Data from 2023-2025 clearly show that plastic bags still dominate the paper in shopping baskets of Poles – results from the analysis. In 2023, plastic bags were at 3.72 percent. receipts against 2.20 percent paper, in 2025 at 3.59 percent against 1.66 percent paper.
Plastic bags still dominate. But there is also better news. “You can see a general decrease in the participation of both types of bags. We buy additional packaging less and less often, which may be the result of the growing popularity of our own bags brought to shopping” – we read in the analysis.
The share of bags in shopping baskets
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Panparagon
As Panparagon's analysts emphasize, for consumers paper bags remain less attractive, mainly due to the higher price, while plastic, they are still perceived as a more economical choice.
“Plastic bags are still winning with paper, because they are cheaper and more practical. This shows that we think economically rather than ecologically every day. On the other hand, the fact that we are more and more often packing shopping in reusable bags brought from home” – says Antonina Grzelak from the Panparagon application
When do we buy bags most often?
The data shows that Saturday is invariably the day of the greatest demand for bags. In 2023, as much as 8.1 percent Saturday's receipts contained a bag, and although in the following years this percentage decreased (7.31 percent in 2024 and 6.85 percent in 2025), Saturday remains a leader in each of the analyzed periods. This is a clear signal that it is then that Poles do the greatest purchases of the week, and with a larger basket more often they decide on additional packaging.
At the other extreme is Sunday, when the bags appear the least, with a result of about 5 percent. receipts in the examined years.
Panparagon is an application that allows not only to store receipts, but also search for promotions. Each month, users add on average nearly 2 million evidence of purchase. Thanks to this anonymous data, we can observe the changing shopping habits of Poles.
