Was at my favorite Kroger/King Sooper store today and lo and behold the plastic bags were replaced with the paper bags we were all too familiar with.

I'm curious if this is a local thing or is it spreading wings. What a disaster this must be for the jackwads who thought they were saving the Planet.

Can only imagine how many tons of plastic bags are now sitting in a warehouse or the tears shed over the lost revenue. Not to fear because all States have to do to replace lost revenue is enact another fee on something.

I believe you will still be charged .10 per bag, even if it is paper.

Two local discount stores here in North Central PA are Dollar General and Family Dollar. They both, but especially Dollar General, lapse in and out of heavy paper bags and plastic ones with no explanations. Paper bags usually only last a week or so, and then it's back to plastic again. A year or two ago, Dollar General was using only larger, heavy duty plastic bags. That lasted several months. I've never asked about the changes, thinking maybe it's just what their suppliers are selling cheapest at the time.

I hated the move to plastic bags. Paper is much more recyclable. Crafts, Book covers, cat hideouts, etc.

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Around here there have been unintended consequences. One time use plastic bags were banned, but reusable ones are allowed at a 10 cent per bag fee. So now we have a choice of paper or reusable plastic bags.

The paper bags are poorly made so many folks choose the reusable plastic ones. They're thicker and take more plastic to make. People throw them in the trash after one use. I have yet to see anybody bring in a used Fred Meyer (Kroger) bag for reuse. The result is even more plastic waste, but the knuckle heads are happily collecting their 10 cent fee.

I use the heck out of plastic bags. Line a 3 gal. nursery bucket with 2 or 3 to collect squirrel chewed mangoes from the idiot neighbor's tree or empty out the fly trap and they're the perfect size to line the bathroom trash can. The biggest drawback I have is that they reinforce the "Lazy man make one trip" when bringing the groceries into the house.

Now in Colorado I can buy a package of meat wrapped in plastic, a loaf of bread wrapped in plastic, produce in plastic sacks, orange juice and milk in plastic bottles, then go to the check-out where I can't have a plastic bag because those things are destroying the environment.

New permanent fixture in my truck is a tub of shopping bags.

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Yup, the same philosophy applies to "carbon offsets".

To the rich elites we say "waste as much as you like - as long as you are willing and able to pay the TAX for that privilege".

But for us poorer plebes, it comes down to "let them eat cake"...

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When I was a kid the paper bags we recycled. I carried my lunch in them, folded them up and took them home for the next days lunch. When the plastic craze came out I said then it was a mistake. I was in an old miners shack in Nevada and the walls were insulated with paper bags.

Nothing to see here. Just whistle on by.

(Or not: Billions of pounds of microplastics are entering the oceans every year. Researchers are trying to understand their impact. - CBS News)

Still plenty of free plastic bags in Southern Nevada.

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We broke down and bought reusable bags with handles that are stronger than plastic or paper. Funny how we forget to take them here and there.

I'm pretty sure the City Of Pittsburgh, PA, has banned or is still in the process of banning plastic bags. Trouble is, most of the stores have no clue from city officials what, when, or how is this going to happen. In the meantime, I shop across the river and come home with future dog poop bags with groceries in them!

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Around here, I haven't seen a paper bag in years.

Problem with those plastic bags over the paper ones is that you can still see her face and there is a suffocation danger not present with good old fashion paper.

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Here in Central Ohio:

Giant Eagle, no plastic bag, 25 cents each flimsy paper bag with handles.

Meijer: tons of plastic with one or two items, traditional paper upon request.

Kroger: Special Needs baggers use 3 times as many plastic bags. Then throw a fit if you don't like the way they dump your groceries in reusable bags!

I have a reusable bag full of reusable bags hanging in the back seat. At Meijer; The ones that were 99 cents before covid are now $3! (since paper is 25 cents each!) I just forget to grab some before I go in the store.

Like all things that become political: Follow the money!

Back when I set up at gun shows, I always took our recycle bag of plastic shopping bags for people to carry their stuff in, Absolutely Nobody gave or brought anything for their purchases!

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Caje...that is COLD. but I must agree with you...Not something I would be proud of.... though the suffocation factor might keep others from knowing

Never having needed a bag, does one put the bag over her head or your own? Or both?

We spend a fair bit of time in Europe. Over there, you either bring your reusable bag(s) to the grocery store or you buy new reusable bags at the checkout counter - they're usually about one euro, a little over a buck at the moment. You also bag your own groceries, which I prefer anyway. Once you get in the habit of taking your reusable bags with you when shopping it's really pretty simple to remember to do it. Are reusable bags alone saving the planet? No, I don't think so, but it's no great burden and life seems to go on for the folks over there.

Well the suffocation factor comes into play with plastic...so if I were you...I would use paper for you...plastic for the other participant....unless the specter of shame is too much for you..
Being I was drunk I have no shame

When the clerk asks me if I want a bag, I usually say "I have one at home". Get some weird looks !!

My local Safeway uses paper bags occasionally. They have a strange policy of having plastic bags at the old style checkouts,but nothing at the self checkout. Having the memory of an old man now,I leave my stuff there,tell the register warden I’m going to the car to get my cloth bags and I’ll be right back lol

How would I have got thru school without paper bags?

We leave ours in our car. When I was stationed in Germany it was common, everybody on the economy brought their own shopping bags with them to the market. I don't think it's a horrible idea.

Some crackheads left a plastic shopping basket in our parking lot. I disinfected it it's in the trunk of my car. Every time I go shopping I put whatever I'm buying in the shopping cart will the cart out to my car put the items in the plastic shopping basket and go put the cart up

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Interesting thing I noticed here. When the whole bag thing hit, they started charging $0.10 for each "reusable" bag. The plastic bags were exactly the same as before, but now they were "reusable". The paper bags weren't the best before, but when they started charging for them, they suddenly dropped in quality. Lucky to get one out of four in the house with the handles on it.

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We used paper bags for everything. Tell mom you feel sick, you get a paper bag to throw up in. Now, 70 years later, if I stick my head in a paper bag, I’m going to throw up.

It wouldn't be so bad if Publix would put more than two items in a bag.

The problem isn't with your choice of paper or plastic. It's with your choice of women.

The grocery chain where I shop sells strong, reusable bags for a dollar or so, and I keep them in my car to use when I shop. (I also use them to haul other recyclables to my community recycling center.) They have a receptacle at the store for non-reusable, but recyclable, plastic bags, and I make regular use of that.

I'm not under any illusion that I'm "saving the planet" -- the slobs who think it's their right to foul the nest we all live in far outnumber me -- I just don't see any reason to throw something away when it can be reused.

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There are still plastic bags at most places I shop. I reuse grocery size paper bags. With a couple cuts they make great targets, as in human form targets, two per bag.

Wasn't that when they were called the "Ain'ts?"
They ran out of them up in Cleveland until recently, sorta.

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Paper for "partner" in the evening, paper for you when you sneak out in the AM.

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Steel, Cement, Plastic and Ammonia. For items that the world simply can't do without...

That’s what beer is for. Or light switches.