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Post by SweetieBugs on Apr 6, 2020 22:46:39 GMT
our grocery store lets you bring them in but then you must pack everything yourself. Otherwise its back to free plastic bags This but you can't set them up on the counter at all. So you have to load your bags as you're standing holding your bags open.
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Post by melanieg on Apr 6, 2020 22:51:25 GMT
They are still charging here for the store bags.....but they don't want to you use the recyclable ones.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 6, 2020 22:51:27 GMT
I’ve been doing grocery pick up without bags. I have boxes in my trunk and my items are just placed in the boxes. Takes longer than bags but I don’t want to pay 10-20 cents per bag especially when I have a lot of stuff like I have been doing so I don’t have to go out often. That and with germs living three days on the bag that’s just one more thing to quarantine. Even with grocery pickup which saves a lot of time, putting stuff away and sanitizing everything takes forever. I don’t want to dirty up bags so I make a ton of trips and if course my kitchen is in the back of the house no where near my garage. Some items in plastic get wiped down but others get quarantined for days.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Apr 7, 2020 5:52:43 GMT
I work for Raley’s and our store location feels like we were the last ones to put this rule in place. For a couple of weeks now we have been hearing customer’s “rumors” about other stores they go to are not charging them for bags to influence them not bringing in their reusable bags. So, last week we started with having this rule where if a customer brings in their reusable bags they can either bag their own groceries and then we sanitize the area right after. Or they can choose to buy paper or plastic or our very thin plastic bags we got in that are free.
I was off for the weekend but I walked in this morning seeing a sign right outside the door saying customers are not allowed to bring in their reusable bags. And when I was bringing carts in, and I’m right by the sign a customer actually asks me “we can’t use our bags?” I talked to my manager asking if it was like a California State Law now or whatever and she said yes. Well, at least that makes it easier to use when answering customers who either want to be the exception or just don’t get it.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Apr 7, 2020 6:06:35 GMT
My store has banned reusable bags, but I love the option to bring them and bag my own groceries (stop grabbing my bread around the middle! stop putting one item in each plastic bag...except for the bag with 2 bottles of juice and a large bottle of oil!!!) Last week my store at least had paper bags--the week before they were out. I made sure to say please fill them up, don't do one per bag again. I’m a bagger and my favorite way to bag is cold items all together in the plastic bags and dry items all together in the paper. It’s my Art ☺️
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Post by bc2ca on Apr 7, 2020 6:06:35 GMT
I wouldn't call this coming full circle. It is a temporary and appropriate response to the current situation. As soon as life returns to normal stores will expect us to bring in our reusable bags. For now, I just have them reload the cart and bag when I get to my trunk as I don't need/want their bags.
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Post by mymindseyedpea on Apr 7, 2020 6:25:58 GMT
I will say that I don’t miss bagging those thin mesh like canvas bags. That’s the worst material ever. Some of those types dry out my hands so bad that they crack open. And that mirco fiber feel to them, I can’t stand it. Once I had to wear gloves when I was bagging for a customer that had them because my hands were on the verge of cracking open so I told her I was allergic to her bags so the gloves wouldn’t weird her out (this was months ago) I wish they never existed. The thicker ones aren’t as bad, but if a customer has a bunch of reusable bag types I go for the other ones like the Trader Joe’s type where it’s that tarp-like material.
I just looked it up and I think they are called: non woven propylene, the bags I don’t like. And the Trader Joe’s ones are the woven.
And I know if you have an insulated bag in the bunch to put the cold stuff in that. If you tell me to do that you may throw me off and I may think you want me to do something different than I had planned.
Hey, a bagger’s gotta vent ☺️
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Post by malibou on Apr 7, 2020 11:35:30 GMT
We have a grocery store called Von's in So Cal. Von also happens to be my brother's name. I've been making masks for my sister's business and asked my other siblings if they wanted masks for their family. Yesterday my brother sent my siblings and I a text that said he didn't need me to make him a mask because his grocery store was giving away personalized masks. The text was accompanied by a picture of my brother with a Von's paper grocery bag, with little eye holes cut out, over his head. 😁
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Post by Dallie on Apr 7, 2020 11:43:08 GMT
I remember when this mandate to use reusable bags started and I made a comment about how dirty and germy these bags were going to get! As a cashier, I would never want to touch them...having seen way too many with dirty tissues in the bottom.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 7, 2020 12:31:37 GMT
Here in NH, our governor passed a law when this first started about not using reusable bags. At the time, I thought it was a little extreme, bagging your own seemed like a good compromise. Some of our grocery stores like Walmart and Market basket I don’t think have paper. I worry about the places to bring your bags, I’m not sure all of them actually get recycled and just end up in a landfill. Our town has a recycling center, everything gets sorted but I know they have trouble finding buyers for some of the stuff and they don’t take plastic bags among other things
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