Bags rant

I reluctantly went to Target today. I returned a few gifts from Xmas for store credit to buy some essentials. In line, I noticed how many customers, in my line and others around me, said yes, when offered a bag by the checker. It was every single one around me. There’s an extra charge per bag.

I’m in northern California. I am conditioned to BYOB, and do it faithfully. We also just passed a ban on plastic bags. The bags given out at target now are either thick cloth or paper. The thick cloth bags that they give out for drive up orders have the identification tag stapled to them.

What’s happening to all of these fabric bags? I’m hopeful other people are going to reuse them as I would. Judging by the amount of people that opted for the new bag, I’m just disappointed that my community hasn’t changed their habits.