Posted on 08/27/2012 5:41:38 AM PDT by SMGFan
“Wasn’t it the environmentalist whacko’s who wanted us to use plastic bags instead of paper in the first place?” - Mr. K
“Exactly. That’s back when they were saving the rainforests.” - Joe 6-pack
Yep, and I’ll add that we had to make that move to prevent an Ice Age by the year 2000 (or maybe 2020.) Idiot environmentalists never stop and facts make no difference.
Of course they’d pass on the cost to the customer. Heck, it’s all a part of the overhead of doing business. Everything that goes in to creation, growing, packaging, marketing, transporting goods to the consumer is all figured into the cost of said goods.
I do not know why this is not obvious to everybody. If we were to all go out to grow, or manufacture everything that we normally buy, there would be no time to do anything else, and we would have far less.
As for the bags—there are benefits to plastic and to paper, depending on how one thinks. I’m not overly picky as I reuse whatever we get to transport our purchases from the store.
Exactly correct. All expenses a business has are passed on to the customer.
Actually, now that I’ve oversimplified: The owner, the investors, the employees, the suppliers—all wind up bearing some of the cost. Everybody gets clipped a little.
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