I was using the plastic bags in the veggie/fruit dept to put all my stuff in....some people laughed and some “not so much”.
Ask them to point out any item in the store that’s not packaged in plastic. They can’t...other than fruit/veggies but they provide plastic bags for those.
I’ve grabbed plastic veggie bags & used them to pick up meat - put my hand in the bag, grab the meat package, & then pull the bag over it. Saves sticky hands & getting “juice” on the other groceries in the cart. Chicken packages seem to be especially bad with leaking juice. I’m now buying pastured chicken from a local farmer, so I don’t have to deal with the grocery store stuff ... same for pork. I still buy beef on sale at the grocery & (fingers crossed) not having ‘supply’ issues .... yet.
I use produce bags for doggy bags stuff a bunch in the basket