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plastic bags (whether you buy them or not) |
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35 | 40.70% |
reusable canvas bags |
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42 | 48.84% |
plastic tote boxes |
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0 | 0% |
other (please explain) |
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9 | 10.47% |
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OK...so...just a random thread, lol...and poll.
Yesterday at the grocery store, they started charging for plastic bags. 5 cents a bag. Up until now there's only been one store that has ever charged for bags (Superstore)...the store in town is a smaller branch of it (Extra Foods). So anyway, we ended up buying some reusable canvas bags because of the principal of having to pay 5 cents for each bag (which are WAY smaller and break easier). Plus we have like millions of plastic bags in our house...they make me crazy. I was considering buying a couple of the plastic tote boxes too, but didn't have the cash for it - I probably will on payday, though. I get why they do it, though. Though the baggers tend to underpack the bags, like 1 loaf of bread in a bag, 1 bag of chips in a bag, etc. THAT makes me crazy too. SO, my random question is...do you use canvas bags, plastic tote boxes, or just your groceries packed in plastic (whether or not you have to pay)? |
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I voted for plastic *gasp*. Mostly because of the convenience. BUT... I'd like to add that I would *love* to use reusable bag (canvas, etc) if it weren't for the fact that I do my grocery shopping in bulk and would need about 15 totes for one shopping trip alone.
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We still use the plastic bags because we can never remember to bring our canvas bags with us.
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Plastic -- we use them for dirty diapers! I only have one canvas bag and it's a red Target one. Would it be okay to bring that into a different store to use? I'd feel kinda weird about it. hehe :-)
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I bought some canvas bags a couple of years ago and have used them since. My sister gave me a HUGE sturdy plastic bag at Christmas that I love! I can usually fit all of the groceries for the week in 3 bags. It's so much better than having @20 small annoying plastic bags.
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I use plastic bc I use them for garbage bags too. Once they start charging for plastic I will buy the canvas ones and use those.
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I have two target ones too.. :] I bring them to the market with me lol.. who cares ^_^
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We bought 4 from Extra Foods and I'll take those everywhere now, I think. I'll likely buy a few more from various places, but I don't think stores really care where you get the reusable bags from. Really, unless they're charging for plastic bags, you bringing your own bags saves them money in the long run.
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We have canvas bags..paying for bags and carts is the norm here and pretty much the whole of Europe, if I am not mistaken. We have a bunch of coin things that hang on a keychain that I use for the carts, so I don't have to have change on me...
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We use reusable canvas bags that we keep in the car.
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Us, too. We get a discount (5 cents, IIRC) for each bag we bring.
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I voted reusable canvas...although I'm not sure they are actually canvas. They are whatever my Giant Eagle sells for their "earth friendly" bags!! I have about 30 of them and of course they cost a pretty penny but I guess every little bit helps and I hate those darn plastic bags
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I have a few but never remember them. The Target ones seem to be better quality than WalMart reusable bags. The best ones i got were from HEB around Halloween. They are kinda like oilcloth. Those suckers are strong!
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for our main big shopping trip, we use canvas bags. It's amazing--we can use 4-5 of those and it fits all of our groceries, sometimes even milk... whereas it would probably take 20 plastic bags!
for little trips we just use plastic bags that we then use in trash cans and for dirty diapers. |
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I have cloth bags.. my market had a promo going for a while and they were like 99 cents.. so I bought a billion of them lol.. before that I only had one or two, and it was a pita.
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I use the reusable ones from the grocery store, boxes in some of the stores that do not have bags like Costco, Sams and B.J.'s and plastic bags in others so I picked other. (oh and jsut wanted to tell you that some of the grocery stores here are now charging for the use of a cart also)
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Aldi's (i think that is how you spell it) charges for the grocery carts I think a quarter? And five cents per bag. I believe you get the quarter back IF you return the cart to the stall area.
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Oh...and I use plastic bags.
