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echo: cooking
to: RUTH HAFFLY
from: RUTH HANSCHKA
date: 2019-11-05 23:55:00
subject: Ants

>  RH> like.  Pet food too.  They're trying to tax plastic bags, but 
the
>  RH> stores took advantage of that situation. Most switched to 
paper bags
>  RH> and charging the same price for them as the tax on the plastic 
ones.
>  RH> bring reusables. :-)
> 
> Some of the stores here are talking about doing away with all bags,
> forcing customers to bring their own. Lidl and Aldi charge for bags 
but
> not boxes--we usually load the buggy back up and take it out to the
> truck, rebagging into our own bags out there. If we go to Whole 
Foods,

Folks at my regular supermarket call it "rolling Costco style" when 
you forget your bags and pile everything back in the buggy/carriage 
and put it in bags/boxes out in your car.  

> we bring in our bags and get a nickel back per bag. They don't 
charge
> for paper bags but it's nice to get a bit of change off the total.

Whole Foods used to do that; I'm not sure if they still do.
                                                                                         

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