Almost all the markets have these small ass bags to put your food in when you are done. So if you spend $50 in the supermarket you will come outside with 20 small bags because the bags are so small only 3 items can fit inside of them. So I go to the market on Mondays and shop for Mon to Thursday and return on Friday to shop for sat and sun since I don’t have a car.
I miss the big brown bags with the handles like the ones at Trader Joes.
And it looks like the cashier are trained to put 2 items in one bad instead of 3 or more lol
Between the high prices and small ass bags I hate food shopping like I hate cleaning the bathroom
Every supermarket I’ve been to in recent years had large, reusable bags available for a pretty low price. I think the regular ones are like $1. The insulated ones (which I prefer because they zip closed) are more expensive, but I don’t think more than about $6.
I may have mentioned this traumatic incident elsewhere, but recently I was at the Giant Predatory Bird supermarket buying a smallish load of stuff. The cashier put several bottles of soda/juice into a single plastic bag, which seemed a bit risky to me but I just made a mental note to lift it carefully when I loaded it into my car later.
That wasn’t enough for the guy behind me in line, who chided the cashier for not using more bags. The cashier (a young guy who looked like he was not in love with his job (big surprise there) sullenly subdivided the bottles between a couple of bags.
A bit later on he (debatably) overloaded another bag. I didn’t say anything, but the Bagging Samaritan next in line started shaking his head and chuckling in disgust. After a bit, the cashier turned to me and asked if I wanted the stuff in more than one bag (I declined with thanks).
More evidence that it is unsafe for me to patronize the supermarket, given the risk of getting into a brawl.
In my county you can’t get the small plastic bags at the supermarket anymore. It’s either BYO reusable bag, buy a reusable bag for about two dollars, pay 10 cents for a paper bag, or, in some stores, pay 15 cents for a sturdier plastic bag that’s supposedly reusable.
Though if the OP moved to my county I’m sure he’d find something else to complain about.
Maybe you could buy stuff that’s a lot more expensive by weight, like caviar, saffron, or filet mignon. Then you’d be able to live the American dream of spending more than $50 at the store.
