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Shuffling your way through queues. Great gaps on the shelves, exactly where you don't want them to be. And flimsy plastic bags that take 5 hours to pull apart, and then split the second you walk through an exit. Shopping - what a pain, eh?

Well, no actually, not when it comes to that last point anyway. And not just because these days you can sit at home, click away and have everything delivered straight to your wardrobe. But because the alternatives to dreary and (at the risk of sounding all geeky) shockingly environmentally unfriendly carrier bags have been spreading even more rampantly than global warming.

You used to know where you were with shopping bags. Paper or polyurethane, double handled or straight-up, they were to be grabbed in bundles, filled to bursting and then left to drift like toxic tumbleweed across supermarket car parks after having burst before reaching the safe haven of your car boot - or the bus stop. But things changed when that granny's stalwart - the good old shopping trolley - went all Changing Rooms, and could suddenly be seen prowling the streets in polka dots and tiger prints - or, for the more upmarket trolley dolly, the Orla Kiely designer model.

Now, though, things have calmed down. Reverting to the view that less is more (as long as it fits a good deal in), the shopping bag is back. Only this time it's strong, stylish, re-useable, as illustrated by Roobedo's funky leaf print version. Now there's no excuse why you can't be a happy - and cool - shopper.

Leaf print bag, by Roobedo, £56, Concrete Wardrobe (0131 558 7130).