Jersey Evening Post

Best Fit Foot forward for the environment

A ST HELIER retailer is taking the lead in the fight for the local environment and community by paying customers to drastically cut carrier-bag waste. Fit Footwear Central is giving a pound to each customer who uses their own bag. It takes the current Islandwide initiative of charging 5p or 10p per carrier bag a stage further. Owner Audrey Laurens-Chalmers said it was worth the loss in revenue: ‘My daughter is 20. I might not be here in 30 years’ time, but I think it’s important for the future. We are giving a pound a pair back, and I thought: can we afford to do it? And then I thought, can we afford not to do it? And so I decided we would and we’ll take a bit of a hit on it.’