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I keep mine in my car and go back out to the parking lot sometimes 😭
Yeah but then that would require you to put the reusable bag back into your car after you unpacked your groceries.
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I leave the bags in the car and bag the groceries once I get back to the car. The only exception is in winter if its freezing out.
My reusable bags hold all my plastic bags.
I store the fabric ones in the car and the plastic ones in my bicycle panniers. If I’m at the grocery store, I got there either with the car or the bicycle, so bags are always with me.
The reusable bags come out with me when I take the bins out. Throw them in the car, stuff them in the panniers, then take the bins out since they’re in the garage as well.
It’s reverse for me. I don’t have a car so I bring a backpack pretty much anywhere I go. And in that backpack, there’s also a reusable bag.
If stores want me to leave my backpack at the entrance, I turn around and go shopping where they don’t automatically consider you a thief for having a backpack.
A bunch of the grocery stores where I am have no backpack signs. It’s like 2 college towns and a military base all next to each other. Everyone has a backpack, the signs are universally ignored lol
Just go in regularly and be friendly and the staff will recognize you. Typically once they feel they know you and know you won’t steal they’ll let you in.
Sorry but this is unacceptable to me. If they default to “everyone is a possible thief” then I will avoid them. It’s a horrible way to profile the customers.
I make efforts to walk or bike everywhere, be environmentally friendly, and my backpack is a big part of that. I don’t want to become friendly with the staff of random stores I go to in order for them to let me in with it. It’s already a pain that I can’t use my reusable bags or my own cart/trolley in the stores.
It just doesn’t feel welcoming. And it also seems to be a car centric culture thing, because I live in a metropolis and this “no backpack rule” is pretty rare here, whereas when I go visit friends and family in small towns this rule is everywhere. What’s different? There’s much more people in big cities walking around and shopping with a backpack, compared to a small town where everyone goes to the store with a car.
I live in one of the biggest cities in Oklahoma, so its no New York City, but there’s a lot of people here. It’s a safe bet that 1/3 people here with a backpack are in fact stealing, which I can validate because I’ve seen it. To be clear, they’re largely stealing food, clothing, diapers, or medicine, and never once have I judged them wrong for it. But they are stealing, and as such it’s a reasonable policy for the stores here. Maybe try to avoid major corporations in smaller towns? They’re the only ones who really care about Danny stealing a Vienna sausage for his kid.
thats fine except MY WALLET DAMN I LEFT IT TOO
I feeel that. But then i just carry it with my hands, somehow
I stopped dicking around with that and instead bought a couple of nice strong totes.
I keep them in my trunk, and I don’t even bother bagging. Toss it all right back into the cart and load up the tote when I get to the parking lot.
Then just n-totes to carry in, instead of n*8 bags.
The trick is, once you unload the groceries, the tote(s) must be returned to the car immediately. If not, you have to put your keys in the tote and the tote near the door.
Do you use the foldable type totes? I feel like the regular kind would drive me nuts, but that’s why I keep a bag full of bags in each of my family’s cars.
must be returned to the car immediately
This is the part I struggle with.
Yeah this is just replacing the bags I forgot at home with totes that I forgot at home.
Never thought of the keys in the tote trick. Thanks!
Where I live, everything that isn’t bagged at checkout needs to be stickered or they assume you stole it. If I buy something that doesn’t fit in a bag, it also needs to be stickered.
I try really hard to remember to put my bags in front of the door immediately after unbaggging everything. Then I usually grab the bags and bring them with me the next time I leave. The problem occurs if I ever need to temporarily use the bags for something else… then I get to add to my hoarde.
This sounds too pre-meditated and organised.
Monkey wants banana,
banana is at the store,
monkey gets banana(s),
now monkey can’t carry more.
Haha yeah. I recently bought myself a super cute and spacious tote bag. I knew that if I put it inside my backpack, I’d forget it, so I have crammed it into one of the side pockets on my backpack, so I see it all the time. I hope it works this time.
I forced myself to buy more at the store every time I forgot them as a kind of negative reinforcement. Sure enough, after maybe 5 or 6 trips I stopped forgetting. I also have like 30 bags now.
I do the opposite and refuse to buy any more because I have like 100. If I forget to bring them in to the store I bag in the parking lot or at home
Haha I love that. I never remember to bring a reusable bag to the store and I hate myself every time I have to buy an overpriced plastic bag, for roughly 90 cents per bag.
But that’s nothing compared to buying these reusable bags every time. I could imagine that it would work on me.
Every fucking time!
