Back in my days working the checkout I certainly preferred new green bags to pack. They aren’t annoying to separate like the plastic bags are, and when they have the base in them so are rectangular it’s easy to pack them - plus the shape makes it easier to take the tetris approach to filling them up.
Other enviro-bags that weren’t the supermarket issue square ones suck - but they aren’t all that much worse than filling a plastic bag - though slightly slower.
The main factor however is whether the little flap at the top is still in place. If you can hook a green bag onto the normal bagging thing - it’s a breeze to fill. If you have to try and hold it in place, it sucks.
I always found plastic bags much faster to pack into as a checkout operator than the enviro kind, but that’s where my agreement with Travis ends.
Sure, the usual suspects will whinge about the change to frontline staff who can’t do anything about it, you might take a minute longer to bag a full trolley, and you might need to be a bit more alert when running self serve, but take a moment to think about the greater good here.
Having done a number of years as a service manager, including during the changeover, the bag ban is the least of your average service staff member’s problems on a daily basis.
I’m sure you if you looked hard enough you could still find a servo (most likely independently owned) that offers full service.
Im not sure what these guys are paid in Singapore but the countries that still have an attendent for this purpose tend to have a very low minimum wage. I think we have had self service as the norm in Australia for too long for it to be a worthwhile point of difference (especially since fuel is so focused on price and/or upsell of items at the counter).
I still can’t believe it’s taken the other States this long to ban Plastic bags, here in SA they have been banned since 2009, sure it took a little while for checkout operators & customers to fully get use to it, but from memory the translation went fairly smoothly.
And you will find most petrol attendants in Singapore are elderly, just like the cleaners over there working places like McDonalds, Burger King, Long John Silvers etc, all working hard on the bare minimum wage, a lot of them work well into their 80’s.
Nick Scali Furniture has said it would be interested in buying Steinhoff’s Australian operations including Freedom, Fantastic, Plush, OMF, Harris Scarfe, Best & Less and Snooze, if the troubled company’s Asia-Pacific operations are put up for sale.
Maybe Coles and Woolies should offer that. 
