Posted on 01/11/2020 6:43:05 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom
Following a successful two-store pilot at its Corning and Ithaca, New York stores, Wegmans will remove single-use plastic grocery bags from all its New York State stores on Monday, January 27. The removal of plastic bags comes ahead of a state ban that takes effect on March 1. Wegmans’ goal is to shift all customers to reusable bags, the best option to solve the environmental challenge of single-use grocery bags. At stores where the county or municipality choose not to institute a 5-cent fee for paper bags, Wegmans will charge 5 cents per bag. The amount collected from the paper-bag charge will be donated to the local food bank serving each region. “By adding a charge for each paper bag, our hope is to incentivize the adoption of reusable bags, and in time, achieve our goal of eliminating all single-use bags,” said Jason Wadsworth, Wegmans packaging and sustainability manager. “This approach has proven successful at our two-store pilot. On average today, 20% of the bags used across all Wegmans stores are reusable. However, at our pilot stores in Corning and Ithaca, we’ve flipped that statistic so that only 20% of the bags used are single-use bags.” Since Wegmans introduced reusable bags in 2007, the company has put an emphasis on educating customers of their benefits, especially the added convenience they offer. A recent companywide survey of Wegmans customers found that 95% already own at least one reusable bag, and 87% have three or more. For those customers who regularly use reusable bags, their top three reasons for choosing them over single-use, in addition to the environmental benefits, are sturdiness, handles, and ease of packing. “We learned a lot from the pilot that will help ensure a smooth transition out of plastic bags in the rest of our New York stores for our customers and employees,” added Wadsworth. Wegmans first announced in April that it would eliminate plastic single-use grocery bags ahead of the New York State ban.
One of NY States Laws they passed when RATS got the majority.
Just wondering if Wegmans will pass on the savings to the consumer since they will not have to purchase plastic bags!
It is so expensive to shop at Wegmans that I can usually put everything in my pockets.
Mail order or send them a pick list to bring out to your car.
I get food deliveries from amazon fresh a few times a month.
I’m not lying when I say I sometimes get DOZENS of frozen spring water bottles in the delivery bags.
I forget the reason they give.
As for other amazon deliveries, the amount of plastic used to secure things is hysterical.
Hypocrites on and all and of course no savings will be passed on to the consumer from wegmans.
Soon you’ll have to carry all the groceries loose in your hands to the car :)
So paper bags which have always been free at any supermarket I have ever been to but you have to ask for them these days will now be a .05??
Okay whatever. Feel good nonsense
Last Year, when a ban went into effect in the town where I was shopping, I watched as my bagger, a gentleman with Down's Syndrome, struggled to bag my things and accidentally rip the paper bag. I harbored no anger toward the bagger (who, it should be emphasized, was at work early on New Year's Day and was seemingly LEGAL...kudos to him) but I wished some local bureaucrat had to witness this sad result of "saving the planet."
As I paid and walked away, I commented to this gentleman "boy, they're making your job harder with those paper bags."
He replied "yea...I hate them."
I responded: "So do I."
Depends what you're buying.
Their boneless chicken breast is always a good price, along with veggies, cereal, and their brand of peanut butter to name a few items.
They do make a killing on their prepared foods and the Wegmans I shop at has a LOT of that because of the area it's located in.
But hey, if people want to pay for that convenience, it's no skin off my back.
When they passed this law in California there were 2 propositions on the ballot. One banned single use plastic bags and the other said where the money goes. The ban passed but the one stating where the money went didn’t so....the stores get to keep all the money from the purchased bags. I didn’t notice my grocery bill going down any to account for all that new money they are saving from not having to purchase bags and then selling the new plastic bags. Of course welfare clients get their bags for free.
County near me banned plastic bags as of Jan.1 and are back to destroying trees to make paper bags which was the original reason to go to plastic bags.
Ain’t virtue signaling grand?
This is just another stupid knee-jerk leftist move that will backfire. What about the bacteria and germs that are in cloth bags? Cloth bags are not the holy grail they are being touted as. Look for a bacterial outbreak to happen in the produce section, because shoppers aren't washing their cloth bags - and again, that's wasting water to wash the bags.
In other virtue-signalling news ...
So can we go back to paper sacks? I always preferred those to the flimsy plastic crap, but the Left deemed the paper as tree-killing. Have they moved on from that now? Wonder what the outrage will be next month.....
Exactly. We need to move to paper. Paper is a renewable resource. If the paper companies go out of business, all of the tree farms will become strip malls.
We have save-a-lot here. A discount off brand store.
You need a quarter to pull a cart.
You sack your own. ..the store offers the boxes that the merchandise comes in. Else you bring your own. I save easy a hundred bones a month. I just love the extra cash. Means the wife gets dresses and I get fishing gear. ...
Wegman’s will take your 5 cents per bag they charge you, donate it & then take the tax writeoff..... no thanks. Stopped shopping there.
You know what you are. . ...
You’re a paper bag hater. ....lol
...anti-damn-dentite. https://youtu.be/ythrdCsOFJU
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