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Store owners say plastic bag ban causes more shoplifting
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| Thursday, February 28, 2013
| Casey McNerthney
Posted on 02/28/2013 1:50:46 PM PST by Lonely Bull
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To: UCANSEE2
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posted on
02/28/2013 2:27:05 PM PST
by
Girlene
To: Lonely Bull
It’s always those damn unintended consequences that the fascists point out, like the gulag, and the bacteria in reusable bags, but it’s the noble intentions that count and matter!
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posted on
02/28/2013 2:30:54 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: upchuck
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posted on
02/28/2013 2:30:54 PM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
To: Lonely Bull
We already have it here in San Mateo Ca and the San Carlos city council just approved one yesterday. We now get to pay 10 cents for each paper bag and the cost will go up to 25 cents in 2015.
This is so stupid they first banned the paper bags and went to plastic but there was no cost to the shopper. Now they ban plastic and approve paper bags but now we have to pay for them and you can only use “approved” bring your own reuseable bags. I loathe any and all politicians screw them all!!!!
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posted on
02/28/2013 2:38:46 PM PST
by
funfan
To: funfan
Notice how the limbs never ban plastic bags used for newspapers.
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posted on
02/28/2013 3:15:56 PM PST
by
aimhigh
( Guns do not kill people. Abortion kills people.)
To: MrB
If you call a spoon a knife, how quickly can you cut your meat with your spoon? Illogical. If you call a spoon a knife, there is no such thing as a spoon.
Only knives that cut well, and knives which dont.
To: WCH
Never reuse bags that have been used to transport meat. Meat juice nearly always gets contaminated with botulism, and heating the bags with hot water does not kill the germs.
Heating can kill the toxin (botulism poop!) that can kill you, but the germs are still there, waiting.
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posted on
02/28/2013 3:30:44 PM PST
by
donmeaker
(Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
To: UCANSEE2
"What I want to know is, what is a single use bag?"
Doggie poop bags.
To: funfan
We now get to pay 10 cents for each paper bag and the cost will go up to 25 cents in 2015. This is a new cash cow for the politicians. Expect these fees to go up, and up, and up.
They now charge $.25 for paper bags in unincorporated Los Angeles County and in Long Beach. I refuse to shop in those areas.
To: Lonely Bull
F@@kers!
Nothing better to do than mess with the proletariat.
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posted on
02/28/2013 3:50:53 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Revolting cat!
Course the effect on the beloved environment of washing reusable bags is outta sight, outta mind.Heh. Don'cha know you're supposed to wash them in soap made from hemp and tofu? It's OK then.
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posted on
02/28/2013 3:54:15 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment. -Ludwig von Mises)
To: Lonely Bull
Man, I could have told you that. I won’t buy one of their overpriced (10 cents!) little bags. I leave the store with 5-6-7 things in my hands. No one looking at me can tell whether I paid for them or not. It’s a shoplifter’s dream.
These laws are MORONIC. And I am not sorry for the stores. They sat on their hands because they WANTED this law because THEY get to keep every 1000% markup on every bag they sell. I know it’s basically just ten cents, but multiply that by 200 customers an hour at your basic grocery store, 5 bags each, for 24 hours. Why that is $2400 pure gravy a day they are getting from customers.
So I hope the stores lose their shirts. In the meantime they are not selling me any bags.
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posted on
02/28/2013 4:27:34 PM PST
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: Persevero
You're railing against the wrong villain.
I am sure that the retailers would prefer not to deal with this B.S.
Focus your anger on the perpetrators, not the victims.
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posted on
02/28/2013 4:54:51 PM PST
by
elkfersupper
( Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: Persevero
Impressive arithmetic. Lousy logic.
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posted on
02/28/2013 4:57:29 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: MrB
I have one of those survival knife, spoon, fork, weapon combo thingies. No idea what it’s called though.
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posted on
02/28/2013 6:00:40 PM PST
by
USAF80
To: Responsibility2nd
You know whats next, dontcha? They will begin to search your bags after you shop before you leave. There's a chain of Asian supermarkets here, Pacific Super. They won't let you bring bags of stuff in; therefore you won't be leaving with any bags of stuff. Try arguing with Chinese clerks who don't know english. I got no where with them. (Shop there for my Chinese MIL, lots of stuff plus cheap prices .) This bag crap is ridiculous in the SF area.
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posted on
02/28/2013 6:02:14 PM PST
by
roadcat
To: UCANSEE2
Any paper of plastic bag that tears before you can get the groceries into the house. One time I was leaving a sporting goods store (Big 5) and they had only used a single plastic bag. Imagine the looks on everyone's face nearby when the bag ripped open not 5 feet from the checkout counter and several boxes of shotgun shells fell to the floor, scattering the shells from the boxes. Calmly picked them up and demanded a double bag.
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posted on
02/28/2013 6:08:17 PM PST
by
roadcat
To: UCANSEE2
(That was really good!!)
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posted on
02/28/2013 6:16:47 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: UCANSEE2; All
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posted on
02/28/2013 6:20:32 PM PST
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
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posted on
02/28/2013 6:56:11 PM PST
by
upchuck
(nobama fact #69: For each job created by the nobama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.)
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