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[Nparker]

^reminds me when I was a kid, they didn't have handles on the paper bags then and no plastic bags were available.  No made a fuss then

And I bet most families made a weekly shopping trip using their car. I know mine did.

[tjv]

^yup, and I am sure they still do

[todd]

We buy goldfish occasionally. Not sure how we would bring them home if not in a plastic bag?

Reusable fish transport square tote.

[mbjj]

My first job back in the late 1960s was in a pet shop. Even then I think we used plastic bags for fish. Also remember getting free goldfish from Woodwards at Park Royal around 1960, in a plastic bag I'm sure. What did they do before that I wonder?

[Freedom57]

My first job back in the late 1960s was in a pet shop. Even then I think we used plastic bags for fish. Also remember getting free goldfish from Woodwards at Park Royal around 1960, in a plastic bag I'm sure. What did they do before that I wonder?

 

Mason Jars would work.....  and great for other uses.  Perhaps people will have to start bringing their own jars - and/or get a deposit back when they return the jar to the store (if the store provides the jar.)

[sebberry]

^No.  We already have enough millennials drinking out of mason jars.  We don't need more of them

[todd]

^No.  We already have enough millennials drinking out of mason jars.  We don't need more of them

and enough old folks using the term millennials

Edited by todd, 22 July 2018 - 10:50 AM.

[sebberry]

and enough old folks using the term millennials

 

Hey, if that was directed at me...  I'm a millennial.  In age only.  I don't drink out of mason jars.  

[mbjj]

Our mason jars are occupied with jam. Hopefully a pickle jar would do, which I'd likely carry in a plastic shopping bag in case I drop it.

[tjv]

^you should start stocking up on your glass jars!  Pretty soon there will be a law where single use glass jars will be banned.  How do you get the peanut butter and jam home that used to come in a glass jar you ask?   Simple, one pants pocket for peanut butter and another pocket for jam! 

 

But wait you have 2 back pockets, a shirt breast pocket, plus pockets in your jacket.  Pretty handy when you hit the bulk bin isle!

[kxl]

The country of Chile has banned plastic bags.

[mbjj]

The last two weeks I've made a couple  of clothing purchases at the Bay. Both times, though I had a cloth bag with me, it was already full, some of it sticky bakery stuff. Both times I had to walk out with my purchase wrapped in tissue, but in my hand. That is what bugs me, if I'm already spending $60, why should I have to spend extra for a single-use paper bag which will end up being disposed of!

[rjag]

at the liquor store buying a dozen bottles of wine, I get a free box but the poor schmuk in front that bought 2 bottles gets to buy a paper bag... guy behind me has 2 bottles....he asks for a box...

[todd]

You should see the look they give when you ask for part of their liver...

[Matt R.]

I see the $0.20 charge on my wholesale Silk Road tea order now. They pre bag the order for ease of pickup, which I understand, but maybe they have a cardboard box instead?

We will see.

Matt.

[sdwright.vic]

Skip the dishes is charging a .15 cent fee on delivery, even when you order delivery from somewhere not inside the city of Victoria. No way to opt out of the fee.

[Nparker]

Then opt out of Skip the Dishes. 

[spanky123]

Skip the dishes is charging a .15 cent fee on delivery, even when you order delivery from somewhere not inside the city of Victoria. No way to opt out of the fee.

 

Seems silly since prepared food is exempt from the ban is it not?

[shoeflack]

Seems silly since prepared food is exempt from the ban is it not?

 

I imagine it's for the paper bag that all the food is placed into. Food packaging is exempt, but not the brown bag you carry all the packaging in.

[spanky123]

I imagine it's for the paper bag that all the food is placed into. Food packaging is exempt, but not the brown bag you carry all the packaging in.

 

I think the rules are that you only have to charge for the bag if the goods in it are not exempt. Could be wrong though.