[Magdalen] Whole Foods wins !!!

[Charles Wohlers]

We still have a 20-year-old Tesco bag (mostly unused).

Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Stokes
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2016 9:22 AM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Whole Foods wins !!!

>> 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