Wal Mart Bags Unfit For Riding Buses

[RedAngie]

Single use plastic bags have been banned in Delaware for several years now, but some places, like Chinese take out and flea/farm market vendors still use them. I don’t know if it’s an exception or they’re just using up the supply they already had.

As for Walmart, when they still provided bags, some cashiers went hog wild in using them, putting only two or three items in a bag, then spinning the holder to put a few more items in another.

I always told them NOT to bag my gallon of milk or 2 liter sodas, but often they were so programmed to bag they’d ignore my request.

 

[goofyernmost]

Simply ask them to double bag but if you can get your hands on some cloth bags that would be best. For me, preferably without advertising. If they are going to force me to advertise, then give me the bags. I am not in the mood to actually pay them for me to do there promotion. I feel the same way for t-shirts or any other clothing article that contains a name or logo. The only exception I have ever made to that was Disney, but I don't even do that anymore.

 

[disneychrista]

I love how the “single use” plastic bag ban evolved into lets use a heavy duty “reusable” plastic bag that is worse than the original.

Come on people it’s not that difficult to bring bags with you when you shop.

 

[Imzadi]

I bought a “little old lady cart” for times there are a lotta packages like shopping at Stew Leonard’s or Target. Looks like this
https://www.amazon.com/dbest-produc...16974982&sprefix=Shopping+,aps,95&sr=8-9&th=1

I have one similar, but without the bag. I realized that I'd always have odd shaped, or an odd amount of things and the bag would never be big enough. So, when I bring the cart, I have to figure out ahead of time what size bag, box, and how many bungees to bring.

I hang a handled plastic bag near the kitchen to the eternal shame of DGD. She wants me to buy a garbage can but the one I want costs 100 bucks and I’m not that crazy. I mean but who cares? The garbage gets thrown out at least once a day and the chute room is on this floor. Whyyyy when I was a kid you walked down 5 flights of stairs and up 10 to throw out the trash. Durn whippersnappers!

I do that too! The kitchen is right next to the door. So, it's much more convenient to toss directly into the bag, lift the bag, tie the top as I'm headed out the door and toss it in the building dumpster as I'm walking out. That's one of the reasons I'm so mad that the city banned the plastic grocery bags.

 

[Imzadi]

Single use plastic bags have been banned in Delaware for several years now, but some places, like Chinese take out and flea/farm market vendors still use them. I don’t know if it’s an exception or they’re just using up the supply they already had.

I've noticed more stores are quietly using them again. I think it's because everyone realized flimsy paper bags just don't work. And we are being charged per bag anyway. There is no plastic bag police around here. A major chain here started using them again for large purchases. Not the same shape as the regular plastic grocery bags, called T-shirt bags. (Although they are more tank top shaped. ) But, I always ask for a large plastic bag from one cashier I am friendly with, even if I don't have a lot of stuff. Then I reuse them for my garbage.

 

[Imzadi]

This video points out how much plastic goes home with us from the grocery store, except the one piece of plastic we need to carry it all home. (Skip the political part at the very end.)

 

[NotUrsula]

Stores here, except for Aldi (and also Goodwill) still give out disposable plastic "t-shirt" bags. (Stores *had* been phasing them out in favor of reuseable bags in the late 2010s, but bringing your own was banned during the pandemic, and then the issue became politiciized, so nothing has changed since 2021, and isn't likely to at this point.) Most stores' bags are good for several uses around the house before finally tying them up around a paper bag of used cat litter.

Not so WalMart. They have gone way too far in the direction of "biodegradable" by using 100% recycled scrap and having it rolled out ever-thinner. Most of the time you can't even open the bag without tearing it. WalMart staffed checkouts here now double-bag *everything*, and usually triple-bag anything heavy like milk, soft drinks, or canned goods, and they STILL tear when carrying them into the house half the time. The average 6 sacks of groceries I bring home from a WalMart run tends to actually put close to 20 bags straight into the trash once the groceries are home, whereas bags from every other store are kept for re-use.

BTW, fwiw, the viability of providing paper bags depends a lot on the local climate. The glue on paper bags is a roach delicacy, and keeping large pallets of the bags around in hot climates tends to lead to pest infestation problems.