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Old 06-29-2011, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Schertz, TX
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Some grocery stores in Canada started charging for plastic bags a while back... unless you brought your own bag.

I'm not sure if this is still going on up there. Going to Canada in September so I will find out soon enough.

Agreed though... there is to much plastic floating around out there that will be with us basically forever.
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Old 06-29-2011, 02:42 PM
 
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What would probably happen is that the stores will just try to pass off the extra cost to the customer.
Guess what? Store customers are already paying for the plastic bags that they use - it's rolled into the store markup!

Those "free plastic bags" aren't free. If stores could charge customers who use plastic bags, then the cost would be more transparent. Being transparent about the real cost of an action is a great way to promote good practices.
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Old 06-29-2011, 02:47 PM
 
Location: NW San Antonio
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I like the cardboard box idea. And hell yeah you can recycle those! Good call westside wrangler
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Old 06-29-2011, 02:51 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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I think, some people will take their reusable bags when the stores start to charge for them. I know they are already included in the purchase price, but if the bag price were separated - then people will reconsider taking their own bags.
That works just fine in other countries.
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Old 06-29-2011, 02:54 PM
 
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Guess what? Store customers are already paying for the plastic bags that they use - it's rolled into the store markup!

Those "free plastic bags" aren't free. If stores could charge customers who use plastic bags, then the cost would be more transparent. Being transparent about the real cost of an action is a great way to promote good practices.
I don't think people understand the economics of how a business works.

Do you REALLY think that a business will lower the costs if they didn't have to pass them on to a consumer? Especially for a business like HEB which has no competition? No.

It's like Verizon's new pricing model for their data plans. They can charge more than everyone else because the competition isn't even close.

I use my plastic bags for all kinds of uses. How do people pick up their dog poop? Dirty diapers? Waste basket trash? Do the tree hugging hippies use hemp bags for that? I just don't get it.
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Old 06-29-2011, 03:00 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX
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And who cares if the cashiers look flustered when they have to put stuff into reusable bags ( I mean that in the nicest way possible). What is the difference between putting something in a plastic or reusable bag? They're both bags!?!?
They either end up sticking the stuff in plastic bags and then stuffing those into the reusable bags, or piling all the stuff on the turntable and expecting us (usually hubby because I'm busy watching prices) to bag our own stuff, even when we've hooked the reusable bags onto the bag racks. Bad enough that you've got to load your own cart at Walmart without having to bag all your own groceries as well.
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Old 06-29-2011, 03:12 PM
 
Location: NW San Antonio
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That is crazy and not to mention not very customer friendly! The nerve of those people! If it were me I would just sit there until somebody started bagging my stuff and made sure they did it right. But I can be somewhat forward at times. I don't know how Wal-Mart works really since I have boycotted them since 1997, but HEB is pretty good about bagging it up right. I have only had one scenario at HEB and it was with the coffee scales, not the bags.
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Old 06-29-2011, 09:16 PM
 
Location: San Antonio, TX, USA
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I use my plastic bags for all kinds of uses. How do people pick up their dog poop? Dirty diapers? Waste basket trash? Do the tree hugging hippies use hemp bags for that? I just don't get it.
For dog poop, I buy the dog poop bags at Costco, complete with poop bag holder to attach to leash...these are biodegradable when thrown away. For trash bags, there is recyclable trash bags available at HEB or Wal Mart for either kitchen trash can or large outdoor trash can use.
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Old 06-29-2011, 09:27 PM
 
Location: Mid South Central TX
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Target gives you 5 cents for each reusable bag you bring.
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Old 06-29-2011, 09:32 PM
 
Location: San Antonio
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For dog poop, I buy the dog poop bags at Costco, complete with poop bag holder to attach to leash...these are biodegradable when thrown away. For trash bags, there is recyclable trash bags available at HEB or Wal Mart for either kitchen trash can or large outdoor trash can use.

and it's not so much that people are or aren't using plastic bags... but you just get SO MANY of them. i don't know about other folks, but my weeks worth of groceries as heb or walmart could send me home with ten plastic bags! (i could cut that in half if i were bagging them though. most grocery bagging clerks seem to use an excessive amount of bags, especially when in a hurry.) ten plastic bags a week? meaning i have roughly forty bags in my collection per month! holy cow. even if i had a need for so many bags, i don't take heart in that their only purpose is to be thrown away.
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