I work for the parent company of Bottom Dollar Foods. The cashier should have told you the truth. The store was designed to take as much cost out of grocery shopping as possible. Plastic bags cost money... not so much about tree hugging as it is about thrift. It’s a great concept. Go back save some money... how conservative is that! I wished we put one in my area.
Naa, it wasn’t me, it was the person who posted the story.
As for myself - no, if a store that I shop in stopped offering bags (as happened here) out of a policy change, I would expect them to make a reasonable effort to let their customers know about it. From there I can choose whether to shop there. I respect their right to run their business as they wish.
But if I do my shopping AND THEN find they got rid of bags, and they didn’t take reasonable steps (in my opinion, of course) to inform me of it BEFORE I began shopping that day...I would be angry and would let them deal with my full cart.