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My thought exactly. Never used one of these places. As non exist within easy travel distance to me.
But weight seems like the obvious solution. The only reason I can see for a store using the method and limitations described. Is to try and increase sales of their own over priced containers.
And then you look at regular store prices for refills.... 30% more expensive than just the regular bottle.
Ffs.
Yep and the bag used for the refill. Tend to have fine plastic coating. That just make placing microplastics into the environment faster. While being totally un reusable.
Even when the price is lower. It's just trying to reduce cost of packaging while greenwashing customers.
Well the sell is that it uses less plastic in total than the original bottle. Still far too much for a one time use bag.