So we’re all going to get reusable grocery bags. That’s what I read, anyway. Every household will have the opportunity to feel good about packing the Styrofoam and molded super plastic that fits so tightly around the item, you need a tile saw to open it. If it helps any, I don’t need a new grocery bag. I have two that I continually leave at home full of something else I had to haul.
There’s also the advertising. If you really want people to use things, don’t put a bunch of ads on them. It makes people feel as though they’re being used, which of course we are but as one might argue, in exchange for the bag. How about the ads on the bottom, or the inside? Besides, people don’t go to places because they saw an ad on a bag or a shirt or a shoe or boxer waistbands. People shop at your places because they are handy, high quality and have what we need.
While I am guilty of plastic bag use, I do toss my garbage in them rather than buy a roll of Hefty bags to put the chicken scraps and moldy pasta salad in. My behavior no doubt would change if I had to pay an extra $.75 at the register to get a bag. I’d probably even remember to keep one in my car. Local vendors needn’t worry about losing our business with gas prices as high as they are we’re a captive clientele. It’s the perfect time to start our “green for green” campaign. Money for a bag. Easy.
Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the gesture and the cause it is directed toward. But, if there is money to spare after getting all of us a bag, I can tell you for a fact that the middle school could use some 21st Century technology. $5000 would just about get a couple Smartboards. You don’t know what a Smartboard is? Most of your kids probably don’t know either.
My point, exactly.
