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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Okay, just to recap, I was at a supermarket yesterday.
In the middle of it all. Lisa Donovan gave me
a call and say, hey, you're at the market, you
bring your bag. And I really didn't know what she
was talking about, but I guess you're supposed to bring
bags to the market now, And all of a sudden,
I'm walking around the market. I'm feeling judged. It's a
very serious topic, apparently for the supermarket goers. So let's
(00:22):
start with the phones and Kimberly, what are your thoughts
on this?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey, guys, Yeah, so here's the deal. I'm a bad
person and not a bad person. Okay, I have I
have so many bags. I have them in my car,
I have them in the house, I have them everywhere,
but I forget them every single time I go into
a store, every time. Right, And so then I'm at
the register. Oh yeah, and it doesn't matter what story
you're in, Okay, it doesn't matter. You're standing there, and
(00:49):
now I'm starting to sweat because I'm seeing the bags
that I'm supposed to buy, because they're starting to put
them in the in the paper, and you know the
paper is going to break everywhere. Yes, and so I
grab one, I grab an other, and the bagger looks
at me and goes, so, how heavy do you want
this bag to be? So one I just bought, and
I'm like, oh crap, now I need to buy like
five more bags because I'm looking at how many groceries
(01:11):
I have and I'm sweating, right, and then I'm thinking
to myself. I get family and friends coming over. They
got to put their coats somewhere. They open up the
closet and like, oh, not that one, because all the
bags are gonna hang out.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So you have all these bags and you didn't have
any of them with you.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Can you forget them?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And then I just got to buy more and more
and more. It's like an addiction. It's not right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So now when you're checking out, did you feel judged?
Did you feel like people were really?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh? Yeah, shame, total total shame. And I'm like I'm
standing there like my bags are in the car. Yeah, okay,
well they're not here, so now you got to buy
some more.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You get the eye rolls on the cashier.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Absolutely, how heavy do you want them to be? Just
tell me how heavy?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But here's the iron.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, but the market.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And again we're not naming names, but the market I
was at yesterday, they have their own bags that they sell.
They're not paper, they're like cloth whatever, and they're all
over the store. They have set ups where you can
buy the bags, and yet they're paper bags. They double
the strength off to the point where you don't even
need those bags. The paper bags are plenty strong enough.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't, I don't. I don't know about that. Paper
bags always rip on me.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah no, see these sort double reinforcements on the store.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh really yeah, yeah, I never get the paper bags.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, I can't believe it. Up there in North Country
they still do plastic.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah it's plastic. You don't even see reusable bags.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well sometimes feb It depends on the store.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah, so you got charged yesterday for bags I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
On top of the being judged and everything else and
followed around.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's a nickel. You got charged the nickel? Yeah? How
many bags you did? You did? You use a total
of four? Yeah? Twenty cents. Yeah, so what's the big deal? Yeah,
you need a float? I mean, what happens? You know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's your girl.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Sarah from Maine, Happy New Year, and this is so
funny to me that you're just discovering the reusable bag
thing because in Maine they've outlawed plastic bags for quite
a few years now, and we've had to bring our
own reusable bags to the grocery store. Otherwise you get
charged five cents for every paper bag you use. But
(03:22):
it's definitely a competition. But like who has the coolest
prettiest for like crunchiest bag.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Amzing, that's funny, Like here the you know the plastics band,
New Hampshire it's not, and then Maine it is.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Right wow, crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Though I can so relate to her because I do
forget my bags all the time and then I keep
buying more bags, so my house, like hers, is just
filled with bags.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, oh mind too.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I try to go to towns where I know they
get free plastic bags. So I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Say, come over the border.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
No, there are plenty in Like so masteres is split
because we don't we have an outlawed plastic bags. But
sometimes charge you. Even at the mall they charge you
for a brown bag, depending on what mall you're at,
like the mall like Natick mall, I can they charge
you five cents because it's natick. But the brainch tram maall.
I don't think they charge me five cents.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you're even worse than a non bag person.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're a plastic bag person.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'm gonna just give me something for my stuff in
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Care what it is. Yeah, I use the plastic bags.
I don't know. It could be worse. We could live
in Jersey.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
So regarding the bags, it's a good thing you don't
live in New Jersey. They do not give any plastic
bags any longer. You can't pay for them. You have
to bring your own bags. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, well, why can't you just use the paper bags?
Can't they give you paper bags?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I depends. Maybe they don't have paper bags in Jersey.
Jersey is actually an interesting place.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They don't.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You can't pump your own gas in Jersey.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So let me get this straight.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That they don't have paper bags and they don't allow you.
You have to carry your.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Girls to walk your arms. Yeah, well you have to
put them in the carriage and then unload them in
your car.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
If you think about it, if you go to BJ's
or Costco, they're not bags. You have to saying boxes.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, when did they start taking all this so seriously?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I know, I know, I know the bag thing.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
I used to work at a grocery store for about
five years and people never used to wash their reusable bags,
so they used to smell like cat pie and stuff.
So if you do, please wash your bags. Take that
as you will. Thank you.
Okay, just to recap, I was at a supermarket yesterday.
