3 cent charge on items at Home Depot?

[clifffaith]

I prefer to use reusable bags, but I find it impossible to keep them free of dog hair. And nobody needs that on their grocery belt.

My comment when “bring your own bags” started was to wait until OSHA saw baggers having to load bags that dogs had been sleeping on in the back of the SUV, to say nothing of gross bags with meat or egg spills. We have cats who are rarely in the car, and then only in a carrier. The car detailing guy was grumbling about cleaning up dog hair, but it turns out we apparently bring cat hair into the car on our clothes. Completely invisible to us, but he saw it! So you know our grocery bags have it too.

 

[T_R_Oglodyte]

When I remember, we take our Walmart bags we bought on Maui and Kauai into the regular grocery stores on purpose, just to indicate to the stores that we will not be buying their bags.

We've been packing reusable grocery bags on our vacation trips for years. We started doing it for Hawaii, then went to others.

It's much more convenient. When you go to a farmers market, they don't give out bags, so then we have a larger bag that we can put stuff in. They are very handy when going to Costco. Finally, they are stronger, so the problem of having a bag tear as we are schlepping it to our room isn't any issue. And the handles are more comfortable.

I try to keep a couple stowed in my car, so when I make an unplanned trip to a store I have some available.

 

[BJRSanDiego]

I don't but I buy boxed wines from Tablas Creek. I have never seen a 10 cent charge.

They just started collecting a deposit on the box wines January 1, 2024.

IMHO, it really doesn't make much sense ecologically-wise. The recycling centers return the deposit and I suspect that eventually the plastic and cardboard may or may not be recycled. It may end up in a landfill. Maybe they're using the plastic to make more of the 10 cent heavy duty plastic bags.

 

[BJRSanDiego]

I find people leave their carts all of the parking lot anyway, bags or no bags. IMO, grocery stores need more cart corrals. There is a reason you are no more than 30 steps away from a trash can at Disney. I think the same would hold true of cart corrals at the store.

Pushing the cart to a cart corral? Ha Ha. A week ago as I was pushing my Vons grocery store cart to my car, the brakes on all four wheels locked up. The cart was partially blocking a lane of traffic. It wouldn't move. Luckily I was (just barely) able to carry all of my groceries in a single load the next 300 feet to my car. I thought that maybe the rumble strips that they put in for ADA regulations made the cart think that I sneaked around checkout. Last Friday I had the bag man come with me "just in case". Same thing happened. Same place. Turns out that the supermarket put in a buried antenna that causes the cart to lock up if someone tries to move them beyond the perimeter. So, the bag man guarded my cart while I drove my car to the cart. The cart? No, I didn't push it to the corral. It wouldn't move. There it sat blocking traffic. I guess this is an example of "the law of unintended consequences".

 

[WinniWoman]

I love the plastic bags and thankfully here in NH no charges for them. I reuse them as garbage bags and for multiple uses like putting my water shoes in them after a visit to the lake. My neighbor uses them for packing for her eBay business so we all donate to her as well.

Our community doesn’t even recycle and I for one and happy with it after years of the big scam going on where I lived in NY where they had us separate everything only for the garbage truck to toss it all in the same truck in the same bin.