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Kroger ditching plastic bags by 2025, company says
FOX News ^ | August 23 2018 | Associated Press

Posted on 08/24/2018 8:01:01 AM PDT by oldvirginian

The nation's largest grocery chain will be plastic-bag free at all of its nearly 2,800 stores by 2025.

Kroger Co., which orders about 6 billion bags each year, will begin phasing out their use immediately at one of its chains based in Seattle, a city that has been proactive on reducing plastic use.

The company, based in Cincinnati, operates 2,779 stores in 35 states and the District of Columbia, serving almost 9 million people daily through two dozen different grocery chains. Kroger is seeking customer feedback and will be working with outside groups throughout the transition. It will begin phasing out plastic bag use Thursday at its QFC stores in and around Seattle. It expects to be plastic-bag free at the chain next year. "We listen very closely to our customers and our communities, and we agree with their growing concerns," said Mike Donnelly, Kroger's chief operating officer. "That's why, starting today at QFC, we will begin the transition to more sustainable options.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ecology; food; kroger; plastic
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To: oldvirginian

They are going to make you provide your own reusable bags or sell them to you. They are not going back to paper. It’s just a way of passing off another cost to customers, one that will lead to my buying things where they do have the plastic bags. I never carry reusable bags with me.


21 posted on 08/24/2018 8:14:46 AM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Pure left-wing insanity on display.

Interesting since they've been so conservative on firearm issues over the years, and standing up to Moms against common sense in the past.

Is it possible they're making an economic decision?
22 posted on 08/24/2018 8:15:32 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: Dr. Sivana

“Arew we going back to glass or waxed cardboard milk bottles? Aluminum and glass only for soda and water? Juice coming in big cans that require a can opener to punch a hole? Hamburger meat wrapped in butcher paper?{

Why not?

It worked quite well for many years.

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23 posted on 08/24/2018 8:16:22 AM PDT by Mears
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To: oldvirginian

Reusable bags are bacteria laden so that would be a bad idea. More trees can be grown for paper bags, unlike PLASTIC, paper is a renewable resource.


24 posted on 08/24/2018 8:16:32 AM PDT by madison10 (Pray for President Trump, his family and Devin Nunes)
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To: Ingtar

We use Kroger Click List almost exclusively, how will they get the bags from you and fill them in that model? I just don’t see it.


25 posted on 08/24/2018 8:16:38 AM PDT by TexasGunLover
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To: Blue House Sue

“As it should be, a corporate policy implemented without the force of a government,”

Not really, they are facing numerous municipal laws that have suddenly outlawed a product that people use. They decided this IN RESPONSE to force of government.


26 posted on 08/24/2018 8:18:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DesertRhino

Courts have struck down plastic bag bans.


27 posted on 08/24/2018 8:19:55 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Mears

The meat will spoil faster, the soda and glass bottled milk will be much heavier and cost more to package and ship, and little kids are really bad with gallon cardboard milk packages.

That said, I find the soda in glass bottles tastes better and feels colder.


28 posted on 08/24/2018 8:20:02 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: oldvirginian

Plastic bags came into use to prevent the murder of trees for sacks. Remember when a check out person could send a brain dead young college kid into near seizures with the words...”Paper or Plastic.”


29 posted on 08/24/2018 8:20:27 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: oldvirginian

The “plastic’ in plastic grocery bags is gone in 35 years, buried in landfill...


30 posted on 08/24/2018 8:20:33 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Bet you’re in pretty good shape.

The one innovation I’ve adopted is the Wal-Mart Pickup Service:

You go online, and it is organized like the store is, in virtual aisles. You buy the stuff you want from a local Wal-Mart with the service. You tell them when you are coming by.

You arrive, they load it into the back of your rig, and you drive off. I then buy meats, fruits, and veggies from someplace inexpensive where I can do the picking.

You still have to lug stuff up to your house, but you can invest the energy and aggravation you saved patrolling the aisles into your grocery workout.

Seven landings - good for the hammies, glutes, and calves.

Nice.

Sometimes I’ll do a set of curls with the bags in my hand in the elevator.

I’m telling you, someone completely changed my world view on exercise and physical tasks that are a hassle:

You get to do them. You don’t HAVE to do them, you get to.

My ex-FIL is bedridden with MS. I should have picked that up about 20 years ago, but it took someone actually saying those words, ‘You get to’, for me to get it.

Almost killed myself backpacking two weekends ago. Way too tough a trail for my fitness level. Before, I would have couch potatoed for two years. Went home and realized being able to actually feel your pulse in your face doesn’t kill you, and the more you do it the easier it gets.


31 posted on 08/24/2018 8:20:33 AM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: oldvirginian

they need to teach baggers how to bag. Many times they stick one item per bag, “oh we can’t put those two kinds of items in the same bag”.

Or they put delicate produce like bananas or frsh bunch of herbs in bag then apples or such on top.

too many times dairy or items that will give off moisture, in with boxes or magazines so they stick together.

Not to mention the checkers that manhandle produce and all, banging in down on counter or some times tossing it toward the bagging area of the counter.

So the stores are not concerned about the quality of their bagging or damage they may be contributing to your items in how they bag them, just whether the bags are environmantally conscious enough?


32 posted on 08/24/2018 8:21:06 AM PDT by b4me (God Bless the USA)
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To: oldvirginian

So many things from old America that I wish would return. So any of the old things made for a better society.

What do they pick? A return to paper bags. And watch, they’ll bit@h abou that too. They won’t be happy until you carry your own little canvas bag to the store like a skinny yoga woman at whole foods who eats 9 green beans for dinner and can carry a month of food in a purse.


33 posted on 08/24/2018 8:21:18 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Ingtar

don’t panic. they will give you paper bags just as in the olden days.

since I despise plastic bags (they break and spill things) and can reuse paper bags for trash and bottles, I see this as a win.


34 posted on 08/24/2018 8:22:36 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: Exit148

“So much for all those years of saving the trees and going to plastic.”

Yeah, really worked out well didn’t it.
Plastic bags flying in the wind.
Hung up on fences, trees and other obstacles all over the country. Bury them in landfills and they take longer to break down.

Meanwhile paper bags, which quickly break down in landfills, are a rarity.
BUT..WE SAVED A TREE!!


35 posted on 08/24/2018 8:23:32 AM PDT by oldvirginian (American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God and Virginian because Jesus loves me)
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To: oldvirginian

Safeway has already done it (in my area anyway) either use your bag or buy a paper bag at checkout (5 cents).


36 posted on 08/24/2018 8:24:01 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Dr. Sivana

” and little kids are really bad with gallon cardboard milk packages.”

I only recall 1/2 gallon cardboard milk containers-—and I opened them,not my little kids.

A little child couldn’t open a new plastic container of milk either.

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37 posted on 08/24/2018 8:24:34 AM PDT by Mears
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To: madison10

“Reusable bags are bacteria laden”

I have read a that all reuseable bags MUST be washed in hot water and bleach OR they will eventually be contaminated with bacteria that will make you sick.


38 posted on 08/24/2018 8:24:38 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: oldvirginian

Get some heavy canvas bags with shoulder straps. Pay neighbourhood children to bear the bags on their backs, and schlep your groceries for you.


39 posted on 08/24/2018 8:27:08 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: oldvirginian

I have already begun hoarding them, figuring this would happen eventually.


40 posted on 08/24/2018 8:29:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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