This happens to me almost daily.
A customer brings up a 1x1 inches, easy-to-hold item to purchase. Surely they don’t need a bag, right? After all, the smallest bag size we have would still be way too large for this single item.
With this in mind, once the transaction is complete, I attempt to hand the receipt and item to the customer, only to be responded to with, “uh, can I have a bag??” as if I’m the idiot.
It’s like people desire to contribute to landfills.
What’s funnier is when it’s someone who has a purse on them. You can’t put it in your purse?!
We’re using those bags to clean trash out of the car, carry lunch to work, line bathroom trash cans, send leftovers home with a friend, or any of the hundred other uses for a bag. I’m confused by the ‘bags are bad’ people who then buy bags for their trash bins.
I Agree. I keep a plastic grocery bag full of plastic grocery bags under my sink for when the need arises. They get more than a single use in my household. I find it silly how we went from paper bags to plastic bags and now back to paper bags again. Paper (trees) were always a renewable, recycleable, and rapidly decomposable resource. For what ever reason plastic became the standard when it should have never been considered. I guess it was just cheaper at some point. Hopefully we will get back to using paper and recycled paper in place of plastic.
I’m less so saying “bags are bad” and more so saying “let’s try not to use bags when it’s clearly not necessary”. There’s no reason to take a plastic bag when you’ve got a 1 inch item. A lot of the things you listed can be done perfectly fine with a reusable bag or container, which are these days pretty cheap.
I use bags that come from products I essentially have to buy, such as bread bags, bags that hold hardware from new furniture, etc. Just my take.
I don’t use grocery bags, nor do I accept them from stores.
I recently got myself a reusable bag for grocery shopping. I’m far too clumsy to juggle all my groceries out the store 🤣