My state pretty much eliminated those ubiquitous plastic grocery bags effective a few days ago. I made my first shopping venture under the new law today, just to replace kcups.
While the law is new, my commitment to reusable grocery bags is not. Pre-covid I used them most of the time, largely as a personal aligning with the long term best interest of our planet. I had purchased one from Trader Joe's, two with a Shop-Rite logo. In addition, multiple organizations have provided flimsy burlap textured sacks as promotional items. On each supermarket foray, I would put a few into each other, then into my basket. Covid changed this. Trader Joe's stopped accepting them. Shop-Rite would not let their cashiers bag them and the self-service checkouts either limited to 25 items or for the larger quantity self-lanes did not offer plastic bags when my own supply of home packaging was inadequate. Between the grocery unfriendliness to my good intention, I just stopped taking them with me. Now that I need them again, I cannot find the ones I bought at the supermarket. There were a few faux canvas containers in my kitchen so I took a few with me, though I could have just carried the coffee with the receipt. A box of 60kcups fit perfectly into one of the bags. Now I need to search kitchen and car for the rest.
