Austin, TX. ban on bags starts tomorrow. Same set of problems.
If one wants to determine whether or not a scheme will fail miserably - one needs only to check whether a dim-bulb-crat proposed it.
IF: dim-bulb-crat
THEN: dim-bulb-idea.
Libs are not the sharpest knives in the drawer...they aren’t really knives...and most of them are not even in the drawer.
What could possibly go wrong?
I prefer paper.
I've seen some incredibly filthy "reusable" bags being used. I'm surprised the checkers don't insist on wearing rubber gloves.
San Francisco has said that ten days after the ban, food born illness increased 47%.
What I want to know is, what is a single use bag?
The bags I get are used for all sorts of things before they go in recycling.
Interesting. At first I was wondering how a plastic bag ban could increase shoplifting. But I read the article.
You know what’s next, dontcha? They will begin to search your bags after you shop before you leave
Like at Sams Club - - they count the number of itmes you purchase and verify that against the number of items purchased on your bill. Trouble is.... Buying 100 plus items will take you an hour to leave the store.
Hoo Boy! Isn’t liberalism wonderful???
‘Course the effect on the beloved environment of washing reusable bags is outta sight, outta mind.
Asking customers to check reusable bags at the counter would be burdensome to customers and staff, and prohibiting reusable bags and backpacks likely wouldn't work well in Seattle, which other business owners said is known for grand environmental ideas that can hinder small business efforts.
Bullspit. I frequent a little mexican grocery store that prohibits carrying bags and backpacks into the store (mainly by kids). Kids know this and leave their bags by the checkstand, retrieving them as they leave. No one is inconvenienced and the store manages the theft.
Absolutely beautiful unintended consequences liberal quadrifecta of:
1: recycled bags are proven carriers of bacteria from unwashed vegetables and leaking meat packaging.
2: social justice (justified on the grounds that these are tough economic times and da people gotta eat and it’s the rich who are so cruel that they would starve poor people)
3: but it’s also the rich who move American jobs making reusable grocery bags offshore, depriving Americans of jobs with dignity (that they would not take since welfare pays better but that part we will ignore)
4: recycling (people of course never, ever reuse their grocery bags) which needs no further explanation since it’s “green”.
Perfect.
It’s always those damn unintended consequences that the fascists point out, like the gulag, and the bacteria in reusable bags, but it’s the noble intentions that count and matter!
Nothing better to do than mess with the proletariat.
Man, I could have told you that. I won’t buy one of their overpriced (10 cents!) little bags. I leave the store with 5-6-7 things in my hands. No one looking at me can tell whether I paid for them or not. It’s a shoplifter’s dream.
These laws are MORONIC. And I am not sorry for the stores. They sat on their hands because they WANTED this law because THEY get to keep every 1000% markup on every bag they sell. I know it’s basically just ten cents, but multiply that by 200 customers an hour at your basic grocery store, 5 bags each, for 24 hours. Why that is $2400 pure gravy a day they are getting from customers.
So I hope the stores lose their shirts. In the meantime they are not selling me any bags.
From what I’ve heard, the merchants ain’t to happy about these bans, even though they now get to charge a nickel, and in my region even more than that per bag (and the government sets the minimum price, ain’t that grand?) We can all calculate the arithmetic, thank you very much, Captain Obvious, and maybe the stores do make a penny on a bag sold. But they don’t like it, and not only because the shoplifting angle, but because the packing of the customers’ filthy canvas bags significantly slows down the checkstand lines! Extra cashiers, extra costs, D’uh!
The only advantage to banning plastic bags is that there will no longer be a need to ask “paper or plastic?”.
Reusable bags slow the checkout process considerably.
The clerks hate them as well.
There should be a separate line(s) for those with reusable bags.