I hate it in principle but in reality it isn’t that bad. 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.
And good point about how everything in the store is packaged in plastic...can’t piss off our corporate overlords.
I don’t like government making these laws across the board. Companies do it then I go elsewhere....However this gives you no choice.
Also, those “cotton bags” or whatever they are, uses far more energy and resources to fabricate, use, and rid of than plastic bags-—which are usually used several times. Also, you get chicken juice, rotten fruit that leaks into them, voila now you’re using resources to wash them every other time you use them-—or spread dangerous germs.
There is no excuse for them.
Gen Z really are entitled snowflakes who will turn on “older” customers for expecting a cart in store or service at the check lane. One cashier told me to my face it was “privilege” and I told him it was a different expectation of value for their hard earned dollar. He didn’t like that.
Here in Atlanta, Publix does a decent job with service but even they have been installing self checkouts. Walmart has almost nothing else.
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.
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.