Today marks the day that the total ban on plastic shopping bags goes into effect (very poorly thought-out idea, manager suspects that Town Meeting wasn't actually thinking when they proposed this). I thought the store was going to take advantage of a loophole that would let us be exempt from the ban, but Cthulhu forbid the company do anything to reduce the tantrums us drones are subjected to. So all remaining plastic bags had to be sought out and locked in the cash office so nobody uses them by accident...I have a feeling the town's going to send in 'inspectors' every so often to make sure we don't have any evil plastic bags lurking (I wonder what happens if a customer is using our plastic bags as their reusable bags).
We did get paper bags with handles...ASM said they tried it a number of years ago and it was a miserable failure (also, far more expensive for us to have them). I know that unless doubled, they do not last long in inclement weather at all. These new bags are just the old ones with thin handles glued on. Trader Joe's paper bags can last for a few months of use if 'properly' taken care of, not sure how these will fare.
Crazy Can Lady always steals a few reams of plastic bags whenever she darkens our door, an upside I can see to this is that I can legitimately tell her NO and she may not come back.
We did get paper bags with handles...ASM said they tried it a number of years ago and it was a miserable failure (also, far more expensive for us to have them). I know that unless doubled, they do not last long in inclement weather at all. These new bags are just the old ones with thin handles glued on. Trader Joe's paper bags can last for a few months of use if 'properly' taken care of, not sure how these will fare.
Crazy Can Lady always steals a few reams of plastic bags whenever she darkens our door, an upside I can see to this is that I can legitimately tell her NO and she may not come back.
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