Lol i started seeing people in my store use the same kind of trolly bag. I feel like a trend setter.
What bags aren’t reusable?
The paint/dyes used in the reusable bags are far worse for the environment than the plastic from even 10 bags
every bag is a reusable bag
I have some reusable plastic bags at home. Perhaps I should use them to take the pile of reusable plastic bags to the trash
I bring my own reusable bag nearly every time I do grocery shopping. But I also live in NYC, which might as well be a different planet compared to most of the US. It’s a five minute walk (on sidewalks! Big ones!) to the grocery store.
I’ll repeat this.
ProTip: Leave a bag of bags in the car. When you shop, use a cart. Skip the bagging at the cashier and have them just put everything back in the cart. Bag at your car in peace and at your own pace. The cashier will appreciate you. The bagger will appreciate you. The other shoppers in line will appreciate you. Most of all, your nerves will appreciate you.
Other people bagging stuff for you is a thing? I have never seen it in my life in Europe. Unless you have a disability then to me it just seems like adding extra work to the workers for no real purpose
We usually have dedicated baggers in the US, though many stores switched to having the cashier do it due to the ‘labor shortage’ during the pandemic. It’s basically a jobs program, usually given to disabled or older applicants that management wants tax credits for, but don’t actually have a use for; also teens that otherwise would be too costly to train if they’re only being employed for the summer.
Capitalism breeds innovation in how to pretend labor is necessary for everyone to do.
This is genius! thanks for sharing 🙂
We have this awesome thing in a lot of places where you can use a scanner and scan as you shop. You can put the bag in the cart and bag while you shop. When you get to the self checkout, you can use the scanner and instantly pay for everything and be out within seconds. I pay with my phone so just a touch is needed and I’m out of there. If you are the carry bags kind you can even take the bag out of the cart, return the cart to the correct place and walk to the car with the bag. It’s so fast and efficient.
I’ve become so spoiled I actively avoid places that don’t have such a thing. And I hate people who have a full cart at the self checkout and scan everything much much slower than the regular checkout with a person who’s job it is to do that. It’s fine if you have like 5 items and just scan them quickly at the self checkout. Anything beyond that really should be scanned during the shopping or just go to the regular checkout which is designed to handle a lot of stuff.
+1 on leaving bags in the car
And this concept of bagging at the car just blew my mind
It’s not even extra hassle to me because I hate how the cashiers were bagging items anyway. Problem solved. No waste. Exactly how you want it every time.
Some places have banned single use plastic grocery bags, its not uncommon in my area to see at least a few people use reusable bags now.
Yeah, it’s been banned in New Jersey for the last couple years. It was a cool overnight shift and it’s just second nature to just leave reusable bags in my car now for when I need them.
Not banned in my area, and I use reusable bags anyway. So do other people, though it’s still uncommon.
My area is so conservative they banned bans on single use plastic to own the libs.
Republicans love to take away freedoms.
You’re using it wrong!
I went to stay a couple of months in the US and of course I brought my reusable bag to the übermarket. The cashier didn’t want to fill it. She insisted to use single-use bags :|
I have these reusable nets for fruits & veggies, and I always figured I’d encounter a cashier at some point, who’ll say “Excuse me, you need to be destroying the environment, otherwise I cannot weigh these”.
Thankfully, I have not yet (here in the Europes), but the self-checkout register at one of the shops genuinely has a step programmed in where it asks you, if you’re using a reusable net or similar. If you click “Yes”, it has the nerve to ask you to remove it before weighing. And it’s just like:
Thankfully, self-checkout registers can be easily lied to, so I just tell it that my veggies are unpacked.
My local grocery store doesn’t have a self checkout and I swear they must assume they heard me wrong when I ask them not to bag things. :(
Why America tho? There have been reusable only bags in grocery stores for a long time now.
Where do you live?
In Austin, there was a short period of time where all grocery stores were legally required to ditch plastic bags.
A successful campaign strategy for city council right after that was to run against the plastic bag ban because people kept forgetting their reusable bags. Everybody agreed they are bad but individualism and a sense of laziness prevailed. This is America.
I’m not sure Texas counts
Yeah, but depending on the state, they’re not widely adopted. A lot of people aren’t going to spend the extra money for reusable bags unless they’re forced to.
How dare you taking away jobs from the people that put your groceries in plastic bags at Walmart /s
It’s OK my local Walmart will force you to do your own checking out in the future anyway.
I use them all a second time as a wet bag, refuse bag, etc. not perfect but better than just tossing them right away