lighter items on top.
The bags separate easily and fit into the car boot, remaining up right until you get home.
You can in one movement spread the bags out along the trolley
Fits well into the boot of the car
They are four different sizes bags. Connected together with Velcro along integrated rails. You can place the bags open and upright in the shallow trolley. Allows you to pack using both hands when the cashier is scanning them through the check out. This will half the time spent at the till.
Makes the hassle of shopping and packing much easier. As the bags are different sizes you can use the smaller bags for heavier items such as tins and bottles. You can use the larger bags can be used for bulker items like the fridge and freezer goods. The bars need to get progressively smaller to fit the shape of the trolley
Slide the bags to the narrow end while shopping.
They have a good grip. They are not so heavy to lift as the bags are for use in shallow trollies. You can separate them when lifting out of the trolley in to the boot of the car. You can then reattach them in the boot of the car. So that the shopping does not move around when you are in transit.
Easier and Faster Shopping
The Trolley bags express vibe make it easy to fill at the checkout and to carry away afterwards, as they stay open by themselves. You can them use you can use both hands to pack away the shop with. In addition, there is fiddling with plastic bags, which are impossible to open.
Makes the endless shopping trips to the supermarket simpler and easier. You can have all the shopping bagged up, and be ready to pay after the checkout operator scan the last item.
These are good to use at Waitrose, Sainsbury’s and Tesco where you can scan direct into the bag. At Aldi and Lidi where there is little packing space and cashiers are very fast at scanning the groceries they come into their own. Therefore, it avoids having with a whole pile of groceries to pack into the bag.
As they split apart, you can take as many of them to shop with, as you want.
The Trolley bags folds away into a Velcro fastened package when not in use. Hang them on the back of the trolley when shopping. With the groceries on the conveyor, simply rack the trolley bags onto your trolley. Strad your bags out in the trolley. Now have four bags to pack away your shopping. The bags separate along the Velcro rail. Therefore, you can individually put them in the car boot.
Scan and Shop
If you are self-scanning either after the items have gone through the check out or while you are using the self-scan.
You can use them while you scan and shop. You can rack up the trolley bags before you come into the store. You can then place your shopping in the bags as you shop and scan the items in the store.
Several of the big stores, have a schemes in which you can scan the item yourself with a handset or you’re mobile. These include Tesco – “scan as you shop”, Salisbury’s – “mobile scan and go” and Waitrose – “quick check”. After you have scanned them, you can place your item directly into the Trolley Bags. This is very easy with these bags as you can scan with one hand and with the other hand just pick the item up and place it in the bags.
Colour Coded bags
The bags are coloured Orange, Green, Red and Blue. From largest to smallest bags in the Trolley Bags for the deep trolley. For the shallow trolley, the colour scheme reverses.
The manufacture suggests that you use small blue for bread and soft items then the red for veg etc. the green for frozen and the yellow for the rest it all works well…
There is a suggested colour coding i.e. blue for dairy, red for meat, green for veg and fruit and orange for tinned goods)
How are the bags constructed
The four bags consist of recycled coloured, non-woven fabric for the top. The manufacturers have constructed the bottom half constructed from strong black netting. The netting is made of the same material used in carrycot sides,
Dimensions of Shopping Bags Express
Set of four bags of variable size – 80, 55, 42 and 31 litre. When rolled up the bags are approximately 10cm in diameter and 66cm long.
Designed to fit a maximum Trolley size of Width 65cm x Depth 51cm. Maximum weight each bag can hold is: 15kg.
Other Customers and Shop Staff
Other shoppers will often comment on these bags when they see them in your trolley, asking you where you got them. I always say go to amazon uk and in the search box type in “shopping trolley bags” and they come to the top of the list.
Pros of the Trolley bags express vibe
Using them enables you to replace the use of plastic bags and reusable “bags for life”. Which is handy, as you now have to pay for plastic bags.
This is a lightweight foldable bag system.
Gives the customer a set of reusable open bags.
Better than having to keep on buying carrier bags which you always need for something else in the house.
It is much easier doing the weekly shop using these bags.
The bags are washable and easy to assemble
They are colourful, in Orange, Green, Red and Blue.
You are helping to save the environment by not buying plastic bags at the checkout.
The bags are lightweight but strong and hardwearing.
Reusable shopping bags
Cons of the Trolley bags express vibe
The bags hang using a rod of wood, which can overhang the trolley edge particularly as the trolley narrows towards the front. This can catch particularly when going between narrow checkouts and close to other customer’s trolleys.
The larger deeper bags used for the large shopping trolleys can be a bit cumbersome to use. Particularly when you have to lift them out of the trolley and put them in the car boot. One solution is just to buy and use the shallow express bags for both shallow and deep shopping trolleys. Alternatively, do not fill them up so much and put the heavier stuff in the smaller bag
The bags are made of canvas and netting at the base. Some customers have complained that they will not stand upright in the car boot and consequently the groceries tend to spill out of the bag.
You can use the larger size bags in the shallow trolley but you will have to lift them higher to get them out of the trolley
Larger bags can be a little heavy to lift out from the trolley so always make sure you pack the heaviest items in the smallest bags.