Reusable Shopping Bags

[crashcourse]

Shoppers Drug Mart should create a reusable shopping bag and credit optimum points each time you use it!

[Freelancer-Mountaineer]

I love using reusable shopping bags, especially the bigger totes for when I'm out. However, I think a small problem still exists and I hope this initiative will eliminate it. Stores still like giving plastic bags and if you don't take it and just stuff it in your tote and then walk around to buy other stuff in the store or mall, even though you have your receipt, it still could look like you're taking it because it's just an item in your tote, without a plastic bag. It's stupid but I hope retailers / salespeople can stopping thinking along those lines and not only embrace this, but shift their thinking as well. I hate it but mostly I still end up with plastic bagged merchandise in my reusable tote for all shopping, except groceries. I always make sure to reuse the plastic bags for garbage but it still sucks.

[mrsmagoo2001]

Why did grocery stores grt rid of paper bags? Too costly?

[gman]

Why did grocery stores grt rid of paper bags? Too costly?

Did they ever use in Ontario? I did not notice any reasonable size supermarket used that in the past 30 years (or even more).

I know it is common in US. I have a friend who went to US and buy some grocery. The cashier asked if she wants paper or plastic. She thought the cashier mean to ask if she wanted to pay cash or credit card.

[fiscal-rick]

Did they ever use in Ontario? I did not notice any reasonable size supermarket used that in the past 30 years (or even more).

I know it is common in US. I have a friend who went to US and buy some grocery. The cashier asked if she wants paper or plastic. She thought the cashier mean to ask if she wanted to pay cash or credit card.

have you meen in a closet for thirty years?

most major supermarkets stopped offering them in the open 6 years ago and only discontinued carrying them (you could ask) about 3-4 years ago

I go to SUPER C in Hull (across the river from ottawa in quebec) they still have them sitting on every cash!

I use them to put my recylcled paper items in ... if i dont have one, I just throw the paper items in the garbage, as the recycle box is outside the side door ... and that is a long walk through like a room and a hall!

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