Which method can carry more weight without splitting open and dropping your groceries onto the ground?
a) Dividing an order into two separate plastic grocery bags.
b) Double-bagging and putting the order into one “bag.”
Assume that you’re not buying a razorball or anything that would tear open the bags – I’m just wondering which method can handle more weight.
I think it would require a series of experiments to find this out. However, my vote would be for the bags to be doubled including doubling the handles correctly (I was a bagger in high school). The reason is that many failures are caused by a faulty bag. It isn’t always due to shear weight. I have had many bags just spontaneously break along an unknown seam. Doubling the bags basically doubles their carrying weight but it also protects against spontaneous failures in one bag. It also tends to buy time if the failure is truly due to weight.