Are you sick of self serve check out being crammed down your throat?

Every plastic bag we get is reused in one of several ways.

We use them as bathroom trash liners and I keep a few in my car as makeshift gloves in case I need to handle something particularly nasty. Comes in handy when you need to put a set of used valve covers and a timing cover in your car. I also use cardboard for similar reasons.

 

I worked in a grocery store while I was in school. We still used paper bags then. I quit shortly before the changeover to plastic. I heard that the environmentalists were complaining about all the trees cut down to make paper bags so they switched to plastic. Don't know if this is true or not.

 

We reuse 100% of the plastic grocery bags that we get (or got, since NY outlawed them). We stock piled them knowing they would no longer be available. As stated above, they get used for trash can liners and we also use them for cat litter (try that with a paper bag). If we did not use the grocery bags we would have to buy other plastic bags to do the job. We now use the cloth bags when shopping since we either have to purchase a paper bag at check out or hand carry things.

I do remember when the switch went from paper bags to plastic in the 1980'sand I believe it was because plastic was less expensive. I thought it was something about cutting down too many trees also.
We don't mind using cloth bags, it gives us additional exercise when we forget them and have to walk back to the car to get them.

As for self check outs, they do seem to be quicker than a regular check out and I use them as often as possible but that is usually only for 1 or 2 times.

 

My wife is the director of a non-profit cat rescue and adoption facility. They use the plastic grocery bags everyday for trash can liners and for scooping the many litter boxes. They are required by the city to bag all used litter (in plastic bags!) before putting it in the dumpster. Having to buy NEW plastic bags to do this would be one more expense that they don't need. I am glad we still have plastic grocery bags around here.

 

Wow who dug up a 1000 year old landfill looking for plastic bags that weren't invented yet.

 

Plastic bags are good for dog poop






10 Facts About Single-Use Plastic Bags

1. Americans use 100 billion plastic bags a year, which require 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture.
2. Americans use an average of 365 plastic bags per person per year. People in Denmark use an average of four plastic bags per year.
3. It only takes about 14 plastic bags for the equivalent of the gas required to drive one mile.
4. In 2015 about 730,000 tons of plastic bags, sacks and wraps were generated (including PS, PP, HDPE, PVC & LDPE) in the United States, but more than 87% of those items are never recycled, winding up in landfills and the ocean.
5. About 34% of dead leatherback sea turtle have ingested plastics.
6. The plastic typically used in bottles, bags and food containers contains chemical additives such as endocrine disruptors, which are associated with negative health effects including cancers, birth defects and immune system suppression in humans and wildlife.
7. It takes 1,000 years for a plastic bag to degrade in a landfill.
8. Unfortunately, the bags don't break down completely but instead photo-degrade, becoming microplastics that absorb toxins and continue to pollute the environment.
9. Chemical leachates from plastic bags impair the growth of the world’s most important microorganisms, Prochlorococcus, a marine bacterium that provides one tenth of the world’s oxygen.10
10. There were 1.9 million grocery bags and other plastic bags collected in the 2018 International Coastal Cleanup.
11. In 2014 California became the first state to ban plastic bags.
12. As of March 2018, 311 local bag ordinances have been adopted in 24 states, including Hawaii.
13. As of July 2018, 127 countries have adopted some form of legislation to regulate plastic bags.

Which country uses plastic bags the most?
Here are the 10 countries with the most plastic pollution:

• China (59,079,741 tons)
• United States (37,825,550 tons)
• Germany (14,476,561 tons)
• Brazil (11,852,055 tons)
• Japan (7,993,489 tons)
• Pakistan (6,412,210 tons)
• Nigeria (5,961,750 tons)
• Russia (5,839,685 tons)

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So shocking that list of cities , Not

 

I'm with Briz on this one! Ouch!

 

Think he deleted his post.

 

I've done the opposite a few times, charged myself twice for the same product, sometimes the "blip" isnt loud enough and the screen doesnt update real fast and I'll scan again, OR as Im reaching for the next product in the cart while holding the one I just scanned, the scanner picks it up again "BLIP" "Focker, need help on register 3"

 

An honest person wouldn't be a thief in the first place.

 

Carma

 

Is she the one with the big hooters?

 

No that’s Carmen!

 

Have to ask John. Waterboy has the answer to anything concerning hooters.

 

Ahh a residential hooter connoisseur.

 

Try what? I asked a legit question and you answered it. Isn't that how it works?

All too often, I see frozen food left out because someone didn't want it. Even have seen a fresh sandwich placed in the freezer. All these examples cost you and me--consumers--money.

Honestly, I don't know what the big deal is--when I go to a store, I want convenience. Having the option to choose which medium to use caters to this, but also it depends on the time of day as well as the time of year (for example, we're in a pandemic, and things have never been smooth for months). I simply choose to be patient and grateful that there are people willing to help try to make things normal for the rest of us. :twocents:

 

Smart companies will never eliminate the human aspect of customer service.

But keeping people employed for the sake of employment sounds like what the Communists do.

If anything, I'm happy putting people out of work--I enjoy being a good citizen and putting my cart back in the jockey instead of leaving it in the way of a parked car. Paying people to handle carts due to shoppers' laziness increases costs for everyone.

 

It's all about environmental cost.

What's the cost of plastic pollution?

What's the cost of infection and worse by addicts?

Sounds like a win/win.