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California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores.
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When was that? I remember the vote where it was an option and it didn't win. Instead we got the joys of paying $0.10 per bag and thicker bags.
Grocery bags were banned. Durable "reusable" plastic bags were mandated and we were expected to re-use those bags and return them to the store. The reality is that we use them just like the old bags and just fork over the extra 10 cents for every visit.
This article is claiming the exact same thing, replacing the current "re-usable" bags with more durable "re-usable" bags that we will likely now pay 20 cents for and be expected to re-use them at the store.
That sounds like a problem that you're inflicting on yourself then.
But is bringing your own bags with you so hard? My parents are too old remember that but I never had an issue with it.
Yes it is too hard for people. I almost never see people bring their own bags in my small town of California.
I juat chuck stuff in the back seat of my Cherokee, works well for sodas.
It's worth noting that as of the 2020 Census, 94.2% of Californians reside in urban areas (5000+ people or 2000+ housing units). If you really do live in a small town, it might be highly unrepresentative of the behavior of the state at large. This could be anything from different average distances to grocery stores, frequency of trips and weight/volume of items purchased per trip, means of transportation, wealth, and political attitudes that would all affect one's consistency with using their own bags.
I'm not stating that it definitely doesn't translate but that caution should be exercised when talking about small towns in such an urbanized state.
Agreed with this. I go back and forth between Sacramento and the Bay Area. I havent had to use single use bags in years at groceries and neither do the people I see.
I have ADHD so yeah, sometimes. I even keep them in my car and often forget to bring them inside to actually use 'em 😩
I do exactly the same all the time too.
Then I walk back out to my car, grab my basket, and curse silently at myself the whole way.
When I do that I just put it all back in a cart and bag it at my car
That's a you problem though. The grocery store isn't making you forget you're about to walk into their store.
I didn't claim it was their problem in the first place.
I'm just saying, you can go back to your car and get your bags.
Edit. And I've been scrolling and putting off going to the store for like an hour now. Thank you for getting me to get off my butt lol