24 CommentsBwog is totes jealous of this tipster, who recently discovered another reason why
Westside is superior to Morton Williams:
“Yesterday, I went shopping at West Side Market. Apparently, if you buy a certain amount of stuff, you get a free WestSide tote/grocery bag. There are signs at each register encouraging you to use these bags instead of their plastic bags to reduce waste. But then instead of appropriately reducing waste by putting my groceries in that tote bag, the cashier put all my food in plastic bags. Then she put my tote bag in another bag and handed it to me. Truly visionary environmentalism.”
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@green it would also be super if people gave up plastic water bottles.
@green i like the tote idea. it would make me really happy, if people start using totes and say no to plastic and paper at the checkout line.
@plastic hater There are gigantic floating islands of plastic the size of Texas in our oceans. Plastic is awful.
@what do you call it when you get 144 items from the market?
Gross-eries!
@Anonymous Not to drag on this environmental policy comparison too long, but in San Francisco, grocery stores aren’t legally allowed to give you plastic bags- just paper or totes allowed. Of course, in this month’s SF local election, there’s a proposition asking if the city should buy Alcatraz from the federal government to make it into a “Global Peace Center” (apparently the current prison there has too much negative energy), so questions about San Franciscans’ sanity are valid. But the no plastic bag policy does seem pretty smart and environmentally forward.
@in soviet russia they suffocate you with plastic bags in a back alley and then shoot your mother in the babymaker. but, you know, only on holidays
@Ludacri$ What in the world is in that ROOM, what you got in that ROOM?
@cyang How much do you need to spend to get the free bag?
@I spent $90 and got one, though I’m sure the threshold is considerably lower.
@I got one at WSM too. I figured it was a standard deal for spending a certain amount, but I guess it’s a new thing? They only put my raw meats in a plastic bag and then in the tote, which makes sense.
@fyi morton williams does/did the same thing – they offer black totes with their logo if you spend a certain amount of money. i got one a few months ago
@In China they charge you for the use of plastic bags over paper bags. Ha!
@i thought paper bags were even worse than plastic.
@nope because plastic decomposes and paper can be recycled.
@??? plastic decomposes? really? since when?
@well... plastic takes so long to decompose that people don’t usually think of it that way (20 years for plastic bags to break down, ~250 years for cups and bottles — and both of those numbers are several times higher when the stuff’s in landfills where the materials are sealed in w/o liquids)
paper’s closer to being a renewable resource than plastic is … that said they both kind of suck
@in germany they charge you for every sort of bag. people come to the grocery store with duffels and backpacks. on the plus side, you rent the shopping carts, so you can push them home.
@The King of Spain Indeed, even in Basel, Switzerland, they do this. I got lectured by a cashier lady in German for doing so, thus expending my extremely limited comprehension of German… and then I found 5.74 Francs.
@Anonymous 11: one of the best comments ever
13: one of the worst comments ever
This is a teaching moment.
@Anonymous In this Post: Someone easily amused and yet at the same time uppity.
@in soviet russia you charge the supermarket for bags.
@gah.. EN SOVIET RUSSIA. GROCERIES BAG YOU!!!
@That's different In Germany, they charge you for every little thing, like ketchup at a McDonald’s; don’t know if it’s related to environmentalism.
@it's a step in the right direction!