Bag Your Groceries With Seaweed, Earn Rewards and Share With Friends: This Is the Future of the Grocery Bag
Nine options to replace the plastic grocery bag will be given test runs to see which might become the new standard.
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Walmart, Target, CVS to Replace Plastic Bags With… Something
Major retailers come together to offer an alternative to the plastic grocery bag.
These Embarrassing Grocery Bags Have an Important Purpose
A grocery store is packing shoppers’ purchases into mortifying grocery bags to make an important point.
Kroger Is Eliminating All Plastic Grocery Bags in All Stores
Kroger announces plans to phase out plastic bags and transition to reusable bags in all of its stores.
Reusable Bags Pay for Themselves – With Coupons
New reusable bags come with embedded digital coupons that change every time you shop.
Why Your Reusable Grocery Bags Are Making You Spend More
New research shows that grocery shoppers who use reusable bags end up spending more – on both healthy and not-so-healthy products.
Paper or Plastic? One City is Now Banning Both
Gone are the days when grocery shoppers in Austin, Texas were asked if they want paper or plastic. Beginning today, they don’t get either. A number of communities across the country have banned plastic grocery bags (read: “Paper, Plastic or Please Butt Out?”). But Austin has become the first city in the country to ban both paper and plastic disposable[Read More…]
News To Snooze To: The Least Popular Stories of 2012
As promised, a counterpart to yesterday’s Top Stories of 2012. Just for fun, here’s a look at some stories you probably missed in 2012. For whatever reason, these just didn’t seem to resonate. Some are worth a look – others, well, maybe there’s a reason no one wanted to read them the first time around. 11. Wealthy Island is Grocery[Read More…]
Paper, Plastic or Please Butt Out?
For a while, “paper or plastic” was not a particularly controversial choice at the grocery store. Increasingly, though, shoppers are finding that the “wrong” choice could cost them – or they may have no choice at all. A San Francisco judge on Wednesday upheld a law, set to take effect next month, that will ban plastic bags from virtually all[Read More…]
Whole Foods’ Gift Cards Are Better Than Yours
You don’t get the “paper or plastic?” question at Whole Foods Market very often. The green grocery chain did away with plastic bags several years ago, and now it’s sending plastic gift cards to the scrap heap – er, recycling bin – too. Whole Foods has announced that it will introduce two new types of gift cards – one made[Read More…]
