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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wegmans has banned plastic bags and now charges 5 cents for paper bags.  A win-win for Wegmans, they get to charge for something that used to be free.

I just skip bags entirely now and throw my basket in the cart return.  Wegmans created the problem, let them solve it.[/quote]

So for the grocery store household trip model you might end up with 10 plastic bags , carry them into the house, unload, put bags in a cupboard.  What happens to the bags? [b]  Reused to line bathroom trash cans and small step on kitchen trash cans.  Still cheaper to pay .05 for a safeway or giant plastic bag since we still  need them for trash can liners in the home so any delivery or curbside pickup charge is a moot point. 
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Note people buying boxed bags for that purpose.  In the household grocery store trip model plastic bags don't randomly flow.  If some one goes into a convenience store or grocery store and buys 2-3 things in 1 bag for immediate consumptiom is where you get the non reuse flow.

Paper bags we have from Whole Foods and Trader Joes get loaded with recyclables, then dumped in the recycling can.  When we don't have any we use a plastic trash can and dump it into the large mixed recycling container.

Off a safeway weekly ad:

$3.79 for 30 4 gallon bags=$.13/bag
$2.99 for 30 13G decor color=$.10/bag [colored ons in a roll in plastic wrap]

Amazon 90 4G bags for 9.99=$.11/bag[/quote]

Here's a more similar equivalent.

https://www.amazon.com/Reli-Thank-T-Shirt-Count-Plastic/dp/B0854J48FD

That's 1000 count for $34.99, or 3.5 cents per bag. They really are quite cheap, otherwise stores would already charge for them explicitly.[/quote]

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