re: #108 Walter L. Newton

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.”

Yes, the local walmart doesn’t pay you, but they do collect the bags for recycling.

And the cost thing - that was part of my decision, too.

If a lot of customers get and use the cloth bag, and the store can reduce what it has to pay for the plastic bags, well - the store’s prices will stay down longer.

I love the cloth bags.