I'd fill up the cart with food, wait in line at the check-out counter and kibitz with the cashier as the bagger loaded up-and double-bagged-my groceries.
Now, the lines are much slower because bagging has become an ordeal thanks to the "Earth-protecting" plastic-bag ban the state had passed a few years ago.
Store employees can't simply place your food in the needed bags.
Who can blame cashiers given the guff they might get if they sell someone an unnecessary bag?
Bagging used to be an artform, where baggers carefully separated, say, the eggs from the bottle of Chivas Regal.
I put the new thick bags they sell right into the garbage, whereas I used to reuse the lightweight "Single use" bags to pick up dog poo and line the bathroom waste baskets.
Those bags comprised an infinitesimal portion of the waste stream.
https://reason.com/2019/10/25/environmentalists-torment-rather-than-convince-california/
Now, the lines are much slower because bagging has become an ordeal thanks to the "Earth-protecting" plastic-bag ban the state had passed a few years ago.
Store employees can't simply place your food in the needed bags.
Who can blame cashiers given the guff they might get if they sell someone an unnecessary bag?
Bagging used to be an artform, where baggers carefully separated, say, the eggs from the bottle of Chivas Regal.
I put the new thick bags they sell right into the garbage, whereas I used to reuse the lightweight "Single use" bags to pick up dog poo and line the bathroom waste baskets.
Those bags comprised an infinitesimal portion of the waste stream.
https://reason.com/2019/10/25/environmentalists-torment-rather-than-convince-california/
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