And at the height of the pandemic paranoia BYOB (bring your own bags) was forbidden by many retailers.
Someone’s brother is in the reusable bag business.
Because our state is run by idiots.
Give them to all the people moving out of the state.
ya see postings for free moving boxes all the time.
I made a point at my Safeway to get two orange bags and the rest black bags. My orange bags are for meat products and the black is for every thing else
We sure learned that the population is easily malleable to the dictates of the authoritarians in the past two years. Quite scary.
Just because they are supposedly reusable doesn't mean to have to save them.
Let me guess, the source of the bag ban is climate change. That’s what happens when following the rantings of a retarded and abused Swedish teenager who played hooky instead of learning real science. People in New Jersey look up to retards because they are intellectually inferior to retards. Short electric buses for New Jersey!
I live in PA and used to pick up certain foods on my lunchbreak while I was working in NJ. Now I don’t because it’s the dumbest law and very inconvenient.
I got into it with a store checkout idiot-— I told her I’m not from around here and don’t have a bag for these 12 items. She replied “we’re saving the environment”. I then asked “point out a single item in the store not wrapped in plastic or in a cardboard/plastic box”. She couldn’t-—so I told her she can put all this stuff back then walked out.
If she wasn’t a stupid leftist I wouldn’t have given her a hard time....but she was...so there’s that.
“The well-intentioned law”
Another state goes to Hell
We shop in BJ’s and Walmart and forgot the pile of bags in the closet so we just stack everything in the back seat of the truck....
I made one stop there shortly after they imposed this stupid ban on bags. After I had to carry 3 or 4 items in my hands out to my car, I swore I'd never go to another New Jersey convenience store again.
The subject came up in a conversation among some local business owners I know. When one of them asked why I couldn't bring my own bag to the store, I answered:
"If I have to bring my own stupid bag, then I might as well bring my own coffee, my own muffin, my own pack of gum, and my own bottle of water ... in which case I don't need the convenience store anymore."
I have so many of the “single use” plastic bags in my house and car, I just use the cart to the car and put the food into the bags and drive off, works well at the sams club or Costco
Are those reusable bags made from recycled or “earth friendly” materials or as most I’ve seen made from petroleum derived plastics? More importantly where are they made? Most likely in China. Why during the pandemic were reusable bags prohibited because they might spread disease, but now they are required to be used? Orwell described this as “doublethink”…holding two contradictory ideas and believing both.
I’m sorry. Are people so stupid they don’t know how to get rid of a few bags?
The brown paper bags are reusable in many ways. We used them to make protective book covers for our school books.
Those reusable bags ain’t free, either!
New Jersey must be banned before the idiocy pollutes the nation
“The well-intentioned law...”