> I’ve also noticed more people skipping supermarket trips entirely and ordering everything online from places like Walmart or Amazon, which often deliver in boxes or reusable bags anyway
Yes. My mother in law struggles to walk so she prefers to order groceries online now. Walmart always delivers them in reusable bags, so there's a stockpile there. The outcome is she's started to use them as bin liners just like we used to use single use bags from the grocery store
This is a big part of why I think some kind of bag return system needs to be in place. No one needs hundreds of reusable bags, but they will accumulate any time you're at a store without one so what do you do with them?
Yes. My mother in law struggles to walk so she prefers to order groceries online now. Walmart always delivers them in reusable bags, so there's a stockpile there. The outcome is she's started to use them as bin liners just like we used to use single use bags from the grocery store
This is a big part of why I think some kind of bag return system needs to be in place. No one needs hundreds of reusable bags, but they will accumulate any time you're at a store without one so what do you do with them?