Posted on 08/24/2018 8:01:01 AM PDT by oldvirginian
“They are going to make you provide your own reusable bags or sell them to you.”
Those trendy reusable bags are filthy breeding grounds for bacteria.
https://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a55894/reusable-shopping-bags-health-threat/
Which plastic Bags, the ones all the Groceries are put in at the Check stand or the ones that come off a roll that people use in the Vegetable and Meat Departments?
I cannot see customers washing bags out. Meats would make reusable bags super gross. Curious what Kroger’s option will be.
Bummer. We use them to dispose of kitty litter.
“Courts have struck down plastic bag bans.”
In a few isolated cases. In numerous others they have not. This is indeed a response to actual and threatened governmental acts.
The gallon containers in CT usually had an integrated plastic handle in the top, but they were still unwieldy.
You are right about real little kids, I am thinking of not quite so little kids. My ten year old can now handle the plastic jugs, but wouldn’t have a chance with the one gallon cardboard ones. The half gallon version cost more per ounce.
” I can take about $150 in groceries upstairs in one trip. Can’t do that with paper.”
My standard answer to ‘paper or plastic?’
So they’ve come full circle back to the novel idea of paper grocery sacks ... Such innovation! Such vision!
“As it should be, a corporate policy implemented without the force of a government, and moreover, a plastic bag free policy that will be adopted by other grocery chains, all without being forced to do so by a government.”
A beautiful thing ain’t it!
Let the customer decide.
IIRC, there was a article a while back stating that the vast majority of plastic trash going into the oceans originates from several rivers in Asia and Africa.
Like recycling went from separating everything back to putting it all together i.e. single stream.
“My ten year old can now handle the plastic jugs, but wouldn’t have a chance with the one gallon cardboard ones. “
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Sure she/he would-—they are no more difficult to open than the small ones they used to get in school.
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“In a few isolated cases.”
For the entire state of Texas.
By 2025, most will have to bag their own. The local Wal Mart just converted to perhaps having 3-4 ‘manned’ lanes, and a couple dozen DIY checkouts.
This is shocking news here in Raleigh, where Kroger is presently closing all stores. LOL
Kroger never completely went away from paper.
I have always requested paper because I hate the plastic bags with two or three items in them.
They aren’t serious. If they were serious, they’d use up their current supply of plastic bags and be free of them within the month.
Next time they ask if I want a bag, I’ll say no but will need someone to carry it all out to the car.
“Which plastic Bags, the ones all the Groceries are put in at the Check stand or the ones that come off a roll that people use in the Vegetable and Meat Departments?”
The ones at the checkout.
I imagine the plastic rolls will be available. They were using them back in the 60’s.
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