[Magdalen] Whole Foods wins !!!

[Jay Weigel]

I'm waiting for our online grocery to start the Local Bounty Share box
which is similar to Judy's CSA. the Organic Produce Box, which is what they
have in winter, has been awful and repetitive this winter....every week the
same stuff. I got it for awhile until we got overrun with carrots (last
year it was popcorn) of which I finally used the last a couple of weeks ago.

We use the more or less permanent shopping bags for our regular shopping
trips. Most of the ones I brought with me are either from Trader Joe's or
the late lamented Ukrop's in Richmond. S/O had a few already from Martin's
and then we have some insulated ones which we use for meats and produce,
especially in hot weather. One is from Walmart, one from Trader Joe's, and
we have a new one that came from S/O's last company event. Other bags bear
various tech logos. It's a weird assortment. I try to keep a couple in my
car for spontaneous trips but I'm not always successful.

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> On 08/04/2016 04:46, Scott Knitter wrote:
>
>> You should shop in Chicago and add one of our new thick-plastic bags to
>> your collection. The council banned the very thin bags, which aren't
>> reusable more than a couple of times and contain metals such as chromium,
>> but stores are allowed to give out a new thicker no-metals bag that can be
>> reused 125 times. I find the new bags easier to stuff into a briefcase or
>> even coat pocket for reuse. Some chains opt for all paper bags...Whole
>> Foods and Mariano's do this. And of course cloth bags.
>>
>> And we use our big blue IKEA bag for big shopping...especially great for
>> hauling boxes of canned soda up to our third-floor walk-up.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> A nice, useful, and cheap souvenir is the more permanent carrier bag
>>> that better stores sell.  Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury's in England have come
>>> through nicely.  The Waitrose one is often admired, being capacious and
>>> made of some sort of hempen material.  I never thought at the time to get a
>>> Whole Foods one.
>>>
>>
> In the past few years (England last October was the last one) the various
> countries in the UK have imposed a mandatory 5p charge on the supply of
> thin bags.  The customer pays and it's meant to go to good causes.  A
> number of stores now sell thicker bags for a modest charge.  The intention
> is to reduce landfill and the number of tgose thin bags vlowing around.
>
> Roger
>