re: #93 reine.de.tout

We don’t have a bag fee here but I went ahead and got some of those cloth bags, anyhow.
They hold more, are easier to hold onto, and, well - it just makes sense.

My grandmother and my mother reused EVERYTHING.
We of the younger generations do not.

We had to get our mower repaired, and found one repair place in town.
Most people just go out and get a new mower.
Sheesh.
We are a wasteful bunch.

Just an aside to the plastic bag stuff. Many supermarkets will no pay you 5 cents for every bag you bring yourself, canvas bags or recycling your already used plastic bags… you may have come across this…

Don’t think this is some altruistic “save the earth,” we are green mindset on the corporation that owns those stores… it’s a bottom line… cost… money…

They actually save money by encouraging you to bring your own bags. The price per plastic bag has gone up enough to actually effect the bottom line… for every canvas bag you use, the store saves 4-5 plastic bags, which cost more than the 5 cents they credit you with.

We you extrapolate the cost over hundreds of stores (as in the case of Kroger brand stores where I work)… you can see the business reason for the “bring your own bag campaign.”