Custom Eco-Friendly Tote Bags: Why Your Business Need Them?

Continuing its commitment to eliminating single-use plastic from its stores by 2025, Carrefour is currently offering custom eco-friendly tote bags to its customers in Dubai. Based on our research, the company has three versions of their reusable bags. These include a woven plastic bag, a foldable canvas bag, and a heavy-duty juco bag.

Owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in the UAE, Carrefour was the first retailer in the UAE to sell reusable shopping bags in 2007. Since then, Carrefour has encouraged customers to re-evaluate their usage of single-use plastic bags. They also urged shoppers to consider more sustainable alternatives. And until now, the company is still pursuing its sustainable initiatives.

During our visit, we’ve failed to see two of these reusable bag versions, yet we’re still lucky to see its canvas tote bags.

 

Benefits of Custom Eco Bags to Your Business

There are many reasons why you should consider promoting custom reusable bags. From their eco-friendly impact on our planet to their great value, every day is a perfect opportunity to advertise your brand using them. Here are the top 4 benefits of utilising them in your business.

 

• A practical way to promote your brand.

As a business owner, your primary goal is to solve your customers’ problems and provide for their needs. But along with it, you also want your business to be successful when it comes to sales. And there’s no other way to do both than with custom eco-friendly tote bags.

Tote bags are commonly used for shopping or buying groceries, and customers obviously need them. Thus, you can take this opportunity to promote your brand in a more practical way. Alternatively, you need to build a strong brand and ensure people stick to you.

Having said that, increasing your business visibility is very crucial. Making your promotional shopping bag visible to the public can help you conveniently build brand recognition. With its custom bags available in its stores, Carrefour is evidently aware of the benefits it could give to its customers, to the environment and its brand as well.

 

• Help reduce your company’s carbon footprint.

If you plan to expand your company’s green initiatives, utilising eco-friendly promotional merchandise such as reusable bags is another option you consider.

Manufacturing plastic bags has massive effects on our planet. And because they can be used once, they always end up in landfills and the ocean. Thus, switching to reusable bags can help.

Since canvas tote bags are durable, your customers can use them repeatedly. Aside from being reusable, they are also recyclable, which means they can be used to produce other products in the future.

With its promotional line, “Let’s Choose to ReuseTogether“, Carrefour encourages its customers to take the initiative with them.

Here are other promotional tote bag types you can consider for your green marketing campaigns. 

 

• Deliver more value to your customers.

As a business owner, we know that you want to give your customers nothing but the best products and services. You want to deliver more value to their purchases.

Tote bags can be made from various quality and sustainable materials such as canvas and juco. Since they are durable and stylish at the same time, they give more value to your customers’ money. Moreover, they can help them refrain from spending on new bags in the future.

 

• Do powerful marketing.

The customizability feature of reusable bags makes them a must-have marketing tool for all types of businesses. The canvas is a great medium to print your company logo and other details about your brand. All customers who will get your custom tote bags can be your brand ambassadors.

On top of that, you can spend less on your marketing campaigns as your customers will do it for you for free. Thus, you have to be smart and creative about designing your bags.

If you want to know how bags such as non-woven are made, here’s an article to guide you.

 

Take a look at these reusable and eco-friendly bags:

More and more businesses in all industries are shifting to sustainable and green marketing. Knowing this, you might want to add these customised eco-friendly bags. These tote and drawstring bags are made from canvas and cork materials, making them stylish and safe for the environment.

 

These shopping bags made from corn starch can bring your promotional campaign to the next level. Biodegradable, you can ensure that it wouldn’t end up in landfills or oceans.

 

Ditch out your single-used plastic and switch to these washable, eco-friendly and customisable shopping bags. They come in a variety of colours; thus, you have many options to choose from.

 

Discover how other brands use tote bags in marketing:

Our team recently came across a promotional offer from Johnnie Walker, where the brand is giving away complimentary tote bags to their customers as “the gift of big flavor.” The limited edition bag is partnered with their famous Gold Label and is made from woven jute, adding an aesthetic and nature-inspired vibe for users in the Philippines.

 

We see Perrier’s custom-designed tote bags in one of the stores we visited in Vietnam. For every purchase worth 100k VND, customers can get any of these bags for free!

 

We found these branded merchandise during our trip, and we absolutely love the concept behind these reusable tote bags. They are custom-designed and a great way to increase brand exposure beyond shop floors.

 

Asahi offered a PWP tote bag with a logo worth $10 with the purchase of 4 500mL of Asahi Beer. This beer purchase with purchase promotion was spotted at a 7-11 in Hong Kong.

Final Thoughts,

Transitioning from single-use plastics to reusable bags sounds impossible and challenging at first. But if a brand really cares for the environment and its customers, then it would not be as difficult as you think. Furthermore, it will also benefit your brand in the long run!

If you are looking for a bag manufacturing company, the ODM group is here to help you. We manufacture different types of promotional bags such as custom biodegradable bags, promotional travel bags, customised dry bags, and many more.

Feel free to reach out to our team to get a quote. Here at ODM, we guarantee that all the products undergo meticulous processes and strict quality control.

 

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