Walmart Now Is Not Using Paper Bags Anymore

[Paladin1950]

They did away with plastic bags in 2020. Today I found out that they don't use paper bags either anymore. For $1, you can buy one of their store bags. I told the cashier, "No thanks." I have 3 or 4 bags in my car. I haven't found out if other stores in the state are still using paper bags. Usually dollar stores are the last ones to obey bag laws.

 

[JaniceM]

They did away with plastic bags in 2020. Today I found out that they don't use paper bags either anymore. For $1, you can buy one of their store bags. I told the cashier, "No thanks." I have 3 or 4 bags in my car. I haven't found out if other stores in the state are still using paper bags. Usually dollar stores are the last ones to obey bag laws.

Well that sucks. Paper is easily recyclable- maybe the stores are just too cheap to buy them.

 

[hollydolly]

They did away with plastic bags in 2020. Today I found out that they don't use paper bags either anymore. For $1, you can buy one of their store bags. I told the cashier, "No thanks." I have 3 or 4 bags in my car. I haven't found out if other stores in the state are still using paper bags. Usually dollar stores are the last ones to obey bag laws.

we have similar in many of our supermarkets where they've hiked the prices of Carrier bags.. some charging up to £2.00 for a bag. I always take my own bags. My insulated bag on wheels lives in the boot of my car, and I keep 2 fold up bags inside it as well.. Even if I forget to take the bags into the store with me as I often do, I refuse to pay for a bag .. and just pile everything into the trolley and wheel it to the car and load the bags there..

 

[oldaunt]

Everyone stopped using paper years ago because it killed too many trees to make them. Now plastic floods the landfills. I used my sewing machine and made tote bags out of my empty feed sacks.

 

[JaniceM]

Everyone stopped using paper years ago because it killed too many trees to make them. Now plastic floods the landfills. I used my sewing machine and made tote bags out of my empty feed sacks.

Oh, is that the reason to stop using paper bags? I hadn't heard of that, but I guess it makes sense.

 

[Packerjohn]

I get tired of hearing about how this business or that business is "working hard" to save the planet. Also, I get pretty tired of the that "beating a dead horse phrase" about sustainable tourism. We have over populated the world with people and non-stop commercial junk, I think we are doomed as a human species.

I don't blame them for trying; it makes them feel good and it's a wonderful system of public relations but there is a new world coming and a lot of people will not like it. I am glad to read that many young people are traveling and many young people are leaving the work place. Where they are getting the money to travel is a bit of a mystery to me?

I never did believe in the workaholic phrase, "The one who dies with the most toys wins." Never did believe in working until the day you drop dead!

 

[katlupe]

I was just there the other day and they had paper bags. I use them for son's groceries.

 

[Don M.]

They did away with plastic bags in 2020.

Where are you located?? Our area Walmart's, grocery stores, Dollar stores, etc., all still use plastic sacks. We collect the sacks and every few weeks we drop them off at a recycle bin at the entrance of our local Walmart.

 

[Nathan]

I haven't found out if other stores in the state are still using paper bags.

I recently bought 2 bottles of booze, they first slipped them individually into skinny paper bags, then put both in a plastic bag.

I'm guessing the paper bag is for disguising the bottle in case you want to drink it while driving on the way home.

 

[JaniceM]

I recently bought 2 bottles of booze, they first slipped them individually into skinny paper bags, then put both in a plastic bag.

I'm guessing the paper bag is for disguising the bottle in case you want to drink it while driving on the way home.

That's what a neighbor said a few years ago.. and for drinking in public where it's illegal to do so.

 

[JaniceM]

Where are you located?? Our area Walmart's, grocery stores, Dollar stores, etc., all still use plastic sacks. We collect the sacks and every few weeks we drop them off at a recycle bin at the entrance of our local Walmart.

Same up here. Except Aldi's- bring your own bags, or use one of the free boxes they have at the front of the store.

 

[Alligatorob]

Our local Walmart still uses plastic bags. Don't think they ever used paper.

Seems to vary from place to place.

 

[Aunt Bea]

Paper bags are still available, but I’m too cheap to pay for a bag.

The $ollar store gives away paper bags but they are made of a very brittle brown paper that cracks when it’s folded.

