The Whole Foods on Halsted will allow you to bring bags now, but they won’t touch them. Kinda silly, in my opinion, if Covid was that spreadable. 98% of the world would have it. They haven’t been charging for bags and since I reuse them as garbage bags. I don’t feel guilty
Yes, I did see the 28 days money and phone story.
A lot of the “hygiene theatre” choices made by business are to make the worried well feel safer. This has led to aisle arrows, decisions not to charge for bags or carts requiring coins (not sure if this is a thing in the US?), people employed to clean plexiglass shields and dispense sanitizer, etc.
If I’m understanding correctly, there’s only one chain in our area that does this, and they’ve done it forever, advertising it as a cost-saving measure. “You insert a quarter, you get your cart. Put it back, you get your quarter back. That way, we don’t have to pay someone to get the carts from the parking lot.”
It’s common in Canada and more so as the neighbourhood becomes more downmarket. I have not seen it used outside of Canada, though.
The local Trader Joes stopped letting people bring in their own bags into the store when the lockdown began last spring. They still don’t, but now they have a table outside where you can bag them if you brought your own bags.
Personally, I bicycle to TJs and put everything in my backpack to take home. At first they wouldn’t even let me bring the backpack into the store, but now don’t care. I still have to bag them outside rather than at the counter. This isn’t a hardship for me since I always loaded my backpack myself anyway. Didn’t trust them to do it right.
I’ll always use a straw when a drink has ice in it or it’s something in a plastic cup bought from a fast food type place with a lid on it. If I’m just drinking at home I never use a straw, I don’t think I even have any in my apt.
Oh, no, they don’t.
They work a lot better for sipping your cold drink with, reducing the likelihood of spillage. Plus, straws are fun.
I have often drank a coffee-to-go with a straw while strolling down the street. because that way i don’t have to stop in my tracks in order to take a sip.
Only when they are all squiggly.
Aldi is probably it. I love grocery shopping there.