HEB Grocery & "Bring your own bags" (Houston: home, car inspection)

[mickey65]

Hopefully they'll outlaw the paper bags you get at the fast-food places also...since I get tired of seeing those on the sides of the road also - carelessly thrown from the cars of lazy-ass slobs who can't find a trash can...

[paul6835]

Wash your bags so that when the person before you in line didn't gets salminella on the belt, you can take it home to your family

[gpurcell]

It is NOT a plastic bag ban.

It is a bag ban.

There was absolutely no reason for them to ban old-style paper sacks from grocery stores.

[Komeht]

Just did my first big shopping trip since BB enacted:

1. Central Market conveniently upgraded their produce bags to be extra large. Nice! I can still get my poop bags as long as I buy my zucchini. (BTW, my so-called single use plastic trash bags always had three uses - paper sacks only get a single use...but whatever, they only cost trees.)

2. Central market also provided free paper bags. Great! I thought those were banned too, but whatever. Paper sacks are fine, not nearly as useful, but fine - never had a problem with them.

3. The whole routine is a kind of a beat down. Can't spontaneously swing by the store unless you have the bags. get in car and pull out of garage, remember you bags? Fricken hell, gotta go back. Park at store, get to shopping cart forget to get your bags out of car? Frick!!!!

4. The worst is fricken Home Depot...wtf remembers to take grocery sacks to home fricken depot?

But whatever, if that's what it takes to save turtles or ducklings or whatever the frick we're accomolishing, that's a small price to pay.

[owlman]

Nothing changed at Whole Foods. They stopped providing plastic checkout bags a long time ago. Their paper bags have handles and meet the recycled content so they are allowed under the ban, and they still give you a 10¢ credit for bringing your own reusable bag.

[calel]

I was out of town when the bag ban started, so it took my DST-addled brain a few minutes to register why all the HEB U-Scan lanes were missing bags this morning. Fortunately I only had two items and didn't really need a bag at all.

[OpenD]

A number of people are also electing "No bags," taking a cart full of loose groceries to their car. It's one way to deal with it if you forgot and left your bags in the car.

[Trainwreck20]

We started some while back carrying two sets of bags in the car, which gives you a better chance of not having forgot (or, actual, even though you forgot, you still have bags).

[calel]

Originally Posted by Komeht

4. The worst is fricken Home Depot...wtf remembers to take grocery sacks to home fricken depot?

I don't know why but my mind had selectively forgotten that the bag ban applies to nearly all stores. That giant IKEA bag I acquired might finally come in handy for something.

[Gorfml]

This ban will be nullified in a year...it's silly...