Kroger to ban plastic checkout bags by 2025!!
cincinnati.com/story/money/2018/08/23/kroger-...
cincinnati.comPosted Aug 23, 2018, 2:24 PM UTC
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cincinnati.comI hope this means more will follow suit! Forcing consumers to be more mindful goes a long way in changing habits
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Better make sure they provide re-usable bags to buy at the register.
My local grocery stopped selling them so it's really a PAIN when you realize you've forgotten your bags in the backseat, you have a full cart, and *sigh* the cashier's already scanning and speed-packing in single-use plastic...
I appreciate that my local thrift store stopped providing plastic bags at all. You can either buy a PAPER bag or you can buy a reusable, or you can BYOB.
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You can tell them you don't want bags at all. Instead put the loose items back in your trolley and pack when you get back to your bags in the car. You only need to do it a couple of times before it gives your brain a nudge to remember!
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This only works if the store allows you to take the cart/trolley outside. There are a few stores in my area that the carts are for in-store use only...
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That is an absolutely shite system. What do they do with people who do a big shop and have ten bags? Walk back and forth from their cart to the car nine times? Mental.
I know there's the worry about folk stealing carts but here they have a thing (magnet?) where when you go over the end line, your trolley locks and can't go further. Inventive teenagers might get it over but the average person won't bother. Sounds like your locals need something similar.
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I'd love to see the spin be more honest, like they are phasing out plastic bags as mandated now. :)
They are building a new Kroger store near me. I wonder if it will be set up the same way as the current stores for plastic bags or if there is an interim design. I pretty much hate Kroger and buy only one item there, so it will be a while before I find out.
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This is so sad. Good, because they need to do it, but jfc England has already gotten rid of plastic bags and they didn't set some insane deadline that was 7 years away, they just got on with it.
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It seems a long way off. On the other hand, per the article they have 2,800 stores. I assume a company like Kroger would do it in conjunction with retooling the registers to remove the plastic bag carousels they currently use (I hope they recycle those btw). So there's a lot of equipment for them to replace. My local Kroger has about a dozen registers and 12 self scans, so that's 24 stations to retool.
My local Kroger sells the reusable bags in a few spots around the registers, so it's conceivable that they might push those even harder sooner than later. But, what do I know, I'm a programmer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Not sure where you've heard that England got rid of plastic bags, they're still everywhere here.
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I live in England. Sure, they are here but you don't get them for free anywhere - you have to pay, and that causes many more people to bring their own.
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That’s going to suck what am I going to do with all my cat poop?
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2025? So progressive.
That's ~a decade away.
They could do this tomorrow if they wanted.
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Sorry... Didn't have time to read the whole article.
I agree with you in
principalprinciple though - it seems like they could phase them out a hell of a lot faster. I do see a lot more people bringing their own reusable bags at my local Kroger (in a state so regressive that it banned plastic bag bans), so at least people seem to be naturally moving in the right direction.Pure Michigan
I'm no law expert, but how does that work? Does the law say that it's a state issue or something?
While I do use my own bags, I don't like the idea of bans because it gets people all riled up over stupid stuff. People who wouldn't even notice if their local store switched to paper bags by request only will suddenly march in the streets if you tell them that they can't have plastic bags any more.
I live in Seattle and QFC already doesn’t carry plastic bags. Paper only and you have to pay 5 cents each.
Aren't they banned in your county (King?)
Yep!!
Yeah I keep seeing these companies that vow to ban bags by the end of sometime that's like 3 years away. To me it seems like they're saying that they're going to as a publicity stunt because deep down they know that the government is gonna force them to stop using them before their progressive timeline anyway.