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I'm confused why they keep buying more reusable bags when they forget to bring some. if I forget them, I usually just put the groceries in the cart unbagged and bring em out to the car, where I usually have the bags and can procede to bag, or if I truly have no bags, just put the groceries in the car bagless.
As a second option, my state eliminated plastic grocery bags at checkout, and instead offer paper bags for 10 or 15 cents a bag, which seems like a good option for those who forget sometimes.
Well, you are confused because unlike most of the world's population, you have a car and probably a private garage. If you don't have them, then plastic bags are needed.
Wait, you are saying that not having a car and a garage makes people need plastic bags?
I lived in small, and now in a large North American city, and never owned a car. The city banned plastic bags a few years ago and I already owned some reusable bags bought a decade before, so I just continued to use them.
But mostly I use my backpack because I don't have a car and live in a city where I can walk to grocery stores. Otherwise I use my bike panniers. And if I really don't have a bag, instead of buying a new one, I only buy what I can carry with my hands. Crazy like that.
Or did the sarcasm go over my head?
When I was carless I depended on my reusable bags. Plastic bags were so annoying to walk or bus with.
I only lived in a walkable city for a few months where I didn't have access to a car, and it was glorious to be able to walk to the grocery store.
But if I was going to the store, I always brought my backpack filled with some reusable bags, since without my backpack I'd be reducing my carrying capacity significantly. It's difficult for me to imagine forgetting to bring my backpack, since I'd have so much time to notice it not being on me on the walk to the store.
With a car it's easier to forget the bags, since they could be out of sight in the trunk, and it's easy not to think about them on the way since driving takes up your focus and attention. But that's just been my experience.
I do like the idea of stores accepting used bags to re-sell (or perhaps a take-a-bag leave-a-bag rack too?) For those who do not have a car and are more forgetful than I.
I do exactly the same with my wagon.
I see you've met my wife. I have about a dozen in the boot of my car. I even had one in my hand the other day but she still bought a couple in Asda. One of them didn't even make it to the car!
It's a constant struggle.
Edit - I have about a dozen reuseable bags in my car, not wives :-)
I had a chuckle imagining your multiple wives at checkout (after having purchased yet more wives) and one tugs at your shirt and asks "honey, will we make it back to the car?"
You respond with a grave look "Some of you, yes. But with my hands full, I can't make any guarantees. You know that." Before stepping outside into the parking lot of a mad max-like world.