Bring Your Own Bag - you’ll be punished though
Matt and I try to always bring our own bags when we go to the grocery store (although I’ll admit we forget sometimes), and we feel good about “doing our part”. Plus at Loblaws they give you a penny off your grocery bill for every bag you bring in - not a huge deal, but like they say, every penny counts!
Here’s my only problem with it: when you don’t bring your own bags, the cashier (or some other employee depending on how busy it is) will kindly bag your groceries for you. When you bring your own bags, not only do you have to bag them yourself (which is a bit annoying if you’re there on your own), but they scan everything and throw it down to the “bagging area” as fast as they can, with no consideration for the fact that you need time to bag stuff - they basically act like want you to just stuff your groceries in your bags with complete disregard for trying to make them all fit and to try to not crush things.
Grocery stores seem to act like they want you to bring your own bags (it saves them money in not having to use as many bags, plus the PR value of cutting down on bags in the landfill etc), but they should realize that if they want me to bring them in, it shouldn’t create an inconvenience for me!
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