It's a hateful proposition, I'm sure, but I have come to think you have got to STOP double bagging your groceries in those plastic bags at Stop and Shop. Yes, you know what I mean. You've got the vehicle parked out front in the closest spot you can find. You've loaded up, gee, I don't know, maybe 20-25 bags of groceries. You've got the diet drinks and the regular drinks for the kids and the two orange juice for $5.00 special and the flavored sparkling water and the organic "Friends" cereal. Anyway, the point is this; you really don't need to carry those bags at all, do you? You've got a large enough vehicle waiting for you out front, you've got a shopping cart to carry it all out there and when you get home, chances are it won't even be you alone who carries it all back inside. So, why do you need the double bags?
The plastic bag was originally intended as a tote bag. Note the descriptive in there - "tote bag!" Some people speculate it will take a plastic bag hundreds of years (for emphasis, 100 years) to stop being a plastic bag. You'll use it for about 15 minutes. Someone please do the math. A product designed to last hundreds of years is used for 15 minutes on average. Shocking. If you want to learn more, follow this link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0902_030902_plasticbags.html. Please also see: http://www.grrn.org/resources/bag_reuse.html.
Despite the horrid long term prospect of a world full of used plastic bags with the Stop & Shop logo on them, you don't mind using them. In fact, you find them so useful, you'll use two of them when one would probably be enough. If you don't stop them, sometimes the people who pack our groceries sometimes put each item in a separate bag! Is there really a way to justify this? I can't wait to hear. Your driveway is long? You have to carry the groceries up a flight of stairs? You don't like the groceries spilling about in the trunk? Two of something is always better than one of something?
You don't need two plastic bags for every bag of groceries you pack. Tell the cashier/packer kid that one will do. Better yet, bring BACK the plastic bags you've got stacked up in that closet and use them again. Yes! Imagine that! Carry something back to the store and use it again! You know, they're just as good the second time around.
Folks, we're (each Westchester family on average) spending thousands of dollars and lots of time at our favorite food source Mecca, Stop & Shop. They will provide the services we are willing to purchase -- that's it! If we ask for double bags, they'll pack them! Even if we don't ask for double plastic bags, they'll do it out of courtesy because they think it's what you want! Therefore, it's up to you to bring about a change in habit. I noticed they're now selling green, attractive, reusable shopping bags for 99 cents! Yes, 99 cents! Can you resist?
The plastic bag was originally intended as a tote bag. Note the descriptive in there - "tote bag!" Some people speculate it will take a plastic bag hundreds of years (for emphasis, 100 years) to stop being a plastic bag. You'll use it for about 15 minutes. Someone please do the math. A product designed to last hundreds of years is used for 15 minutes on average. Shocking. If you want to learn more, follow this link: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/09/0902_030902_plasticbags.html. Please also see: http://www.grrn.org/resources/bag_reuse.html.
Despite the horrid long term prospect of a world full of used plastic bags with the Stop & Shop logo on them, you don't mind using them. In fact, you find them so useful, you'll use two of them when one would probably be enough. If you don't stop them, sometimes the people who pack our groceries sometimes put each item in a separate bag! Is there really a way to justify this? I can't wait to hear. Your driveway is long? You have to carry the groceries up a flight of stairs? You don't like the groceries spilling about in the trunk? Two of something is always better than one of something?
You don't need two plastic bags for every bag of groceries you pack. Tell the cashier/packer kid that one will do. Better yet, bring BACK the plastic bags you've got stacked up in that closet and use them again. Yes! Imagine that! Carry something back to the store and use it again! You know, they're just as good the second time around.
Folks, we're (each Westchester family on average) spending thousands of dollars and lots of time at our favorite food source Mecca, Stop & Shop. They will provide the services we are willing to purchase -- that's it! If we ask for double bags, they'll pack them! Even if we don't ask for double plastic bags, they'll do it out of courtesy because they think it's what you want! Therefore, it's up to you to bring about a change in habit. I noticed they're now selling green, attractive, reusable shopping bags for 99 cents! Yes, 99 cents! Can you resist?
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