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Depends what we want Mark does most of the shopping and if he's only getting stuff I want he just puts it in his rucksack, when he gets things for Nan he has to use plastic carrier bags because she always wants things like washing powder and he ties them to the handle bars on his bike. When we do a massive shop we have to use plastic bags because otherwise trying to pack them into a taxi and then get them out on the other side is a nightmare. We reuse all the plastic bags in the house though for the bins around the house we have to seperate rubbish and recycling. I do have reusable bags but they mostly get used for storing toys lol. Trolleys have been pay to use for as long as I can remember you put a £1 coin or a shopping token in them and you get it back when you put the trolley back. I despise food shopping if there home delivery service didn't suck so much I wouldn't ever bother to go lol as it is I manage to get away with once a month and sometimes not even that often. Mark doesn't really exactly how much I love that he goes and picks up this or that on his bike lol. Hugs Crystal xx
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we use reusable canvas sacks too. i get mad when i go for a short trip and forget to bring em.
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we use our own reusable bags. My brother started me out this past Christmas with 6 (along with a way to love the earth book - he's a hippie. hehehe). Since then I have added more bags to my stash, I think I have 15 now. I keep them in the car, that way I can't say I forgot them (I bring them in, unload them, and take them right back out to the car). When we go to Wal-Mart, I end up using just about every single bag I own too. hehehe Since I started using them faithfully, I haven't used a single plastic bag while shopping.
I also pack the bags myself 90% of the time, otherwise they don't get filled right. lol Oh, and everywhere we shop, except Wal-Mart, you pay for the cart. You put a loonie in ($1 coin here in Canada), and you get it back when you return the cart. We actually have coins that are shaped like the loonies that we purchased at the grocery stores, we keep one in each vehicle, that way no matter who goes shopping, we always have a "loonie" for the cart.
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We use plastic...that's all that Walmart offers. We reuse some of them for pooper scooping purposes on dog walks as well as for cleaning the cat boxes. We drop extras off in the recycle box that they provide at the store.
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I just started using canvas bags last week for that very reason. They had them at 49 cents each so I got 10. Used them for the second time today!
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I still use the plastic at the store, although I would definitely think twice if they started charging. I think I would need like 30 canvas bags per trip! Maybe I should consider getting some though...
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I primarily use a combination of the Envirosax and the reusable bags from the grocery store (although a few other stores have them). I do get a plastic or paper bag here and there, mostly for poop scoop duty and newspaper recycling.
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I use plastic bags also, mainly for convenience. I love the reusable bags for other things, but I know I would end up forgetting them when going to the store if those were my main bags. They don't charge for the bags here though, that may change my decision if they ever started to.
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That's what we did. They went on sale for a dollar at our local store and so I bought like 15. I also bought one that's sectioned to hold wine bottles, and I have one from La Leche League. And I bought one from the library.
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I bought mine for 0.99 each at the store I shop, plus I've picked up a lot of free ones along the way.
We got 1 at Once Upon A Child for free, we just got 2 from H&R block for having our taxes done there, and I got a great deal at a store (buy a certain item & get a hot/cold bag free - they have a silver lining that keeps your food hot/cold - so awesome), and I got 2 more at a buy this product, get a bag free deal. I own about 8, and have only paid for 2 I think! Woohoo!! Saves me a lot of money when I shop (when I remember them).
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Like Stacey, we prodominantly use reusable bags which always live in the car and only use plastic ones if we forget - which we reuse and/or recycle.
Some stores offer reward loyalty points for bringing your own bags too. I was impressed to find out US stores pack your bags for you! You have to really ask for help over here, otherwise you just have to try and keep up with the teller zooming the products at you. Mind you, I like packing my own so that I can only blame me for squashed bread and broken eggs. |
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I bought some canvas bags....but sometimes they don't make it back into the van before the next shopping trip (or dh empties the van to use it and for some reason can't stand to have shopping bags taking up that itsy bitsy lil bit of space)...or I forget to take them into the store
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I voted other. I try to use reuseable bags. Mine aren't canvas, though... I'm not sure what they are. (Chico Bags) But I usually head to the store straight from school, so I never have my bags with me.
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I do both, I have the canvas bags and if I can remember to bring them in I use them, if not we get the plastic cause I can't hold up the line to go get my bags.
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Ditto to Pam. I use my canvas bags if I remember to bring them along. If not, we use plastic. And my favorite reusable bags are from Wal-Mart - those things are huge!
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LOL, well...we went to the store but...FORGOT the bags we bought the other day. So...I grabbed a couple more (lucky for us they're keeping them at the end of each till AND the cashier has a stack too). Now we have 4 large and 2 small ones, lol...it's all good though.
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