Mark, Your additional suggestions and remarks make good sense. Those with the discount tags and their own bags or no bags could be given a 1% or 2% discount. (End of my diatribe).
Fritz _____ From: Minton, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:44 PM To: Cavers Texas Subject: [Texascavers] RE: plastic bags Fritz said: >The store could then discontinue the use of all bags. There are a few progressive stores like Whole Foods (at least they used to) and food coops that give a small discount, like 5 cents, for every bag you bring to take your groceries home in. It can be a cloth re-usable bag, or simply an empty paper sack from another store. The point is to encourage re-use and to reduce waste. The other big warehouse club, Costco, also operates like Sam's: no bags of any kind. You either fend for yourself or they'll put your purchases in used cardboard boxes. The latter is a great strategy, since it reduces their own waste. Instead of bags, regular grocery stores could probably also just use their empty cardboard boxes. If the customers then recycled the cardboard after they got home, everyone would win. Mark Minton
