Did I say I personally spend five to ten cents per bag or did I say that’s how much companies now make per bag used? An item that used to be given away is now a product. The bag ban has led to increased profits for major grocery retailers in all areas where they’ve been implemented.
Honestly how dare you insinuate I don’t bring my own bag. I’ve been rocking canvas bags since the mid aughts. I’ve been supplying my own bags since back when you used to have the cashier pick them up confused and look for a price tag, or worse ignore them. You don’t know me, you don’t know my life story, and you definitely don’t get to make assumptions about my grocery shopping habits, thank you very much!
Here’s an anteater, reserve your judgements for it!
I’m pretty anti-capitalism and this bothered me in the beginning too, but then I realized it was even more of a push for me to not use those plastic bags, when I think how many others might be deferred from them for that same reason, I become okay with them charging. If fact I would be okay with them charging like some ridiculous price, say $15 per bag, just so people don’t use them. Or better yet don’t sell them at all and just sell paper and actual tote bags.
Yes, the fee wasn’t meant to be a money grab or a revenue center for merchants but a deterrent for citizens asking for bags or wastefully using them. And its imposed (usually) by the local government. Altruistic corporate bag bans are few & far between but at least not unheard of (thinking of you, my local Wegmans 👍-- yes plastic bags are still not even partially banned where I live but some stores have a no-plastic policy).
Did I say I personally spend five to ten cents per bag or did I say that’s how much companies now make per bag used? An item that used to be given away is now a product. The bag ban has led to increased profits for major grocery retailers in all areas where they’ve been implemented.
Honestly how dare you insinuate I don’t bring my own bag. I’ve been rocking canvas bags since the mid aughts. I’ve been supplying my own bags since back when you used to have the cashier pick them up confused and look for a price tag, or worse ignore them. You don’t know me, you don’t know my life story, and you definitely don’t get to make assumptions about my grocery shopping habits, thank you very much!
Here’s an anteater, reserve your judgements for it!
I’m pretty anti-capitalism and this bothered me in the beginning too, but then I realized it was even more of a push for me to not use those plastic bags, when I think how many others might be deferred from them for that same reason, I become okay with them charging. If fact I would be okay with them charging like some ridiculous price, say $15 per bag, just so people don’t use them. Or better yet don’t sell them at all and just sell paper and actual tote bags.
Yes, the fee wasn’t meant to be a money grab or a revenue center for merchants but a deterrent for citizens asking for bags or wastefully using them. And its imposed (usually) by the local government. Altruistic corporate bag bans are few & far between but at least not unheard of (thinking of you, my local Wegmans 👍-- yes plastic bags are still not even partially banned where I live but some stores have a no-plastic policy).
That’s a damn fine anteater