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Posted on 02/28/2013 1:50:46 PM PST by Lonely Bull
When the Seattle City Council unanimously passed a ban on plastic bags and required businesses to charge a nickel for paper bags, city leaders believed it would be better all around.
"I think we've gotten to a place where it's really going to work for the environment, businesses and the community in general," Councilman Mike O'Brien said at the time.
But the bag ban is contributing to thousands of dollars in losses for at least one Seattle grocery store, and questions have been raised about the risk of food-borne illness from reusable bags that shoppers don't often wash.
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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!
Love your tagline!
Notice how the limbs never ban plastic bags used for newspapers.
Illogical. If you call a spoon a knife, there is no such thing as a spoon.Only knives that cut well, and “knives” which don’t.
Never reuse bags that have been used to transport meat. Meat juice nearly always gets contaminated with botulism, and heating the bags with hot water does not kill the germs.
Heating can kill the toxin (botulism poop!) that can kill you, but the germs are still there, waiting.
Doggie poop bags.
This is a new cash cow for the politicians. Expect these fees to go up, and up, and up.
They now charge $.25 for paper bags in unincorporated Los Angeles County and in Long Beach. I refuse to shop in those areas.
Nothing better to do than mess with the proletariat.
Heh. Don'cha know you're supposed to wash them in soap made from hemp and tofu? It's OK then.
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.
I am sure that the retailers would prefer not to deal with this B.S.
Focus your anger on the perpetrators, not the victims.
Impressive arithmetic. Lousy logic.
I have one of those survival knife, spoon, fork, weapon combo thingies. No idea what it’s called though.
There's a chain of Asian supermarkets here, Pacific Super. They won't let you bring bags of stuff in; therefore you won't be leaving with any bags of stuff. Try arguing with Chinese clerks who don't know english. I got no where with them. (Shop there for my Chinese MIL, lots of stuff plus cheap prices .) This bag crap is ridiculous in the SF area.
One time I was leaving a sporting goods store (Big 5) and they had only used a single plastic bag. Imagine the looks on everyone's face nearby when the bag ripped open not 5 feet from the checkout counter and several boxes of shotgun shells fell to the floor, scattering the shells from the boxes. Calmly picked them up and demanded a double bag.
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Thanks!
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