I am one of those reusable bag proponents (those plastic bag are bad for many, many reasons: read up on it), but I refuse to use the hideous green bags available for purchase at Stop & Shop or worse, Shaw's, where the bags have the Simpsons on them (Recycle, d'oh! I did not make that up). I have slightly more fashionable bags bought reusablebags.com.
Yesterday, I'm checking out at Stop & Shop. I hand over my reusable bags to bagger boy who proceeds to pack half of one bag, then just walks away. Another bagger inexplicably arrives and ignores my reusable bags, fills a plastic bag up, then also walks away. I roll my eyes and start taking the items out of the plastic bag to put into my bag. The second I finish this task, the cashier grabs the plastic bag and throws it in the trash. I stare at him. You know you're defeating my whole purpose here. Hello. He replies: it's used, we can't reuse it.
Seriously, I'm going to have to stop shopping there.
