Last week I was shopping at a COOP grocery store in Calgary and when I told them that I didn’t need a plastic bag because I brought my own bag they told me if I wanted the money for the bag deducted from my bill or give it to a good cause. That of course surprised me because I didn’t think that stores offered this but the 3 cents that they where willing to give me could of course pull some of us over the line to bring our own shopping bags.
It is kinda sad that stores need to do this but on the other side if this will make it that less and less plastic bags will end up on the landfill then why not.
I choice to give the 3 cents to the good cause and I hope that by me and others doing this we changes two things so next time you shop in a COOP in Calgary think about this and bring you own bag!