Rant: Plastic bags

[SourRoses]

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Actually, I only go to the grocery store once a week at the most. We get produce from a CSA share June - Nov and fill in with farmer's markets. Milk comes from the milkman and eggs come from the backyard, lol! Now if the woodchuck that lives next door could maybe die this winter I might get some more produce from my garden.

I was more referring to trips to CVS being better when I limit how much I can carry. I ordered four extra large canvas bags from Lands End with our family name on it that meet all grocery needs and they just live in the trunk of the car. I do wash them, maybe not as much as I should, but I do. Other shoppers ask about them all the time.

I really hate wasting gas and spent ten years living without a car but that's not going to happen with two preschoolers. Now I just need to convince the other parents at the preschool not to let their engines idle at drop-off and pick-up and I'll be better with the universe. Ommm

I wasn't referring to anything you said

Nor was I referring to any one person.

I was just referring to a sentence on the previous page that "People just buy what they can carry" or something to that effect. I dunno.. I'm a bit sleepy to click allll the way back there

 

[chickened]

You could just buy a box of them while at Walmart. People are not going to quit using them. Maybe it is a conspiracy by GLAD.
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[Matthew3590]

Control the bags control the population...

 

[redhen]

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I will be soooo PO if Walmart here does that!

 

[Avonlea22]

I went into a Yankee Candle yesterday and bought some tarts. I had a bag from a bookstore, so I kindly mentioned to the lady as she went to grab a bag that I didn't need one and I could put my items in my bookstore bag. She proceeded to turn around and grab a different kind of bag. I mentioned again that I didn't want a bag, and she responded with something like "it's to keep the scent away from your other items". I interrupted her and said, "Ma'm, I said I don't need a bag. I have a bag right here."

Ugh, I was so frustrated with this lady.

 

[newchickgal]

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You VIL take this bag and like it!!!

 

[SillyChicken]

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That's as bad a putting a gallon of milk in a bag. Hello? See the handle on the jug?

LOL, funny, I purposly put the jugs in a bag because I don't want the condensation on the jug picking up any dirt/hair etc from my truck. Keeps the jug clean. same with potatoes or apple etc that are pre-bagged, I have arthritis in my hands so it's hard to grip that kind of bag without hurting my hands. I will however, grab 1/2 full bags and dump them into another 1/2 full bag. And at home I reuse the bags for taking my lunch to work... lining trash cans, pickin up poo, etc.

I also have to admit, that I try to avoid lines with people that have their own bags. Partly because some of them look down right nasty, but it takes twice as long to bag up their items (esp the huge bags) especially when the person stands there and dictates which bag to put what in... and I admit, I'm just to impatient. I don't like the fact that the cashier has to handle my food after he handles your nasty bags (I don't mean anyone specifically on here when I say "your"). I wish they had conveyors like the self check out ones at Meijer, so the cashier can ring you up, and you pack your stuff in your own bag. You can still keep an eye on your costs ect, but it would be more efficent if you packed your own bags.

 

[WriterofWords]

Cashiers are told to bag all items to show that they are paid for. It is more cost and time effective for them to put it in a bag so that when you walk out the door it doesn't look like you just grabbed an item and left. That is what I was told when I asked at 4 different stores after I read your initial post. One cashier I asked said it doesn't matter what she does, she's going to get yelled at by those who feel she is wasting the bag and those that feel they bought an item it needs a bag. On a side note about 2 registers over at Wal Mart while I was asking my cashier no less, I heard a cashier ask a woman if she wanted a bag for small bag of cat litter, and the woman very sarcastically told her "No,, I just bought it to lug around in my arms, do you always ask stupid questions or am I special???" The cashier I had just asked kind of looked at me like 'Point made?" I couldn't believe the rudeness of that customer, I really wanted to walk over and tell her that her darn cat litter was already in a bag!

 

[Carols Clucks]

In Europe, the last time I spent any time there, most refrigerators are the size of big dorm refrigerators. People shop at the market almost daily. They go to the bakery, stop by the fish market-if they do not come to their street, pick up fruits and veggies from the street vendors etc.

They eat fresher foods, less prepared processed foods and take those few minutes to unwind in the markets. And they have been bringing their own bags for decades! Bet they can't figure out what our issue is and why we have to fill the back end of a suburban with so many bags and where we are going to store all that stuff when we get home!


A long time ago, the market down the street from my grandma also had a side door that held freezer bins. We would buy things like ice cream and then walk around the building to put our ice cream in our bin (no home freezer other than the tiny one in a dorm sized-just enough to keep that box of ice cream cold if we were going to bring it home for the night)

 

[ChickiKat]

When I ask for paper bags at the grocery store I feel like they get mad at me. And I noticed that the paper bags seem to be thinner than they used to be. I wouldnt ask for any bags but we use the paper bags for burnable trash.... argh!