You put raw chicken in those things?
Don’t you know, you are supposed to wash and disinfect each bag after use?
Trader’s chicken comes in packages. Uh-oh, they’ll have to stop wrapping the stuff in plastic wrap? My butcher at the regular supermkt wraps my steaks in butcher paper, so that might be the answer. Or we go to the store with big glass containers, ask the butcher to chop up the chicken so it fits?
Actually, I’ve been around since before plastic bags were commonly used. My neighbor in San Francisco, a really smart, savvy Chinese woman from Hong Kong, was one of the first importers of plastic bags for grocery stores. I remember how I hated them, as they dug into my hands..Also remember how very quickly she and her family moved to a mansion in the best area of the city.
Anyway, reusable plastic bags like the TraderJoe bags pictured here really do take care of a lot of the problem…TJ does not bag fruits and veggies, just packs them into your large bag very smartly so they don’t get crushed.
I’m from Texas and working in Kali right now.
I have some of the cheap “re-usable” cloth bags. They get nasty in a hurry and do not stand up to washing. The $15 to $20 dollar canvas ones do, but I’ve just gone to paying 10 cent each and throwing the damn things away. I find that the reaction of most here.
You have the save the earth crowd that were already using the cloth bags. They have gained a few penny pincher’s that refuse the 10 cent bags. BUT, most people have resigned thenselve now that the 10 cent charge is part of the cost of groceries now.