In the middle of it all. Lisa Donovan gave me
a call and say, hey, you're at the market, you
bring your bag. And I really didn't know what she
was talking about, but I guess you're supposed to bring
bags to the market now, And all of a sudden,
I'm walking around the market. I'm feeling judged. It's a
very serious topic, apparently for the supermarket goers. So let's
(00:22):
start with the phones and Kimberly, what are your thoughts
on this?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hey, guys, Yeah, so here's the deal. I'm a bad
person and not a bad person. Okay, I have I
have so many bags. I have them in my car,
I have them in the house, I have them everywhere,
but I forget them every single time I go into
a store, every time. Right, And so then I'm at
the register. Oh yeah, and it doesn't matter what story
you're in, Okay, it doesn't matter. You're standing there, and
(00:49):
now I'm starting to sweat because I'm seeing the bags
that I'm supposed to buy, because they're starting to put
them in the in the paper, and you know the
paper is going to break everywhere. Yes, and so I
grab one, I grab an other, and the bagger looks
at me and goes, so, how heavy do you want
this bag to be? So one I just bought, and
I'm like, oh crap, now I need to buy like
five more bags because I'm looking at how many groceries
(01:11):
I have and I'm sweating, right, and then I'm thinking
to myself. I get family and friends coming over. They
got to put their coats somewhere. They open up the
closet and like, oh, not that one, because all the
bags are gonna hang out.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
So you have all these bags and you didn't have
any of them with you.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Can you forget them?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Yeah, it's right.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
And then I just got to buy more and more
and more. It's like an addiction. It's not right.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
So now when you're checking out, did you feel judged?
Did you feel like people were really?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Oh? Yeah, shame, total total shame. And I'm like I'm
standing there like my bags are in the car. Yeah, okay,
well they're not here, so now you got to buy
some more.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
You get the eye rolls on the cashier.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Absolutely, how heavy do you want them to be? Just
tell me how heavy?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
But here's the iron.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Okay, but the market.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
And again we're not naming names, but the market I
was at yesterday, they have their own bags that they sell.
They're not paper, they're like cloth whatever, and they're all
over the store. They have set ups where you can
buy the bags, and yet they're paper bags. They double
the strength off to the point where you don't even
need those bags. The paper bags are plenty strong enough.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
I don't, I don't. I don't know about that. Paper
bags always rip on me.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah no, see these sort double reinforcements on the store.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh really yeah, yeah, I never get the paper bags.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Well, I can't believe it. Up there in North Country
they still do plastic.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah it's plastic. You don't even see reusable bags.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Well sometimes feb It depends on the store.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Yeah, so you got charged yesterday for bags I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
On top of the being judged and everything else and
followed around.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It's a nickel. You got charged the nickel? Yeah? How
many bags you did? You did? You use a total
of four? Yeah? Twenty cents. Yeah, so what's the big deal? Yeah,
you need a float? I mean, what happens? You know
what I mean?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's your girl.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Sarah from Maine, Happy New Year, and this is so
funny to me that you're just discovering the reusable bag
thing because in Maine they've outlawed plastic bags for quite
a few years now, and we've had to bring our
own reusable bags to the grocery store. Otherwise you get
charged five cents for every paper bag you use. But
(03:22):
it's definitely a competition. But like who has the coolest
prettiest for like crunchiest bag.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Amzing, that's funny, Like here the you know the plastics band,
New Hampshire it's not, and then Maine it is.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Right wow, crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Though I can so relate to her because I do
forget my bags all the time and then I keep
buying more bags, so my house, like hers, is just
filled with bags.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, oh mind too.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
I try to go to towns where I know they
get free plastic bags. So I'm going to.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Say, come over the border.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
No, there are plenty in Like so masteres is split
because we don't we have an outlawed plastic bags. But
sometimes charge you. Even at the mall they charge you
for a brown bag, depending on what mall you're at,
like the mall like Natick mall, I can they charge
you five cents because it's natick. But the brainch tram maall.
I don't think they charge me five cents.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So you're even worse than a non bag person.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're a plastic bag person.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I'm gonna just give me something for my stuff in
I don't.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
Care what it is. Yeah, I use the plastic bags.
I don't know. It could be worse. We could live
in Jersey.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
So regarding the bags, it's a good thing you don't
live in New Jersey. They do not give any plastic
bags any longer. You can't pay for them. You have
to bring your own bags. Good luck with that.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, well, why can't you just use the paper bags?
Can't they give you paper bags?
Speaker 6 (04:42):
I depends. Maybe they don't have paper bags in Jersey.
Jersey is actually an interesting place.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
They don't.
Speaker 6 (04:45):
You can't pump your own gas in Jersey.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So let me get this straight.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
That they don't have paper bags and they don't allow you.
You have to carry your.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Girls to walk your arms. Yeah, well you have to
put them in the carriage and then unload them in
your car.
Speaker 6 (04:56):
If you think about it, if you go to BJ's
or Costco, they're not bags. You have to saying boxes.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, when did they start taking all this so seriously?
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I know, I know, I know the bag thing.
Speaker 8 (05:07):
I used to work at a grocery store for about
five years and people never used to wash their reusable bags,
so they used to smell like cat pie and stuff.
So if you do, please wash your bags. Take that
as you will. Thank you.
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