A Woolworths customer in Cairns was charged 8 cents for bringing his own bags to carry his shopping.
Woolworths charged him 1 cents per bag, which his docket shows as ‘BYO Bag’ at $0.01 each, totalling 8 cents for 8 bags.
According to Yahoo7 News, “Cairns customer Jason Taylor took to Facebook to vent his anger after discovering an eight-cent charge on his shopping at the supermarket’s Stockland Earlville store.”
Although one cent per bag does not seem to count much, "some pointed out one cent from each customer across the country would equate to “millions” of dollars.", reported Yahoo7 News.
A Woolworths spokesperson said that this was a computer glitch and apologised to the customer.
