HEB Grocery & "Bring your own bags"

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by Komeht

I'm not sure why the city didn't just take away the option of paper or plastic - the ban in place is very confusing and unnecessarily divisive. The handle thing is nonsensical. What - a bag with a handles suddenly is eco and green?

They could have just limited the ban to plastic bags - allowed all paper bags and achieved 90% of what the active bag nuts wanted.

True. Everyone could have gone back to paper bags. Those dept store shopping bags that used to cost $.10/$.25 were pretty strong and I used to reuse them.

"Back in the day..." everyone had paper bags and life didn't come to a standstill. The only ones with handles were the fancy shopping bags you got at the mall stores and those cost.

We used to use the paper bags for book covers for school and color the cover.

[atxcio]

Originally Posted by scm53

Old bad laws don't justify new bad ones. Besides - you said "many". I won't insist on many. Name three.

BTW, I'm not saying the blue laws are good laws. Just pointing out that laws are made to reflect values sometimes (like "dry" counties)... or to regulate aesthetics (like cities banning cars parked on the lawn).

You want three of the blue laws that still remain? You would say three Ok, the two obvious ones are:

1) Alcohol sales restrictions: Sale of alcohol on Sunday, on weekdays after 9pm, etc - I guess I could claim these as actually more than one, but I won't
2) Car dealerships must be closed each week on one day of either Saturday or Sunday

... and OK, I couldn't find any others easily. So, I'll concede to you that I was incorrect that "many" blue laws still exist. But at least two of them still do.

[je4xff]

Originally Posted by atxcio

BTW, I'm not saying the blue laws are good laws. Just pointing out that laws are made to reflect values sometimes (like "dry" counties)... or to regulate aesthetics (like cities banning cars parked on the lawn).

You want three of the blue laws that still remain? You would say three Ok, the two obvious ones are:

1) Alcohol sales restrictions: Sale of alcohol on Sunday, on weekdays after 9pm, etc - I guess I could claim these as actually more than one, but I won't
2) Car dealerships must be closed each week on one day of either Saturday or Sunday

... and OK, I couldn't find any others easily. So, I'll concede to you that I was incorrect that "many" blue laws still exist. But at least two of them still do.

So it's settled then. The bag laws make as much sense as the blue laws.

[atxcio]

Originally Posted by je4xff

So it's settled then. The bag laws make as much sense as the blue laws.

Not even the same league.

But since you are so ready to declare that any law based on values is senseless: I suppose you are against any law that restricts abortion, correct?

[Shredding_Gnar78]

has anybody here mentioned how our precious Whole Foods Inc has no problem with giving people paper bags, because they care soooo much about the environment. they are soooo righteous, which is why a spoonful of corn at the salad bar costs $57 bucks. please