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I am trying to become better about taking my shopping bags with me when I go to the market. My newest tactic is to keep them in the car, that seems to help. I have several canvas bags and two of the new Whole Foods bags. I try to keep them all folded and in one carry bag.
I just found Walmart is giving away a million reuseable shopping bags for free. April 19th, I will have to find the Wal=mart in San Angelo, TX. They are saying the bags can replace 50 plastic disposable bags. If you don't get a free one, then they will cost you a buck.
Now if Target would follow suit. I have all but eleminated all the darn catalogues, now to do away with the disposable grocery bags that come into the house. My favorite bag is one I got from Dean and Deluca on sale. That baby will hold a lot. The reuseable ones from Whole Foods also have a pretty large capacity.
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Posted 07 April 2008 - 03:33 PM
I picked up a couple of the Whole Food ones made from recycled plastic. They are very large, but the plastic handles are not as comfortable to hold when full as the canvas ones I got at Stop & Shop ($1 for plain, $2 for insulated w/zipper).
Hmm, reading your post (your desire for Target to issue these bags), it sounds to me like you use each store's bag in that store. You ARE allowed to use other store's bags in other stores. Trader Joe's & Whole Foods give you a bag credit of 10 or 15 cents for each bag you reuse. Even plastic bags and other store's bags.
I agree though, the best way to use them, is to keep them in your car. After I unpack them, I put them with my purse by the back door, so that I remember to put them back in the car when I next go out (even if not going to a store). Also, if you have more than one car, be sure to keep a some in each car.
Hmm, reading your post (your desire for Target to issue these bags), it sounds to me like you use each store's bag in that store. You ARE allowed to use other store's bags in other stores. Trader Joe's & Whole Foods give you a bag credit of 10 or 15 cents for each bag you reuse. Even plastic bags and other store's bags.
I agree though, the best way to use them, is to keep them in your car. After I unpack them, I put them with my purse by the back door, so that I remember to put them back in the car when I next go out (even if not going to a store). Also, if you have more than one car, be sure to keep a some in each car.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 03:29 AM
Some of us don't have cars to keep them in. 
I've got a few made of nonwoven fabric that fold up and either snap or zip into a fairly compact shape (ConEd is 7-1/2 x 4 x 1). Pretty easy to keep in a purse or jacket pocket. I pick them up at food shows: the aforementioned ConEd, Goya, Safeway are all nice foldup ones. I've got others that I just roll up and hold closed with a rubber band. It'll be harder to remember to use them in the summer, though, when I won't have a jacket to keep them in.
I've got a few made of nonwoven fabric that fold up and either snap or zip into a fairly compact shape (ConEd is 7-1/2 x 4 x 1). Pretty easy to keep in a purse or jacket pocket. I pick them up at food shows: the aforementioned ConEd, Goya, Safeway are all nice foldup ones. I've got others that I just roll up and hold closed with a rubber band. It'll be harder to remember to use them in the summer, though, when I won't have a jacket to keep them in.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 03:48 AM
canvas bags for the market & reused bags for whole food s & local grocery stores. recently, a new cash register girl asked my husband why he keeps bringing old plastic bags with him. he did try to explain...
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 10:35 AM
We had an earlier discussion of this here.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 02:40 PM
I need paper bags to dispose of both compost and recycling. If I have too many, my friend takes my surplus and uses them for the same purpose. And we need our plastic bags for my husband's lunch. He rides his bike to work and says an insulated and zippered bag won't fit in his baskets or pannier bags.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 05:04 PM
QUOTE(GG Mora @ Apr 6 2008, 01:26 PM) 
QUOTE(flyfish @ Apr 8 2008, 06:35 AM)
We had an earlier discussion of this here.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 05:46 PM
QUOTE(Liza @ Apr 8 2008, 10:04 AM)
QUOTE(GG Mora @ Apr 6 2008, 01:26 PM)
QUOTE(flyfish @ Apr 8 2008, 06:35 AM)
We had an earlier discussion of this here.
There's also this. I really miss Ivan.
Ditto. Him and Priscilla both.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 05:47 PM
Not that I can vote, but I'm going to vote for the candidate who comes up with the best way of discussing shopping bags.
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Posted 08 April 2008 - 05:56 PM
QUOTE(Orik @ Apr 8 2008, 01:47 PM)
Not that I can vote, but I'm going to vote for the candidate who comes up with the best way of discussing shopping bags.
didn't HRH have her bags reduced?
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Posted 09 April 2008 - 03:04 AM
For those of you who shop at Whole Foods - have you noticed that when you bring in your own bags, they will load WF bags. If you bring any other bag, you have to bag your own stuff.
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Posted 09 April 2008 - 03:15 AM
QUOTE(bloviatrix @ Apr 8 2008, 11:04 PM)
For those of you who shop at Whole Foods - have you noticed that when you bring in your own bags, they will load WF bags. If you bring any other bag, you have to bag your own stuff.
at union square they have packed my non-WF bag but maybe because i also had a WF bag
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Posted 09 April 2008 - 02:20 PM
QUOTE(bloviatrix @ Apr 8 2008, 11:04 PM)
For those of you who shop at Whole Foods - have you noticed that when you bring in your own bags, they will load WF bags. If you bring any other bag, you have to bag your own stuff.
I bring a bag 99% of the time (not WF) and haven't found this to be true.
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