Wal Mart Bags Unfit For Riding Buses

[seashoreCM]

After I drive home from Wal Mart, I usually find holes in the plastic shopping and grocery bags. It is not unusual for a hole, once started, to get bigger rapidly as the bag is carried.

So it would be embarassing, if not financially ruinous, for a bag to burst open while you are on the bus or subway, or while you are riding your bike.

In other news, over Memorial Day weekend 2024, customer and employee reports (Instagram, etc.) from at least two Wal Marts showed rain and hail falling down inside the store in multiple areas. Hard to believe that the roof was so flimsy to be torn apart in multiple places so quickly. Unless a tornado had passed over just prior, which was not mentioned.

 

[LoveDaisy]

Where do you live that they still use plastic bags? I haven’t seen them used in several years by me. (Sorry if that was a weird takeaway I just wasn’t aware some areas still use them)

 

[Allison]

I doubt a bag breaking would be financially ruinous. If so, double-bag it.

 

[aprilgail]

Walmart gives plastic bags when you buy things?? Here you have to bring your own reusable bags!

 

[NYCgrrl]

No Walmarts here and most NYCers (maybe NYSers too) have moved on to reusable bags.

 

[sam_gordon]

We still have plastic bags in Kentucky.

The question is who bagged them? IMO, if there's holes in the bag, it's very possible too much stuff was put IN the bag. Which, if you used the self checkout, is on you.

 

[QueenIsabella]

If I were traveling on a bus or bike to/from Walmart, and thought this might be an issue, I'd bring a reusable bag or two with me. Speaking only for my household, we have to have a few dozen reusable bags in a variety of sizes. Even some from the Maui Walmart (Hawaiian Walmart bags have special designs, and you have to use reusable bags there). Heck, my DD21 got back from London last night, and was showing all the reusable bags she came home with. Most were cheap (10 pence is standard for a bag there), but there was a nicer one she bought in the bookstore.

Walmart bags being cheap is not a new issue. We re-use them as litter scoop bags, and my son either double-bags, or sorts through, throwing out any bags with holes.

 

[barkley]

Where do you live that they still use plastic bags? I haven’t seen them used in several years by me. (Sorry if that was a weird takeaway I just wasn’t aware some areas still use them)

Walmart gives plastic bags when you buy things?? Here you have to bring your own reusable bags!

in my state (washington) if you don't bring your own bags walmart charges you but uses the recyclable (fairly decent) 'plastic' bags. next door in idaho, no charge for bags and if you don't bring your own it's the cheap, flimsy hole laden ones (can't save them for other purposes b/c the norm is holes in the bottom).

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

Walmart no longer uses the Heavy Duty bags. They break simply loading them into the car in the parking lot. The Bags are as delicate as and pop like a bubble.

 

[footballmouse]

I think people in this situation know to bring a recyleable bag or a cloth bag for this reason. I agree though, once there's a tear in the bottom, it moves up the bag quick.

 

[Meriweather]

AZ....still plastic bags everywhere.
I've never had a problem with WalMart bags, but other places have ripped on me.
If I bag my own I double bag.

 

[Dive Bar Casanova]

I haven't tried double bagging. Plastic bags are subject to a 10 cent charge here.

 

[mom2rtk]

Walmart gives plastic bags when you buy things?? Here you have to bring your own reusable bags!

Just grocery shopped at Walmart and have plastic bags of groceries I put away.

 

[lynxstch]

Where do you live that they still use plastic bags? I haven’t seen them used in several years by me. (Sorry if that was a weird takeaway I just wasn’t aware some areas still use them)

I live in Maryland and our Walmart still uses plastic bags

 

[tvguy]

Where do you live that they still use plastic bags? I haven’t seen them used in several years by me. (Sorry if that was a weird takeaway I just wasn’t aware some areas still use them)

Most stores phased out paper bags here in California years ago. You either bring your own bags or pay 10 cents for a reusable plastic bag. That fee is set by state law, not the store and that law went into effect 10 years ago. Last week they passed a law to ban plastic bags, because the amount of plastic going to the dump skyrocketed since they mandated them. People just refuse to reuse those bags. Now stores can only use cloth, woven textile or........PAPER bags, at least when the law goes into effect.
Our Walmart did experiment with no bags about 15 years ago. That lasted about a year. We bought a packet of 250 good old fashioned brown paper bags then and still have some left. We reuse them, except during the pandemic when they suspended the law that allowed stores to charge for bags, and banned the use of reusable bags for health reasons.
So with our paper bags, and the covid ban on reusable bags lifted, we will be fine.

 

[kanerf]

I like the bags from LIDL. They cost 12 cents, but they are virtually indestructible. I take some with me whenever I shop at Walmart or other stores. Around here (Northern VA) they charge 5 cents for regular plastic bags. The LIDL ones are about three times the size of a standard plastic bag, so you don't need as many.

 

[Magical2017]

I live in Maryland and our Walmart still uses plastic bags

Hello, fellow Marylander. We live in MD and our county moved to reusable bags last year. Some stores still supply paper or plastic for a fee.

 

[firefly_ris]

I live in Maryland and our Walmart still uses plastic bags

Baltimore County moved away from plastic bags but my mom can shop in Harford County and get plastic bags. She saves them for me since I can't get them here in NY except sometimes take-out restaurants and such. I used to use them for cat litter but now that our cat has passed away I use them exclusively for all the small waste baskets in the house.

 

[jo-jo]

I have a several dozen free bags from various charities and mostly they are ok. But the best bags I have are canvas. I bought them about 25 years ago. I can carry 4-5 large bottles of soda in them and they don't break . Only drawback was back when they were new , I gave one to niece. She took it to college, washed it with her underwear. She then had lovely blue everything.

Strange rules at local walmart (it's township rule), charge for bags in store, but if we do a pickup, we get these weird half size paper bags that hold three items. But not charged for them.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Baltimore County moved away from plastic bags but my mom can shop in Harford County and get plastic bags. She saves them for me since I can't get them here in NY except sometimes take-out restaurants and such. I used to use them for cat litter but now that our cat has passed away I use them exclusively for all the small waste baskets in the house.

I re-purposed the supermarket plastic bags in the bathroom too. Now I buy them from Amazon, 300 bags for around $12.00.
Free was better.