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1 posted on 06/16/2012 2:46:53 PM PDT by Daniel Clark
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To: Daniel Clark
Buy your regular super market items then when at the register remove all extraneous packaging and leave it on the belt. Tell them next time you're going to charge them.

2 posted on 06/16/2012 2:51:33 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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I decided on option number three, which was to put back all my groceries and walk away.

Yeah, well THEY would have been putting back all the groceries as I would have just walked away. The more they try to control our actions the more those of us who still believe in freedom should be exercising our liberties.

3 posted on 06/16/2012 2:58:14 PM PDT by Bullish
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To: Daniel Clark
Uh, Bottom Dollar is an ultra-low end supermarket. They don't even have plastic bags in my area. They have bins of repurposed cardboard packing boxes by the front - you can use those, or just brings bags with you. There isn't some great conspiracy here - BJ's has used recycled shipping boxes instead of plastic bags for years in order to save money. The profit margin in food stores is razor thin as is - for low-end budget stores like Bottom Dollar, it's even tighter, and thus they have to think of unconventional ways to cut expenses. What's wrong with just using the cardboard boxes?
4 posted on 06/16/2012 2:59:15 PM PDT by JerseyanExile
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To: Daniel Clark

Excellent article.

What Obama is doing isn’t a nudge.

It’s not a push.

It’s shoving.
While telling us to shove it.


9 posted on 06/16/2012 3:44:21 PM PDT by Freddd (No PA Engineers)
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Excellent article.

What Obama is doing isn’t a nudge.

It’s not a push.

It’s shoving.
While telling u.s. citizens to shove it.


10 posted on 06/16/2012 3:48:59 PM PDT by Freddd (No PA Engineers)
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To: Daniel Clark

Big downside to reusable bags: http://uanews.org/node/32521


12 posted on 06/16/2012 4:10:03 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: Daniel Clark

They probably ran out of the 5 cent bags.

I go to a store like that - rock bottom cheap - you bag/box your own groceries - bring a bag, find a box on the shelf, buy one or load loose groceries into a clothes basket and cooler in the car (I see a lot of people do that)

These guys work on low margins - no meat cutters, deli, no baggers...no extra expense of giving out free bags (they cost money)

I went there the other day and everything went up 20 cents or more - ugh.(they held the prices as long as they could)


13 posted on 06/16/2012 4:18:59 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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I wouldn’t eat food from a place called Bottom Dollar. You get what you paid for, and that’s a pay that says “not fit for human consumption”. They very well might have just run out of the bags. Our dollar stores (where I like to buy DVDs, such a fun random selection) do weird unprofessional stuff like that all the time, I’ve seen them with only 1 door unlocked, no manned registers, they’re very easily confused.


14 posted on 06/16/2012 4:23:50 PM PDT by discostu (Listen, do you smell something?)
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I agree with those who think this is a cost-cutting move, rather than some sort of a green conspiracy. I also think it’s hilarious to complain about a supermarket trying to “nudge”/manipulate consumer choices. EVERYTHING about any supermarket is designed to manipulate your choices - from overall layout to product placement to lighting to signage, and so on.


15 posted on 06/16/2012 4:37:50 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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Vitamin Cottage has been doing that: No bags. Their attitude is condescending and rude. If you don’t have a bag or box they snap at a bin of their boxes and scoff. I haven’t been back in several years now but their parking lot is never busy. Liberal bulsh*t never sells.


16 posted on 06/16/2012 4:41:27 PM PDT by CodeToad (Homosexuals are homophobes. They insist on being called 'gay' instead.)
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To: Daniel Clark
Never in my life had I been in a supermarket that ran out of plastic bags

I worked as a cashier in a grocery store back in college, and once in a while we did run out of one type of bag or another. Usually it was because somebody in management had been slow ordering more, or because the trucks got delayed for some reason. Once they got shipped to the wrong address. I don't think it occurred to anyone to warn people as they came in, we just improvised and apologized as best we could, with the cashiers and baggers taking the brunt of it if and when people got upset about it.

Just giving the perspective from the other side of things.
20 posted on 06/16/2012 5:24:43 PM PDT by Ellendra ("It's astounding how often people mistake their own stupidity for a lack of fairness." --Thunt)
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“I decided on option number three, which was to put back all my groceries and walk away”

There is NO WAY that would have put anything back. I would have just left them the shopping cart full of items...and most likely they would be required to throw out the perishables.


21 posted on 06/16/2012 5:26:14 PM PDT by BobL
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So if plastic bags are outlawed, what does one use to clean up after fido when out on a daily walk?


29 posted on 06/17/2012 6:49:45 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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Aldi works the same way; no credit cards and no bags, you bring your own. And like BJ’s, to get a grocery cart you have to deposit a quarter and get it back when you return the cart – that saves them $ by not having to pay someone to retrieved shopping carts and probably cuts down on people stealing them. BTW, Aldi is owned by the same company as Trader Joe’s. The quality is pretty good even though a lot of the “brands” are not well known brands but in most cases are the very same thing but a lot cheaper.

Aldi

There is also a no frills chain in PA called Amelia’s. They specialize in close out products and even some “post dated” items at a very deep discount. As far as dating, many products, canned and boxed goods, have a “Sell By Date” or a “Best If Used By Date”. That doesn’t mean that the product suddenly turns rancid on that date. In fact the “Sell By Dates” factor in that the product will not necessarily be used and consumed on or by the “Sell By Date”. Many years ago, I worked as a dairy dept. manager for a large grocery chain. Milk is a good example of the “Sell By Date” – milk is good for 5 – 7 days after the “Sell By Date”. Other items like processed cheese or margarine are perfectly fine to eat in most cases, long after the expiration date as long as they’ve been stored at the proper temperature.

Amelias

IMO, if you are going to go to a deep discount food store, you have to expect that in return for the savings, you’re not going to get all the frills and services that regular grocery stores offer.

30 posted on 06/17/2012 6:56:27 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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