[Magdalen] Whole Foods wins !!!

[Marion Thompson]

I never pay for grocery bags; the back seat of my car is full of 
'permanent' bags.   Some are insulated (from a  fine butcher, that one 
cost $5), some make up into a firm-sided and -bottomed box, some are 
souvenirs, some are string, some are heavy cloth, some thick-plastic 
with sewn handles are peculiar to different supermarket chains.  There 
was a time in the 80's when Loblaw's promoted the European string bag 
and I had lots of those, but only one remains --  many more were 
abandoned in our Bisley caravan when Jim & his brother sold it and I was 
stuck in Canada unable to retrieve all the stuff I would have removed.  
Grrrr.  Sobey's for awhile had good cloth bags and some survive.  In 
short, I have a lifetime supply!

I have a big blue IKEA as well, but it is seldom used. :-)

Marion, a pilgrim

On 4/7/2016 11:46 PM, 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.
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> 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.
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> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Marion, a pilgrim
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>>> On 4/7/2016 7:57 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>>> Marion-I love grocery stores in other places!
>>>
>>> Me too !
>>> Lynn
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> love grocery stores in other places!
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