People covet the brown paper shopping bags from Trader Joe’s.

The only place that uses free plastic bags is the state sponsored farmers market, which I find kind of ironic.

 

[Chet]

I read that reusable bags eventually accumulate germs.

 

[RadishRose]

I read that reusable bags eventually accumulate germs.

True, but many use cloth bags that are washable.

My heavy duty plastic bags are also dipped into a sink full of soapy water once in a while. Or, we can spray them with disinfectant.

Anything to keep the use of single-use plastics to a minimum.

 

[OneEyedDiva]

I've shopped at Walmart for a long time. I never saw the ones by me use paper bags. Since the banning of plastic bags I've gotten used to carrying my own cloth shopping bags. Several months ago, one of the Walmarts was charging 10 cents for their reusable plastic bags. We only needed two because my son had bags in the car. But another one we went to in a more "affluent" area did not charge for their bags. Go figure.

 

[HoneyNut]

So far in my travels there have been plastic bags in Nebraska, Chicago, and Ohio. Then in New York it was paper bags and no plastic bags (except for produce), and now in Massachusetts it is also paper and no plastic, though I saw in their posted info that the money collected for paper bags is to help motivate people to bring their own bags, and also that the money collected is donated to the local food bank. I'm not sure if I was reading that at Wegman's or Walmart though.

Another new experience for me here in MA is that it turns out they had a voter referendum 6 years ago and 77% of the people voted in favor of only allowing the sale of eggs and meat from suppliers who gave the animals enough room to lie down, stand up, and turn around. I would have thought that was simple plus the law was to take effect in 5 years (so this is the first year of it), but there are signs on the milk and egg doors in the store about some items being out of stock due to suppliers adjusting to the new humane law. Gee, now I feel horrible for ever having bought eggs that weren't cage-free, because I assumed the cages would be big enough to stand up in. Poor chickens! We used to have chickens and it breaks my heart to think of any of my old chicken pets if they'd been a commercial chicken and not able to stand up (ours were in a big chicken yard).

 

[Paladin1950]

I live in New York State, so other states have their own ideas/laws about bags, plastic or paper.

 

[Pinky]

We use a square trolley with extendable handle .. the groceries are put directly into it, then put on the conveyor belt to be scanned -- and put directly back into the trolley which goes straight into the trunk.
No bags necessary. We also have cloth bags if we're doing a big shop. I think plastic is something like
5 cents per bag.

 

[wcwbf]

NJ banned single use, plastic bags back in May. slowly getting used to it but a real PITA when i walk from car to store and realize i didn't grab my bag'o bags from my backseat. at first, i would try to get my purchases into my bags asap. now i just put one of my bags on top of my purchases for the cashier to bag for me.

it irks me because "we" (US and other first world nations) are not responsible for those islands of trash floating in the pacific.

 

[Medusa]

I read that reusable bags eventually accumulate germs.

The reusable cloth ones go through the washer just fine.

 

[Remy]

It's been 10 years or so that California supposedly stopped the plastic bags. But it's not true. Goodwill, craft stores still use those thin plastic bags. Walmart and some grocery stores have those heavy plastic ones that are supposedly re-usable. Trader Joe's still uses paper.

I've been using cloth bags for probably about 18 years. I made these and all are machine washable.

 

[dseag2]

I rarely use the plastic bags from the grocery store or the paper bags from places like Whole Foods. If I'm not buying a lot of groceries, I have the reusable bags from Trader Joe's and Snap Kitchen in my trunk. I always take them in and fill them up. They are more sturdy anyway.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I just never liked Walmart. I believe they use deceptive practices. I read that in one out of every 10 purchases, you will be overcharged.

 

[Jules]

All the Walmarts in BC went plastic free this year and they never offered paper. I’ve been using the same rewashable cloth bags for years so it wasn’t an issue. I resented paying the dime for carrying a bag with their branding on it and I’m a cheap environmentalist.

I read that in one out of every 10 purchases, you will be overcharged.

They did fail to give the sale price for PowerAde last week so I overpaid by a quarter. I was going to challenge them on it but never made it back for another day of the sale. I do my best to watch the prices and can only think of one other time I was overcharged. I don’t love Walmart but it has the easiest parking lot for me.