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Originally Posted by tempest@de
I’ve never understood why American paper grocery bags didn’t have handles, but after reading the story about the bag and the milk cartons I think I see why.
Here when plastic bags started to be charged everyone started to take reusable bags from home, so there was a huge decline on plastic bags thrown away, before many people used the plastic bags for trash so it was common to see people on the supermarket putting one item per bag. Nowadays the big reusable bags became the norm, but I also see a lot of this bags discarded, pretty much every time I do on my morning walk I see one of them next to the recycle bin full of garbage, and most look like new, so looks like people still use the shopping bags for garbage.
Here most supermarket chains have plastic bags for sale that you later can exchange for a new one when it is broken without having to pay, not sure how often people do that.
I always have a foldable shopping bag in my purse, and the big ones are stored in one bag with the small produce bags, it’s my grocery shopping kit. Since I started to sew I’ve done lots of shopping bags, diferent sizes and shapes, in fact my last project was a foldable shopping bag, I’m working on editing the video for my youtube channel.
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They have handles. May depend on what store you go to. I like the cloth bags, i bring them now with me. They hold up so much better than paper or plasic