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California to ban stores from providing the little plastic bags grocery shoppers often use to stow produce
The Blaze ^ | 10/11/2022 | Blaze

Posted on 10/11/2022 5:52:58 AM PDT by mikelets456

California, a state known for its onerous regulations caused by left-wing policies, has approved legislation to ban stores from providing those helpful little plastic bags that consumers commonly use to store produce while shopping at the supermarket.

The new rule is slated to go into effect on January 1, 2025, but even after it takes hold, stores will still be allowed to offer compostable bags and recycled paper bags, according to the bill.

The text of the bill states that "a 'precheckout bag' means a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item, such as, but not limited to, loose produce, meat or fish, nuts, grains, candy, and bakery goods. 'Precheckout bag' does not include a bag used to prepackage items prior to their arrival in a store."

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KEYWORDS: ca; nj; plasticbags
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To: mikelets456

Well, this is a natural consequence of banning the usual plastic bags — so as to offshore plastic bag production to the CCP — and permit funneling $$ back to Ca politicos who invest in China, like Pelosi.

CaCaLand politicos spend loads of time/$$ on crappola like this that hurts everyone else but provides profit to them.

So, now checking out will take longer as every clerk will have to open the paper bag to check on contents, take at least one out to read SKU, etc.
Why? ‘Cause the Demo politico Aholes who run this state are too darned lazy to do their own shopping and therefore have no idea how anything in the world works.


41 posted on 10/11/2022 8:14:54 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: mikelets456

California has feces and needles on the sidewalks and streets but by God they won’t have any little plastic bags there.


42 posted on 10/11/2022 8:19:46 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: mikelets456

The ‘California’ can expect an increase of contact-borne illnesses like coliform, salmonella, et al. particularly since the contact of the produce (before washing) can spread to any number of other grocery items in a typical shopping event pretty much making washing only the produce when you get home advisable. The same thing goes for the same bags many people put their packaged meat items in.

It is STUPID beyond belief. The government climate ghouls only care about the power, control and money they can get from that non-existent, non-proven ‘emergency’ and not one damned whit about real health and safety.


43 posted on 10/11/2022 8:46:38 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: mikelets456

PREDICTION: Stores will “pre-bag” items leading to MORE waste from wrapped potatoes, wrapped apples, styrofoam bottoms, etc. Walmart already pre-bags lettuce. Aldi dropped went to pre-wrspped broccoli a few years back.


44 posted on 10/11/2022 9:35:14 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: mikelets456

The result is everything will be prepackaged. In plastic, of course.

So instead of being able to buy one tomato you will be forced to buy 4. Or none. Because they will be packaged like beer, pop or hamburger buns in a quantity someone decides is the correct number.


45 posted on 10/11/2022 9:37:38 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: Rural_Michigan

Then you are free to enjoy your cloth bag.

The rest of us want plastic.

First they got rid of baggers, then they expect us to be unpaid cashiers. Now they get rid of bags and packaging.

What’s next? I know, we get to slice our own unpackaged meat at the deli counter.


46 posted on 10/11/2022 9:49:19 AM PDT by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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To: newzjunkey

“”...have been installing self checkouts. Walmart has almost nothing else.””

Before the Plandemic I used to shop off and on at a very large Walmart SuperStore. There were a few self checkout stations, and 20-30 regular check stands. After the world re-opened 0 , I returned for a visit. Almost completely converted to all self checkout. Two or three regular check stands remain. Between high minimum wage and unionization, I understand the shift to self check.


47 posted on 10/11/2022 11:20:55 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: mikelets456

Prepare for a wave of not-picked-up dog waste, Californicators!


48 posted on 10/11/2022 12:53:05 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Rural_Michigan
I use my own bags that don’t rip to shreds and I bag it myself which is faster. Too bad for the grocery bagger jobs though.

They're not talking about the grocery bags (in stores that still have baggers). They're talking about the thin plastic produce bags that typically come on a roll near the produce scale, into which you put your bananas, cucumbers, or any other produce still sold loose.

49 posted on 10/11/2022 12:55:43 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Vendome
Will the new bags be accounte for in tare?

Brings back fond memories of shopping at outdoor markets in Italy. One of the vendors put the produce on a piece of cardboard and put it on the scale. Apparently he forgot the tally and quickly weighed my produce again without the "cardboard." Who knows how?— my order weighed less!

The thing about Italy is, if you catch one of them in a little peccadillo, they just smile and laugh, correct the "mistake"; and if you scold them, they just compliment you lavishly for your great wisdom at catching the error. No use getting mad. One guy even showed me how much his cardboard weighed--thought he could fool the American gal, but when he couldn't, he just displayed his trick—it's all a game! La vita è dolce!

50 posted on 10/11/2022 1:14:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: bobbo666
So, now checking out will take longer as every clerk will have to open the paper bag to check on contents, take at least one out to read SKU, etc.

I see a future for bags with a hole covered with cellulose, like the envelope your bill comes in! That, plus the trucks to haul timber from North Carolina and Maine to the paper plants and hence to California, and the glue to assemble the bag and adhere the little semi-transparent window, will surely eliminate greenhouse gases and calm the oceans...

51 posted on 10/11/2022 1:19:11 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: cyclotic
What’s next? I know, we get to slice our own unpackaged meat bag our own crickets at the deli counter.
52 posted on 10/11/2022 1:21:11 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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