Thirty-five percent said they were hit by falling bags.
Fear and loathing among the traveling public over missed connections and lost baggage translates into increased head injuries from falling bags that should never have been shoved into the overhead.
Bunzl's reports of falling bag orders echo figures last month from Wrap, the government's waste and resources programme, which showed that, compared with 2006, British shoppers have nearly halved the number of single-use plastic bags they get through.
Exports from Brazil may fall 2m bags (of 60 kilos) short of the quota set by the producers' cartel in the second half of 1997, but their 1998-99 couldcould be a bumper 30m bags.
In a few minutes, one or two people had fallen on bags that were in front of them, and soon people began falling all along the entrance to the ramp, even as a wave behind them continued to press forward.
Down fell several bags of gold coins: U.S. dollars, dated 1851 to 1928 and valued at €700,000, or nearly $900,000.
Dr. Raeburn would only have pitied me if I'd told him that I ran down the sidewalk after I told the boy no, that I fell, the bag slipped, and the eggs cracked, their yolks running all over the lettuce.
The move follows a trial at 50 stores in Northern Ireland and the South West of England which saw demand for polythene bags fall by more than 70%.
I've had brand new designer bags fall apart on me after two years, whereas a dress from 1948 that I wear frequently is in fine shape.
