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?!

  • @Today
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    31 year ago

    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.

    • Mellow
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      21 year ago

      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.

    • @owatnext
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      11 year ago

      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.

      • @maroudavaOPM
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        21 year ago

        I recently got myself a reusable bag for grocery shopping. I’m far too clumsy to juggle all my groceries out the store 🤣

    • @maroudavaOPM
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      1 year ago

      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.