Good job Superstore!
You’ve taken the “green” fad and capitalized on it.
I would not have a problem if you supplanted plastic bags with cloth ones, or if you sold the cloth ones at cost, but it is clear you are making a profit from the moral panic of global warming. Those dinky little “green” bags do not cost $1 to make and distribute. I refuse to line the pockets of Galen Weston Jr. and his shareholders in the name of “saving the environment” and “being green”.
So, to all other Bitchers: what other grocery stores in the HRM still use plastic bags? They’re getting my business from now on.
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2008.
You could aslo buy a good cloth bag elsewhere and bring it to the superstore. The bag doesn’t need the logo of the store you are shopping at on the side to still hold groceries. But I agree, that ditching all plastic bags and only providing a $1 per crappy slighlty more plastic bag option sounds like a money grab.
Forget HUGE STORES, go to the Farmers’ Markets, if you can, :)! Google them, :)!